Freshly Made Sketches #678

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #678!

Our whimsical sketch this week is from the queen of elegant, arty designs, Clean Team member, Cécile Ribon! My mind was immediately swirling around what to design with an inky puddle. When I sat down to create, it was an Easter and egg coloring design that was half formed in my head, but after I had my rainbow colored splash finished I didn't want to add anymore color.

The Tim Holtz Splatters stencil is selectively used with a number Distress Inks to make the paint puddle. A Paper Rose Studio Creator's Tools paintbrush and sentiment are added to finish this simple, happy design.

I hope you check out the fabulous Clean Team designs and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #676

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #676!

Clean Team designer Kim Singdahlsen has given us a fun sketch this week! A weekend harvesting lemons completely inspired my design and had me pulling out the Memory Box Small Citrus Rounds, Zig Real Brush markers and watercolor paper. 

While the various layers of watercolor dried, an MFT Rectangle Frame, cardstock and canvas look patterned paper were cut and layered. A partial sentiment from MFT Full of Sunshine is stamped on the paper and the die cut layered below to finish off the panel.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made SKetches #673

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #673!

I was away from home and the craft room when I saw Jen Timko's sketch, but knew immediately that the circle was going to be an inked sunset with the lovely, elegant floral becoming a palm tree silhouette. It made for a fast and easy card created under a tight deadline when I returned.

A circle mask stencil was inked with three of my favorite Distress Inks (Mustard Seed, Marmalade Spice and Candied Apple) to create the sunset. The only decision left was what sentiment to use before the Simply Graphic Under the Palm Tree (Sous le Palmier) palm tree is adhered. In the end I went an older Paper Smooches Get Outta Town sentiment stamped to overlap the inked circle.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #670

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #670!

Clean Team Designer, Amy O'Neill, has given us a fabulous classic design with the sketch this week! Hearts are on my desk right now, but I wasn't really in the mood for a Valentine card. Although I kept getting drawn back to the sweet little knit heart from Sugar Peas Knit Wit stamp set and finally decided to heat emboss it on the base heart from Taylored Expressions Mosaic Heart dies just to see how it fit.

After playing around a little more with more knit and heart elements, the design came together using a Paper Roses Knit Happens sentiment and Paper Sources embossing folder.

Please check out the amazing Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #654

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #654!

How fun is this great sketch from Clean Team Designer Jen Mitchell! I was going back and forth between party hats and trees for the triangle shapes. As you can see, trees won this week.

I cut and layered the Tim Holtz Sizzix Forest Shadows dies, trimming them to replicate the triangle shape and fit on an Ellen Hutson Abstract Mountain cover plate. The front trees were cut from a left over embossed panel giving a little extra texture.

The sentiment is pieced together from a couple of Kerri Bradford stamp sets: GreaterYellowstone and Uncharted Territory.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #647

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #647!

I saw a quilt in super talented Clean Team Designer Karren Johnson's fabulous sketch this week so that had me poking through my stash of patterned paper pads. Wanting something bright and happy, I paired a couple of Jen Hadfield pieces with a green gingham from My Favorite Things.

The papers were cut with stitched rectangle dies with the intention to adjust them to fit together to replicate the sketch. When I laid them out, I liked the way they overlapped and decided to adher them in place as is.

The Ellen Hutson Oval Hoops die is cut from Lawn Fawn woodgrain paper and adhered over an oval based stamped with an Avery Elle Sending You sentiment. This sentiment hoop is popped up over the rectangle pieces. A scatter of sequins finish off the design.

I hope you will check out the amazing Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #646

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #646!

I can't tell you how happy I am to be back creating! The Memory Box Elegant Shorebird dies were the first thing I thought of when I saw the vertical lines in the amazing Clean Team Designer Cècile Ribon's fabulous sketch this week. 

The circle, of course, is the sun and then I playing with a few ideas for the front flower element before deciding on the Simply Graphic Chapeaux D'été (Summer Hats). The ribbon die cut is replaced with a bit of real sheer ribbon for a little texture.

Before adhering all the die cuts a sweet sentiment from Kerri Bradford's Salt Water Soul stamp set was added to the square panel.

I've being missing from the challenge while battling endometrial cancer and am so happy to be at the end of a very successful treatment plan. The beach has always been my happy place and I've been lucky enough to get a little walk and wave therapy regularly over the last few months (I'm in the middle with my son and visiting sister for this one).

I hope you join in the fun with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #617

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #617!

Happy New Year and welcome to our first sketch of 2024 from the Clean Team designer and queen of layering, Narelle Farrugia! It really is a coincidence that the Papertrey Ink She Moves stamps were sitting on my desk the same week many of us are renewing health and fitness commitments. It is in the pile of "use it or donate" stamps and I think it earned a place in the "keep" pile.

The trio of images were perfect for the sketch. Scraps of white cardstock are inked in three shades of blue and die cut before the images are added in black and lined up to sit on the sentiment strip. The Ali Edwards Progress Story stamp provides an encouraging sentiment.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #604

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #604!

The always elegant Clean Team designer, Cécile Ribon, has provided a lovely sketch this week! I immediately pulled out MTF Abstract Art and a paintbrush while I went back and forth over whether to stamp the brushstrokes images or paint them with watercolors. As you can see, the stamped images won.

The top center area of the square panel is very lightly inked with pale blue before the stamped swipes of color were added. The MFT Itty Bitty Summer sentiment is heat embossed in Platinum next and then the Wplus9 sailboat adhered with the body and tip of the mast tight to the panel and the sail popped up with foam adhesive.

In addition to the fabulous Clean Team designers we have one of the winners of our Challenge #600 winners, Annette Elias, as a special Guest Designer this week.  I hope you check out all their amazing creations and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #602

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #602!

I had great plans for embossed backgrounds and multiple layered elements when I saw Kim's fabulous sketch this week, but in the end went super clean and simple with my design.

The full panel is inked to give an ombre feel moving from left to right, so that the left vertical panel is softly implied rather than a hard edge. The Memory Box Woodland Branch die cut is trimmed and attached to further suggest the left vertical panel. An MFT Greetings and Salutations sentiment stamped directly on the panel and a sweet Memory Box Resting Bird bird attached to the branch finish the design.

Check out the amazing Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #601

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #601!

I was thrilled to see Clean Team designer Linda Callahan's sketch this week as I've had a few washi tapes sitting on my desk waiting for the right opportunity.

Knowing I would use a wide cacti washi, it was an easy decision to pull out the Hero Arts Layering Prickly Cactus for the center panel. The cactus is cut from a Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron inked panel and layered with the MFT Sweet Succulents sentiment and sequin flowers.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #600 Celebration

 Welcome to the  Freshly Made Sketches #600 celebration!

We are celebrating YOU this week! Freshly Made Sketches has been so much fun for 12 years and 600 sketches because of YOUR amazing talent and participation in the weekly challenges! To help celebrate, many of our repeat weekly challenge winners are guest designing with us this week and the inspiration is next level amazing.

Each member of the Clean Team will pick a favorite this week as normal, but to continue the celebration, our picks will be invited to guest design on a future challenge. It really is about celebrating YOU this week!

For my card,  a white cardstock scrap is inked with yellow, orange and pink bands before the base piece of the Memory Box Drifting Side Butterfly dies is cut. The white outline piece is adhered over this and the complete butterfly adhered to a cloud stenciled horizontal panel.

A favorite MFT Greetings and Salutations sentiment is heat embossed on a black strip and slipped under the butterfly to finish off this clean and simple design.

I hope you check out all the amazing Clean Team and guest designer cards this week at Freshly Made Sketches. I'm looking forward to the FMS600 gallery filling with your stunning designs!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #597

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #597!

I'm hosting the challenge this week and decided to create a landscape sketch that would allow me to use this MFT Life's a Beach sentiment. My vertical stripes are palm trees, but of course you can do whatever you want to frame the panel in your design!

I am absolutely in love with this MFT Watercolor Wash Rectangle stencil and blended kraft ink along the bottom inch or so and light blue for the sky. Wplus9 Dockside seagulls were heat embossed before the sentiment strip and Simply Graphic palm trees were layered and adhered. A few Studio Calico sequins were added to mimic coconuts.

I hope you check out the fabulous Clean Team designs and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches. I'm so excited to see the gallery fill with your amazing creations!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #596

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #596!

How fun is this sketch from our talented Clean Team designer, Judy Rozema!? I'm a big fan of Clean and Simple designs, so had a few thoughts running through my head before settling on rainbow stripes.

Scraps of cardstock are cut with an MFT sentiment strip die and adhered to a smaller panel. The ends are cut with an MFT Torn Paper Edge die before being popped up on a white panel. The Stamp Market Color Me Happy sentiment is heat embossed on a black sentiment strip to finish the design.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #594

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #594!

The more I looked at Clean Team designer Narelle Farrugia's layered sketch, the more I saw a sailboat as the large, focal point circle. Could the unused Wplus9 sailboat die sitting on my desk have influenced me? Why, of course. 

A Wplus9 Dockside compass image is heat embossed on a navy circle, the MFT Itty Bitty Summer sentiment heat embossed on an aqua strip, Memory Box Flying Gulls die cut to be assembled and layered over the sailboat washi before the sailboat was popped up over them.

I hope you check out the gorgeous Clean Team designs and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #593

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #593!

The fabulous sketch this week comes from our super talented designer, Karren Johnson. When she mentioned being inspired by a Jennifer Mcquire bridge card I had to check it out for myself. I was completely sucked into the possibilities and ended up with more of a landscape orientation for my design.

Instead of stenciling and foiling a panel, I flipped through paper pads until I found a summer theme from a 2015 Fancy Pants pad that worked for an idea brewing. The card base is a 8" x 4 ¼" and scored at 1¼, 2½, 5½ and 6¾. The flip flop paper is trimmed to fit on the right and left flaps and the back panel.

Popsicles were created using the MFT Mini Cafe All Day cup die and a partially cut Slimline Starter die provided the perfect stick. The sticks are cut from thin wood and the cups made from two layers and adhered to a base for extra stability. Before they were adhered the Ellen Hutson Say Cool sentiment was heat embossed across the center three.

Thanks for introducing me to a fun technique, Karren!

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #588

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #588!

I still had a few summer stamps and dies on my desk when I saw the terrific sketch from Jen Mitchell this week. To tell the truth, our normal SoCal weather has been so dreary that I am missing my happy place and wave therapy, so living through these images until our sun decides to return.

An MFT cloud stencil and blue inks were used to create the gentle ocean waves on half of a cream panel, leaving the uncolored part to play the role of the sandy beach. An older MFT umbrella die is decked out in rainbow colors and popped up over the MFT Life's A Beach sentiment.

I hope you check out the fabulous Clean Team designs and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie