Freshly Made Sketches #403

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!

I took a little creative license with Narelle Farrugia's great sketch, turning it to a horizontal orientation, pulling the strips apart so they don't overlap and placed them on top of the leafy embellishment.

A Memory Box Bamboo Shoots die cut is selectively trimmed and placed along a diagonal line on the embossed panel before adding the MFT Greetings and Salutations sentiment strips. The top strip is adhered to the panel, with the other two added with two different height foam adhesives. 

The Clean Team has terrific cards this week! I hope you are inspired to play along with us.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Week 352: DRAGONFLY

Welcome to CASology!

I paired a PTI Penned Elegance Sentiment with a Hero Arts Antique Engravings dragonfly image for my card this week. The sentiment was stamped and clear embossed on the panel first, then Shabby Shutters Distress Ink blended over it.

The last step was to stamp a trio of dragonflies, partially overlapping a couple on the sentiment. I love that the embossed area resists the ink and the dragonflies appear to be flying under the sentiment.

The design team has great cards this week!

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Janet Ribet  

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield 

Milka Gubo

Nancy Elrick

Sue Symens

Guest Designer: Deepti!

Sponsor: STAMPlorations!

We are looking forward to seeing how DRAGONFLY inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! We are back to a TWO WEEK CHALLENGE, so you have until 9 AM Monday, Sep 30th (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #402

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!

This fun sketch is from Clean Team designer, Karren Johnson, and had me immediately thinking of fall leaves for the circle elements.

A Concord & 9th sentiment is heat embossed on a stitched panel and popped up over a white panel on the card front before the Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves die cuts are added.

Check out Freshly Made Sketches for more Clean Team inspiration and link up your card by Monday,  September 16th!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie