Freshly Made Sketches #470

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #470!

The talented Jennifer Brum has given us a very classic sketch with tremendous versatility this week. I usually start designing with a sentiment, but this week it was the corners that I tackled first, quickly deciding I wanted to feature a couple layered butterflies dies. 

The Memory Box Drifting Side Butterfly die is my absolute favorite and the Poppystamps Cheviot and Delaney dies pair so prettily with it. I cut the white outline pieces first, used them to help position and blend ink on a white panel and then cut the base pieces.

A search through the large sentiment stamps and dies uncovered a saved ombre inked PTI Big Basics die cut discarded from some long ago project. The color and size were so perfect I had to use it! Once again my cloud stencil helped softened the white panel and ground the sentiment. The only thing left to do was add a trio of tiny Memory Box Mini Butterflies.

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

Freshly Made Sketches #469

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #469!

 

I had a completely different design planned for Kim's great sketch this week. Ombre strips, leaves and butterflies were ready to go when I started flipping through my stencils to add a little something to the background. The MFT Sunrise Radiating Rays caught my attention as it reminded me so much of the sketch.

I pulled out a few Distress Inks and played around a bit, graduating the color away from the bottom half of the panel and adding a touch of orange to the sun/circle and a few of the (sort of) horizontal lines. A sentiment from Avery Elle Oh Happy Day fit perfectly. 

The sentiment is stamped in black first,  then again with VersaMark and sprinkled with holographic embossing powder to a touch of glitter and shine.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Challenge #382

 Welcome to CASology Challenge #382!

I have a feeling our cue word will inspire more than a few wedding, Valentine and miss you type cards this week. I went through a lot of ideas before settling on this design.

The Concord & 9th Map Love earth image is stamped in a soft blue, the MFT Bitty Holiday Wishes sentiment added next and then the Memory Box Groovy Symbols peace sign die cut adhered. Things are never as fast and easy as they look. As you may have guessed, deciding what color peace sign to use was not easy. 

The design team has terrific ideas this week!

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield 

Milka Gubo

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munro

Sue Symens

Guest Designer: Tracy !

 

We are looking forward to seeing how UNITE inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! This is a two week challenge, so you have until 9 AM Monday, February 2nd (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie