Freshly Made Sketches #666

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #666!

 

The amazing Clean Team designer Jennifer Brum is the talent behind our last sketch for 2024. And why am I just seeing how perfect this would be for a New Year's card? It's too late for me as I am rapidly running out of time and need a few more Christmas greeting to get in the mail.

The circles became snowflakes for me with the larger PTI Silver White Winter Snowflake dies getting cut from white and silver shimmer papers and adhered to vellum circles. A faux embossed background is created by adhering smaller snowflake dies to a stitched scalloped edge panel.

The design is finished with a Lawn Fawn Winter Big Scripty Words sentiment embossed on blue vellum and wrapped around the panel before it is adhered to the card base.

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

I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and look forward to seeing you in the New Year. Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #664

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #664!

I love the trio of panels in fabulous Clean Team designer Linda Callahan's sketch this week! My original plans involved candy canes but I am kind of smitten with this Simple Stories Snow Pine Lodge paper I picked up last weekend and had to play with it instead.

The Lawn Fawn Merry Messages sentiment is heated embossed on the panel first before adding the staggered stitched rectangle die cuts of patterned paper.  A trio of snowflake sequins adds a bit of glitter and shine.

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 #663

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #663!

Awesome Clean Team designer, Jen Mitchell, is behind our fabulous sketch this week! I'm pretty sure it is because I've been on the hunt for a new belt that I immediately saw the sketch as a belt buckle and couldn't unsee it, so took a bit of creative liberty with the sketch for my design. I was kind of excited to play with older supplies after deciding to create a knit Santa suit.

A 4x11" piece of red cardstock is scored at 4 and 8 inches from the left to create the card base, with the left and right panels overlapping for a gatefold. The two side pieces were then embossed with a Lifestyle Crafts knit texture for a bit of interest.  Again digging into older supplies, a large scalloped border die trims the front side panel so that you can see the right side of his suit when the card is closed. The right panel hidden underneath the closed left panel is also given the same scalloped finish.

A square frame die is used to cut the glitter paper buckle and a stitched die is used for the belt. I debated leaving off a sentiment but in the end decided to add the sweet heat embossed Kerri Bradford Bundled Up sentiment.

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 #662

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #662!

Our talented challenge leader, Jen Timko, has given us a fun landscape sketch to work with this week. I've been sorting and purging in the office and came across a set of die cuts made when crafting with a friend a couple years ago. Yes, you read that right, and they immediately went on my desk in the "use these" pile. I knew as soon as I saw the landscape orientation one of these Middle Eastern cityscape die cuts would be perfect.

A panel is inked with shades of blue and the Mama Elephant Merry Christmas Wishes sentiment and Poppystamps Believe stars are heat embossed in gold before adding the cityscape die cut. I really wish I knew the brand to share for the die cuts. If you recognize, please let me know!

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 #661

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #661!

I'm excited to be hosting the challenge this week! My sketch was created around a Tim Holtz Bowtie die I have had sitting unused for at least a year. Remember, you can use the sketch as a background element or the main image of your design. I saw a wrapped gift first, but also think it would be fun to play with plaids or use the three smaller pieces to frame something in the largest panel. I can't wait to see the gallery fill with your creative ideas!

A piece of designer paper is used to provide a gift wrapped base for the aqua bow. As I was putting the bow together, a snowflake die cut kept calling to be used and adds a bit of interest to the design. The last step was to make a tag with the liquid platinum embossed MFT sentiment and Avery Elle die. It was tied off with dark gray twine and slipped under the bow layers.

 

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 #660

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #660!

 

Clean Team designer Judy Rozema is the creative mind behind a fabulous sketch this week! I pulled out my Savvy Deer Head die almost immediately and then was a little stumped on what to do with the lovely scroll element in the sketch.

It was a slow work in progress but I love the final design! For fun and in a little nod to the elegant scroll, the deer was cut from glitter paper before being mounted on a woodgrain embossed oval panel. A number of leaves were cut from various shades of green cardstock and layered at the bottom of the oval. The heat embossed MFT Bitty Holiday Wishes sentiment finishes the 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 #659

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #659!

Clean Team member Amy O'Neill is the talented designer behind this great sketch! There are so many images and shapes that could be used in place of the circles. I literally went in circles through my balloon, star and ornament images before settling on this sweet line of baubles.

The Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate Winter image is colored with Copic markers and coated with clear Nuvo drops to mimic the shine of glass ornaments. This slim strip is popped up over a panel stamped with a Lawn Fawn Deck the Halls sentiment and embossed with a Sizzix 3D Leaf Pattern folder. A few leafy die cuts add a bit more texture and detail to the design.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #658

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #658!

I love that there are so many ways to use the trio of panels in Clean Team designer Narelle Farrugia's fabulous sketch! I decided to layer rectangles with snowflakes and place a large sentiment die cut over it all.

All the snowflakes are cut from a heavy vellum and scattered over the rectangles before the layered PTI Christmas Cheer sentiment is added. A few snowflake sequins finish the design with a bit of sparkle.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #656

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #656!

Our sketch this week is from Clean Team designer, CéciIe Ribon, the queen of elegant and whimsical designs. I had an immediate idea for the center rectangle element and am pretty pleased with the way it turned out.

An older MFT Christmas Text background is stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder on a white panel. Light green ink is blended over a rectangle area of the text so that the words pop. An MFT Joy die is cut from green and white cardstock, layered and adhered onto the center of the inked area.

A few Paper Smooches Holly die cuts and red glitter enamel dots finish the 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 #653

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #653!

I was so excited to see Clean Team Designer, Kim Singdahlsen's fabulous sketch this week! As the owner of far too many oversized sentiment stamps and dies, the biggest challenge was deciding which one to use.

It wasn't long before a sentiment from Mama Elephant Peace on Earth stamp set made it to the top of my pile.

Layers of pink ink are painted, splattered and blotted on a piece of watercolor paper before the sentiment is stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Ranger gold embossing powder. A scatter of sequins adds a bit more "bright" to the design.

The finished panel is mounted on gold cardstock and popped up on the card base.

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 #652

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #652!

What a fun sketch Clean Team Designer, Linda Callahan, has given us this week! I had no shortage of ideas, but did have a shortage of time which ruled out a couple options. 

A favorite older Memory Box Sussex Snowflake die provided the circular element and is layered with a Mama Elephant Jingle Greetings sentiment white embossed on vellum. Glitter and soft texture are provided by a strip of Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust paper and the soft aqua fiber. 

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 #649

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #649!

I adore this fabulous sketch from Clean Team designer, Amy O'Neill! The horizontal strips had me looking through my washi collections, especially the growing number of Christmas themed washi that I just can't seem to resist.

It was the fun musical Santa tape that made the cut first and then a couple more tapes from the same Simple Stories Simple Vintage Dear Santa set were added to complete the horizontal element. The tapes were adhered to white cardstock and overlapped before being adhered to the snowflake embossed panel.

A snowflake die cut is embellished with Baker's Twine and a trio of jingle bells before being popped up on the panel 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 #616

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!

Our fabulous sketch comes from the super talented Amy O'Neill this week! My first thought was to put a wreath in the center square and it only took me a few minutes to decide on the Memory Box Sussex Snowflake Wreath.

The wreath has a vellum layer under the glitter cardstock and is adhered loosely to a polka dot vellum square. The PTI Wet Paint Holiday die is cut three times with the top layer from a deep pink shimmer cardstock and popped into place at the center of the wreath. 

The square panel is adhered to the pink panel sitting on the card base to finish the design.

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 #613

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #613!

Clean Team designer Kim Singdahlsen's fabulous sketch was a perfect opportunity to use a couple items picked up on a recent shopping trip with a couple crafty friends. I so miss the days of having several scrapbook and stamping stores within an easy drive and took full advantage of opportunity to see, touch and smell so many favorite products in real life before buying.

An older Poppystamps Holiday Mistletoe die, tied with sheer ribbon and finished with pearl berries, sits so prettily on the new Spellbinders Tufted 3D embossed panel. When I see a simple strip in a sketch, I poke through the patterned paper and washi stash. The new Teresa Collins washi was the perfect size and color to provide a sentiment and finish the design. It is wrapped all the way around the card front, providing a sentiment inside the card, too.

 

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

Happy Thanksgivings to our American friends and safe travels if you are on the road this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #611

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #611!

This fabulous layered sketch from Clean Team designer Jen Mitchell had me pulling out the Memory Box Star of Wonder die while I let a few ideas roll around in my head. My plan to use metallic gold paper disappeared when I started playing with a holographic silver star washi. 

The washi is adhered to white cardstock scraps before the star and fishtail flag are die cut.  A very deep blue Indigo cardstock is used for the card base and the rounded edge panel. This smaller panel is embossed with stars.

An Ali Edwards December Daily 2019 Christmas Phrases sentiment is silver embossed on a white panel before the edges are inked.

There is an extra special challenge to getting a good photo that balances the dark texture on the deep blue panel with bright shine of the washi.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team cards, along with another Challenge #600 winner and guest design this week, Laurie Unger, and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #610

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #610!

The super talented Clean Team designer and challenge leader, Jen Timko, has given us a fun sketch this week! I chose to do a repeat design because I wanted to repeat the sentiment across the three bands, but of course you can mix it up with any images you want to use. I've been enjoying a couple weeks in BC and am fortunate we just had a single day of rain, but it left a nice layer of snow on the mountains so snowflakes are on my mind. 

The base panel is embossed with Taylored Expressions Winter Flurry and wrapped with three think strips of Lawn Fawn Pixie glitter paper first. Glitter snowflakes are added to aqua vellum rounds and finished with a Pretty Pink Posh jewel next. The MFT Itty Bitty Holiday sentiment is heat embossed with a Ranger Tinsel embossing powder for another touch of shine and the strips tucked under the snowflakes to finish the design.

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 #609

 Welcome To Freshly Made Sketches #609!

This lovely layered sketch comes from the super talented Clean Team designer, Judy Rozema!  The MFT Christmas Text paper was the starting point for my design. Once the aqua text was picked for the rectangle panel, it is inked and added to a white base.

A Poppystamps Shaker Ornament substitutes for the square panel. The MFT Bitty Holiday Wishes sentiment is heat embossed in platinum and layered with a vellum flag. The last step was to poke a few holes and add floss stitches and French knots. I'm second thinking these, but time was not on my side this week.

Joining the fabulous Clean Team this week is Challenge #600 Celebration winner, Donna Mikasa. Check out all their amazing designs and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie