Freshly Made Sketches 232!

This week at Freshly Made Sketches, our sketch is brought to you by Narelle.  Now, don't adjust your sets folks your eyes are not deceiving you.  Our resident Queen of Layers has designed a sketch that only has a couple of them!  Maybe there's a CAS designer inside of her sometimes that's just busting to get out!

I'm also following along in a couple of other challenges here.  At Addicted to CAS they are looking for inlaid die(s) so I've got three.  I think it's hard to see in the photo but one of the inlaid dies is a white pierced rectangle.  In hindsight I don't think the white-on-white was such a good idea because it's so hard to photograph but in real life it looks a lot better!  The other challenge is Paper Smooches Sparks which is a black, white and one other color challenge.  Whenever I see those I like my other color to be something bright so I chose Melon Mambo.

Now make sure you check out the other cards from the design team at Freshly Made Sketches.  They will knock your socks off.  And you can be somewhat sure that Narelle managed to sneak in a few extra layers on her card!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I get to see you in the gallery this week!

Supplies
Paper:  White (Spectrum Noir); Melon Mambo, Basic Black (SU)
Accessories:  Pierced Rectangle STAX, Blueprints 15 die (My Favorite Things); Thanks Word die (Paper Smooches)

colourQ 293

And we're back!  After a week-long break we are back at colourQ with a new palette of awesome colors.  I decided to go all super-hero with my card this week!

The bold colors got me thinking of this dude and then I stumbled on this layout from Sketch Saturday.  Their challenge was to choose one of their past sketches and as soon as I saw this one I knew it would be perfect for what I already had in mind.

And, of course, I'm playing along with the Paper Smooches Sparks "anything goes" challenge this week.

Our colourQ design team has some beautiful cards to inspire you this week.  I hope to see you in the gallery!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Super (Paper Smooches)
Paper:  Basic Black, Hello Honey, Tangerine Tango (SU)
Ink:  White (WPlus9)
Accessories:  Bam Bubbles die (Paper Smooches); Starry Nights stencil (Memory Box); black embossing paste (Wendy Vecchi); white embossing powder

Freshly Made Sketches 180

Happy Wednesday!  Yay, we're half way through the work week and, of course, that means a brand new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week the always amazing Jen Timko is our hostess and she's designed an amazing sketch for us!

When I sat at my desk to make my card I had a vague idea to use this super hero guy.  So I stamped him, colored him and hoped for a fabulous idea for the rest of the card.  The rest came much more slowly and had lots of iterations before I settled on this version.

As you can see I took some *ahem* liberties with the sketch but since I got the okay from my Freshly Made Sketches teamies  I forged ahead.  My cityscape takes the place of the horizontal layer and "twine" and with apologies my sentiment is not in the right place.  But I think it's pretty cute and the end result embraces the spirit of the sketch!

I'm also playing along with the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge.  I've never joined them and since this week is "anything goes" and my super dude is a Paper Smooches image I wanted to join in the fun.

The Freshly Made Sketches design team has created some amazing cards for you this week.  Their interpretations of the sketch will get your creative juices flowing for sure.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Super (Paper Smooches)

Paper:  Kraft (Papertrey Ink); Pacific Point, Crushed Curry, Basic Black, Welcome Neighbor (SU); X-Press It Blending Card

Ink:  Black Licorice (My Favorite Things); Onyx Black (Versafine); Copics