Typewritten

Hi and welcome!  It's a very exciting week over at Freshly Made Sketches as we hit sketch #700!  That's 14 years of different sketches to inspire all you cardmakers out there! For such a special occasion, we went back into the archives and are, appropriately, using sketch #14 this week. And to make it more fun the design team are showing their first FMS card as well as their new #700 sketch card.

I started playing at sketch #20, which was also the first time I had ever entered a card challenge and I was thrilled to be named a Princess.  My poorly lit card is down below (and that was from back in the day when I used SU products).  I was thrilled to be asked the join the design team from sketch #118 in January 2014 and have been a proud DT member ever since.

Now onto my card for #700.  I wanted to do something a bit special so went into full layering mode and back to basics with stamping and embossing.  I white heat-embossed the You Matter background stamp onto some Oceanside cardstock and because it looked a bit stark, I stamped over it with the Chalk Background stamp and white ink.  I then cut the panel into four, matted it onto dark gray cardstock and then tried to adhere them evenly onto a Soft Stone panel, which was then layered onto a white card base (see what I mean about layering!)

I assembled the typewriter from MFT using peachy and gray tones.  The sentiment is from a Woodware stamp set.  I adhered that using foam tape and finished with a die-cut heart which I coated in Glossy Accents.  It wasn't until I was writing up this post that I realised I put my heart in the wrong place, but we're pretty forgiving like that over at FMS!

And here is my first entry from FMS20 which was back in 2012.  

And continuing with the trip down memory lane, here is my first card as a member of the design team - FMS118.  I remember being so scared it wasn't going to be good enough, but it must have been okay because they haven't fired me yet!

Thanks so much for visiting and getting through this long post.  Please check out the first and newest cards from the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Vintage Typewriter (Woodware), You Matter (SSS), Chalk Background (Hero Arts)

Ink: Versamark, Unicorn White (Hero Arts), Versafine Onyx Black, Sunkissed (Pink Fresh)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Soft Stone (PTI), Gravel Gray (MFT), Oceanside (Spellbinders), Nectar, Grapefruit (C&9)

Dies: Typewriter (MFT), Infinity Hearts (Hero Arts)

Accessories: Glossy Accents, White Embossing Powder

Cheers

Karren

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Letterboard Birthday

The new Tic-Tac-Toe challenge is a good one! I went left diagonal: letters-free-rectangle shape where my "free" is flowers.

I used MFT’s Letterboard and alphabet to make this birthday card. The flowers were pre-made so this card came together quickly.

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Cardstock: White, Black, Rouge (Altenew)

Dies: Letterboard, Letterboard Letters (MFT), Garden Wreath Add-Ons (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Pastel Pearl Stickers (Honey Bee)

Cheers

Karren

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Pokemon-Inspired

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches' latest challenge, where our hostess this week is Verena Shapiro.  As soon as I saw Verena's sketch I saw a Pokeball and couldn't get the image out of my head.  I couldn't make it work as a card but I was inspired by the yellow colour and went a bit Mondrian-inspired in my colour scheme for this card.

This was very simple to make - 2 coloured circle dies cut in half, a black circle mat and a blue sentiment strip with a black mat.  The hardest part was finding a suitably long sentiment.

Thanks for visiting.  Please head over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips (Altenew)

Ink:  Versamark

Cardstock:  White, Black, Beeswax, Pomegranate (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Infinity Circles (Hero Arts) Fishtail Flag Stax, Fishtail Flag Layers Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  White EP

Cheers

Karren

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Teacher

Hi and welcome.  After a couple of months of not being able to play along, I'm joining in with the Case It hop over on Instagram.  I was inspired by Joan Bardee (@dearpaperlicious) and her fabulous primary coloured teacher card to come up with this:

I kept with the teacher theme and the notebook paper die but I changed the orientation of my card and added in some aqua and yellow colours for my die-cut elements.  You can see Joan's card down the bottom of my post.  

Thanks so much for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Teach, Sleep, Repeat (MFT)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock: White, Black, Kraft, Beeswax, Pomegranate, Seaside (Spellbinders), Silver Mirror Cardstock

Dies: A2 Ripped Notebook (Picket Fence), Back to School (MFT), Notebook Journal Card (SugarPea Designs)

Cheers

Karren

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Numbers

 

Hi and welcome!  Today's card uses the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches where Kim Singdahlsen

is our hostess.  I decided to get messy with Distress Spray Stains, Distress Spritz and an embossing folder for my card.

These panels started out as white watercolour paper and after lots of spraying and splattering, they became this.  I die-cut the panels and mounted them onto black cardstock before adhering to a kraft card base.  The sentiment is pre-foiled in gold.

Thanks for visiting.  The DT have some gorgeous cards so I hope you'll check them out.

Products used:

Ink: Black Soot Archival

Cardstock: Desert Storm (Kraft), Black, Distress Watercolour Cardstock

Dies:A2 Rectangle Stax 1 and 2 (MFT), Additional Square Die (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Numbers Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Crackling Campfire, Rusty Hinge, Tumbled Glass, Weathered Wood, Gathered Twigs Distress Spray Stain, Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Spray Stain, Salvaged Patina, Hickory Smoke Distress Spritz

Cheers

Karren

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Air Mail

Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by the one-and-only Linda Callahan and leaves a wide open space for all sorts of different interpretations.  I went through my NBUS box and decided it was time I used some of the Spellbinders club kits from April this year.  I chose to work with the hot foil plate and co-ordinating stencils for the centre panel in my card.

After stenciling, I adhered the panel to a white card base and worked on the other sketch elements.  I cut two strips of white cardstock and adhered them with foam tape to the card base after stamping a sentiment on the top panel.  I then used Altenew inks in darker shades to the stenciled panel to create the airmail strip and the heart border, which are from SugarPea Designs.

Thanks for visiting!  Head over and check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps: Send & Seal (Spellbinders)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Pink Pearl, Coral Bliss, Heartbeat, Dew Drops, Aqualicious, Teal Cave (Altenew)

Cardstock: White

Dies: Airmail Set, Heart Border (SugarPea Designs, Scattered Letters Hot Foil (Spellbinders)

Accessories: Scattered Letters Stencils (Spellbinders), Black hot foil

Cheers

Karren

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Baby

Hi all and welcome!  Before I get to this week's card for Freshly Made Sketches I wanted to let my (previous) email subscribers know that my account was closed by MailChimp because I hadn't logged into it for 24 months.  Silly me ignored the emails thinking they related to the long-closed Fusion Card Challenge because emails for this blog were going to subscribers every time I posted, so of course my account was active 😒.  But no, because I hadn't logged into my MailChimp account, it was closed and there is no way to get it back.  So none of my subscribers have been receiving emails since May.  

Long story short, I created a new account at Follow It which was so much easier to set up so if you would like to receive emails when I post (about 1 card a week!), please sign up to the right 👉.

Now onto this week's card. Jen Mitchell came up with a fabulous sketch and I used some NBUS dies from Scrapbook.com to make a baby card - for who I have no idea 😁  

I die-cut everything from white cardstock and ink-blended using some soft pastel colours.  I arranged the images onto a vellum stitched tag and then onto a strip of gingham patterned paper.  The sentiment die is from SugarPea Designs and stacked three high for dimension.

Thanks so much for visiting!  The design team have some wonderful cards so I hope you'll check them out.

Products used:

Ink: Minty Mint, Sweet Leaf, Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart, Peachy Glow, Peach Perfect, Vanilla Cream, Hazelnut, Rocky Shore, Mocha (Altenew)

Cardstock: White, Vellum, Homespun Gingham patterned paper (MFT)

Dies: Welcome Baby (Scrapbook.com), Baby Diaper Pin (SugarPea Designs), Anytime Tags (Lil Inkers), Stitched Scalloped Borders (Lawn Fawn)

Accessories:  White twine

Cheers

Karren

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