It's Freshly Made Sketch Day so let's look at what Amy has in store for us this week.
What a fun sketch! For my card, I tried a new-to-me technique that I've seen in blogland lately and in particular on Jennifer McGuire's blog called Watercolor Background.
I white-embossed the sentiment onto a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper. I then smeared some distress inks onto the watercolor paper before spritzing liberally with water. I dried the paper with my heat gun. I then took a Sahara Sand marker and outlined each letter of the sentiment. I realise now that I didn't copy the sketch properly onto my scrap paper and didn't carry the horizontal strip right across the card front. Sorry, Amy!
I made some rolled roses using white cardstock I'd sponged with distress inks. Some leaves cut from Lucky Limeade finish the card.
Thanks for visiting. Go check out the amazing cards from the rest of the design team. This sketch is great fun and I'd love to see what you make with it. As my card includes flowers, I'm linking up to Friday Mashup as well.
Products used:
Stamps: Allegro (Penny Black)
Ink: Tattered Rose, Rusty Hinge, Scattered Straw Distress Inks, Versamark
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper
Accessories: MFT Rolled Rose die, Little Leaves Sizzlet (SU), Sahara Sand marker
Cheers
Karren
Hi everyone and welcome back to Merry Monday!
I have to confess - I really struggled with this challenge. I don't have any country-themed Christmas stamps so I had to find other things to provide the country charm.
I used the patterned paper to give the country feel and then used a die cut that had what I consider to be country-looking angels on. The stitching was paper piercing and I used a token button!
The inside was finished very simply.
Thanks for looking. If you check out the rest of the DT cards, you'll see some beautiful cards with real country charm!
Products used:
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Holiday Treasures DSP, Early Espresso
Accessories: Couture Creations "Angel" die, Essentials paper piercing kit, Crumb Cake Baker's Twine, Neutrals Button
Cheers
Karren
It's Sunday night here and time to get ready for another working week! I did take some time today though to make a card using this week's colors from ColourQ.
When I saw these colors, I immediately thought of pears for some reason, so I hunted through my pear stamps for something suitable. This stamp from Hampton Art Stamps was perfect and I decided to go for a loosely watercolored look.
I white embossed the pears stamp onto watercolor paper then spritzed liberally with water. I then loosely colored the pears using Summer Starfruit ink. Once that dried, I re-spritzed and colored with Cool Caribbean ink. As some of the starfruit ink had run into the background, I decided to spread some starfruit ink across the whole background to give a greenish tint.
I spent more time trying to decide how to finish the card that coloring it! I didn't want to cover up the image so I kept it very simple, using a sentiment from PTI's Meadow Greens set.
I'm also linking this up at the Linky Party at Seize the Birthday.
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Four Pears (Hampton Art Stamps), Meadow Greens (PTI)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Summer Starfruit, Cool Caribbean
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, Xpress-it
Accessories: 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, aquapainter
Cheers
Karren
After a bit of a stressful week, I made it into my craft room today to make a couple of cards. This card uses the fab colors from Color Throwdown and the cue word "Paint" from CASology. I'm also linking this up to Stampin' Royalty as it's a CAS card.
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" I love this saying. This stamp is very old and made by Hampton Art Stamps. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black onto Whisper White and then over-stamped the paint splatter images from Grunge Me in both Tangerine Tango and So Saffron. I layered that panel onto a piece of Tangerine Tango after rounding the top left corner.
The inside mimics the front:
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Art Soul (Hampton Art Stamps), Grunge Me (PTI)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron
Cardstock: Whisper White, Tangerine Tango
Accessories: Corner Chomper
Edited to Add: This card got a shout out at Color Throwdown.
Cheers
Karren
Welcome back to another Freshly Made Sketch Challenge! This week, the lovely Narelle has given us a wonderful sketch that allows so much freedom. Check this out:
I need a birthday card for my mother and as my mother introduced me to stamping all those years ago, I'm sure you can appreciate I feel some pressure to make a pretty special card for her!
This is what I come up with after an inordinately long time! My mum loves butterfly and dragonfly stamps.
The background panel is a piece of glossy white which was colored using the Fossil Stone technique. I used Pool Party, Marina Mist, Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant inks for this technique. Once that dried, I stamped over it with Hampton Art Stamps 'Mariposa' stamp. A dry-embossed piece of vellum was laid over top and stuck down under the pearls. The butterfly comes from Best of Butterflies and was colored using blue and purple Copic markers before being cut out.
The sentiment is from Birthday Bash Sentiments and at the last hurdle, I put a tiny smudge of black ink in the bottom right corner, hence the random pearls!
Here's a shot of the inside so you can see the Fossil Stone without the vellum layer.
Happy Birthday, Mum! Love ya!
I hope you have a chance to make a card using Narelle's sketch. In the meantime, check out the rest of the Design Team inspiration.
Products used:
Stamps: Hampton Art Stamps, Best of Butterflies (SU), Happiest of Birthdays (SU)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Marina Mist, Elegant Eggplant
Cardstock: Glossy White, Whisper White, Xpress-it, Basic Black, Vellum Cardstock
Accessories: Plastic Folder, Elegant Lines EF, Basic Pearls, Copic Markers
Cheers
Karren
Hi and welcome to another Merry Monday challenge. This week's challenge is a very trendy color challenge - aqua, silver and white.
And here's my card:
I've admired this gorgeous Penny Black image for months and he finally came to live with me about a month ago. This is his first outing.
I silver-embossed the snowman image onto Whisper White cardstock, then lightly outlined the snowbanks and snowman with copic markers. I then laid down some Dazzling Details glitter over the color on the snowbanks. I stamped the sentiment right into the image. The image panel is popped up on dimensionals.
The layout is very simple to allow the main image to shine - some die cut and paper-pierced Coastal Cabana cardstock with a very thin layer of silver cardstock underneath. To finish off the card, I used some silver taffeta ribbon.
Thanks for looking. Check out the rest of the DT cards and have a go with this trendy color combo.
Products used:
Stamps: White Christmas (Penny Black)
Ink: Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Whisper White, Silver, Coastal Cabana
Accessories: Silver EP, Essentials Paper Piercing Kit, Silver Taffeta Ribbon, Large Scallops Edgelits
Cheers
Karren
(This is my second post today so if you get this via email, please scroll down for my CTMH card.)
I'm back with a card that uses the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch and the colors from Stampin' Royalty.
This is a very simple card although it took two attempts because the first time I smudged the red ink! This card is fairly self-explanatory so I won't go into any detail.
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Tiny Triangles (PTI), Slang Gang (Paper Smooches)
Ink: Real Red, Crushed Curry, Island Indigo
Cardstock: Whisper White, Vellum
Accessories: Regals Candy Dots
Cheers
Karren
