Postage Flowers

 

Hi and welcome!  Today is Freshly Made Sketch Challenge Day and our hostess this week is Narelle Farrugia.  As soon as I saw her sketch, I saw postage stamps and that's the direction I took.

This is part of an earlier stenciled panel that I first used on this card.  I used the Postage Collage die to select three pieces to die-cut and then added the additional postage-style stamps on them.  The card base is white and onto that I added a Pastel Sunrise panel I'd stamped with the same colour ink and the Crackle background stamp.  I used this stamp on the stenciled piece as well so this ties it together somewhat.

To finish the card, I stacked a BetterPress sentiment three deep and called it done.

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

Products used:

Stamps:  Postage Collage (Waffle Flower), Crackle Background (SSS

Ink:  Rose Quartz, Peach Parfait, Purple Wine, Orange Cream, Sunkissed, Fire Brick, Mocha, Sea Forest, Marshland, Misty Moor, Puffy Heart, Mangrove Root, Cosmic Berry, Pastel Sunrise, Obsidian Black (Altenew), Lost Shadow Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Pastel Sunrise (Altenew)

Dies:  Postage Collage (Waffle Flower, Here For You Sentiments BetterPress and Hot Foil (PinkFresh)

Accessories:  Charming Delight Stencils (Altenew), Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers

Karren

Chalkboard Christmas

Hi and welcome.  I'm the sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches and I decided to add to my meagre Christmas card stash with this card. 

Firstly, I inked up one side of an embossing folder with white pigment ink and ran it through with kraft cardstock.  I repeated this a few times to get a good layer of white ink then set it aside to dry.  Once dry, I lightly inked around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink.  Then my plans came unstuck!  I had planned to use some patterned paper my mother gave me a piece of which had scripty Christmas words over a chalkboard-looking background, but I didn't have enough!  So I decided to make my own.  I used a chalk bg stamp first then stamped over that with a text Christmas stamp.  It's not the same but it's okay.

I added the two panels to my card base and included a thin strip of gold foil cardstock at the join.  The tag was hot-foiled and then die-cut and I also die-cut some holly leaves and berries which I added to the tag.  I finished with some twine tied in a bow onto the tag.

Thanks so much for visiting.  Please head over and check out what the rest of the DT have done with my sketch.

Products used:

Stamps:  Chalk Background (Hero Arts), Christmas Background (MFT)

Ink:  Cloud White (Altenew), Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Black, Kraft, Amarena Cherry (MFT), Pinefeather (PTI), matte gold foil

Dies:  Seasonal Sketch (Tim Holtz, Tag Sale #5 (PTI), Christmas Mailbox Greetings Hot Foil (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Gold hot foil, twine, Holly & Foliage EF (Spellbinders)

Cheers

Karren

Hello Florals

Hi!  Today's card uses Cecile's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and I decided to play with some NBUS for my card.  (Apologies that the photos look a bit garish - I think the camera settings on my phone have changed.)  And, by the way, the price stickers on the ink cubes are in New Zealand dollars not US 😄

The NBUS products I used for this card are the floral dies and the sentiment - both of which come from Pinkfresh Studio.  I stenciled and die-cut the flowers and heat-embossed the sentiment.  For the background, I veered away from the rectangle and went with an oval shape which was embossed with the Brickwork folder from Tim Holtz.  I mounted that onto some matte gold foil and adhered it to a Coral Crush card base.

I then arranged the florals and the sentiment and called it done!  Thanks for visiting.  Please head over and check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Here For You Sentiments (Pink Fresh Studio)

Ink:  Versamark, Chasing Sunsets, Indian Summer sets (Pink Fresh Studio), Shadow Creek, Mountain Pine (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Coral Crush (MFT), Fold Matte Foil

Dies:  Here For You Sentiments, Garden Party (Pink Fresh Studio)

Accessories:  Garden Party Stencils (Pink Fresh Studio), Brickwork EF (Tim Holtz), Antique Gold EP (SSS)

Cheers

Karren

Ring Thanks

 Hi all, I'm here with my card for the latest Tic-Tac-Toe challenge.  This time, I went down the right hand column with Die-Cut/Thank You/Metallic to come up with this card.

I hot-foiled, stenciled and die-cut the floral image and set it aside while I worked on the other elements.  The card base was enhanced with a corner die placed in the top left and right corners, giving a tone-on-tone effect.  For the sentiment, I die-cut from NBUS Pastel Sunrise cardstock to match the flowers, stacking it three deep before adding it to a matte silver foil shadow.

And that's it.  Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll check out the fabulous cards made by the design team and have a go yourself.

Products used:

Stamps:  Delighted For You (Pink Fresh)

Ink:  Tropical Forest and Martian Terrain sets (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Matte Silver Foil, Pastel Sunrise (Altenew)

Dies:  Delighted For You press plate and die (Pink Fresh) Ring a Ding Corner (Poppy Stamps), Fancy Thanks (SSS)

Accessories:  Silver hot foil, Delighted For You stencils

Cheers

Karren

Rainbow Circles

 Hi and welcome!  It's time for another sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches team and this week our hostess is Jen Brum - who has a dislike of circles.  Check out her sketch... 😮

For my card, I went pretty literal again and found the perfect die for the job.  I chose a selection of rainbow coloured cardstock and die-cut the inners and then die-cut the outer three times and stacked them together.

I finished with a simple birthday sentiment and a white enamel heart.  TBH the enamel heart is to cover up a little blob of glue that I tried to rub away and made worse!

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products Used:

Stamps:  Bewitching Rose (Altenew)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, Ballet Slipper, Sweet Pea, Poppy, Sorbet, Sunflower, Lemongrass, Tidepool, Peacock, Grape Soda, Lilac (Concord & 9th)

Dies:  Bubble Parade (SSS)

Accessories:  White enamel heart

Cheers

Karren

Diamond Triangles

 Hi. A quick post from me today. I’ve been out of town for the last few weeks as my daughter needed follow-up surgery so I was with her during her surgery and recovery. 

Today’s card uses the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is Jen Mitchell. I didn’t want to go the obvious route yet here we are 😀

Geometric hot foil plates and an embossing folder pulled this more-masculine Christmas card together. It’s pretty self-explanatory so I won’t go into any more detail. But feel free to ask any questions.

Thanks for visiting. Please check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the team. 

Products used:

Cardstock:  Fog (SSS), White, Dune (Spellbinders), Cranberry Cocktail, Hot Fudge (MFT)

Dies:  Diamonetta Background, Mini Christmas Sentiment Strips (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Tufted EF (Spellbinders), Pewter Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

Rectangles and Leaves

Hi and welcome!  It's my turn to design the board over at Tic-Tac-Toe and I chose something that should be easy to work with - hopefully!  I ended up incorporating every element in my card today. 

The rectangle panels were ink-blended then embossed with a leafy embossing folder before being arranged onto a white card base.  The leaves were assembled using black and gold foil cardstock.  Finally the sentiment was heat-embossed and die-cut.

I finished with some shiny drops.

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll play along.

Products used:

Stamps:  Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Versamark, Mountain Mist, Volcano Lake, Lagoon, Emerald (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Rose Gold Foil

Dies:  Fall Leaves, Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower), Double Stitched Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Leafy EF (Spellbinders, Champagne Clear Drops (Pink Fresh)

Cheers

Karren