Mistletoe

Today's sketch designer over at Freshly Made Sketches is Cecile Ribon and she has given us a wonderful sketch.  I was really pressed for time this week so quickly pulled together this Christmas card.

It's hard to see in the photo, but I used white pigment ink on the embossing folder before running it through the die-cutting machine with some Desert Storm cardstock.  I then cut out the oval and ran it through again to re-define the embossing. 

The foliage was die-cut and lightly ink-blended before assembly.  I arranged two at the bottom right and one at the top left as per the sketch.  What I didn't get right was the sentiment placement, instead putting it in the centre of the oval.

Thanks for visiting. The design team have some wonderful cards so please go and check them out.

Products used:

Stamps: Big Dots Holiday (Waffle Flower)

Ink: Versamark, Unicorn White (Hero Arts), Shattered Shell (Altenew), Forest Moss Distress Ink

Cardstock: White, Black, Desert Storm, Jelly Bean (MFT)

Dies: Bigger Holiday Botanicals: Mistletoe (The Greetery), Essential Stylist Ovals (Spellbinders) 

Accessories: Gold EP, Holly & Foliage Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)

Cheers

Karren

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Cork Leaves

Hi! Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Jen Brum and as often happens, I saw the diagonal panel as negative space and had to go with that!

I found an already embossed panel of Fog cardstock so that was cut to become my top layer.  When I went looking for some patterned paper for the leaves, I found this self-adhesive cork paper and decided that would work as something a bit different.  I splattered some Rusty Hinge Distress Spritz on the leaves before adding the copper foil stems.  

I then adhered the leaves with a combination of foam tape and liquid glue.  Finally a copper and black sentiment finished the card.

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

Products used:

Cardstock: White, Fog (SSS), Cork Paper, Copper Foil

Dies: Big Leaves & Stems (Kristina Werner), Bold Thanks (Altenew)

Accessories: Rusty Hinge Distress Spritz, Wood Planks Embossing Folder (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

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Gingerbread

It's time for another sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and this week our sketch hostess is Verena Shapiro.  I have to say I'm not in love with this card - I had the idea in my head but it didn't exactly come out as I envisaged.  But it is what it is.

I stenciled and die-cut the cookie images before white heat embossing the stamped elements.  Onto a red panel, I embossed the Confection Companions embossing folder and adhered it to a white car base.  I die-cut the cookie rack with grey cardstock and adhered that to the embossed panel.  After adding the gingerbread man with foam tape, I white embossed the sentiment onto red and added that and called it done!

Thanks for visiting.  The design team have some gorgeous cards so I hope you'l check them out.

Products used:

Stamps: Gingerbread Cookies (Kristina Werner)

Ink: Gathered Twigs, Walnut Stain, Scorched Timber Distress Inks, Versamark

Cardstock: Paperbag, Lobster (Lawn Fawn) Evening Gray (Altenew), white

Dies: Gingerbread Cookies (Kristina Werner), Cool It Cookie Rack (Spellbinders)

Accessories: White EP, Confection Companions embossing folder (Spellbinders)

Cheers

Karren

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Abstract Birthday

Hi, just a quick post from me as it's late and I need to get this published!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Jennifer Timko and it leaves pretty much everything up to the creator, which is fabulous!  I went with a cover plate foil plate and stencils to make this birthday card.

The cover plate was foiled in silver foil onto white and then I used various Distress Inks to colour through the stencils.  I cut it down and matted it onto a black panel.  The sentiment was also silver foiled - this time onto black and die-cut before being adhered with foam tape.

Here is the colour inspiration which came from the Colour Cubes.

Thanks for visiting!  I hope you'll check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Ink: Tattered Rose, Dried Marigold, Saltwater Taffy, Worn Lipstick, Dusty Concord Distress Inks

Cardstock: White, Black

Dies: Abstract Background press plate (Alex Syberia Design), Modest Greetings 1 (Poppy Stamps)

Accessories: Silver hot foil, Abstract Background stencils

Cheers

Karren

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Leaf Fragments

Welcome to a new challenge over at Tic-Tac-Toe. I went with the left diagonal - fall colours - leaves - metallics to come up with this card using some NBUS dies and embossing folder.

I added Vintage Photo distress ink to the embossing folder before embossing to give it some added interest and then adhered the panel onto a card base.  The leaves were created using various distress inks and ink-smooshing before putting them through the Foliage embossing folder (saw this trick on a Tim live recently and loved it!).

The metallic component comes from the thin frame and the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Ink: Vintage Photo, Crackling Campfire, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Rustic Wilderness, Fossilized Amber Distress Inks

Cardstock: Truffle (Spellbinders), Copper Foil, Watercolour paper

Dies: Vault Leaves & Sticks (Tim Holtz), A2 Thin Frames (SSS), Hello Poe Script (Poppy Stamps)

Accessories: Cracked Leather Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Foliage Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz)

Cheers

Karren

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Snowman Scarf

Hi! Today's Freshly Made Sketches card layout was designed by Jen Mitchell.  I wanted to use a NBUS die so made what is probably my second Christmas card of the year.

I die-cut the snowman elements - added a bit of ink-blending to the snowman and his hat and then assembled.  I mounted it onto two gray panels die-cut with a torn edges die.  I couldn't figure out what to use for the horizontal panel in the sketch so decided to go with negative space instead.

I finished with a simple sentiment and called it done!

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps: Curio Labels (The Greetery)

Ink: Moon Rock (Altenew), Salvaged Patina, Gathered Twigs Distress Inks

Cardstock: White, Black, Moon Rock, Sand Dunes, Rouge (Altenew), Pebble (C+9), Acorn (Spellbinders)

Dies: Sweet Snowman (Spellbinders), Torn Paper Edges (MFT)

Accessories: Copic Markers (110, R20)

Cheers

Karren

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Halloween Shelf

Hi and welcome!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Kim Singdahlsen. I decided to make a very rare for me Halloween card - purely because I'd just received this Tim Holtz die set and wanted to use it.

On a kraft card base I embossed my new favourite embossing folder - Cracked Leather.  I added some Frayed Burlap distress ink to both the folder and then around the edges of the embossed panel.  The rectangle was die-cut with wonky stitched die from some patterned paper and then I lightly sanded to expose some of the white core.  I die-cut the shelf and all the shelf elements from white and ink-blended with various inks before popping up with foam tape on to the patterned paper.

For the vertical panel, I decided to use some mummy cloth and seam binding ribbon.  Unfortunately I used liquid glue and it showed through the ribbbon, but I've decided to embrace the imperfection to quote Tim.  Next time I'll use double-sided tape.  To cover up the worst of the glue I added a black glitter spider - which was huge for me because I *hate* spiders! The sentiment was white-embossed onto black and cut out with a sentiment strip die.

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

Products used:

Stamps: Fang-Tastic Friends (MFT)

Ink:  Versamark, Fossilized Amber, Frayed Burlap, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo, Lost Shadow, Ground Espresso, Weathered Wood Distress Inks, Dark Night (Altenew)

Cardstock: White, Black, Fine Linen (PTI), Vintage patterned paper (Scrapbook.com), Black glitter cardstock (Spellbinders)

Dies: Vault Side Order Laboratory (Tim Holtz), Wonky Stitched Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories: White EP, Cracked Leather Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Mummy Cloth, Seam Binding Ribbon

Cheers

Karren

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