Floral Boots

Hi and welcome to the first Freshly Made Sketch challenge of 2025, where our hostess this week is Cecile Ribon.

I wanted to play with some NBUS dies I bought in the Black Friday sales, so came up with this card (hopefully you can still see the sketch...)

I worked on the die-cuts first, cutting everything except the black elements from white cardstock and ink-blending to add colour.  For the boots, I cut around the toes to take away the pointed witch's boot and to try and make them look more "normal".  I bought this set for the florals but it's nice to get use out of the other elements as well.

Once all the die-cutting and ink-blending was finished, I arranged the elements and used Press n Seal to keep it all intact while I worked on the card base. 

Onto a 4.75" square Fog card base I stenciled Distress Grit Paste over the Coffee Break stencil, deliberately not going to the edges of the card panel.  Once that was dry, I adhered the arrangement onto the card base and then added a white-embossed sentiment.

Thanks for visiting.  Head on over to the blog to check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  To The Wise One (Honey Bee Stamps)

Ink:  Versamark, Grape Agate, Plum, Pure Graphite, Pink Pearl, Coral Bliss, Heart Beat, Vineyard Berry, Butternut, Pumpkin Pie, Yellow Ochre, Limestone, Jade, Eucalyptus (Altenew), Ground Espresso, Scorched Timber Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black, Fog (SSS)

Dies:  Lovely Layers: Mini Fall Florals, Lovely Layers:  Mini Holiday Florals, To The Wise One (Honey Bee Stamps)

Accessories:  White EP, Coffee Break stencil (Stamperia), Distress Grit Paste (Tim Holtz)

Cheers

Karren