Circle Flowers

Hi and welcome!  Our sketch hostess this week at Freshly Made Sketches is Jennifer Timko and she has a fabulous yet CAS sketch for us.  

I went looking through my inventory for a circle frame and found this stamp set and thought it would work perfectly. 

 I did, however, forget the layer in the background and ironically, I did contemplate cutting the yellow panel a bit smaller, but decided not to!

The image was stamped and stenciled before being die-cut and then I added some sparkle pen.  I made a bit of a boo-boo with the stenciling so decided it was a good place for the sentiment.

This card is quite "in your face" so I apologise to anyone whose retinas were burned...

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

Products used:

Stamps: Elegant Floral Frames (Honey Bee Stamps)

Ink: Amalgam (Gina K), Firefly, Shadow Creek, Mountain Pine, Warm Sunshine, Caramel Toffee (Altenew)

Cardstock: White, Honey Drizzle (Altenew)

Dies: Elegant Floral Frames (Honey Bee Stamps)

Accessories: Elegant Floral Frames Stencils, Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee Stamps), Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen

Cheers

Karren

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Embossed Leaves

Hi and welcome!  It's time for another Tic Tac Toe challenge, and this time I went with the centre column Foliage/Leaves - Free - Thank You to come up with this card.

I've been a bit obsessed lately with Distress Spray Stains so once again I pulled them out to have a play.  I white embossed the Hodge Podge stamp onto watercolour paper then went to town with multiple spray stains and spritzes.  Once I was happy with the result I let the paper dry then die-cut with various leaf shapes.  Before I adhered the black layer on top, I took each leaf and added some foundry wax with my finger before heat-setting.

I embossed a kraft panel with the Burlap embossing folder then added a black frame.  Within the frame I arranged the leaves and a gold foiled thanks sentiment and called it done.

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll have time to play along with us.

Products used:

Ink: Versamark, various Distress Spray Stains and Distress Spritz

Cardstock: Neenah Desert Storm, Black, Distress Watercolor Paper (Tim Holtz)

Dies: Fall Leaves, Nesting Rectangle Frames (Waffle Flower), Hexi-Gem Sentiments Hot Foil (Spellbinders)

Accessories: Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee Stamps), White Embossing Powder, Gold Hot Foil, Gilded Foundry Wax (Tim Holtz)

Cheers

Karren

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Cosy Christmas

Hi, it’s time for a new sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches  and this week our sketch hostess is Judy Rozema. I made another Christmas card for my paltry stash and came up with this.

I used the Colour Cube for the colour combo and from there it was a matter of putting together the (fiddly) die-cut rocking chair and accessories and stamping the sentiment onto one of the panels.  Once I'd stamped the sentiment, I taped the four panels on the back and ran it through the Subtle embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team and I hope you'll find some time to join us.

Products used:

Stamps: Christmas Messages (Hero Arts)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Scorched Timber, Black Soot, Ground Espresso, Aged Mahogany Distress Inks

Cardstock: White, Merlot, Dune (Spellbinders), Fine Linen (PTI), Dove (C+9), Gravel Gray, Milk Chocolate (MFT)

Dies:Christmas Rocking Chair (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Pink Copic, Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers

Karren

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Delilah

You probably have to be of an age to get the meaning of this blog post title.  I hope you don't have an ear worm now but as soon as I found this "Hey There" die, I couldn't get the song out of my head 😄

Anyway, Amy O'Neill is our sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week.  I looked through my NBUS and found this cassette tape die and the card came together pretty easily.  I stenciled the card base with a music stencil and white embossing paste.  

While that was drying, I put together the die-cut elements.  For the fishtail flag, I cut the top and bottom in two additional colours and adhered them to the vellum flag.  It's hard to tell in the photo, but the actual tape is cut from dark brown cardstock.

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

Products used:

Cardstock: White, Black, Vellum, Hot Fudge (MFT), Blue Spruce, Teal Topaz, Waterfall (Spellbinders), Silver Matte Foil

Dies: Mix Tape (Hero Arts), Stitched Fishtail Flag Stax, Hey There, Cupcake (MFT)

Accessories: Music Stencil (Newton's Nook), White Embossing Paste

Cheers

Karren

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