Hydrangea Love

Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Michele Ferguson, and in a turn-up for the books, I actually mostly stuck to the sketch!  The last couple of weeks I've worked from memory and mis-sized elements or missed layers altogether!

In fact when I saw the sketch, I knew exactly what products would work for it.  I had bought this Stamperia die set a couple of months ago, but hadn't used it yet, so the notebook edge, torn rectangle and flowers worked perfectly.

I used watercolour paper and smooshed distress inks to colour the flowers and leaves, then set them aside to dry.  Once dry, I spritzed with distress spritz and again left to dry.  After that, I die-cut the flowers and leaves and ink-blended around the edges.  The rectangle panel was die-cut from patterned paper and ink-blended around the edges with Frayed Burlap distress ink.  For the notebook paper, I stamped onto white cardstock with both the notebook stamp and a crackle stamp. After die-cutting, I went over the panel with Antique Linen distress ink to age it up a bit.

The Good Reading BG stamp was stamped onto Desert Storm cardstock with Frayed Burlap DOX and then ink-blended around the edges before splattering with some Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain.

I finished with a pre-foiled sentiment and some blue pearls in the centres of the flowers.

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

Products used:

Stamps: Good Reading BG, Crackle BG (SSS), Notebook Paper (MFT)

Ink: Frayed Burlap, Antique Linen, Peeled Paint, Bundled Sage, Rustic Wilderness, Salvaged Patina, Broken China, Uncharted Mariner Distress Inks, Broken China, Lost Shadow, Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide Inks

Cardstock: White, Desert Storm, watercolour, Traces of Time patterned paper (Aall & Create)

Dies: Notes & Flowers (Stamperia), Essential Sentiments II (Spellbinders)

Accessories: Sweet & Spooky Pearls (Honey Bee Stamps), Gold hot foil, Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain, Uncharted Mariner and Rustic Wilderness Distress Spritz

Cheers

Karren

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Strawberry Thanks

Hi and welcome to another sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is  Cecile Ribon.

I was a bit rushed for time with this card so I went looking for some already prepared die-cut pieces and found a few leftover strawberries from this post.  I had to do some jiggery-poke with the diamond die because it was designed for an A2 card, not a square card, so I extended the sides a bit to make it fit.  Although looking at the sketch, it appears I have completely missed a layer - doh!

I wasn't thrilled with how bright the Teal Cave cardstock looked against the strawberries and as I wasn't going to finagle with the diamond die again, I went over both panels with some Uncharted Mariner distress ink to darken it up.  The Paper Bag card base was embossed with an embossing folder to add some interest to the diamond cut-out and I embossed the sentiment with Scorched Timber Embossing Glaze.

At this point in time, I decided the diamond panels were a bit splotchy so I covered that up by stamping over the top with a background text stamp and Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink - taking care to not give complete coverage.

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

Products used:

Stamps: Good Reading BG (SSS), Written Words (C&9)

Ink:  Versamark, Uncharted Mariner Distress Ink and Distress Oxide Ink

Cardstock:  Paper Bag (Lawn Fawn), Teal Cave (Altenew)

Dies:  Halfsies Diamond (The Greetery), Written Words (C&9)

Accessories: Scorched Timber Embossing Glaze, Herringbone Decor EF (Spellbiders)

Cheers

Karren

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Butterfly Note

Welcome to a new board over at Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  This time I went with the right diagonal - insects/gems/free to come up with this card.

Onto a white card base I added the teal cover plate.  I then used foam squares to pop up the pre-foiled and stenciled butterflies.  In keeping with the challenge, I added black gems for their bodies.

Finally I finished with a die-cut and stacked sentiment cut from dark blue cardstock.  A pretty simple and quick-to-make card.  

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you head on over to the challenge and give it a go.

Products used:

Ink: Blue Suede Shoes, Dress Blues, Sea Glass, Utown, All that Jazz, Daydream Black Jack (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock: White, Teal Cave, Desert Night (Altenew)

Dies: Striped Sentiment Strip (MFT), Just a Note Posh Script (Memory Box), Small Butterflies hot foil and dies (Pink Fresh)

Accessories: Silver hot foil, Small Butterflies stencils (Pink Fresh), Black Gem Stickers (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

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Cosmos Celebration

Hi!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Jen Brum.  I used it to make a birthday card for my youngest sister.

I die-cut and ink-blended some Altenew cosmos flowers and set them aside while I worked on the background.  Onto a Rouge panel, I dry embossed a brick embossing folder and adhered it to a white card base.  I then cut a white panel into two angled pieces and, after hot foiling the sentiment, I attached a thin strip of gold foil to each angled edge.

The angled panels were adhered with foam tape and then I arranged the flowers and leaves.

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

Products used:

Ink:  Apricot Frost, Citronella (Altenew), Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Rouge (Altenew), Gold Matte Foil

Dies:  Garden Cosmos (Altenew), Celebrate hot foil (Pink Fresh)

Accessories: Gold hot foil, Rustic Brick Embossing Folder (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

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Little One

Hi and welcome!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Verena Shapiro.  I went through my box of NBUS and decided these geese would work well for the circles in the sketch.

I die-cut the geese bodies and wings from white cardstock and the smaller elements from coloured cardstock.  I added a bit of light grey shading to the geese before assembling them.  

I added an embossed panel cut from Mist cardstock and adhered to a white card base.  A strip of gingham patterned paper was added for the "ground" and I added a sentiment onto a strip of Lemon Tart cardstock.

Thanks for visiting! The DT have some fabulous cards so please check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Essential Sentiments (MFT)

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne, Lost Shadow, Scattered Straw Distress Ink

Cardstock: White, Lemon Tart (PTI), Mist (Lawn Fawn), Carrot (Spellbinders), Gingham patterned paper (Echo Park)

Dies:  Silly Goose (The Greetery)

Accessories: Subtle Embossing Folder (SU)

Cheers

Karren

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