Copper Leaf

 Hi and welcome to a new sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is Cecile Ribon.  I went 100% literal with Cecile's sketch to come up with this card.

 This is another leaf from my play session with mica stain sprays last week.  This time the leaf is from the Greetery, but the way I created it is the same as last week's card.  While the leaf was drying, I cut a 4.5" square white card base and rubbed on some Black Soot Distress Paint and some Silver Metallic Paint Dabber in a random fashion to mimic the sketch.

I finished with a reverse hot-foiled sentiment and some black enamel dots.  I wish you could see this leaf in real life - the mica stain sprays are so gorgeous!

Thanks for visiting!  Please check out the fabulous cards made by our design them.

Products used:

Cardstock:  White

Ink:  Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Dies:  Jumbo Curiosity Buckeye (The Greetery), Hexi-Gem Sentiments Hot Foil (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Mica Sprays (Burning Ember, Fallen Acorn, Decayed, Tarnished Brass) Silver Metallic Paint Dabber (Ranger), Black Soot Distress Paint, Black Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

Mica Leaves

Hi and welcome!  Today's card uses the latest sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches team where our hostess this week is Jen Brum.  I went a bit grungy but tried to keep my card clean-lined and came up with this:

I had been playing around with my mica sprays and thought to make some leaves, so I used 11 of them to come up with these leaves.  Once it was dry, I die-cut them and edged them with Black Soot Distress Ink.  I backed them with a black die-cut which I offset very slightly to help them stand out against the background.

Speaking of the background, initially I splattered white and black paint onto a Desert Storm card base but it looked ick (confirmed by my daughter!) so I went over it with a stencil and some crackle paste and I think that added a bit more interest.  For some reason, I always think kraft card bases are lacking as I'm usually a white card-base chick, but I decided to branch out this week.

For the vertical panel, I ran the cardstock panel through some Frayed Burlap Distress Ink I'd spritzed with water and once it was dry, I stenciled over the top with Ground Espresso and then splattered on some white and black paint.

Finally, I finished with a reverse foiled sentiment 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:

Ink:  Frayed Burlap, Ground Espresso, Black Soot Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black, Watercolor, Neenah Desert Storm

Dies:  Fall Foliage (Tim Holtz), Hexi-Gem Sentiments (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Mica Sprays (Burning Ember, Fallen Acorn, Decayed, Tarnished Brass, Unravelled, Irongate, Specimen, Fresh Balsam, Harvest Moon, Tart Cranberry, Wicked Elixir, Phantom Mist) Black Soot Distress Paint, White Acrylic Gloss Spray, Book Stencil (Stamperia), Letters & Numbers Stencil (Stamperia), Black Hot Foil, Distress Crackle Paste

Cheers

Karren

Inlaid Leaves

Welcome to the new challenge from the team at Tic Tac Toe. I went with ink-blending, die-cuts and leaves for my card.

I white-embossed the background stamp and ink-blended over it before due-cutting the Clustered Leaves die. I adhered the panel into a black card base and the popped up the positive image with foam tape. 

I finished with a foiled sentiment.

 

Thanks so much for visiting!

Products Used:

Stamps:  Birthday Word Block (Darkroom Door)

Ink:  Versamark, Scattered Straw, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black

Dies:  Clustered Leaves (SSS), Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil and Dies (Pink Fresh)

Accessories:  White EP, Black Hot Foil

Gold Splatters

Hi and welcome!  Today's card uses the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is Kim Singdahlsen.  I took the opportunity to make a Christmas card to add to my meagre stash.

On a red card base, I splattered some gold shimmer spray and set it aside to dry.  I then stamped and Copic-coloured the Winter Berries Frame stamp and die-cut it.  On a white panel, I embossed with the Tufted embossing folder, added some striped paper and a gold strip then tucked in one of the berry branches.

The hot-foiled sentiment was foiled onto black with gold foil.  I adhered that to the white and striped panel then added it all to the now-dry card base.

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

Products used:

Stamps:  Winter Berries Frame (Pink Fresh Studio)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K)

Cardstock:  Amarena Cherry (MFT), White, Black, Gold Matte Foil, Happy Gnomes Paper Pad (Waffle Flower)

Dies:  Winter Berries Frame (Pink Fresh Studio), Holiday Sentiment Series 2 (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Copics, Tufted EF (Spellbinders), Gold Hot Foil, Gold Shimmer Spray (Heidi Swapp)

Cheers

Karren

 

Father's Day Truck

 Hi all and welcome to sketch #601 from the team at Freshly Made Sketches.  Our sketch hostess this week is Linda Callahan.  It's Father's Day here in New Zealand next weekend, so I used Linda's sketch to make a card for my dad.

I chose the truck die then built my card around it.  After die-cutting the truck elements, I blended some darker ink around the sides of the truck body and wheels (and looking at the photo, I now realise I've put one of the wheels upside down!  Anyway, let's ignore that little faux pas.  I wanted something to put in the truck bed and because my dad loves dogs, I chose a MFT set and coloured one of the little dogs and adhered him to the truck.  

The road die wasn't wide enough for the base of the truck, so I cut a rectangle of gray cardstock and added some of the die-cuts from the centre of the road to mimic the rest of the road die-cut.  To create a scene, I stenciled some grass and clouds onto a white panel and then added the die-cut elements.  And yes, I now also realise I've got my road going up into the sky - doh!  The day I made this card was obviously not a great day for creativity.

Onto a black card base, I added a panel of Enchanted Evening embossed with the sentiment and a strip of the silver matte foil cardstock used on the truck.

I then added my panel with foam tape.

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

Products used:

Stamps:  All About Dad, Lucky Dog (MFT)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versamark, Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black, Vellum, Enchanted Evenine (PTI), Silver Matte Foil Cardstock, Cement Gray, Red Hot (MFT)

Dies:  Lucky Dog, Open Road (MFT), Truckin' Through The Seasons (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Copics, White EP, Micro Cloud Edges Stencil, Grassy Edges Stencil (MFT)

Cheers

Karren

Gilded Leaves

Welcome to the newest challenge from the Tic-Tac-Toe team.  For my card, I went with Frame-it - Gold/Silver - Leaves to come up with this card.

I die-cut a matte gold glitter frame and some black leaves and then set about adding some foundry wax in various places on the leaves.  Once they were heat-set I worked on arranging the leaves within the left side of the frame.  On the right side I added a gold-foiled sentiment.

 

Once I was happy with the placement of all the elements, I adhered it all to a white card base and called it done!

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

Products used:

Cardstock:  White, Black, Gold Matte Glitter

Dies:  Spring Leaves, Fall Leaves, Nesting Rectangle Frames (Waffle Flower), Modest Greetings 1 (Poppystamps)

Accessories:  Gold hot foil, Statue Foundry Wax (Tim Holtz)

Cheers

Karren

Limited Edition

 Hi all!  Welcome to a very exciting day for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  It is our 600th challenge and we are celebrating by inviting some of our past winners to join us because, let's face it, if it weren't for all the players, we wouldn't be celebrating 600 challenges.  So thank you!

We don't have an official sketch designer this challenge but we do have a fabulous sketch and here is what I did with it:

Now, I was feeling the pressure a bit with all these fabulous guest designers and this is the third card I came up with and I'm still not happy with it, but it is what it is.  I combined all three of my favourite techniques in this card - ink-blending, stenciling and Copic-colouring.  I masked then ink-blended a rainbow panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then spritzed on some shimmer spray to give it a lovely sparkle.

I had just received my order of Waffle Flower Postage Collage goodies and decided to incorporate some of them into my card.  I stamped, coloured and die-cut the little critter and set him aside.  Then I stenciled the background of the postage stamp, stamped the price and the First Class Mail stamp then placed the critter over the top and re-stamped the First Class Mail image.  On my first version, I actually stamped the critter onto the postage die-cut and masked it, but my mask wouldn't hold up to a second inking, so I went the lazy route and die-cut it.

I die-cut a black postage stamp as backing and then added the sentiment before adhering it all to a black card base. 

Thanks so much for visiting.  Please head over to the challenge blog and check out all the amazing cards by the DT and guests.

Products used:

Stamps:  Unicorns and Glitter (MFT), Postage Collage (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron,  Salvaged Patina, Wilted Violet, Spun Sugar Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black, X-Press It

Dies:  Unicorns and Glitter (MFT), Postage Collage Die (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Copics, Shimmer Spray, Postage Collage Coloring Stencil (Waffle Flower)

Cheers

Karren