This is a special week at Freshly Made Sketches! We are celebrating as we have hit sketch #600 with the sketch this week. Over the past twelve years, we’ve had so many loyal contributors to the gallery, and we wanted to honor some of those who have been multiple winners by showcasing their cards for this milestone challenge. And to further celebrate, the winners of this week’s challenge will be asked to be guest designers in a future challenge. So without further ado, here is the sketch for this week:

I can’t seem to move the Bird’s Eye View stamp set off my desk. When it makes it off my shelf, my eye is always drawn back to it. I thought it would work well with the sketch and a sentiment from the Happy Labels stamp set, which I wanted to use with this milestone challenge. Because Freshly Made Sketches is my happy place. I love the ladies on this team and the inspiration I receive from them and so many of our weekly participants.

I started by applying some Balmy Blue ink onto a white card base with a blending brush and added some splatters. I then stamped the images, colored them with alcohol markers, and cut them out with my paper snips.

We hope you’ll join our celebration this week and add your own card using the sketch to the gallery. Meanwhile, be sure to visit the Freshly Made Sketches site to see what the design team and all of our All-Star guest designers have made for your inspiration.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

It’s time for another new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week our sketch comes from our friend, Jennifer Timko, who keeps our team in line. When she isn’t flying the friendly skies, she is making beautiful cards. And sketches. Take a look.

I wanted to play with those cute birds in the Bird’s Eye View stamp set again. I thought I would place two birds in the corners to work with the sketch.

I colored the images with alcohol markers and used a sentiment from the Happy Labels stamp set. This one came together pretty quickly.

We hope you’ll join us and create your own card using the sketch. Meanwhile, be sure to stop by the Freshly Made Sketches site to see what the design team has created for your inspiration.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

We may be in the sweltering throes of Summer (at least in Texas, we are), but don’t worry — we have a cool new sketch for you over at Freshly Made Sketches. It comes to us via France and our favorite die-cutting, card-making friend, Cecile Ribon, has a fun sketch for us. Take a look:

I really wanted to make another card with the sweet Bird’s Eye View stamp set, and I was determined to make it work with this sketch. So I used some Lemon Lolly and Crushed Curry inks to blend a sun on the card base, and then cut out some images from the stamp set to substitute something for the sailboat shape in the sketch.

Other than adding a sentiment from the Happy Labels stamp set, I kept this one very simple. I lightly blended some Balmy blue ink around the sun to add a little color and colored the bird, branch and leaves with some alcohol markers.

This was a quick and easy card to make!

We hope you’ll join us and make your own card using the sketch! Meanwhile, be sure to stop by the Freshly Made Sketches site to see what the design team has created for your inspiration!

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

It’s time for another new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week our sketch comes from the Rocky Mountain state of Kim Singdahlsen, our fabulous hostess this week. Take a look at her fun sketch:

Kim always makes such thoughtful cards, putting little touches into each creation just for the recipient. I needed to make a birthday card for my mom, so I channeled a little of Kim’s magic to create a card with a book theme as my mom loves to read. I used books for the three strips in the sketch and this adorable bird from the Bird’s Eye View stamp set, which is one of my faves in the new annual catalog.

I colored the images with my alcohol markers and then cut them out with my paper snips. The sentiment is from an old Paper Pumpkin stamp set.

We hope you’ll join us and create your own card using the sketch! We love to see what you make as we browse the gallery each week. Meanwhile, be sure to stop by the Freshly Made Sketches site to see what the design team has made for your inspiration.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!