Poinsettia Greetings — FMS566

Posted on December 14, 2022 by amyoneillblog

It’s time for the last sketch of the year at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week it come from the land down under and our masterful fussy cutting floral queen, Narelle Farrugia. Take a look at her fun sketch:

Narelle makes the most beautiful collage-style cards, and this sketch inspired me to try my hand as well. I had an extra poinsettia cut out from the Merriest Moments stamp set and that was the start of my card.

I cut out some of the greenery from the Christmas Banners stamp set and placed it all together on the two die-cut circles.

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! And have a very Merry Christmas! Thanks for stopping by!

Sparkly Snowman Scene — FMS565

Posted on December 7, 2022 by amyoneillblog

It’s time for another new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week it comes to us all the way from New Zealand. Our favorite Kiwi friend and stamper extraordinaire, Karen Johnson, is our hostess this week and she has a good one. Take a look:

I hadn’t used the Snowman Magic set yet, and I thought it would make a cute scene using this sketch. And when I saw the focal rectangle in the set, I knew that one of the fabulous Snowman Dies would work perfectly.

I started this card by cutting out the snowflake frame with the die from the Snowman Dies from some shimmery paper. I then cut a piece of white card stock to fit behind it and blended some Balmy Blue ink behind a hand-cut “snow drift”.

I stamped the snowman and bunny and colored them with alcohol markers. The fun part of this set is dressing up the snowman. There are coordinating dies for all of the little pieces.

I stamped the sentiment on a piece of vellum paper, embossing it with some red embossing powder.

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 created for your inspiration.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

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Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

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Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

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Penguin Greetings — FMS564

Posted on November 30, 2022 by amyoneillblog

We’re in the thick of things now! Just a little bit over three weeks before Christmas. With a to-do list a mile long, it was a nice break to do a little stamping. And Cecile Ribon, our favorite French stamper and queen of creating beautiful cards with die-cuts, has provided a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches that is perfect for getting a jump on creativity. Take a look at her fun sketch:

I hadn’t used the adorable Penguin Place stamp set yet this season, so I was itching to make a little scene with it and I thought the sketch provided a perfect layout.

I started by stamping the cute little penguin, trees, and present and then cut/punched them out. I added some snowflake sequins. The sentiment is from the penguin stamp set too.

I placed it all on a sheet of white card stock that was cut using the Dots & Spots die. This really was an easy card thanks to Cecile’s great sketch!

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!

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Penguin Place Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

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Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ Pad

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Bokeh Banner — FMS563

Posted on November 23, 2022 by amyoneillblog

During this week of Thanksgiving I am reminded of so many things for which I am thankful — my family, good health, a warm home, our church, and many more things, including this team at Freshly Made Sketches. I love the ladies on this team and I’m thankful for all of the people who take part in our weekly challenges. We have another new sketch for you today, and this week our hostess is Jen Brum, our Canadian friend, who is kind and talented — what a wonderful combination! Take a look at her fun sketch:

I wanted to do something a little different instead of using the circle in the sketch. So I pulled out the Christmas Banners stamp set and some dsp from the Lights Aglow pack. I was trying to use something other than a circle but I still ended up with lots of circles on the bokeh dsp. Hmmm….

I started by stamping the banner and embossing it with gold embossing powder and stamping the sentiment with Real Red ink. I stamped the greenery and berries and cut them out with the coordinating dies. All of that was placed on the dsp, which is framed with some gold foil paper and placed on a card base of Evening Evergreen dsp.

Some For Everything Fancy Sequins were added as embellishments. I really love the sparkly ones!

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, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Thanks for stopping by!

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Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

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Jolly Season — FMS562

Posted on November 16, 2022 by amyoneillblog

There’s a new sketch up over at Freshly Made Sketches. It is brought to us by our favorite Coloradan, Kim Singdahlsen, who always makes gorgeous cards, even while injured! Take a look at what she has for us this week:

I had the October Paper Pumpkin kit on my desk, and it contains some strips in the kit that I thought would work perfectly with the sketch. And since I love the jolly Santa in the kit, it was an easy decision on what to use for this one.

The kit contains some great snowflake die-cut backgrounds. I started with one of them and adhered two of the strips for the sketch. The third was a piece of white card stock on which I stamped one of the sentiments from the included stamp set. That white piece of card stock is the only thing on this card that wasn’t included in the kit. October’s kit was a really good one!

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Season’s Greetings — FMS561

Posted on November 9, 2022 by amyoneillblog

We’re back with another new sketch for you at Freshly Made Sketches. Our hostess this week is Linda Callahan, our favorite upstate New Yorker, whose posts always make me smile. She has a good challenge for us. Take a look:

This sketch had me stumped for quite a while. I ended up using the Christmas Season stamp set. I overlapped all of the stamped images so much that it’s kinda hard to see the sketch.

The sentiment is from the Merriest Moments stamp set and was embossed with some Cherry Cobbler embossing powder that I found in the bottom of my embossing supplies box. I’m not sure how old it is, but it still worked beautifully.

I added some red rhinestones and some linen thread as embellishments and called it a day.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

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Joyful Christmas Sentiment — FMS560

Posted on November 2, 2022 by amyoneillblog

It’s time for a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week our hostess, a lover of square card sketches, Jen Mitchell, has a good one for us. Take a look:

Since the sketch doesn’t have a space designated for a sentiment, I decided to let it be the focal circle on the card.

I pulled out the Merriest Moments stamp set and embossed the image using some old Cherry Cobbler embossing powder, and cut it out with a circle die. I placed it on a square I cut from some of the Lights Aglow dsp, and placed that on a square of gold glimmer paper, which was placed on another sheet of dsp from that collection.

I love this pretty sentiment! And I love how quickly and easily this card came together.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Wishes Banner — FMS559

Posted on October 26, 2022 by amyoneillblog

There’s a new sketch up at Freshly Made Sketches. It is provided by our favorite pilot and card maker extraordinaire, Jennifer Timko. Take a look at what she has for us this week:

I hadn’t inked up the Christmas Banners stamp set yet, so I wanted to work it into the sketch.

I started by inking up the banner with Real Red ink and then stamping the sentiment with Garden Green ink. I cut it out with the coordinating die. The greenery also comes from the same stamp set and dies.

The dsp is from the Sweetest Christmas collection.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

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Icing on my Gingerbread — FMS516

Posted on December 15, 2021 by amyoneillblog

We’re back with the last sketch of 2021 at Freshly Made Sketches! And it comes all the way from Australia and our talented friend, Narelle Farrugia. She is so good at expertly arranging beautiful collages on her cards, so this sketch from her is very fitting. Take a look:

Maybe I just have Christmas cookies on the mind, but I thought the adorable images in the Frosted Gingerbread Bundle would work perfectly with the sketch, so I cut some out of the dsp and arranged them on a white card base.

I added some of the Wonderful Snowflakes under the cookies, which add a fun iridescent shine to the card. The coordinating acrylic shapes add a little pop of color.

We hope you’ll join us and create your own card using the sketch! You have until January 3rd to add your card to the gallery, so you can use some of those new crafting supplies that Santa brings, if you’d like. 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!

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Poinsettia Blessings — FMS515

Posted on December 8, 2021 by amyoneillblog

We’re back with another new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week our sketch comes all the way from New Zealand. The oh-so-talented coloring and ink blending star on our team, Karren Johnson, has a great sketch for us. Take a look:

I hadn’t used the Merriest Moments stamp set yet and thought that a strip of poinsettia blooms would work well as the horizontal strip on the card. So I stamped the blooms several times on a piece of white card stock and some of the greenery as well. I then cut them out with my paper snips.

A piece of Heartwarming Hugs dsp was added to the bottom of the card base and then the flowers and greenery were arranged on top. The sentiment is from the Happy Holly-Days stamp set.