Category Archives: Joy of Noel

Making Spirits Bright — FMS614

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We have a new sketch for you over at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week it comes all the way from Canada via our card-making and mountain-hiking friend, Jen Brum. Take a look at this fun sketch with lots of circles:

I decided to go with the general “feel” of the sketch and use an image that flows diagonally across the card. All of those circles kinda threw me for a loop, so I chose to go a slightly different way.

I used one of the greenery boughs from the Joy of Noel stamp set and stamped it twice – once on the top half of the card and again on the bottom half. I then colored it with my alcohol markers.

I embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder on a strip of Cherry Cobbler card stock and layered that on some gold foil card stock. Some gold cording was looped underneath.

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!

Deck the Halls — FMS607

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It’s time for another new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week it is my turn to provide the sketch and serve as the hostess. I made a sketch with some layers this week, so you can use up some dsp or play with some new color combinations, or you could just wow us with something totally clever, which does seem to happen every week. Here is the sketch:

I hadn’t used the new Joy of Noel nor the Christmas Classics stamp sets yet, and thought they would pair up nicely for this sketch.

I started by stamping the boughs of greenery twice on a card-sized piece of white card stock. I colored it with my alcohol markers and then cut about a half inch off the card stock all the way around without cutting any of the greenery.

The sentiment was embossed and then cut out with a die from the coordinating Christmas Classics dies, and I added some old red rhinestones as embellishments.

This was all layered on a piece of designer paper from the Joy of Christmas dsp pack.

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!