It’s time for another new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week it comes to us via Judy Rozema, our theater-loving Nebraskan friend and she has a good one. Take a look:

My youngest has a birthday on Friday, so I knew what kind of card I wanted to make with the sketch. Since she’s a big dog lover and The Zoo Crew suite has some images that are perfect for a birthday celebration, I knew what products I wanted to use. That’s over half of the work done for me!

I started by cutting out the partying puppy from a piece of the Zoo Crew dsp. I stamped some of the confetti on a square of white card stock on which I had blended some Pumpkin Pie ink and colored the confetti with markers before placing the puppy on the square.

The sentiment is from the Something Fancy stamp set. I placed a little flag from Lemon Lime Twist card stock under it. Another piece of dsp was used on the card base. I blended some Pool Party ink on it.

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!

It’s already Wednesday again, and that means there’s a new sketch up at Freshly Made Sketches, This week, it is provided by one who is supremely talented at clean and simple card making, Jen Mitchell. Take a look at her fun sketch:

I thought one of the cute animals in the Zoo Crew suite collection would work well with the vertical focal strip on the sketch. Plus this suite is so much fun with which to work, so it was an easy decistion.

I cut this sweet elephant out of a sheet of the Zoo Crew dsp package. I stamped the confetti from the coordinating Zany Zoo stamp set and colored it with some Stampin’ Write markers.

The sentiment is also from the Zany Zoo stamp set and was stamped on a piece of Pool Party card stock, which was layered on another piece of the Zoo Crew dsp.

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.

Did you notice that this week is sketch #599? Next week we’ll have a special challenge to celebrate the 600 milestone. Don’t miss it!

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

There’s another new sketch up at Freshly Made Sketches. It is supplied by the lovely and talented Judy Rozema. She wants our focus to be solely on the top half of the card this week. Take a look:

Well that is an awful lot of white space, which always makes me uncomfortable when I’m making a card. So needless to say, I thought this challenge was quite challenging. My hubby has a birthday tomorrow, so I wanted to make a card for him.

I pulled out the Zany Zoo set and stamped this cute critter and the celebratory confetti and then colored it all with alcohol markers. I then cut it out with one of the Basic Borders Dies.

This was my first time to use one of the new colors, Azure Afternoon, and I love it. It is a pretty shade of blue.

We hope you’ll join us and create your own card using the sketch. 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!

There’s a new sketch up at Freshly Made Sketches brought to us by the fabulous Jen Mitchell. Take a look at her fun sketch:

That diagonal panel threw me for a loop. So I kinda cheated and decided to to just use a layer of vellum on my card for it.

I used the Zoo Crew suite collection for this one. The hippo was cut out with my paper snips from the coordinating dsp. Another sheet of the Zoo Crew DSP was used for the base layer.

I used a frame from the Fabulous Frames Dies collection to cut out the sweet frame for this sweet hippo. Some little Petal Pink flowers were cut out with the coordinating Zany Zoo dies. The sentiment is from the Zany Zoo 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 created for your inspiration.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!