Freshly Made Sketches #726

Freshly Made Sketches #726 is brought to us by our teammie Karren.

I love tags and while searching for an elusive tag die, I opted for a postage die.

 I found a ready made stamp from a previous card and stamped the postage marks

 on it. A panel of gray card stock was embossed and adhered to a card base. A strip

 of patterned paper with colors that matched the stamp design was adhered to

the card and the stamp was popped up over it.

Visit Freshly Made Sketches for more inspiration from the design team and 

join us if you can. You have until Monday, March 9th to link up your card

and we hope you'll join us!

Freshly Made Sketches #725

 

Freshly Made Sketches #725 is brought to us by Cécile and her sketch is

a representation of her unique card making style. 

I always overthink the sketch while trying to keeping my card CAS. Here's what I 

came up with.

I've had that goose die for a while and decided to finally use her for my card. She was

assembled and I chose the bonnet over the other two hats and grounded her with an 

old MFT oval shadow diecut. 

I embossed the background and went over it with a white pigment inkpad to 

bring out the details. I adhered the goose and shadow and finished off with a 

Pinkfresh Studio sentiment.

Visit Freshly Made Sketches to see how the rest of the team interpreted

Cécile's sketch and for all the challenge details and deadline. Come and join us

if you can and we hope to see you in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches #724

 

Jen B is back and brings us Freshly Made Sketches #724.

 

I used Altenew's Craft Your Life Stitched With Love Kit because it had several 

elements that I could use on my card. The flowers and leaves are unique in that you

die cut them, then run through an embossing folder that gives them texture.

I also used the burlap background stamp so the panel would have texture without

the added bulk. At first I was trying to get a perfectly stamped image but went with

an imperfect print for interest. A Waffle Flower sentiment finished off the card.

 

Visit the Freshly Made Sketches blog for all the details and deadline and for more

inspiration from the rest of the team members. You have until Monday, Feb  23rd

at 3pm EST to link up your card. Hope to see you in the gallery!

 

Freshly Made Sketches #723

 

 Freshly Made Sketches #723 is brought to you by our teammie Verena. 

Here's her awesome sketch that had me stumped for a while .

At first all I saw was a fish. Then a whale, then a leaf, then an umbrella.

And at the last minute I thought about a nest and came up with this.

 

I assembled the Memory Box nest and borrowed some eggs from Papertrey Ink 

together with greenery from Altenew. I used a 3D embossing folder that was

buried and rediscovered. Isn't that texture amazing?

The bottom of the card front was covered with cream card stock and the

springtime sentiment was stamped on it. I assembled all of the elements

and called it done, although the card lost its "clean" status along the way.

 

Visit the Freshly Made Sketches blog to see how the rest of the team

interpreted Verena's sketch and join us if you can. You have until Monday,

February 16th at 3:00pm to link up your card. Hope to see you in the gallery!

 

 

Freshly Made Sketches #722

 

Teammie Kim brings us a fun sketch this week  Meet Freshly Made Sketches #722.

 

I thought about going rogue and turning the sketch but in the end I stuck with 

Kim's version.

I used Altenew's Craft Your Life Chocolate Flowers kit, which is still one of my 

favorite sets. I embossed the chocolate bar design and trimmed it per the sketch.

Using the Zero Waste cover plate, I cut flowers and leaves in one pass with white

card stock because I wanted to color them in 

I used bright colors and inked and assembled the blooms. I adhered them to the

diagonal and finished off with a white embossed sentiment.

Visit Freshly Made Sketches for all the details and see more inspiration from the 

rest of the team. Will you go rogue by turning the sketch or play with it as is?

We'd love to see and hope to see you in the gallery!

 

 

Freshly Made Sketches #721

 

It's time for a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. Jen M designed

Sketch #721 and it looks like this.

 

 

Here's how I interpreted her fun sketch.

 

I seem to be stuck in wood slice mode and this time used Papertrey Ink's 

together with leaves and blooms in the set. After inking all the pieces, I assembled

them and that's when I opted for an A2 sized card instead of a square. It was

just too large to be squished in a square format.

I embossed a kraft strip with Altenew's embossing folder and adhered it per

the sketch. The wood slice was adhered to it and I finished off with a

white embossed sentiment.

 

Visit the Freshly Made Sketches blog for all the details and deadline and for

more inspiration from the rest of the team. We hope you'll make some time

and join the challenge this week!

Freshly Made Sketches #720

 

Here's this week's Freshly Made Sketches #720 from Jen T.

 

 

And here's my take on it with Valentine's Day just around the corner.

 

I used products mostly from The Greetery for my card. I put together two wood 

slice hearts and assembled some forget-me-nots. A panel was embossed with a

very old embossing folder and adhered to a card base. The hearts were placed 

on the card per the sketch and I tucked in the flowers. I chose a fun sentiment

to finish off the card.

 

Visit Freshly Made Sketches for all the details and inspiration from the rest 

of the team, then join us if you can. You have until Monday, January 26th 

at 3:00PM EST to link up your card. Hope to see you in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches #719

 

Judy brings us a fun sketch for Freshly Made Sketches #719 and it looks like this.

As always, I had numerous ideas and settled on using a favorite bird. He was

already assembled and spattered with some "snow" and I trimmed his scarf so 

he'd fit within the card.

The knitted piece was a scrap that I salvaged and I used Altenew's embossing

folder with the assorted sentiments so I wouldn't have to decide on one.

I assembled all of the pieces per the sketch and finished off with some 

iridescent sequins. 

Visit the Freshly Made Sketches blog for all the details and more inspiration 

from the design team. You have until Monday, January19th at 3PM EST to

link up your card. Hope to see you in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches #718

Hello, and Happy New Year!

Are you refreshed and ready for another year of Freshly Made Sketches? 

Amy brings us Sketch #718 and it looks like this.

 

I had several ideas in mind and settled on an embossed background technique that 

I learned from the talented Therese Calvird on YouTube.

 

Basically, you use a 3D embossing folder on patterned paper then swipe white pigment

 ink over the raised areas. And that's it. Adding glitter to the wet ink is optional but 

you can do without and the results are still amazing!

My folder of choice was Altenew's Magnolia Dreams and I made sure to use a pigment

ink pad with a firm, flat surface. I used a pad of Craft Consortium paper and my

sentiment is from CZ Designs. 

Be sure to check out Therese's tutorial and give this technique a try, and join the

challenge if you can. You have until Monday, January 12th at 3PM EST to link up

 your card

 

Freshly Made Sketches #717

 

Freshly Made Sketches #717 by Narelle will be the last sketch for 2025

so that all of you, as well as the design team, can enjoy the holidays.

 

 Here is my simplified take on it.

 

The Backyard Wren is typically facing to the right but I wanted it facing inwards 

to the left. After die cutting the pieces, I colored the reverse side and assembled 

the bird. A cream colored panel was embossed and adhered to a kraft card 

base. The wren and greenery were adhered per the sketch and I added a 

simple one word sentiment.

 

Come and join our last challenge of the year. You have until Monday, 

January 5th, 2026 to link up your card for this sketch.

Happy Holidays and see you in the new year!