Freshly Made Sketches #661

Freshly Made Sketches #661 is a fun, color blocked sketch by Jacquie.

 

 

The sketch made me search for one of my favorite die sets--Christmas Cutouts.

 

The pieces were die cut from scraps of card stock (yay!) and I ran the card 

base through an Organic Linen embossing folder. The moon and sentiments 

were doubled up and I adhered all of the pieces per the sketch.

This card was a good reminder to play with some older supplies and I may

possibly crank out a few more cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #660

 

Here's Freshly Made Sketches #660, courtesy of Judy.

 

 

I went a little off course with a different shape but tried to stay true to 

the original sketch.

I almost brought in a nest then remembered that I had Tim Holtz's Festive 

Wreath that he recently brought out from the vault. There must have been

a zillion pieces and it was a good time to use scraps of colored cardstock.

I stamped the sentiment first on cream cardstock and cut the panel with

Spellbinder dies, then adhered the wreath and extras. The panel looked a 

little too "clean", so I distressed the edges with a scissors, and adhered it 

to a chocolate brown card base. 

I'm off to link this up. Thanks, always, for stopping by!

Inspired by GILDED LEAVES

This week's challenge theme at Inspired by Challenge is GILDED LEAVES.

 Here's the challenge graphic and Laurel's sketch.

 

 

And here's my card which was inspired by both the photo and the sketch.

Since the challenge was posted on National Old Stuff Day, we were challenged to use 

an item that is older than a year. Leaf Fragment Dies by Tim Holtz fit the bill as they

made their debut in August 2021. 

 

I cut them out from light green card stock then added more color with Distress Oxide

inks. Gold paint was added to the tips and spattered on top. After they were completely

dried, I crushed them for a bit of dimension.

I used a really old tree trunk embossing folder by We R Memory Keepers. And that 

foiled sentiment is from The Stamp Market. For those of us who don't own a foiling 

machine but love the shine 😁

I'd better link this up--I'm a little early for once! Thanks for stopping by.

Leaf Fragments

When Tim Holtz shared his latest release, full of Halloween goodness, I grabbed the

 Leaf Fragments Dies as quickly as I could. I'm a sucker for leaves and the leaf fragments 

are such an original design--Tim said they were his favorite!--I just had to have them.

The leaves were die cut from watercolor paper and ink distressed with inks from Concord 

& 9th and The Stamp Market. I chose three leaves and spattered them with gold

 Kuretake watercolors.

To go with the tattered look on the leaves, I tore the edges of an embossed panel and 

adhered it to a white card base and spattered more gold ink over it. I adhered the leaves, 

then added the gold embossed sentiment.

These days, my crafting time has been drastically cut but I know I'll be making more

cards with these fun dies. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hero Arts' April challenge

The theme for this month's challenge at Hero Arts is Home & Mother's Day. Shari is this week's featured artist and she's sharing different card folds. She happened to share my favorite--easel cards--so I had to play along.

I wanted to use some new stamps that I got as my prize for the felt cupcake card and the new Tim Holtz bird cage die that my mail carrier recently delivered.

My hubby suggested that I tilt the bird cage to give it some interest. And I listened. Lots of embossing and ink distressing and I'm pretty pleased with the result. And no Copics were used!

Thanks for visiting! Have a great Wednesday!

Stamps: Hero Arts, Stampin Up

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Eva

Ink: Ranger Distress ink, Versamark

Other: Tim Holtz bird cage die, Martha Stewart 3-in-one butterfly punch,

clear embossing powder, pearls, pop dots