Today is Freshly Made Sketches day!! Always the most inspirational day of the week! My friend, the amazing Jen Mitchell is our sketch designer this week and I love this one. A lot!
I have had this gorgeous image from Uniko for a while but I needed just the right inspiration for it. I thought this sketch was exactly right to show it off. I heat embossed it (Versamark and White embossing powder) first and then sponged it using Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed. I cut the panel using Stitched Rectangle by Simon Says Stamp. Next I created another panel with sponging for the layer behind. And finally, I added this sentiment from Concord & 9th and sponged again. The gorgeous details of the image get to be the star of the show with the sponging! And this came together pretty quickly…which is amazing since it looks artsy and hard. Nope! Totally easy and fun!
So I know you’ll love this sketch too and I am completely sure that the team will inspire you with their stunning work.
It is my turn for a bonus project over at the Newton’s Nook Designs blog today and I want to share all the details with you here. I remain obsessed with the quilled designs in the Beautiful Spring stamp set and I wanted to focus on the flower today.
The art work on this series of stamps (Beautiful Swirls) is really stunning and I thought that stamping on vellum might be a great way to show off the art within the images. I stamped in Versamark ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I colored on the back side of the image using Copic markers. It is hard to capture on camera but in person you can see the shading on the flower and leaves a bit more. The coordinating dies make quick work of cutting this out and all I had to do next was figure out how to show off the flower! I first tried it against white (and I’ll admit, it is really pretty) but I wanted something a bit bolder. So I pulled this gold tag from my stash and I knew I was moving in the right direction. I chose a sentiment from Happy Little Thoughts. Apparently this is becoming one of my go-to sentiments! Love that whole set! I chose this patterned paper from Stampin’ Up and added some colored rhinestones to coordinate with the red flower.
I hope you are having a fabulous week so far. I have been working busily on the March release that is coming up next week for Newton’s Nook Designs. Oh, you are going to be in love! Suffice it to say I have made multiple cards already for some of the sets because I keep getting distracted with them! Maybe today will be the day I stay on track…..or not! Either way, I can’t wait to share with you! Back tomorrow with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches. Thanks so much for stopping in. See you soon!
Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Spring (Newton’s Nook), Happy Little Thoughts (Newton’s Nook); Ink: Versamark, Copic Markers; Paper: White Vellum (SU), Thick Whisper White (SU), Pop of Pink DSP (SU); Accessories: Misti, Big Shot, Beautiful Spring Dies, Basic Rhinestones (SU), Basic Black Baker’s Twine, Dimensionals, Gold Tag, Heat Tool, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder
So is it acting like spring where you are? Well, it certainly has been in Virginia and that inspired my card for today. I’m the sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I hope you will love the sketch I created for you. It is also the beginning of Kathy Racoosin‘s 30 Day Coloring Challenge (The Daily Marker 30 Day) which is a month of amazing inspiration that fills IG feeds with lovely art. It reminds us, as crafters, to take a little time every day just to make a little something that is pretty.
I kept my coloring pretty simple for today and used this gorgeous flower from Mama Elephant. Inspired by some of the cherry blossoms that are sure to be popping out any time here in my yard, I chose a soft pink for the flowers. The sentiment comes from the set too and I think it is a favorite of mine. The image and sentiments were stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and the flower was coloring using Tim Holtz Distess Inks.
I hope you will join us with this sketch. I tried to make one that is open to techniques, large images or even pretty DSP. The team, of course, used all of these ideas and I’m sure you will come up with even more! Thanks for stopping in today. Remember….YOU make the world a better place! You certainly make mine better! Have a great day.
Welcome to this month’s Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Our team is a group of stampers who love to make beautiful things. Sometimes they are clean, sometimes they are layered but the one thing I can say for sure is that our projects will be fancy! If you hopped over from the amazing Susan Wong, welcome to the next stop. For February, we have an inspiration challenge….Think Pink!
I have loved this beautiful bird image from Strength & Prayers since I got it and I wanted to use it for a non-sympathy card. I thought playing with it in pink would be fun. I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and also stamped the splatters from Gorgeous Grunge. Then I started a loose watercolor with Pink Pirouette followed by additional coloring with Melon Mambo. I just pulled the color right from the lid of my ink pads using an Aqua Painter. Super easy to do, especially when you get to go out of the lines like I did here. After the color dried back a bit, I went back in and layered in some more Melon Mambo to add more depth. The sentiment is from a Paper Pumpkin set and I thought the font was a nice match to the art on the image. I added a small border on the colored panel with Basic Black card stock and put it on a Pop of Pink DSP base. Lots of pink here but you could use any color singly or a combination for a different look.
I hope you enjoy this fun look! There are some serious “pink girls” in our hop and I just know they will have had a great time creating with this theme.
Now for the rest of the hop! I’m telling you….this team is the most talented group. You will be happy you hopped! Next up is my amazing friend Connie Collins. Her work is always extraordinary and you are sure to love what she created!
I hope you are having a great week so far. After a very busy weekend of soccer, yard work and some other family things, I got just a few minutes to stamp for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Fortunately, the sketch from Amy is super easy to use and totally flexible!
I opted to pull out this pretty little flower from Cas-ual Fridays Stamps and did a simple coloring using just the Pink Zig Marker. Something about the pop from the pink to make an impact! I cut it out with the coordinating die and then decided to use a Paper Pumpkin sentiment. It is a great way to lead into the sentiment inside (Thanks, in this case). I liked the look of the texture from the watercolor paper so I used it for the middle panel as well as for the flower. I accented it with a narrow border of Melon Mambo and put it all on Basic Gray base. Some Sparkling Clear sequins (PPP) are the perfect way to finish…I always love these with gray!
Long day at work today so I’m keeping this short. I will be back on Friday with this month’s Fancy Friday. Thanks for stopping in today!! See you soon!
I’m back with our last day of February Release Week with Newton’s Nook Designs! And oh what fun you are going to have! Our favorite feline is back and there is cake (and cupcakes)!! How could anyone resist?! I think this set is simply a must have. A cat, some cake and fabulously fun sentiment! Talk about knocking it out of the park!! It is hard to tell from my picture here but my card is actually a “wobble” card. And because you just have to see it in action, I created a video to show you. I colored the image with Copic markers (colors below) and then added an action wobbler behind the die cut image. On my video I show you how well the dies line up to make your die cutting perfect every time. Love that!
And you know you need to have this so take advantage of this great opportunity…
Would you like to win the “Newton Loves Cake” Stamp Set? This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!
Here’s how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday February 16th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 17th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
I hope you have enjoyed all my projects for the February release. The design team has done a marvelous job of showcasing these fun products and I hope you have gone to visit everyone! The products will be available tomorrow (Friday) so happy shopping! Thanks so much for stopping in! Copics: Newton – T0, T2, T5, RV00; Cake – BG11, BG13, BG15, Y35, YR68, RV21, RV25
Stamp: Newton Loves Cake (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers; Paper: Kaleidescope DSP (SU ret), Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Newton Loves Cake Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Misti Stamp Tool, Stitched Shapes Framelits (SU), Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (SU Ret), Action Wobbler
I’m back with Day 2 of February Release Week with Newton’s Nook Designs! Today we are changing directions a bit with a beautiful swirls addition called Beautiful Spring. As with all the sets in this collection, the images lend themselves to so many coloring variations and elegant, unique projects.These beautiful images just begged to be colored with happy spring colors so out came the Copics (colors listed below) and I started just playing with the variety of eggs. I confess that I got completely distracted and colored all the designs before I got back on track for putting this together. I love how easily the die set cuts these out!! I created a watercolor layer behind the eggs to help them pop and then thought this fun sentiment was just the one for the card. With all the fantastic choices in this set, you are going to really enjoy all the ways to color. Just go ahead and stamp them all at once and have fun! And you know you need to have this so take advantage of this great opportunity…
Would you like to win the “Beautiful Spring” Stamp Set? This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!
Here’s how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday February 16th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 17th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Thanks for coming back to see me today. Just a scheduling note, if you are looking for my Freshly Made Sketches card, it is in a post earlier today. Tomorrow will be the last day of of this release and it has some more fun from our favorite feline. See you tomorrow!
Copics: YG03, YG25, RV02, RV04, V12, V17, Y11, Y06 plus a watercolor layer using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed
Stamp: Beautiful Spring (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers; Paper: Distress Watercolor Paper (Tim Holtz), Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Beautiful Spring Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Misti Stamp Tool, Stitched Shapes Framelits (SU), Dimensionals
As a programming note, if you are looking for day 2 of the Newton’s Nook February Release it will be up in a second post. For this card, I’m working with another fantastic sketch for Freshly Made Sketches created by the queen of layers, Narelle. The way she has layered this sketch speaks to how she always has the most lovely details.
When I saw the scallop, I immediately thought of this flower from Altenew’s Botanical Garden set. I pulled out my Zig again and this time focused on Peacock Blue. Love that blue! I aded a little yellow in the center and combined greens for the leaves but generally some super quick coloring. With the blue being so striking, I chose this pale background, Fog from Simon Says Stamp. Using the scraps from where I colored the flower, I cut two banners and colored one with the green and left one plain. Finally I added this little Paper Pumpkin sentiment and some Basic Pearls. It was nice to stretch into a different set of colors this week and I think this sketch is going to be fun for everyone.
Back in just a few with today’s release card. You will be “egg-cited” to see it! Thanks for stopping in today.
Are you ready for another week of amazing releases from Newton’s Nook Designs??? Just say yes because you are going to LOVE what we have to show this week! First up Newton himself is making an appearance and he seems to have the luck of the Irish! Newton’s Pot of Gold is being featured along with the Land Borders die set.
This sweet little stamp set is perfect for your St. Patrick’s Day fun but I love that the sentiments will be ones you can turn to again and again. I started by coloring my image with Copic Markers (colors listed below) and while I was coloring, I had some inspiration. How about using sequins as gold?! Yes, they are totally perfect with the scale of the image and I could not even be more excited about how this turned out. So how did I get the sequins on there? It was actually easier than I thought it would be. I put a ‘blob’ (yep, official crafting term) of Ranger Multi Medium Matte Glue on a scrap of paper and then using a toothpick end, applied the glue where I wanted it to be. Then just added the sequin on top. I put down one layer in the placement of the gold on the stamp image and once dry, added some more on top. This glue dries pretty quickly and most importantly, it dries with a matte finish.
I needed just the right layer for this fun image to go on, so I created a little interest using the Land Borders Die. I cut a piece of Green Apple Card Stock (SSS) with the border die, then laid it on some white card stock and cut again with a stitched rectangle. The sentiment is really one that I’m happy to add to my repertoire (being a hoarder collector of sentiments). Now here is the best part….
Would you like to win the “Newton’s Pot of Gold” Stamp Set? This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!
Here’s how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday February 16th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 17th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
I am so happy that you stopped in today. Tomorrow will be Day 2 of release week and I know you will be thrilled to see what comes next. I hope you have a great day!
Copics: Newton – W2, W3, W5; Pot and Hat – YG03, YG25, YG17, Y35, E31
Stamp: Newton’s Pot of Gold (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers; Paper: Green Apple (Simon Says Stamp), Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Land Borders Die (Newton’s Nook Designs), Stitched Rectangles (Simon Says Stamp), Misti Stamp Tool, Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals
So on Saturday, I had the most lovely invitation to go to an event that was a “bring your own craft” kind of thing. There were Stampin’ Up demos and customers along with some other company reps and friends. These ladies get together each month to just make things all day. I know what you are thinking and you are right! It was awesome! I could only go for a few hours but it is amazing how much that time is good for the soul. Per my usual, I accomplished very little because I’m never sure what to pack (and I’m the slowest stamper). But I did bring along this flower to color and some things that I might be able to use for this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. I have to say that I just love the creative possibilities that this week’s hostess, the lovely Jennifer Brum, has given us!
I only used two colors from my Zig Clean Color Pack (a bright pink and a yellow) to color this flower but I love how they work together and blend to create the orange. With the strength of the flowers colors, I opted to use a neutral base so I chose Smoky Slate. The sentiment is from the same Altenew set as the flower (Beautiful Day) and I stamped it in Versafine ink and the layered the white with some Melon Mambo. I added some Daffodil ribbon that I have hoarded in my stash since it is so pretty with the flower. I think I’ll be adding this sketch to my go-to group. I see lots of ways to use it!
And yes, the team has definitely come up with some of them. As always, they are amazing! Well, lots of posts this week and I’m back to the stamp room to get ready for some more coming up soon. Until then, I hope you have a great day! As for the monthly gathering…I can’t wait to go back and this time actually finish some projects! See you soon!
Supplies (affiliate links included):
Stamp: Beautiful Day (Altenew) ; Ink: WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Zig Clean Color 48 Pack, SU Black Stampin’ Write Marker; Paper: Thick Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Smoky Slate; Accessories: Daffodil Delight Seam Binding (SU ret), Basic Pearl, Sharpie Marker
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Today is Freshly Made Sketches day!! Always the most inspirational day of the week! My friend, the amazing Jen Mitchell is our sketch designer this week and I love this one. A lot!
