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Freshly Made Sketches #380

March 20, 2019 Jentimko 7 Comments

I’m so happy to share today’s sketch from Freshly Made Sketches with you! This one is from new design team member Jacquie Southas and it is awesome! So creative!

My mind was spinning with ideas but I settle on flowers (because, well, spring) and what better flowers than the Mondo Hydrangea from Ellen Hutson? I really love all the Mondo flowers but this one seems to be a set I come back to over and over. I stamped one of the single flowers over and over (giving a couple of extras) and then broke out the watercolors. I just played with some purple and green shading to see what would happen. Loved it, went with it!

I created a panel with a light green watercolor wash that would go with my Jelly Bean Green base (Gina K Designs). Then I added this awesome sentiment from the Lovely stamp set (Ellen Hutson). This one seems tailor made for the flowers in the sketch.

I hope your week is going well. I’ll be back on Friday with a share from my Picket Fence Studios blog post. See you soon!

Freshly Made Sketches #376

February 20, 2019 Jentimko 7 Comments

So you may have noticed (especially if you follow me in Instagram) that I have been trying hard to participate in the Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge as much as possible this month. I really am trying to eek out more coloring, even if only for a few minutes. So this card is a reflection of that as I found the perfect way to use the sketch by Karren Johnson for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Karren is an amazing Copic colorist and this sketch lends itself to colored images, bold panels and word dies, among other things.

I chose to use this new Mondo Gerbera Daisy by Ellen Hutson as my focal image. I stamped in black ink and then colored it with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I chose a number of corals/reds/pinks to play with the shading on the flower. It didn’t take long and I love it. The flower reminds me of the Gerbera Daisies my dad would grow when I was little. There is something velvety and special about these flowers and I was thrilled that Ellen came out with this one.

A super quick post today. I’m back at work this week and it seems harder that usual after spending time at my mom’s last week. Off to bed to be ready for winter weather fun tomorrow! I hope you have a great day and will play along this week. See you soon.

Freshly Made Sketches #357

October 3, 2018 Jentimko 6 Comments

And I’m back for my regular Wednesday post! Thanks for your patience as I caught up to life a bit. I started with creating a swatch paper for some new watercolors that I got for my birthday (THANKS MOM!!). The paints are from Daniel Smith and my friend Lydia puts together splits to share the cost and allow people to have more colors. Here is my first split….aren’t they pretty?!!

Swatching out the colors was a good way to get back in the groove a bit. And did I mention they are so pretty!!! Notice that the palette has room for another split….hmmm….. So after putting these paints down on paper, I decided to get real and actually color an image. I had ordered this Mondo Holly the second I saw it and thought it would be pretty for today’s sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. Cécile created this one and I love all the options for it. I thought this would go another way (with a spotlight vibe) but it didn’t work out quite like I had in my head. I stamped the holly onto watercolor paper using Gina K’s Amalgam ink. This is a new ink to me and I just had to give it a go. It stamped well onto the watercolor paper (always a challenge, don’t you think?). I did overstamp a few times with my Misti but the result was clear and crisp. It dried quickly and I was able to get right to watercoloring. I used colors from my split above (with the addition of one brown from a DS Dot Palette I have from Simon Says Stamp). I need to work on the shading of the leaves more but I love these colors! I added a sentiment from the same set and some black to make the image pop. Finally some sequins in a pretty Rose Gold.I hope you have fun with this sketch and will join in with us. The inspiration is always amazing from our design team and in the gallery too! Thanks for stopping in today. I’ll be back on Friday with a card featuring a new product and a new to me technique. Until then, have a wonderful week!

Freshly Made Sketches #349

August 8, 2018 Jentimko 7 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m back from a bit of a summer break and I’m thrilled to be able to share the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. Our sketch hostess is Karren Johnson and she has created the perfect clean sketch to get me inspired after my time off. Karren always has the most beautiful coloring and design on her cards so it is no surprise that she gave us a sketch that allows for lots of creativity.

When I saw the horizontal panel, the first thing that came to mind was watercoloring. So I went with it. I used my Daniel Smith palette from Simon Says Stamp (lots of little dots to allow you to find your favorite colors!) and chose a soft color scheme. I made an ombré gray and then added some little hydrangea petals from Mondo Hydrangea colored in purple with a bit of green. The sentiment from the same set fit perfectly across the bottom of the colored swash. I thought about adding more bling or details but then I felt it was perfect just as it was. You can’t really see it but the purple watercolor is called Amethyst Genuine and has a bit of sparkle in it. Gorgeous!

I needed a clean card to warm back up! Over the last two weeks, I have not been in my stamp room. We had a family vacation to Florida (yes…it was crazy hot and humid, haha!!). We conquered three parks and enjoyed some pool time. And most fun, we even managed to sneak a surprise visit in with my mom! That was a highlight of the trip, for sure. After vacation it was right back to work. This is the busy season for sure and the weather has been no one’s friend. I definitely needed some stamping time!! I’m back out today but hoping for some more craft time next week. Lots of fun things in the works! Until then, thanks for stopping in and I’ll see you soon. Hope you’ll join in our challenge this week!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamp: Mondo Hydrangea (Ellen Hutson); Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), Montval Watercolor (Canson); Ink: Versafine Onyx Black; Accessories: Big Shot, Mondo Hydrangea Dies (Ellen Hutson), Misti, Dimensionals (SU), Daniel Smith Watercolors – Holiday Palette (SSS)

FMS290 and the Chameleon Color Tone Pencils

May 31, 2017 Jentimko 7 Comments

I have been waiting for today because I have something super awesome to share with you!! Not only do we have a great sketch by the lovely Kim Singdahlsen at Freshly Made Sketches, I also finally get to share some information about a product review I did for Splitcoaststampers!

I have been using the amazing new pencils from Chameleon and I created this card by combining the Chameleon Color Tone Pens with the Color Tone Pencils. Wow, they are great together! I shared details and my thoughts on paper choices over at Splitcoaststampers so please check the entire review from the review team here: CHAMELEON COLOR TONE PENCILS REVIEW

To help you understand a bit more of how the products work together, I made a quick video showing you how I did the coloring:

Direct link to YouTube: Chameleon Color Tone Pencils

I made the flowers the star of the show but I could not resist adding a doily that seemed perfect for the sketch! I used Night of Navy Baker’s Twine to coordinate with the blue in the flowers and thought this great sentiment from Ellen Hutson’s Lovely worked beautifully with the sketch.

The Freshly Made Sketches design team has created some beautiful work to inspire you and the Splitcoaststampers Review Team has samples that show many facets of these new pencils. I’ll be back tomorrow with another card I created for the review. Until then, have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Mondo Hydrandea (Ellen Hutson), Lovely (Ellen Hutson); Ink: Smoky Slate (SU), Chameleon Color Tone Pens; Paper: Strathmore Mixed Media, Smoky Slate; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Doily (SU Ret), Mondo Hydrangea Dies, Night of Navy Baker’s Twine

Freshly Made Sketches #282

April 5, 2017 Jentimko 8 Comments

Quick post today. Sorry if you stopped in earlier and got a white screen or other messages. Apparently a plugin update cause the whole site to have a fatal error. Good times! Now to happy things!

We have the most wonderful sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches from the lovely Cécile. I just love the idea of the layered squares! It didn’t take me long to decide on the smallest squares from the Stitched Shapes Thinlits but then what to add? I was looking through my stamp sets and the most counterintuitive set jumped out at me. Mondo Hydrangea by Ellen Hutson! So yes, the mondo flower was not the right fit for the squares but the little blossoms were perfectly sized! I stamped them in Versafine ink onto Fabriano watercolor paper and colored with my Zigs. Simple coloring but oh so pretty! I added on a little sentiment from another Ellen Hutson set called Lovely. Am I allowed to say how happy I am with this card? I was fighting with my mojo a bit this week and having this card come together quickly saved a bit of my sanity.

Ok…off to visit the amazing team. Make sure you stop in to let us know what you think of the sketch and I hope you’ll join in with us. I’ll be back at the beginning of next week with the April release week from Newton’s Nook Designs. Until then, I hope you have a great week! See you soon.

Supplies:

Stamp: Mondo Hydrangea (Ellen Hutson), Lovely (Ellen Hutson) ; Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Clean Color Markers; Paper: Thick Whisper White; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Thinlits (SU), Dimensionals

Freshly Made Sketches #270

January 11, 2017 Jentimko 10 Comments

Glad to see you on this lovely Wednesday! At least I hope it is lovely where you are. Just like in yesterday’s post, I am working to resist the winter weather with another pretty spring image. This time I’m using this awesome sketch by the incredible Kim Singdahlsen. Something about this sketch really spoke to me and it is going right into my “use again soon” favorites.

Last week I showed you a card with one of my gifts from Santa and this gorgeous Mondo Hydrangea was in the same package. I think Santa has my number when it comes to picking stamps! I had to admit that stamping cards like this with aligned images used to put me off because I knew they would never be quite aligned. No more! The Misti tool makes short work of this and the line up is perfect every time! I stamped onto SU Shimmery White paper using WPlus9 Black Dye Ink for the base. Then laid the little piece of DSP down and stamped again. I figured out the spacing for the top layer, moved the others out of the way and stamped one more time onto Shimmery White. While the Shimmery White paper is not true watercolor paper, it does watercolor nicely if you don’t need to add lots of color (or water). I love it for effects like this. And the added bonus is the subtle sparkle! I used Light Blue and Peacock Blue Zig Clean Color Brush Markers and my Zig BrusH2O for a quick coloring of the rectangle part of the flower. A little bit of Light Green and Yellow for the stems and centers. I thought the sentiment from yesterday’s card was perfect for this one too so I used the Happy Little Thoughts set from Newton’s Nook Designs. I stamped it in Versafine Onyx Black to keep it crisp and clear. I popped the colored panel up on Dimensionals for a little more wow and then added some of my ~~hoarded~~ beloved sequins from the SU Watercolor Wishes set. They really are just the right colors!

I do hope that you will enjoy this sketch as much as I did. Now I have to admit that as I just added the sketch in to my blog writeup, I realized that my sentiment is in the wrong place. Sigh. My computer issues have addled my brain. Good thing the team has exceeded their normally fabulous creative work! Yes, I am still facing computer issues so I’ll be a bit quiet still this week (it has gone in to the professional Apple people to see what they can do….perhaps a graphics driver) but I’m working busily in my stamp room creating projects for the upcoming Newton’s Nook Designs January release. I can’t wait to share! Thanks for stopping in today. See you soon!

Stamp: Mondo Hydrangea (Ellen Hutson), Happy Little Thoughts (Newton’s Nook Designs)Ink: WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Clean Color Real Bush Markers; Paper: Shimmery White (SU); Accessories: Misti Stamp Tool, Sequins (Watercolor Wishes Kit – SU), Zig BrusH20, Dimensionals

The Card Concept #61

November 2, 2016 Jentimko 8 Comments

We have a beautiful inspiration piece over at The Card Concept this week and it was hard for me to narrow down which elements I wanted to use. No surprise, the team has created some really pretty projects and you are going to have fun with this one!

I chose to use one of my favorite flowers from the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set. I stamped on Canson Watercolor paper using WPlus9 Black Dye Ink and then colored using Tim Holtz Distress ink in Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry. The pretty mint typewrite inspired the Mint Macaron card base. I cut image layer using Stitched Rectangled from Simon Says Stamp. The sentiment was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and comes from the Lovely set by Ellen Hutson (Essentials by Ellen). Finally the little details. I added some lace trim and gold thread (hard to see in the picture) to keep with the sketch from this week’s CAS(E) this Sketch. I also colored this for Kathy Racoosin’s Thirty Day Coloring Challenge….a great way to motivate yourself to color just a little every day!

Just a reminder that this is my second post of the day. Please check my card for Freshly Made Sketches as well. I hope you enjoy this and that you are having a great week. See you soon!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamps: Beautiful Day (Altenew), Lovely (Essentials by Ellen – Ellen Hutson); Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry), WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Versafine Onyx Black; Paper: Canson Watercolor Paper, Mint Macaron (SU); Accessories: Zig BrusH2O, Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles (SSS), Dimensionals, Lace Trim (SU ret), Gold Metallic Thread (SU), Green Pearl (Paper Pumpkin by SU)

The Card Concept #59

October 5, 2016 Jentimko 9 Comments

It is time for a new challenge at The Card Concept and I’m so excited to share my Clean and Graphic card. Our inspiration this week is such fun and I was thought I would use the colors to create my card.

I thought the flower from You Are Enough (Concord and 9th) would be perfect for playing with color. I stamped on Fabriano Watercolor Paper using WPlus9 Black Ink. Then I colored using two of Stampin’ Up’s In Colors, Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum. I added a little Tip Top Taupe (mostly because I love the name, haha) to mimic the neutral of the ice cream cone in the photo. I added a sentiment from Lovely (Essentials by Ellen) and some sequins from an old Paper Pumpkin kit. I put the watercolor panel on a Flirty Flamingo card base.

Here is a closeup of how the colors blended. So pretty together! I kept going back in layers to get the variations. This is one of the best things about watercoloring for me. You never quite know how colors will blend and each time you create, the result will be different. I was totally right about this flower being the perfect image!!

The challenge page has so many beautiful pieces by the design team in all the different styles. You are going to be in awe! Just a note, this is my second post for the day. My Freshly Made Sketches post was up first. I hope you like my two projects today. Looking forward to seeing you again soon!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamps: You Are Enough (Concord and 9th), Lovely (Essentials by Ellen – Ellen Hutson); Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum (SU In Colors); Paper: Fabriano Watercolor, Flirty Flamingo; Accessories: Zig BrusH2O Water Pen, Sequins (Paper Pumpkin), Dimensionals

Stamp Ink Paper #67

September 27, 2016 Jentimko 3 Comments

I cannot believe that a month has already passed and this is my last week with Stamp Ink Paper. What fun it has been to join this talented group of stampers! This week’s challenge is a sketch challenge. Totally my happy place for sure!

I chose to use LOTS of white space with only this neutral flowers as the focus. It is the Daisy stamp from Altenew and I love it layered with Altenew’s dye inks. Their gray family is so wonderful! I added a sentiment from Ellen Hutson’s Lovely (yes, again….) and a few Pretty Pink Posh Marshmellow Sequins from the Birthday Bling Mix. The rest of the detail is courtesy of Simon Says Stamp’s Stitched Rectangles. This is really, really clean but I kind of love all that white!

Now hop on over to check out the whole team’s take on the sketch. Beautiful work by all! Back tomorrow with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches. Until then, have a great day!!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamp: Daisy (Altenew), Lovely (Essentials by Ellen – Ellen Hutson); Ink: Altenew Warm Gray Mini Cube Set; Paper: Thick Whisper White; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Birthday Bling Mix (Pretty Pink Posh for C9), Dimensionals

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