Freshly Made Sketches

Freshly Made Sketches #247

July 27, 2016 Jentimko 10 Comments

We have an awesome surprise for you this week over at Freshly Made Sketches!! One of our guest designers has taken on the job of sketch hostess! Shannon Jaramillo has surely wow’d you and now she has given us a sketch that is bound to get you stamping. Just think of all the possibilities for this one!

I thought it would be fun to use this flower image for the circle element and I hope Shannon will approve of my interpretation. The image is from Awesomely Artistic. I colored it using Copic Markers in pinks and light greens. So fun to color!! I’m continuing to try to participate in The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge as much as I can. I highly recommend it. Good for your happiness! My sentiment is (again) from Paper Pumpkin. I added some of the new Black Metallic Thread and Black Sequins.

I think you will love playing along on this one. Please make sure you make a special visit over to Shannon’s blog to thank her for the inspiration! I’ll be back on Friday with this month’s Fancy Friday project and next week I have some real fun for you. Can’t wait to share more! See you soon!

Supplies:

Stamps: Awesomely Artistic (SU), Paper Pumpkin Sentiment; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Copic Markers ; Paper: Thick Whisper White, Basic Black; Accessories: Big Shot, Black Metallic Thread, Metallic Sequins, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

Freshly Made Sketches #246

July 20, 2016 Jentimko 7 Comments

Now just look at the cool sketch we have over at Freshly Made Sketches today!! It is so fantastic! No surprise, my friend Rita has added a tag since she has been making some super fab ones on her blog lately. Ours are a bit cleaner but it is a fun element for sure!

I decided that Pop of Pink DSP was perfect for this one and used this fun Melon Mambo print for my tag that was created with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and a Corner Rounder from my Envelope Punch Board. Super quick and so easy! I love, love this flower that I created with the Flourish Thinlets. I added some Black Baker’s Twine and embossed the back panel with Softly Falling to add a little more texture. The sentiment comes from Paper Pumpkin. Love how all the elements combine so beautifully for a bright and happy card!

The team has such a variety of ideas to show you. I hope you have fun with the challenge this week and I will see you soon!

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Pumpkin Sentiment; Ink: Versafine Onyx Black ; Paper: Thick Whisper White, Basic Black, Pop of Pink DSP; Accessories: Big Shot, Flourish Thinlits, Black Baker’s Twine, Softly Falling TIEF, Scalloped Tag Topper Punch, Envelope Punch Board, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

Freshly Made Sketches #245

July 13, 2016 Jentimko 11 Comments

I am so happy to be able to share our adorable sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches! This one is such fun and lends itself to so many things….DSP, colored panels, great focal images. Should not come as a surprise that the incredible Jen Mitchell is this week’s sketch hostess!

I opted to focus on a fun stamp from WPlus9’s Happy Birds. These birds still just crack me up! I colored him using my Zig Clean Color Markers (just two colored needed). I chose zig-zag print from Pop of Pink DSP (SU) and cut it a using Border Builders die from Lil’ Inkers. The focal panel was cut with a Stitched Rectangles die (SSS). I chose a sentiment from Paper Pumpkin….I know….those seem to be my go-to lately but they really are so trendy and great! I finally topped it with a few sequins.

I hope you have a great time with this one. Guessing the gallery will be just loaded with inspiration!! I’ll be back tomorrow with a new card that has a Product Review for Splitcoaststampers. It even included a video tutorial so I hope you’ll stop in! See you soon!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamps: Happy Birds (WPlus9); Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Zig Clean Color Markers; Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), Pop of Pink DSP, Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper; Accessories: Big Shot, Border Builders Dies (LID), Sequins (SU), Stitched Rectangles (SSS), Summer Mix Sequins (PPP)

Freshly Made Sketches #244

July 6, 2016 Jentimko 11 Comments

Happy July to you!! I hope that you have had a great start to the month. You may have noticed I have been mostly absent over the last week or so. Well, I was! Because I was on vacation! YAY!!! My family and I went to the beach for a week and then added onto the vacation with a trip to downtown Washington DC for a baseball game and the big fireworks on the 4th. The weather was a bit soggy but the game played on and the family had a great time. Even the fireworks managed to go up despite the low ceilings. But now I’m home and getting everything back in order. So I’ll start by being the sketch hostess for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches.

I continued to play with my new Colorbox inks, this time in the Spring color palette. I thought it would be fun to pull out the little Daisy stamp from Altenew and do a bit of masking to create this little trio of flowers. Pretty, aren’t they?! The layering of the colors comes from just stamping off the inks in various degrees to create the shades. Super simple way to make sure your colors coordinate perfectly! Speaking of coordinating….aren’t these sequins an awesome match?! I picked out two from Pretty Pink Posh and one from an old Paper Pumpkin. The sentiment is from the Skipping Stones Design set Healing Wings. I cut the stamped layer using my retired Ovals Dies (SU) and then attached it to a White Notecard from SU.

I hope that you enjoy this sketch! The team must have because their samples this week are incredible!! I look forward to seeing you in the gallery too! Now….back to laundry…. And maybe just a bit of stamping too, I hope. Until next time, I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Daisy (Altenew), Healing Wings (Skipping Stones Design); Ink: Spring Premium Dye Inks (Colorbox), Versafine Onyx Black ; Paper: Thick Whisper White, White Note Card; Accessories: Big Shot, Ovals Dies (SU – Ret), Dimensionals, Summer Mix Sequins (PPP), Pink Sequin (Paper Pumpkin), Glue Dots

Freshly Made Sketches #243

June 29, 2016 Jentimko 9 Comments

Happy Wednesday!! I hope your week is going well. I have just what you need to make your week keep moving along…a sketch from our lovely resident Artisan Amy O’Neill. She created a fabulous sketch to get us moving and I just love it!

I wanted to play with some new inks I have from ColorBox and they seemed perfect combined with these images from Altenew’s Botanical Garden. I embossed the images onto vellum using the Copper Embossing Powder (yep, still obsessed with it) and then colored on the back side with the inks from the Fall color selection of the Premium Dye Inks. Great colors don’t you think?! I added a sentiment from Paper Pumpkin (those seem to be my go-to lately, don’t they?) and embossed it with the copper too. The panel was cut using a Stitched Rectangles Die from Simon Says Stamp. Clean and simple with minimal layers. The perfect summer card!

I think you are going to have a lot of fun using this one and I expect the gallery to be really full! Ok, off to see the rest of the team’s beautiful work. I hope you’ll join us this week!

Supplies:

Stamps: Botanical Garden (Altenew), Paper Pumpkin Sentiment; Ink: Fall Premium Dye Inks (Colorbox), Versamark ; Paper: Thick Whisper White, Vellum; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Glue Dots, Zig BrusH2O

Freshly Made Sketches #241

June 15, 2016 Jentimko 13 Comments

Another week has flown by! I think maybe because my mom was here and we were busy, busy, busy!! *smile* We did some stamping that I’ll share with you soon but she helped me create my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches Challenge too. Our sketch hostess this week is the amazing Karren Johnson and she has a classic one for us this week. As you can imagine, the team has all kinds of variations that are super fun!

The minute I saw this sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to use!! This gorgeous (and I mean seriously gorgeous) die set is from the new Stampin’ Up Catalog. I have not seen anything really like it before and I’m in love! Ok….it is a flower so it really should not surprise anyone how much I love it, haha!! There are many ways to use the Detailed Floral Thinlits and the coordinating Floral Phrases stamp set but I stuck to the color combination in the catty because I love it so much. For the record, I bought the whole suite! I cut the bottom part using a 4″ wide piece of Thick Whisper White and then used the edge piece to put a similar border on the top. Using only the border die, I cut the edge of some Night of Navy and cut the rest down to fit behind the floral cutouts. So striking! I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set in Night of Navy. Then for the circle. I kept thinking it just needed a bow since it a wedding card so I used retired White Seam Binding (I’m guessing you still have a stash of this too) to make a shabby bow. It is the perfect touch!!

I’m on a trip this week (sitting in Chicago on a delay as I type) but hope to share more with you later this week from my stamping with mom. Until then, I hope you enjoy this look at the new products! Let me know if you need more info on this suite or any other! Make sure you go check out the rest of the cards from the DT too. Thanks for stopping in today. See you soon!

Supplies:

Stamps: Floral Phrases; Ink: Night of Navy ; Paper: Thick Whisper White, Night of Navy; Accessories: Big Shot, Detailed Florals Thinlits, White Seam Binding, Glue Dots

Freshly Made Sketches #239

June 1, 2016 Jentimko 7 Comments

Freshly Made Sketches has a great sketch for you today! Just look at what the lovely Cindy Hall dreamed up for us this week! I know, right? I love off centered sketches and this one is going to be fun for you all to use!

I kept it pretty simple for today. I had only a little stamping time yesterday and really wanted to do this sketch justice. After some playing around with shapes and stamp sets, I settled on this butterfly die. I think a layer under him might have been nice but he was was already glued down before I considered it, lol. In any case, I took some Tim Holtz Distress Inks and blended them onto watercolor paper, then cut the butterfly out. I wanted the panel to have some detail but not distract from the butterfly. I inked up Dots for Days (retired) with the same ink colors, stamped off and then stamped onto Thick Whisper White. I cut the panel out with a Stitched Rectangles Die. The sentiment is from a sweet little set by Altenew called One of a Kind. A few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh matched perfectly so I just had to add them on!

So I have been in the midst of a flying blitz (lots of 4 day trips) and then had a soccer-palooza weekend. Tournament play for both of my soccer boys! To top it off, my oldest turned 13 on Sunday too. How can that possibly be?! We had a pretty chilled out family day on Monday topped off with his dinner request: Breakfast for dinner with lots of bacon. Yep, he is 13!!! Oh, and of course cake. Strawberry Applesauce Cake. YUM! So blessed to have been home over this long weekend for all of that so it is worth the rest of the flying schedule that was needed to make that happen! Out again today but a bit of a respite next week where I hope to fit in more stamping!

Just a quick reminder…the new Stampin’ Up Catalog goes live today! Wow it is fun! If you want to see it online, just click here: 2016-17 Catalog. I hope you love the rest of the DTs inspiration as much as I do…fabulous as always! I’ll be back on Friday with some details about an amazing hop I’ll be participating in on June 5th…but you will want the details early! Please stop back in to see what it is all about! Until then, have a great week!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamps: One of a Kind (Altenew), Dots for Days (SU Ret); Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade) ; Paper: Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, Thick Whisper White; Accessories: Big Shot, Bold Butterflies Thinlits, Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Summer Mix Sequins (PPP)

Freshly Made Sketches #238

May 25, 2016 Jentimko 7 Comments

I have to admit that this weeks sketch at Freshly Made Sketches made me think. Kim Singdahlsen always has the coolest cards and her groupings are one of the reasons. And this week she gave us a challenge that allows us to try the same idea. Once I narrowed down that I wanted to used a stamp set (and which one) things got a bit easier for me.

I stamped these pretty images from Altenew’s Botanical Garden set onto watercolor paper and then colored them with my Zig Markers. These markers allow for such pretty shading super fast! Then I cut them by hand and started playing around with the arrangement. I realized that a doily (these are retiring so stock up) was perfect for the sketch and to help ground the flowers a bit. I used the sentiment from another Altenew set because it seems perfect for many occasions. I played a little more with the placement and finally got things how I wanted them. The butterfly is popped up on a Dimensional to add even more emphasis on him. Finally I added some Basic Pearls. These seem to be the right touch for the elegant images.

As a reminder, every other week I will have two posts on Wednesday. This is one of those. In just a little bit, I’ll be back with my card for The Card Concept this week. See you in a bit!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamps: Botanical Garden (Altenew), Beautiful Day (Altenew); Ink: Versafine Onyx Black (sentiment), WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Zig Clean Color Markers ; Paper: Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, Crumb Cake; Accessories: Zig BrusH2O Detailer, Tea Lace Doily, Basic Pearls (SU)

Freshly Made Sketches #237

May 18, 2016 Jentimko 8 Comments

Know what puts a smile on my face?? Yep, Wednesdays! Especially when we have a sketch at Freshly Made Sketches as awesome as this one from Linda. I felt like I needed a bit of a sunny card for today because we have had rain, lots and lots and lots and lots…of rain. I thought a happy little bird might brighten things up!

Ok, he really is a Happy Bird from that set by WPlus9. I had colored this fellow a while ago and he was sitting there begging to be put on a card. I finally found just the right one. This striped background comes from the It’s My Party DSP pack…yes, I may have a little bit of a problem putting it down but I’m sure you’ll forgive me. It matched the bird. It just had to happen! I stamped the wire and the sentiment in Versafine ink onto Thick Whisper White paper and just popped up my little friend on a dimensional. He was colored with Zig Clean Color Markers and cut out with the coordinating dies. I found that Pacific Point card stock was a good match with the blue and added it as a layer behind the image. Finally a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. Love these!

Ok, ready, set, stamp! I just know the gallery will be full with a sketch this open for interpretation! Make sure you take a minute to visit the team’s blogs for all their awesome inspiration!

Back to lots of flying this week (and next) but I have a few things I’m working on. Ok, really I’m just sketching and hoping to work on when I get home! Until next time, have a great day!

Supplies (affiliate links included):

Stamps: Happy Birds (WPlus9); Ink: WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Clean Color Markers; Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), It’s My Party DSP (SU), Pacific Point; Accessories: Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Big Shot, Happy Birds Coordinating Dies (WPlus9)

Freshly Made Sketches #236

May 11, 2016 Jentimko 9 Comments

Yay it is Freshly Made Sketches day!! And the talented Rita Wright is our sketch hostess today. She has given us one that really made me think. So many options!! Took me a bit to figure out which way to go but I finally narrowed it down.

The It’s My Party DSP from SU was my starting place. Love the fun colors. Then I pulled out the Funny Coffee Vol 1 stamp set from Skipping Stones Design. I stamped the cup a few times on the DSP and on Whisper White, then cut them out and pieced them together. Fun, right? The sentiment is perfect….they are actually two sentiments from the set that you can use separately or together. But knowing me, best to just add the second part in. *smile*

Now this is my first post of the day and I have another to follow shortly behind with a fun announcement. See you in a few!

Supplies:

Stamps: Funny Coffee Vol 1 (Skipping Stones Design); Ink: Versafine Onyx Black ; Paper: It’s My Party DSP (SU), Whisper White; Accessories: Dimensionals

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