I am so happy to share with you this week’s sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. Our hostess this week is the fabulous Karren Johnson and this sketch is super fun! Pull out your favorite trios!
I chose the Simply Wonderful set by Picket Fence Studios and used two of the flower stamps for the trio element. First I created the circle with Distress Ink on Bristol Smooth paper. The Life Changing Blender Brushes and Squeezed Lemonade Ink made short work of that. Then I stamped in Distress Oxide Ink for the flower since the ink layers a bit. Finally I added this great sentiment from the set. LOVE the font on this!! I layered onto some yellow card stock and kept the card super clean.
I hope you’ll join us for this week’s sketch! Make sure you hop over to see all the inspiration from the DT too. You are going to love all the cards they made!! Until next time, have a great day!
Welcome back for the last day of the March Release from Newton’s Nook Designs. For our final reveal I have what you are sure to see as a “work horse” stamp set…a wonderful sentiment set called Birthday Essentials.
So I have a confession to make. My name is Jennifer and I’m a sentiment hoarder. I love sentiment sets. I “collect” sentiment sets. Having just the right ones for inside and outside the card is simply a quest so I hold on to them even as I let images go now and then. So when a set that is all about birthdays comes along, you can bet that I’m doing a happy dance. Another truth (because, hey it is just among friends)…I never seem to have enough masculine cards. Perhaps it is because Kitty Kate and I are outnumbered. Perhaps it is my obsession with cute images and all flowers. But somehow, when it comes time to reach for a card for man, I don’t have the right one. So I committed to making one (and I’ll be making a few more just like it). I felt like I need a cool background so I used this fun Magic Stamp by Clearsnap. It allows you to make your own background and just stamp. I was playing with it on my trip to Kansas and the incredible Jen Shults (yes, I did just name drop) suggested I press it into some concrete on the sidewalk. And I got this texture. Cool!! I inked it up with Distress Oxide Ink and just stamped onto watercolor paper, then spritzed with a little water.
This big bold sentiment (which fits perfectly onto the Frames and Flags Die banner) becomes the focus and I have a fabulous, non-girly, no bling birthday card. Yay!!! And while this is super clean, the great script sentiment makes this still feel special. Birthday Essentials for the win!!
I hope you like this card idea and I’m just sure you will love everything the team made for today. Now one more time for this release… A chance to win!!
Would you like to win the “Birthday Essentials” Stamp Set?
Each 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, March 15th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, March 16th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Thanks for stopping in today and during this whole week. All of your comments are so appreciated and I’m so happy you share some of your time with me. The release goes live tomorrow so make your list and check it twice. I think this one is going fly off the shelves!Supplies:
Stamps: Birthday Essentials (Newton’s Nook Designs), Magic Stamp (Clear Snap); Ink: Broken China Distress Oxide Ink (Tim Holtz); Paper: Canson XL Watercolor Paper; Accessories: Big Shot, Frames and Flags Dies (NND), Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Dimensionals (SU)
Welcome to day 1 of the September release from Newton’s Nook Designs. Fall is definitely in the air and Newton’s Nook is ready! We are starting off with a beautiful set called Shades of Autumn and a brand new stencil, Falling Leaves. Both are fabulous!
The detail on these images is really special and I wanted to make sure I showed the stamp detail as much as possible. I thought that using the Distress Oxide Ink would do just that. The ink is a bit thicker than some of the dye inks and grabs onto the stamp differently. And then you have the added benefit of how it moves with water. So I stamped the leaves and then spritzed with some water to get the ink run just a little. Then I added some additional splatters with the ink and water mixed together. The sentiment from the the set is such a nice size and fit perfectly with the leaves. I cut out the panel with Cross-Stitched Rectangles Dies and the mounted on a base of Audrey Blue card stock cut with the same. There are more fun leaves in this set and I can’t wait to play some more with them. Of course, there are coordinating dies that makes your layering super easy. And this stencil is GORGEOUS…perfect for all of your fall projects! And now for the part you always love!!
Would you like to win the “Shades of Autumn” 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, September 14th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, September 15th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Thanks for stopping in today and during this whole week. Make sure you stop back in tomorrow for Day 2 of the release. Stamp: Shades of Autumn (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Tim Holtz Oxide Ink (Broken China, Fossilized Amber); Paper: Strathmore Bristol Paper, Audrey Blue (Simon Says Stamp); Accessories: Big Shot, Cross-Stitched Rectangles Dies (Lawn Fawn)
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I am so happy to share with you this week’s sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. Our hostess this week is the fabulous Karren Johnson and this sketch is super fun! Pull out your favorite trios!
I chose the Simply Wonderful set by Picket Fence Studios and used two of the flower stamps for the trio element. First I created the circle with Distress Ink on Bristol Smooth paper. The Life Changing Blender Brushes and Squeezed Lemonade Ink made short work of that. Then I stamped in Distress Oxide Ink for the flower since the ink layers a bit. Finally I added this great sentiment from the set. LOVE the font on this!! I layered onto some yellow card stock and kept the card super clean.
