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By Stamp Set - Flower Shop, By Stamp Set - Simply Sketched, By Theme - Female Cards, Challenge - Freshly Made Sketches

Freshly Made Sketches #95

July 17, 2013July 17, 2013by stamplicious22 Comments

Hey Everyone

It’s Wednesday, so that means a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and guess what? It’s my turn to host again! This is my second sketch with Freshly Made Sketches and I might’ve managed to sneak a couple more layers in than I did in my last sketch 😉 Here’s what I came up with:

I made this card last weekend with some of my new toys. My card might look a little bit like this card I made last night because I used the same stamp set – Flower Shop – but unlike last nights card, I managed to keep this one clean. The designer series papers I’ve used are Stampin’ Up!s Modern Medley and the beautiful Coastal Cabana paper is from Eastern Elegance DSP. I have to tell you that I just LOVE this colour combination. To create the two-toned flower I firstly stamped the flower in Coastal Cabana ink and then took my blender pen to wipe away the ink from the centre of the flower. I then coloured the centre of the flower with my Basic Black marker. I’m sure there’s a name for this technique, but as I’m technique challenged, I can’t remember the name of it! Here’s my card:

I’d love to see what you create with my sketch, so head over to Freshly Made Sketches and link up a card. While you’re there, check out the gorgeous designs from the Clean Team.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Create with Connie & Mary Challenge #247 & Inspired by Stamping #53

April 15, 2013by stamplicious12 Comments

Hey Everyone

I’m back with a second card tonight and this one I’ve combined for two challenges – Create with Connie & Mary Sketch Challenge and Inspired by Stamping Inspiration Challenge. Here are their inspiration pics:

This is a great sketch and I thought I would be able to combine the challenge colours with it really easy, but when I sat down to create I didn’t find them easy at all. In the end I only used a smidge of Rose Red that I sponged on to my flowers – I did get it in there, but only just!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

By Stamp Set - That's The Ticket, By Theme - 3D Projects, By Theme - Vintage Cards, Challenge - Dynamic Duos

Dynamics Duos #37

January 28, 2013by stamplicious8 Comments

Hey Everyone

My 4 weeks of holidays has come to an end 😦 and I’m back at work tomorrow. Not heading out to my craft room whenever I want during the day will be majorly different.

I decided I wanted to make another tag and the colour combination at Dynamic Duos was the perfect fit for it.

For last weeks challenge at Merry Monday, our challenge was to create a card using a bird. One of my co-designers, Margaret, used the bird punch on this gorgeous clean card and she has inspired me to use it too. I’ve barely used the bird in the last 3 years, so I gave myself the challenge to use it on a project. Instead of a lovely clean card like Margaret’s, I gone for a vintagey tag as this was the only way I could think to incorporate it. Here’s what I came up with:

Here’s a close up of the tag so you can see the bird a bit closer:

Thanks for stopping by.

Products Used:

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Beau Chateau DSP (retired), First Edition DSP

Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede

Stamp Sets: That’s the Ticket, Punch Potpourri (retired)

Other Products: Heart Punch, Mini Library Clip, Ticket Punch, Secret Garden Framelits, Vanilla Flower Trim, Hemp Twine (retired), Bird Punch, Very Vanilla Seam Binding

Cheers

Narelle

By Stamp Set - Secret Garden, By Theme - Female Cards

Still AddINKtive Challenges #2

January 20, 2013by stamplicious6 Comments

Hey Everyone

Happy Sunday to you! I’ve had this card sitting on my desk for a couple of days, but haven’t had a chance to put it up until today. The card I’ve made is for the combined sketch and colour challenge at Still AddINKtive Challenges.

I’ve wussed out on this one and have gone for the sketch only – the colours threw me a bit, so I took the easy way out and just went for the sketch. For someone who was never a “blue” person, gee I’m using it a lot lately. I’ve gone for a monochromatic blue card for you today.