Sunday, May 31, 2020

Freshly Made Sketch Challenge #437 and Some More Homework

Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope you are all doing well. 

It is a PERFECT day in Connecticut today-mid 60's, low humidity with the sun shining. I spent some time outside watering my plants and planting some basil seeds in my skimpy veggie garden. We only are ever successful with tomatoes. Every time I have planted any kind of cucumber or squash, cucumber beetles kill my plants no matter what I do. 

I was busy in my craft room yesterday. I created a card for Freshly Made Sketches #437.


Below is the sketch that inspired this card:
Instead of having the design at the top, I kind of "flipped" the sketch to have it at the bottom. I also could NOT have my rectangle images not be uniform. 


I have been trying to use more of the stamps that I own so I dug out this old PaperTrey Ink set, "Building Blocks" to use on this card. I used five different shades of purple ink to stamp each of the five images.


I added a white die cut flower from MFT and Eucalyptus Leaves from Simon Says Stamp.

Supplies:
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Purple Rain
Stamps: PaperTrey Ink Building Blocks
Dies: Simon Says Stamps Eucalyptus Leaves, MFT Stitched Flowers
Ink: MFT Boysenberry, Purple Rain, Lavender Fields, Wild Wisteria and Egglplant (retired), Memento London Fog and Hero Arts Soft Granite

Now for some cards for the Online Card Class Spring Stamp Camp 2. I still have not done all of my "homework" but I have worked on some.  I have not created cards with everything I have made, though.

My first card is my homework from Day 6.


I stamped the Pinkfresh Studio "Enchanted Blooms" with Hero Arts Unicorn White pigment ink on some pink cardstock. 


I cut up the cardstock and layered it on the bottom of my white card base. I then added a MFT diecut sentiment and sentiment strip at the bottom.


I die cut a ton of sentiments last weekend and glued three of them together to give them a little lift. I usually do this as I make my cards but I have been trying to be more efficient and have some die cuts pre-made to add to my cards.

For my next three cards, I used a really cool technique by Dawn Woleslagle from WPlus9. We learned this on Day 19. Instead of making my embellishments for these cards, I embellished some pre-made die cuts from Pink Paislee.


I actually never do this type of thing but love designers like Jeanne Jachna that use pre-made embellishments on their projects. I have a TON left over from my scrapbook days and I recently bought these because I fell in love with them at the store. They make me HAPPY!!!


Dawn taught us how to do mono printing with Ranger Distress Oxides. I cannot say that I was that successful BUT it was fun to try!!


I embellished my my die cuts with some Aqua Shimmer Pen and Glossy Accents. 


The sequins were added in purple and silver. The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti. 


My second card used the printing part of the technique.


This was my FAVORITE card of the bunch. I think the background is so cool. Most of my examples did not come out like this, though. 


On this card I added a Stampin Up doily die cut with the pre-made die cuts. 


I also added some purple Nuvo drops instead of sequins on this card. 




Again I used the pre-made die cuts for the card. I added an MFT smile die cut for the sentiment.


I added some Aqua Shimmer and Glossy Accents over the top of it to make it SHINE.


I altered the sentiment strip to say what I wanted it to say. I used some foam adhesive to pop it up off the card. 


Using these pre-made die cuts was a lot of fun and I have a TON left over to make more cards at a later date!!

Smile, Laugh, Be Happy Supplies:

Paper: Neenah Solar White, PTI Vintage Jadeite

Stamps: WPlus9 Winter Greenery, Reverse Confetti So Many Sentiments,

Dies: Stampin Up Doily Builders, MFT Blueprints 13, MFT Smile Die

Ink: Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink, Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink, Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink

Die Cuts: Pink Paislee Bloom Street Ephemera

Other: Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen, Glossy Accents, Foam Adhesive, Gemini Jr., Ranger Multi Matte, Scotch Dot Adhesive Roller, Gelli Plate


I think that is all from me today. I could add a ton more but won't. This class was a BLAST and even though it isn't live anymore, I would recommend for others to take. 

I thank you for stopping by. Have a FABULOUS night!!


4 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

Wow Nora, you've been busy! These are all just fabulous!

Linda Callahan said...

What a beautiful collection of cards! I took that class as well - loved it but haven't kept up with the cardmaking like you have!

Jacquie Southas said...

You've had some crafting fun! What a super set of cards - I so glad to see the Freshly Made Sketches sketch used on the first one. Thanks for playing along with us this week!

Witchcrafted Life said...

Ooohhh, Nora, what a breathtakingly lovely quintet of cards! I adore them all, but couldn't help but swoon most of all over the gorgeous hummingbird design.

Your work is so charming, upbeat and bursting with beautiful inspiration.

Autumn Zenith 🧡 Witchcrafted Life

PS: When I was very young, my mom would sometimes sing the song "Que Sera Sera" to me as a lullaby. Seeing your first card here instantly reminded me of that, which I've not thought about in quite some time. Thank you for the meaningful memories it evoked.