New Home

Hi and welcome!  I'm here today with my card for the latest challenge at Freshly Made Sketches where our sketch hostess this week is Kim Singdahlsen.  Her sketch was perfect for a card I needed to make for my daughter.

Some of you will know that our daughter has moved to Blenheim (about 4 1/2 hours drive from us at the top of the South Island of New Zealand).  She is in her first year of teaching high school in Design and Visual Communications as well as Automotive.  She finally moved into her new home up there a couple of weeks ago and this was the card I made for her to celebrate that.

I created a panel of pink stripes onto a gray card base and onto that I adhered a little house and trees I made using Honey Bee Stamps dies.  I had to do a bit of swapping out between their various house die sets to get windows that more closely resemble hers. I also snipped off some pieces around the roofline. I then took a white panel, die-cut a heart from the centre and stamped a sentiment, before using foam tape to adhere over the die-cut image.

Thanks so much for visiting!  The design team have some gorgeous cards using the sketch so I hope you'll check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  New Home (WP9)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Cloudy Night, Charcoal Suit, Espresso, Volcano Lake, Mountain Mist, Lagoon (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Cement Gray (MFT), Cream (SSS), Sweet Pea, Carnation (C&9), Blush, Tutu, Chiffon (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Spring Cottages, Summer Cabin (Honey Bee Stamps), Infinity Hearts (Hero Arts) 

Sarah's Adventure

 Hi all and welcome to my blog!  Today's card designer for Freshly Made Sketches is Amy O'Neill and I used her sketch to make a rather special card.

My daughter, Sarah, left Christchurch on Monday to start a new life in Blenheim (which is about 4.5 hours drive away).  She got her post-graduate degree last year and is starting her career as a high school teacher in Design & Visual Communications at Marlborough Boys College next week.  So of course, I had to make her a special card.  I'm going to miss her terribly - her and I spent a lot of time together - but I wish her a full and happy future in Blenheim and I now have an excuse to go road-tripping to visit her.

I had bought the Spellbinders Beaded Bracelet products a few months ago and they were the perfect choice to make a fun and positive card for my 22-year old daughter.  I die-cut the hand and heart from white cardstock and ink-blended some colour on.  For the bracelets, I used the BetterPress dies for the letters and numbers and coloured cardstock for the shapes.  The bracelets themselves were cut from silver foil cardstock.

In keeping with the sketch, but slightly deviating, I used frame dies to mimic the layers.  This left a lot of white space allowing the hand and bracelets to be the star of the card.  The sentiment was stamped in black ink.

Thanks so much for visiting.  Please check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Bestie Alphabet Beads & Sentiments (Spellbinders)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Paradise (Hero Arts), Sour Apple, Pink Lemonade, Peach Bellini (MFT), silver foil

Dies:  Bestie Beaded Bracelets, Bestie Alphabet Beads BetterPress, Bestie Heart in Hand (Spellbinders), Fine Frames Cover Die (Altenew)

Cheers

Karren

Time to be Awesome

It's time for another fun challenge from the team at Freshly Made Sketches where Jacquie Southas is our hostess this week.  Here is her sketch:

My youngest is moving out of home in a couple of weeks.  Yes, the timing is not great and I don't want her to leave, but we're not going to stop her as she is craving independence.  So, on the day she moves out, I'll give her this card:

I deliberately chose this Neat & Tangled set for Sarah’s card because this was the set I used when Matthew left home the first time 3 1/2 years ago.  Here's a link to the card I made for Matthew. 

Apologies for the poor photography - I think my camera focused on the silver and dulled everything else.  The card base is white and I added a strip of black embossed with the Weathered Embossing Folder.  I die-cut another white panel as well as some silver cardstock with a stitched border die and used foam tape beind the panel to pop it up. 

I stamped some stars and the first part of the sentiment onto this panel and then used a silver die-cut with the black shadow and called it done.

Thanks for visiting.  The design team have some wonderful cards so I hope you'll check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Awesome (Neat & Tangled)

Ink:  Obsidian, Cloudy Night (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Silver

Dies:  Stitched Basic Edges (MFT), Awesome (N&T)

Accessories:  Weathered EF (Taylored Expressions)