Freshly Made Sketches #588

We have a new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches! Our hostess today is Jen Mitchell! Our family is headed to the Outer Banks beaches later this month, and that totally inspired me to make this beach themed card. The diagonal angle got moved slightly :) but you know how waves are. They do what they want!

I blended Salvaged Patina for my water (looks like I had a little green on the brush leftover, but it made cool ocean colors!) and Tea Dye DOX for my sand. I embossed the "waves" stamp with Brutus Monroe Alabaster White. The heart was stamped with Frayed Burlap (a little dark after the fact) and the sentiment with Tea Dye. I love how it looks like it's written in the sand. Everyone does that at the beach! I distressed the edges of my main panel mat.

I hope you will join our sketch challenge, and add your creations to our gallery. This week's challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, June 5. Be sure to take a peek at the designs my talented teamies have made on the FMS blog to inspire you!

Cards for Ukraine

Good morning!

I love the care that the card making community shows one another - both those we have met and those we have not. Our art brings us together with a common goal: sharing joy and kindness through creativity.

Today, the Stamping Village community is hosting a hop to bring joy to others and to help support the people of Ukraine. We are especially thinking of our sweet friend, Yana. Read all the details at each of the company stops - I know there are some amazing donations and opportunities to support! Three of us from the My Sweet Petunia team are sharing our creations for the team.

My card today combines products from several different companies. I chose the colors of the Ukraine flag and built from there. I use my MISTIs on every single project I make, whether it has a lot of stamping or not. Today it helped me line up the cover plate and background cardstock together to adhere, as well as stamp my sentiment cleanly on the vellum so I could emboss. 

You can see the products I used below. I want to keep this short and sweet so you can keep hopping before your coffee gets cold! SO many amazing donations and stamp sets with proceeds going to relief efforts. What an amazing community!

Here is the hop list! Please support the efforts of these companies by purchasing or donating to relief efforts directly.

Studio Katia

Lydia Fiedler / Splitcoaststampers

My Sweet Petunia:

Ceal

Judy

Angie

Dare 2B Artzy
Tasnim Ahmed
LDRS Creative
Pink and Main
Lawn Fawn

Hero Arts
Pink Fresh Studio
Concord & Ninth
Avery Elle

Jennifer McGuire
Erin Lee Creative
Ink Blot Shop
Gina K. Designs

Simon Says Stamp

Products used:

• Triangles Cover Panel (Reverse Confetti)
• Massive Peony - sentiment (Gina K Designs)
• Lovely Layers: Coneflower Honey Cuts (Honey Bee Stamps)
• Mini MISTI (My Sweet Petunia)
• white, blue, yellow, sage, gold, vellum cardstock
• black ink, clear embossing powder

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Freshly Made Sketches #526

It's Wednesday and time for a new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches! Amy is our hostess this week, and has created a sketch with so many possibilities!

I love layering stencils. It's so easy to create something lovely in a short time, and without a lot of fuss. I used my blender brushes and several different oxide inks for the background, and then cut the sentiment from the dies that come in the bundle.

Products used: 

• A Little Love Layering Stencil Bundle (GKD)
• black, white cardstock 
• Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn DOX inks
• gray/white patterned paper (Kaisercraft)

I hope you will join our sketch challenge, and add your creations to our gallery! This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, March 14. Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous cards my teammates have made on the FMS blog to inspire you! 

I am also playing with this week's Color Throwdown: 

gray, pink, lime green. 

Stamping Friends Trifecta Blog Hop!

What a fun day you're going to have! It's a Trifecta Blog Hop with Picket Fence Studios, My Sweet Petunia, and Gina K. Designs! Teams from all three companies are sharing some amazing projects today - PLUS each company is giving away a $50 Gift Certificate! Winners will be posted no later than June 7 on each company's blog. Be sure to hop along each stop for a chance to win! Each company blog has the entire hop list. If you are here from the lovely Anna Wight's blog, you are in the right place!

Since it's a Trifecta, I had to make three cards!
First up is this Distress Oxide blend. I used my Life Changing Brushes, and Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, and Faded Jeans for my background. If you don't have the brushes, they are a must for frustration-free and hassle-free blending! I spritzed a little water, and the background was done. For contrast, I kept the butterfly from GKD's Elegant Asters (and matching dies!) black and white. The sentiment is from Picket Fence Studios' A Bright Night. While I didn't cut it out, I did get it straight using the Cut Align tool! And the centering ruler helped cut my circle right in the center of my card!

Second is a watercolored background base (Kuretake paints) to match the embossed (Ranger Queen's Gold) aster in the foreground. I cut the beautiful Hello die from glitter cardstock and adhered each to a panel stamped with VersaMark ink. Pearls always add a nice finishing touch!

And finally, is a sweet pink (my favorite color) with a fabulous sentiment from the Elegant Asters set. I colored with Copic markers, added a subtle stencil in the background, and then added pearls again for embellishment. The flowers and sentiment turned out so crisply using my MISTI! It's always a little scary when you're stamping right on the panel you're going to use, but the MISTI is a no-fail, must-have tool!!

Three different looks! For the next stop, head over to the very talented Susan Wymer! She will wow you with her stuff!