Purple Anenome

 Hi and welcome!  I am the sketch hostess this week over at Freshly Made Sketches and I added a few more layers than I usually do to my sketch.  

I got a whole lot of Honey Bee Stamps products during the Black Friday sales and I have been trying to work through them over the small amounts of time I've had to create lately.  This anenome flower was made using white cardstock and Altenew inks.  Once it was put together (minus the centre) I spattered it with gold colour shine and white acrylic paint.  I then spattered the centre elements with Black Soot ink before assembling.  

The card base was stenciled with white embossing paste (got a thing for stenciling at the moment!) and then I chose some pattered paper and copper foil to add the layers.

I finished with a copper hot foiled sentiment.  Thanks for visiting.  Head on over and see how the rest of the team interpreted my sketch and I hope you'll have a go yourself.

Products used:

Ink:  Wisteria, Hydrangea, Ultraviolet, Andromeda, Yellow Ochre, Olive, Moss (Altenew), Black Soot Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Watercolor Wash, B&W Stripes (MFT), Copper foil

Dies:  Lovely Layers: Anenome (Honey Bee Stamps), Hexi-Gem Sentiments (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Copper hot foil, Shabby Rose Stencil (Stamperia), White Embossing Paste, White Acrylic Spray, Gold Color Shine

Cheers

Karren

Do Not Adjust Your Set

Hi and welcome!  Today is my last day of my holiday break and I'm back at work on Monday.  Today is also the first chance I've had to make a card just for fun.  The Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge FB group is asking us to recreate a favourite card from 2024 using Honey Bee Stamps products.  My card I chose is this one from February 2024. To be honest, I wouldn't call it my favourite because it's got colours that really make my eye twitch (magenta and fuschia are not my favourite colours!) but I like the layout and the stripes as well as the die so I decided to recreate it using the absence of colour - which corresponded with the current challenge at Color Throwdown.  As it also predominately uses dies, I'm also linking up to Just Us Girls die challenge.

 

I cut strips of cardstock in various shades of gray and also black and adhered them onto some double-sided adhesive paper.  Onto a white card base I stenciled over the Salvaged Brick stencil with white embossing paste and set it aside to dry.  I then created the cherry blossom using the same gray cardstocks as the strips.  I added a touch of gray shading where I thought it was needed and finished with a liberal spritz of shimmer spray to feminise it a bit.

The sentiment was stamped and die-cut and added to a Soft Stone die-cut circle.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  On The Line - Succulents (Honey Bee Stamps)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Morning Frost (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Soft Stone (PTI), Cement Gray, Gravel Gray, Steel Gray (MFT)

Dies:  Cherry Blossom, On The Line - Succulents (Honey Bee Stamps)

Accessories:  Salvaged Brick Stencil (Honey Bee Stamps), Embossing Paste, Shimmer Spray

Cheers

Karren

Floral Boots

Hi and welcome to the first Freshly Made Sketch challenge of 2025, where our hostess this week is Cecile Ribon.

I wanted to play with some NBUS dies I bought in the Black Friday sales, so came up with this card (hopefully you can still see the sketch...)

I worked on the die-cuts first, cutting everything except the black elements from white cardstock and ink-blending to add colour.  For the boots, I cut around the toes to take away the pointed witch's boot and to try and make them look more "normal".  I bought this set for the florals but it's nice to get use out of the other elements as well.

Once all the die-cutting and ink-blending was finished, I arranged the elements and used Press n Seal to keep it all intact while I worked on the card base. 

Onto a 4.75" square Fog card base I stenciled Distress Grit Paste over the Coffee Break stencil, deliberately not going to the edges of the card panel.  Once that was dry, I adhered the arrangement onto the card base and then added a white-embossed sentiment.

Thanks for visiting.  Head on over to the blog to check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  To The Wise One (Honey Bee Stamps)

Ink:  Versamark, Grape Agate, Plum, Pure Graphite, Pink Pearl, Coral Bliss, Heart Beat, Vineyard Berry, Butternut, Pumpkin Pie, Yellow Ochre, Limestone, Jade, Eucalyptus (Altenew), Ground Espresso, Scorched Timber Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black, Fog (SSS)

Dies:  Lovely Layers: Mini Fall Florals, Lovely Layers:  Mini Holiday Florals, To The Wise One (Honey Bee Stamps)

Accessories:  White EP, Coffee Break stencil (Stamperia), Distress Grit Paste (Tim Holtz)

Cheers

Karren

 

Big Birthday Wishes

 Hi and welcome!  Today (24 December) is my husband's birthday so this morning I thought I'd better get cracking and make him a card!  I bought the MFT food truck kit specifically for him, so I didn't have to think too hard to decide what to use.

I put together the burger, hot dog and taco then had to think about how I wanted to lay them out on the card.  I decided a grid card was a good option so die-cut the gift card cover-up and ink-blended Salvaged Patina ink on the bottom of three of the panels, fading out to white.  On the fourth panel, I stamped the sentiment from Mini Messages and More.  I then adhered the sentiment panel and the food with foam tape.

Thanks for visiting.  A lot of challenges are having a break at the moment, but Krafty Chicks have a CAS challenge and The Male Room is Anything Goes so I'm going to add this card to their galleries.

Products used:

Stamps:  Mini Messages & More (MFT)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Sand Dunes, Rocky Shore, Espresso, Honey Drizzle, Heart Beat, Lettuce Celebrate (Altenew), Salvaged Patina Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Gift Box Cover-Up, Hamburgers & Hot Dogs, Taco Tuesday (MFT)

Cheers

Karren

Row of Buildings

Hi and welcome!  Jen Brum is our sketch hostess this week over at Freshly Made Sketches and she gave us a row of circles to play with.  I turned the circles into buildings and came up with this card:

I've been enjoying playing with layering die-cuts and ink-blending lately, so these were all cut from white cardstock and ink-blended with mostly neutral colours to try and give a cohesive look.  I used a mini-slimline card base and die-cut a smaller panel from a nesting die set.  Onto that panel I lightly ink-blended Speckled Egg distress ink, fading it into white to mimic snow.  I then spritzed shimmer spray on the panel before adding the buildings and sentiment.  I then used foam tape to add it to the card base.

Thanks for visiting!  Please check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.  This is our last challenge for 2024 so it will stay open over the holiday period, giving you plenty of time to play along.

Products used:

Stamps:  Cozy Christmas (Mama Elephant)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Speckled Egg Distress Ink, Limestone, Silver Stone, Evening Gray, Industrial Diamond, Pure Graphite, Burnt Red, Mahogany Bark, Sand Dunes, Rocky Shore, Moss (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Winter Village (Honey Bee), Mini Slimline Layers (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Shimmer Spray

Cheers

Karren

 

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Hi!  Welcome to my blog. Our sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week is Kim Singdahlsen.  I used her great sketch to create a card for my son, whose birthday is in a couple of weeks. If he was still with us he would be 27 years old this year.  This is the 6th birthday since he passed suddenly 😢.   

I used the Shiplap die by The Greetery for both the white panels in the background and for the numbers.  The number panel was a leftover piece from a previous session where I ink-blended the panel with Distress Oxide inks before die-cutting.  I then adhered the shiplap back onto a sheet of copy paper before die-cutting with the numbers.  I stacked the numbers with two black die-cuts as well for dimension.

The white shiplap was adhered to the patterned paper with foam tape and I finished with a simple sentiment - not really birthday-ish but true.

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products Used:

Stamps:  Squared Spring Florals (Honey Bee)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo Distress Oxide

Cardstock:  White, Black, Grain & Grunge Patterned Paper (Honey Bee)

Dies:  Shiplap (The Greetery), By the Numbers (PTI)

Cheers

Karren

Pastel Trees

Hi and welcome!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Linda Callahan and I used it to make a non-traditional Christmas card. 

This die set is an old one from MFT that actually cuts the tree as negative space, but I snipped the decorations away from the tree to give me the tree base and then added white die-cuts over the top of the three pastel-coloured trees.

In keeping with the sketch, I used my scoreboard to add lines above and below the stamped sentiment.  All in all, this was a pretty simply card to make.  What can't be seen in the photo is the clear shimmer pen on the white ornaments and stars.

Thanks for visiting me.  Please make sure you check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Merry Christmas Duo (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  Pink Lemonade, Coral Crush (MFT), Mist (Hero Arts), White

Dies:  Christmas Tree Window (MFT)

Accessories:  Clear Sparkle Pen