Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Freshly Made Sketches: Fabulous Friend

It's time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches! Today we have a sketch by Jen Brum and here’s what I did with it!

 Fabulous Friend


I made this sketch harder than it should be.  I toyed with the center being a big image, then I tried an embossed panel. Then I toyed with using buttons for the circles - I can't remember the last time that I used a button and I thought it would be fun. Finally as I was looking through my stash, I saw this Garden Trellis die. It's a full cover plate, but I turned it sideways and trimmed it to fit the sketch.  It's not quite right, because it didn't leave me room for the full border around it that the sketch shows - but I liked where the card was headed so I stuck with it.

I knew I needed flowers and I even made that hard. I had some colored and cut but they were a little small. I often stick within the same company as much as possible within a card - for no reason other than it narrows down the array of choices that are cluttering my craft room - when I decided to go with flower dies, I checked my Altenew stash and there they were! This card should have come together quickly given all of these products were in one place.  I even found an Altenew sentiment that fit!

Fabulous Friend

In retrospect, I don't know why I didn't look for an Easter sentiment.  I do a lot of Easter cards and this one definitely has an Easter look.  Hmmm....I may have to see how much damage I do peeling up that sentiment and trying again.

I hope to see you playing along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches.

SUPPLY LIST

Stamps: Altenew Sentiment Strips 2

Dies: Altenew Floral Doodles, Garden Trellis and Featured Sentiments

Paper: Honey Bee Stamps Playful Pastels (the green gradient)

10 comments:

  1. Beautiful card and great colors. Love your take on the sketch. TFS

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  2. Your card is just gorgeous Kim! I love those flowers and that lattice diecut! So pretty and looks fresh for spring!

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  3. The trellis is perfect with your diecut flowers! Pretty card!

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  4. Love your take on this with this charming spring card!

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  5. I'd say your design came close enough to the sketch.:) Love your elements and they all work together.

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  6. You make me want to put those flowers on my Altenew wishlist, Kim! Really love the look! I've actually changed a sentiment by cutting the same size strip stamped with the new one & layered on top of the old one. You're right--makes a perfect Easter card!

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  7. You made me chuckle on this. I made the sketch much too hard as well. Your version is absolutely wonderful. Hope the sentiment surgery is uneventful.

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  8. Wow, this is just lovely, Kim! Such a crisp and clean card with so much interest but also a light and lovely feel.

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  9. What a lovely spring card, Kim! These white outlined pastel flowers are delightful.

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