Freshly Made Sketches 332

I couldn't help myself. My affair with Petal Palette continues. This time, in the sketch for Freshly Made Sketches.

The outline of the flowers is gold embossed to tie in with the gorgeous foiled acetate. Then I coloured it with watered down ink and an aqua painter. The Fresh Fig base ties to the centre rose and adds another touch of opulence to the design.

Make sure you get some of this lovely foiled acetate while you still can. You'll find it in the retiring list.

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Product List

Petal Palette Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145788]

$74.00

Petals & More Thinlits Dies

[145655]

$71.00

Fresh Fig A4 Cardstock

[144248]

$17.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$19.25

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

$17.00

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

$8.50

Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate

[141653]

$25.50

Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

[121717]

$17.00

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin' Pad

[144082]

$14.00

Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

[144083]

$14.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

$14.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$18.25

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

$10.75

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Freshly Made Sketches 294

I've been very busy of late, trying to get ahead on design team commitments before going on holiday so it was with pleasure that I realised that I had some time to just play with some of my new stuff. I took inspiration from the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches as I wanted some time to experiment with Floral Statements, a set new and fresh from the 2017-8 Annual Catalogue.

I thought of several ways to colour this lovely image but, in the end, opted for watercolour pencils as they go on so smoothly and blend so well.

Also new from the box is this fabulous new embossing folder, Garden Trellis. Even though I've only had it a couple of weeks, it's cost per use rate is already right down!

So delighted to be The Queen of Clean at Freshly Made Sketches!

Ingredients

Card: Rich Razzleberry, Shimmery White cardstock, Foil acetate, Old Olive.

Stamps: Floral Statements

Inks: Jet Black Stazon, SU Watercolour pencils, blender pen

Other: Garden Trellis embossing folder, metallic shapes, clear Wink of Stella (flower centres)

Freshly Made Sketches 284

I got out Birthday Blooms last week because going through the retiring list reminded me that I'd not used it in a while. Thankfully, it's not retiring but it was still on my desk after I'd made a card for another challenge and I decided that I wasn't done with it yet.

I've taken inspiration from this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

Last time, I coloured that glorious bloom with watercolour on watercolour paper. Today, I've used colour pencils and blender pen on shimmery white. I've gone for a very opulent look which seemed right for an anniversary.

I made two gold embossed outline images of the blooms, coloured them with watercolour pencils then fussy cut them. The flower centres have had a coat of clear Wink of Stella. One bloom I cut down smaller. The sentiment is also gold embossed. The layout gave me plenty of places to tape the foiled acetate without any tape showing.

Update: Delighted to be named a Perfect Princess at Freshly Made Sketches.

Ingredients

Card: Basic Black, Shimmery white cardstock, foiled acetate 

Stamps: Birthday Blooms, Falling for You

Colour: versamark and gold embossing powder, watercolour pencils, blender pen

Other: dimensionals

Paper Players 318, LIM Acetate

I've had the most fabulous long weekend away with a friend while our respective husbands were off doing their own thing. The only negative to the scenario was the lack of card-making opportunities!

This morning, while checking out my feeds, I discovered two lovely and compatible challenges. The sketch at The Paper Players, one of my favourite challenges, was gorgeous - as usual.

Meanwhile, it was recipe week at Less is More and the recipe was to use acetate or vellum.

I recently purchased some magnificent foil acetate. Like many of my paper purchases, it seemed destined to end up suffering from "I-can't-use-you-you're-too-beautiful syndrome." Fortunately, I managed to overcome that for today's card...

I'm also still very much in the in-love phase with my new Altenew Peony Bouquet set. I'm still playing with it a lot, trying out new colours and uses. This is normally not a colourway I'd use but the apricots and oranges do seem to work well with black and gold.

Update: Delighted to be a Cut Above at The Paper Players this week.

Ingredients

Card: Basic Black, Whisper White, Foil acetate

Stamps: Altenew Peony Bouquet, SU Zoo Babies (retired for the sentiment)

Inks: Tuxedo Black, versamark, Peekaboo Peach, Calypso Coral, Tangelo Twist, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive

Other: gold embossing powder, Peony Bouquet dies

FMS 253

Although it is technically spring, and it was indeed springlike for most of the week, a miserable freak Antarctic blast has much of the country in its grip today. The heat's back on and the view from the window is bleak but at least I can be in my craft room guilt-free!

Since I got a bunch of Christmas goodies during the week, I've been on a Christmas card spree. The lovely sketch at Freshly Made Sketches lent itself nicely to a Christmas card and let me try out my newly acquired foil acetate too.

The acetate is beautiful and I can see I'll have to work at not putting it into the 'so-beautiful-no-occasion-is-good-enough-to-use-it' mental box that some things seem to end up in. 

Attaching it was an interesting experience. It was easy to tape it under the other items but the top was just a bit too floppy. Well, it turns out that with care and patience, glue dots can be cut into quarters and successfully applied underneath polka dots. I see that in some parts of the world, foil acetate is included in this week's specials - but sadly not in New Zealand or else I'd be buying up another packet!

Ingredients

Card: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Foil acetate, DSP from Peace This Christmas, Gold metallic paper.

Stamps: Holly Jolly Greetings, Peace this Christmas (on the inside)

Inks: Versamark(outside) Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Soft Suede (inside)

Other: Christmas Greetings thinlits, Star framelits, Gold embossing powder, dimensionals