There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 400 - and there are PRIZES!

There is still time to join our 400th sketch celebration!

Play along with us for a chance to win a prize from one of our generous sponsors!

The challenge closes at 3:00 PM on EDT on Monday, September 2nd.

Click HERE for all the details.

We hope you'll join us in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches #400 - A Milestone Celebration

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Each week, one member of our design team creates a sketch for you to try.  The challenge is to follow our sketch while keeping your project clean-lined and fresh.  The "Clean Team" has come up with some "Freshly Made" designs to get you in the spirit.  We are so excited to see what YOU create!

So the big day is finally here!  We are so excited to reveal sketch #400 and some fun extras.  As you all know, the crafting community is truly generous and quite amazing.  We reached out to some of our favorite companies and asked if they would consider sponsoring our milestone sketch.  We had a resoundingly positive response and could not be happier.  Because we get to reward YOU, our players!  While we will choose our normal team favorites this week, we will also randomly select winners of the sponsored prizes. And what fabulous prizes they are!  After you take in the inspiration from our design team, the specifics are below.

Lee Ann Barrett

Jennifer Brum

Linda Callahan

Narelle Farrugia

Karren Johnson

Jen Mitchell

Amy O'Neill

Cécile Ribon

Judy Rozema

Kim Singdahlsen

Jacquie Southas

Jennifer Timko

As we said above, our winners of these prizes will be chosen randomly from our gallery this week.  Once chosen, we will contact you via the information we have in our linky and post here on our blog.  You will have 5 days to respond or we will choose another recipient.  

• CAS-ual Fridays Stamps: $25 Gift Code
• Concord & 9th:  $25 Gift Code
• Ellen Hutson:  $25 Gift Code
• Hero Arts:  $25 Gift Code
• Lawn Fawn:  $25 Gift Code
• Neat & Tangled:  $25 Gift Code
• Newton's Nook Designs:  $25 Store Credit
• Reverse Confetti:  $25 Gift Code
• Simon Says Stamp:  $25 Gift Code
• Sugar Pea Designs:  $25 Gift Certificate
• Taylored Expressions:  $25 Gift Code
• Uniko:  Clear Stamp Set (In stock, any value)

A huge thank you to these generous companies for your support!

We have a few simple rules to keep things fun and fair for all of our players:

• Please use any crafting product you would like to use.
• Feel free to combine our challenge with up to THREE other challenges, except for another sketch challenge.
• Please add a DIRECT link to your blog or other online gallery when adding your card to the link below.  If linking to a public gallery, use keyword FMS400.
• Include our challenge sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
• Have fun!

This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, September 2nd.  On Tuesday, we will announce the winner of this week's challenge who will be known as the "Queen or King of Clean".  The team will choose other gallery favorites to be known as a "Perfect Princess or Prince".

Winners For Week Three of Our 400th Sketch Celebration

The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and our challenge founder Lesley has chosen the Queen!

The Queen of Clean: Jennifer Roach

Week 3 of our sketch #400 celebration is over and the gallery was wonderful!.  Thanks to all who played along!  Our founder, Lesley Croghan, has chosen her queen this week.  The beautiful texture, pop of color and adorable coloring made this a standout.  Congrats, Jennifer!

Please join us next week for the next chapter in our 400th sketch celebration, you won't want to miss it!

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There's Still Time to Play Along With Week Three of Our 400th Sketch Celebration

There's still time to play along with our sketch!

Click HERE for all the details.

The challenge closes at 3:00 PM EDT on Monday, August 26th.

We hope you'll join us in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches - A 400th Sketch Celebration - Week 3

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Each week, one member of our design team creates a sketch for you to try.  The challenge is to follow our sketch while keeping your project clean-lined and fresh.  The "Clean Team" has come up with some "Freshly Made" designs to get you in the spirit.  We are so excited to see what YOU create!

It is week 3 of our anniversary celebration and you may notice a trend by now.  Yep, we are going back to sketch #300 for one more look back.  You have brought so many smiles to the team with your amazing work in the gallery.  We hope you love our samples and that you will join us again this week!  Make sure you mark you calendars for next Wednesday too.  We have lots of fun in store for you!

Lee Ann Barrett

Jennifer Brum

Linda Callahan

Narelle Farrugia

Karren Johnson

Jen Mitchell

Amy O'Neill

Cécile Ribon

Kim Singdahlsen

Jacquie Southas

Jennifer Timko

We have a few simple rules to keep things fun and fair for all of our players:

• Please use any crafting product you would like to use.
• Feel free to combine our challenge with up to THREE other challenges, except for another sketch challenge.
• Please add a DIRECT link to your blog or other online gallery when adding your card to the link below.  If linking to a public gallery, use keyword FMS400.
• Include our challenge sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
• Have fun!

This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, August 26th.  On Tuesday, we will announce the winner of this week's challenge who will be known as the "Queen or King of Clean".  The team will choose other gallery favorites to be known as a "Perfect Princess or Prince".

Winners For Week Two of Our 400th Sketch Celebration

The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and our challenge founder Lesley has chosen the Queen!

The Queen of Clean: Laurel at Laurel Seabrook Designs

Week 2 of our sketch #400 celebration has been amazing.  Thanks to all who played along!  What a gallery!   Our founder, Lesley Croghan, has chosen her queen this week.  She was inspired by the use of fun colors and a creative flip of the sketch. Congrats, Laurel!

Please join us next week for the next chapter in our 400th sketch celebration!

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There's Still Time to Play With Week Two of Our 400th Sketch Celebration

There's still time to play along with our sketch!

Click HERE for all the details!

The challenge closes at 3:00 PM EDT on Monday, August 19th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches - A 400th Sketch Celebration - Week 2

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Each week, one member of our design team creates a sketch for you to try.  The challenge is to follow our sketch while keeping your project clean-lined and fresh.  The "Clean Team" has come up with some "Freshly Made" designs to get you in the spirit.  We are so excited to see what YOU create!

Welcome to week 2 of our Anniversary Celebration! We LOVED all you shared with us last week. We think you'll notice a trend as we continue to re-visit landmark sketches. Our challenge for you this week is the original FMS #200. This was a big celebration in itself and we are thrilled to see your updated projects with this sketch. See you in the gallery!

Lee Ann Barrett

Linda Callahan

Narelle Farrugia

Karren Johnson

Jen Mitchell

Amy O'Neill

Cécile Ribon

Judy Rozema

Kim Singdahlsen

Jacquie Southas

Jennifer Timko

We have a few simple rules to keep things fun and fair for all of our players:

• Please use any crafting product you would like to use.
• Feel free to combine our challenge with up to THREE other challenges, except for another sketch challenge.
• Please add a DIRECT link to your blog or other online gallery when adding your card to the link below.  If linking to a public gallery, use keyword FMS400.
• Include our challenge sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
• Have fun!

This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, August 19th.  On Tuesday, we will announce the winner of this week's challenge who will be known as the "Queen or King of Clean".  The team will choose other gallery favorites to be known as a "Perfect Princess or Prince".

Winners For Week One of Our 400th Sketch Celebration

The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and our challenge founder Lesley has chosen the Queen!

The Queen of Clean: Allisa at Rocky Mountain Paper Crafts.

We are so grateful for all the kind words this week!  It only seems fitting that our founder, Lesley Croghan, should choose the queen this week.  The pink and gray are so pretty and soft and those flowers are beautiful.  Lovely sentiment too! Congrats, Allisa!

Please join us next week for the next chapter in our 400th sketch celebration!

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There's Still Time to Play With Our 400th Sketch Celebration

There's still time to play along with our sketch!

Click HERE for all the details.

The challenge closes at 3:00 PM EDT on Monday, August 12th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Freshly Made Sketches - A 400th Sketch Celebration - Week 1

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Each week, one member of our design team creates a sketch for you to try.  The challenge is to follow our sketch while keeping your project clean-lined and fresh.  The "Clean Team" has come up with some "Freshly Made" designs to get you in the spirit.  We are so excited to see what YOU create!

We are kicking off a big month of celebration by going back to where we began.  Eight years ago, Lesley Croghan came up with the idea of using sketches that were clean (but not always simple) as a design tool. Not only was she on to something that would become a staple for crafters, she also put together a team that would grow and impact many designers. Two of the original team members, Jen Mitchell and Linda Callahan, are still on the team! So this week we are using FMS #1, which was also FMS #100! We have lots of celebrating to do all month too. We hope you will join us this week and, as always, we can't wait to see what you create!

Lee Ann Barrett

Jennifer Brum

Linda Callahan

Narelle Farrugia

Karren Johnson

Jen Mitchell

Amy O'Neill

Cécile Ribon

Judy Rozema

Kim Singdahlsen

Jacquie Southas

Jennifer Timko

We have a few simple rules to keep things fun and fair for all of our players:

• Please use any crafting product you would like to use.
• Feel free to combine our challenge with up to THREE other challenges, except for another sketch challenge.
• Please add a DIRECT link to your blog or other online gallery when adding your card to the link below.  If linking to a public gallery, use keyword FMS400.
• Include our challenge sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
• Have fun!

This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, August 12th.  On Tuesday, we will announce the winner of this week's challenge who will be known as the "Queen or King of Clean".  The team will choose other gallery favorites to be known as a "Perfect Princess or Prince".