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".