All About FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Freshly Made Sketches #601 - A Sketch by Linda

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!




Hello Everyone!  Linda here and I'm ready to take that first step with you into the 600's! Thanks to so many of you who celebrated with us last week with our 600th sketch - it was an amazing gallery of cards!  Hope you all keep that creativity flowing and join us this week for sketch #601!  Can't wait to see what you create!  













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 #FMS601.
  • 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 4th.  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."

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Winners for our 600th Sketch Celebration

The Clean Team has chosen their faves for our 600th sketch celebration!  Thank you to all of the players this week and for our 12 years of fun.  Truly you make this challenge a joy to be a part of every week.

To our winners, you will be emailed at the address you added when you entered your card where we can coordinate a week to be a Guest Designer.  Look for that no later than Friday, September 1st.  If you do not hear anything by then, please reach out to Jen Timko.


Join us for our next challenge, designed by Linda!

Saturday, August 26, 2023

There's Still Time to Play Along With Our 600th Sketch Celebration!

 


We are thrilled to present you with our 600th sketch!

We thank all of you that have played along with us these 12 years and welcome newcomers!

There's still time to join us in the gallery!  Click HERE for all the details.

We'll see you for another 600! 😉

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Freshly Made Sketches #600 - A 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!



Here we are at twelve years of sketches and 600 inspiration sketches!  And you know what?  Our years of fun and success are all because of you, the players.  Every week we are amazed at your creativity and generosity of sharing your talents.

We thought that the best way to celebrate is to pay tribute to some of our challenge winners.  Many of them have been playing along since the beginning and it has been a treat to grow in our friendships with them.  We are always thrilled to see what they create so we invited them to be guest design team members for our celebration!  You will see why they have been chosen over and over as the weekly winners.

We also have a new opportunity for you as players.  Each of the challenge design team members will choose their favorite of the week (normally a Perfect Prince or Princess).  Those winners will be offered a chance to be a guest design team member in a future challenge.  Again, this is truly a celebration of you all.  Thank you for the years of support and kind words!
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Guest Design Team


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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 #FMS600.
  • 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 28th.  On Tuesday, we will announce the winner of this week's challenge.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Winners For Sketch 599

 

The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and our hostess Jen has chosen the Queen!

The Queen of Clean is Maria from White Mood 




Thanks to everyone who played along with our sketch this week.  The gallery was full of beautiful creations!  I chose Maria’s card because I just love the subtle shades of pastel purple accented with the vellum and white.  And the stitching on the polka dotted layer adds great texture.  Congratulations Maria, you are our Queen of Clean!

Join us tomorrow for our 600th sketch celebration!
 

Saturday, August 19, 2023

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 599

 


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 21st.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Freshly Made Sketches #599 - A Sketch by Jen M

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 everyone!  It's Jen Mitchell here as your hostess this week.  I'm usually a clean-and-simple gal but I had an idea for a sketch with a few layers so I thought I'd give it a go!  I hope you enjoy it!













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 #FMS599.
  • 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 21st.  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."

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Winners For Sketch 598

 

The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and our hostess Jen has chosen the Queen!

The Queen of Clean is Jennifer from Just Jingle




I'm so inspired by all the cards you made with my sketch.  So many pretty ideas!  I love the clean lines and metallic details of this card and this sentiment is wonderful.  Congrats, Jennifer you are this week's Queen of Clean. 

Join us tomorrow for a new sketch from Jen Mitchell!
 

Saturday, August 12, 2023

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 598

 


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 14th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Freshly Made Sketches #598 - A Sketch by Jen T

 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!




Hello everyone!  Jen T here with this week's sketch.  I thought I'd create one that leaves options for images, die cuts or stencils and I think this does the job.  I hope you have fun with it.  I can't wait to see what you create!









 




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 #FMS598.
  • 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 14th.  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."

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Winners For Sketch 597

 

The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and our hostess Jacquie has chosen the Queen!

The Queen of Clean is Annette from De Kijkkast



Thank you so much for playing along with the challenge this week. I enjoyed visiting all your cards and am seriously impressed by the variety of designs and techniques used! It was Annette's colors and layering that really caught my eye and had me going back for second and third looks. I love everything from her subtle stenciling to the beautiful stems and pops of shine from the sequins. Fabulous details that created a  clean and fresh design! Congrats, Annette you are this week's Queen of Clean. 

Join us tomorrow for a new sketch from Jen Timko!