Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Freshly Made Sketches #756 - A Sketch by Kim

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!



Happy New FMS Sketch Day!  It's Kim and I'm bringing you a sketch to play with this week. With my card-making style, I tend to only use patterned paper as accents so I rarely use bold prints. I put this sketch together to allow me to use a bit of bold print in that vertical stripe. You can see by browsing the design team cards that our team found a lot of different ways of using that vertical stripe - there's even ribbon and a spider and snowflakes!!  Have fun this week. I look forward to seeing your creations.













Just a head's up that Android phone users have experienced problems opening Instagram links directly to our design team member's individual Instagram page. This is an Android problem and not something we can fix, but to make things a little easier for you to find those DT members on Instagram we've provided you with their Instagram handle.

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 #FMS756
  • 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, October 5th.  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, September 29, 2026

Winners for Sketch 755

 
The Clean Team has chosen their Princesses for you this week and Donna has chosen the Queen: 
 
 
 
There were so many creative entries and I was pleasantly surprised to see 
that not everyone saw a tree in the sketch. I was drawn to Wanda's card 
and her addition of the mistletoe on her tree and that touch of ricrac.  

 
Congratulations Wanda, you are our Queen of Clean! 
 
Join us tomorrow for a new sketch from Kim!


Saturday, September 26, 2026

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 755

 


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, September 28th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Freshly Made Sketches #755 - A Sketch by Donna

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, friends! Donna here as your sketch designer for Sketch #755. You may or may not see a tree (I'm sure you do!) but keep in mind that the triangle can be ANY shape that you 
want it to be. Take a look at the design team's brilliant ideas and come and join us!
We'd love to see what you see! 
 












Just a head's up that Android phone users have experienced problems opening Instagram links directly to our design team member's individual Instagram page. This is an Android problem and not something we can fix, but to make things a little easier for you to find those DT members on Instagram we've provided you with their Instagram handle.

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 #FMS755
  • 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 28th.  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, September 22, 2026

Winners for Sketch 754

The Clean Team has chosen their Princesses for you this week and Judy has chosen the Queen: 

Bobby of bits & pieces 



What a pleasure to see all of the creative ideas this week! Such lovely and thoughtful ideas! But the light and dark here caught my eye and kept it! I love the contrast of the two halves of Bobby’s card - with the beautiful night sky and the white space. It really draws your eye to her nativity scene. Congratulations Bobby, you are our Queen of Clean! 

Join us tomorrow for a new sketch from Donna!

Saturday, September 19, 2026

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 754

 


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

Click HERE for all the details.

The challenge closes at 3PM EDT on Monday, September 21st.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Freshly Made Sketches #754 - A Sketch by Judy

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 friends! Lots of room to play (and not play!) this week! I hope you have fun creating with this simple sketch! I ended up flipping mine (sentiment on the other side), so work how things are best for your “bottom half” design! 















Just a head's up that Android phone users have experienced problems opening Instagram links directly to our design team member's individual Instagram page. This is an Android problem and not something we can fix, but to make things a little easier for you to find those DT members on Instagram we've provided you with their Instagram handle.

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 #FMS754
  • 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 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, September 15, 2026

Winners for Sketch 753

The Clean Team has chosen their Princesses for you this week and Narelle has chosen the Queen: 




What a lovely gallery you all gave us this week!  There were some fabulous interpretations of my sketch.  Caroline turned the sketch and used those panels for a big, bold birthday sentiment and that bunny?  Too cute! Congratulations Caroline, you are our Queen of Clean! 



Join us tomorrow for a new sketch from Judy!

Saturday, September 12, 2026

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 753

 


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, September 14th.

We hope we'll see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Freshly Made Sketches #753 - A Sketch by Karren

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!



Hi, it's Karren here and I designed this week's sketch.  Those background panels are perfect to use up some patterned paper or you could go rogue like I did and do something completely different!  It's up to you.  Mostly, though I hope you can find some time to play along.











Just a head's up that Android phone users have experienced problems opening Instagram links directly to our design team member's individual Instagram page. This is an Android problem and not something we can fix, but to make things a little easier for you to find those DT members on Instagram we've provided you with their Instagram handle.

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 #FMS753
  • 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, .  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, September 8, 2026

Winners for Sketch 752

The Clean Team has chosen their Princesses for you this week and Narelle has chosen the Queen: 




Thank you to everyone who played along with our challenge. So many gorgeous creations to feast my eyes upon in the gallery but I couldn't go past Yvon's floral beauty with all of those glorious blooms, sprigs, stems and leaves - basically details galore! A card after my own heart! Congratulations Yvon, you are our Queen of Clean! 



Join us tomorrow for a new sketch from Karren!

Saturday, September 5, 2026

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 752

 


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, September 7th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Freshly Made Sketches #752 - A Sketch by Narelle

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!




Hey Everyone! Narelle here with this weeks sketch. I threw a few shapes together for this sketch and hope you can do something with it! The girls in the DT have certainly done an amazing job at making it look like it could be a proper sketch and not a thrown together last minute mess! Can't wait to see what you create with it......












Just a head's up that Android phone users have experienced problems opening Instagram links directly to our design team member's individual Instagram page. This is an Android problem and not something we can fix, but to make things a little easier for you to find those DT members on Instagram we've provided you with their Instagram handle.

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 #FMS
  • 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, .  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."