Freshly Made Sketches #29 - A Sketch by Jennifer Timko

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Jennifer here with your sketch for the week.  I continue to marvel at all the talent that joins our challenge each week and really enjoy seeing your interpretations of our sketches.  I thought the rectangular panels would be something interesting try and give a fun place to show off some of your designer papers.  Just remember, our twist is that you keep your project clean-lined and fresh!  We welcome Kathy Tanner and Lisa Johansen to our team for April and are so excited to have them with us!

The "Clean Team" has come up with some "Freshly Made" designs to get you in the spirit! We are so excited to visit your blog and to see what YOU create with our sketch!

Linda Callahan

Lesley Croghan

Cindy Hall



Jen Mitchell

Tui Nathan

Jennifer Timko

Rita Wright

Kathy Tanner (GD)

Lisa Johansen (GD)

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

1. Please use any crafting product you would like to use.
2. Feel free to combine our sketch with up to THREE other challenges.
3. Please add a DIRECT link to your blog when adding your card to the linky below.
4. Please include our sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
5. Have fun!

This challenge will end on Monday, April 9th at Noon (PST). On Tuesday April 10th, we will be announcing the winner of this week's sketch challenge who will known as the "Queen of Clean" and each Design Team Member will choose one "Princess".

Meet our Guest Designers for April

If you are looking for last week's winners, please click HERE.

We are excited to announce our Guest Designers for April here at Freshly Made Sketches.  Before we do, I would like to thank Allisa and Narelle for joining us in March, we enjoyed working with both of you ladies very much!!!  This month we have Kathy Tanner and Lisa Johansen joining us, and I asked them to share a bit about themselves, here is what they had to say.

Kathy Tanner of Stamping Still

Hi.  I'm Kathy and I live in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia).  I am married with 4 kids ranging from 6 to 25 (Yes we spread them out a little LOL). I work part-time as a teacher aide, I am a Stampin Up Demonstrator and I love to create cards.  

I have always enjoyed lots of crafts like knitting, cross-stitch, paper tole and scrapbooking (just to name a few) but I started card making about 5 years ago and that has completely taken over everything else.  I love it!

I am very honoured (and excited) to be a guest designer with the fabulously creative Freshly Made Sketches team this month.

Lisa Johansen of Snowy Moose Creations

Hello there! I'm Lisa J and I live just north of beautiful Wasilla Alaska with my husband, 3 kids, 3 cats and 2 dogs! I work for our local school district and my teenagers keep me busy shuttling them from activity to activity (although 2 of them have their driving permits, yikes!). I've been stamping on and off since 1994 and around 2005 I became a Stampin' Up demonstrator. If I am not at my craft desk I can be found outside with my camera in hand, exploring the beautiful state I live in. I am so excited to be a Guest Designer for April and I am looking foward to all the challenges and seeing all the great projects from everyone!


Thank you for joining us ladies! Tomorrow morning we will be back with a fresh new sketch from Jennifer Timko, sure to get your creativity soaring...

Winners for Lesley's Sketch #28

Thank you to everyone who joined us for last week's challenge!  What a great set of cards, we loved seeing them all! The Clean Team has chosen the Princesses for you this week and Lesley has chosen her Queen!   

The "Perfect Princesses" this week are:

Linda's Choice

Iantha Davis at Iantha's Ink

I love this message and I love how Iantha showcased it!  With all of the words and various fonts, this sentiment has a lot going on so Iantha wisely kept everything around it clean and simple. The various colors used in the sentiment highlight the message and complement the background beautifully!  The three colored arrows are perfect finishing details!  Congratulations Iantha on bring my choice for Perfect Princess this week.

Jennifer's Choice

Pamela of Playing with Paper!!

There were some awesome cards with Lesley's sketch this week!  What fun it is to look through them.  I was so drawn to this card by Pamela.  That butterfly is so pretty embossed and I love the little pearls and touch of green on his body.  The metal edged circles are a fantastic touch!  Congratulations, Pamela, on being my choice for Perfect Princess this week!

Tui's Choice

Chantal of Chanrays Scrap

This card of Chantals ticked all the boxes for me …. clean, elegant and totally fresh!  I love this beautiful blue/teal colour against the white, the effect is  so striking, add to that the delicate white on white butterflies and the silver frame and you have one stylish and very versatile design.  Congratulations Chantal on being my choice for Perfect Princess this week!

Narelle's Choice
Betty of Bee Bee Stamps

I loved Betty's card as soon as I saw it - not only because the colours she used are right up my alley (I adore a monochromatic card) - but because of how elegant and stylish her card is.  I LOVE this deer stamp and I'm in awe of the scene she's created with the deer hiding near the tree.  Congratulations Betty on being my choice for Perfect Princess this week!

Allisa's Choice

Jen Brum of Ladybug Designs

I feel in love with the crisp colors of Jen's card.  The greys with the pop of red really stood out.  The trio of red and the added detail to the buttons won me over.  Congrats Jen for being my choice for Perfect Princess this week!

Cindy's Choice
Linda Suarez of Lucky Dog Stamper

Linda's card made me smile!  I love the color combination, and how she incorporated the words as part of the sketch.  Linda made perfect choices with the DSPs and embellishments for a card that will make anyone who sees it smile.  Congratulations, Linda!  You're my choice for Perfect Princess this week!

Jen's Choice
Lyndal of Dreams & Other Realities

Lyndal’s card has that awwww factor that’s hard to resist.  The textured cardstock is divine and looks fantastic with the pink stripes.  And both together make for some wonderfully paper-pieced elephants.  This is such a sweet card to welcome a new baby!  Congratulations Lyndal on being my choice for Perfect Princess this week!

And Our Queen of Clean this week:

Lesley's Choice

I chose Jennifer's elegant card this week because I love the colours she used and the way she coloured the hydrangea. Wow! She also used the floral stamp to create the subtle background on the blue cardstock. Flipping the sketch, she added three little blossoms to the bottom of the card. All in all, she created an absolutely stunning card. Congratulations Jennifer on being my choice for the Queen of Clean this week!

Come back and join us tomorrow for another sketch designed by Jennifer Timko.

Thanks for stopping by,

The Clean Team