Freshly Made Sketches #1

Hello and welcome to Freshly Made Sketches! Today is our very first challenge and we are so excited to begin this fun journey together! The main idea behind this challenge blog is to use the sketch provided and to create a "clean" card. You might wonder what we mean by clean? We are looking for clean-lined creations but unlike Clean and Simple challenges, we encourage lots of detail and embellishments as long as they maintain a "clean" look to your card.

 

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!  We would also like to welcome Featured Designer Jaydee.  Jaydee is the Queen of Clean and she has an awesome style that you will love!!!  She is our first Featured Designer and we are excited to have her on board! Welcome Jaydee!  To visit Jaydee's blog, be sure to click her name under her card sample!

Jaydee-Featured Designer	Jen Mitchell	Lesley Croghan
Linda Callahan	Rita Wright	Tui Nathan

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

1. Please use any stampin' product you would like to use, but please avoid putting sales pitches into your post.
2. Feel free to combine our sketch with up to 3 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, September 12th at Midnight (PST). On Tuesday, September 13th, 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".





Let's get clean!!!

The Clean Team

Meet Design Team Member Lesley Croghan (that's me!)

Always Playing with Paper

My name is Lesley and I am a primary teacher in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. I am happily married and we have one sweet furbaby named "Rolley the Rocket Dog". Crafting has become quite an obsession for me.  A few years ago, my friend took me to her Stampin' Up monthly party! I joined her group that night and made many friends. Almost 3 years ago I decided to become a Stampin' Up Demonstrator myself. I just love being a demonstrator!

I have been blogging for about 3 years now, posting my cards and about a year ago, I created the challenge blog called "The Paper Players".  I love blogging and creating and now I am excited to share this new venture called "Freshly Made Sketches".  We sure hope you will join us for the weekly sketch challenge.

Smiles,

Lesley

Lesley's Samples:

Meet Design Team Member Tui Nathan

Tui Nathan
Stampin Time

Hi there, and greeetings from the Gold Coast, Australia.

I started into this wonderful world of papercrafting in 2008, just dabbling here and there, and I say "dabbling" because for the life of me I just couldn't get anything to match - I had no idea how colour tonings could range soo vastly from inks to papers to ribbons to embellishments, you name it, and oh .... the number of unfinished (or more appropriately unstarted ...) projects! That was until I was introduced to Stampin Up in 2009 ... and well, the rest is history! I love to take part in challenges and am constantly inspired by all the talented artists that I come across.
I am partner to Tony who is a mad scientist "hopeful" inventor, Mum to Ayden who is 19 and studying engineering at Griffith University and me ... I work full time as an Office Manager for a scientific research company.

I am looking forward to being a part of "Freshly Made Sketches" and am honoured to be mixing company with a fabulously talented team!