Saturday, August 29, 2015

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch #201!


There's still time to play with our sketch!

Click HERE for all the details

The challenge closes at 12:00 PDT on Monday, August 31st.

We'd love to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Freshly Made Sketches #201 - 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 twist is to keep 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 visit your blog and to see what YOU create with our sketch!

Hey everyone it's Narelle here.  Firstly, can you believe that we had 340 entries for our 200th Challenge last week? I hope you got lucky and managed to win one of many fabulous prizes from our very generous sponsors.  Thank you to everyone who played along - you are all such creative people!  The sketch I've designed today is a little bit layered but as you can see from my talented DT friends below, you can interpret this sketch in many different ways.  I can't wait to see what you create.  Have fun with it!
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, except another sketch challenge.
  3. Please add a DIRECT link to your blog when adding your card to the linky below.  If linking to a public gallery, please use keyword FMS201.
  4. Please include our sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
  5. Have fun!
This challenge will end at 12:00p (noon) PDT on Monday, August 31st. On Tuesday 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".

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Winners For Our 200th Sketch Challenge!

Wow!  We are so overwhelmed at the support we received for our 200th sketch celebration from crafters all around the world.  We want to thank each and every one of you who participated and uploaded beautiful projects to our gallery.  Truly, you are why we do this each week!

So without further ado, here are your Queens of Clean this week (in no particular order)!

Lee Ann Barrett - Winner of the Purple Onion prize

Lisa Elton - Winner of the Stampin' Up! prize


And the winners of the sponsors' prizes, chosen randomly:

Altenew - Suzanne Bier
Avery Elle - Patti McDermott
CAS-ual Fridays - Rosemary D
Clearly Besotted - Kim Hadad
Lawn Fawn - swldebbie
Lil' Inkers - Patricia Allison
My Creative Time - Vicki Burdick
Neat & Tangled - Kimberly Weiner
Newton's Nook - Julie Gearinger
Paper Sweeties - Donna R
Paper Smooches - Margarita
Reverse Confetti - MeganBeth 
Simon Says Stamp - Christy Lynn
Sugar Pea Designs - Korinne McNutt
SRM Stickers - Kerin Sylvester
STAMPlorations - Kathie Durgan
Taylored Expressions - Nora N.
Top Dog Dies - Michele
Two Paper Divas - Lisa Curcio
Uniko - Shannon Jaramillo
Winnie & Walter - Mad About Color

If you are a winner, please send an email to Jen Mitchell at jenmitchell at verizon dot net to claim your prize.  If we do not hear from you by August 31, 2015 at 6:00 PM EDT another winner will be chosen in your place.

And let's kick off #201 with a bang - please come back tomorrow for a new sketch from Narelle!



Saturday, August 22, 2015

There's Still Time to Play Along With our 200th Sketch Celebration!

Our 200th sketch celebration continues!


You still have time to join in the fun for our 200th sketch!

To help us celebrate this amazing milestone our generous sponsors have offered prizes to participants in the gallery!  So join us for your chance to win!


The challenge closes at 12:00 noon PDT on Monday, August 24th.

Click HERE to learn how you can play along, see the beautiful cards from our design team, and upload your own card to our gallery.  As a special treat many of our sponsor's design teams have joined us as well and, trust us, you do not want to miss their cards!

Hope to see you soon!

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Freshly Made Sketches #200 - A Celebration!

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Each week, one member of our design team creates a sketch for you to try, the twist is to keep 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 visit your blog and to see what YOU create with our sketch!

We are thrilled to be celebrating our 200th sketch and we wanted to thank YOU, our loyal followers.  You generously share your talents with us week in and week out.  You inspire conversations about "how did they do that" and you lighten our wallets because we just have to get that product you showed us.  To thank you, we asked some of the crafting community's best known companies to sponsor us this week.  Not to sponsor the team though...to sponsor YOU!!  We are so appreciative of all you give and share!  We are grateful to our sponsors and we can't wait to see the inspiration you will share this week.







Sponsors:

Our two overall winners (two Queens or Kings of Clean) will win one of the following (1 of each prize to be given) from our premier sponsors.  Prize choice determined by FMS DT:

Purple Onion Designs - $50 USD Stamp Prize Package
Stampin' Up! - Watercolor Wings Stamp and Framelit Bundle + 3 Classic Ink Pads of choice ($56 USD value)

Players will be randomly selected to win the following prizes from these fabulous sponsors:

Altenew - $30 Gift Certificate
Avery Elle - $25 Gift Certificate
CAS-ual Fridays Stamps - $25 Gift Certificate + 20% Discount Code for ALL players (FRESH200 through Aug. 30th)
Clearly Besotted - £20 Gift Certificate
Lawn Fawn - Stamp Set of choice
Lil' Inker Designs - $35 Gift Certificate
My Creative Time - $25 Gift Certificate
Neat & Tangled - $25 Gift Certificate
Newton's Nook - $20 Gift Certificate
Paper Sweeties - $25 Gift Certificate
Paper Smooches - $25 Gift Certificate
Reverse Confetti - $25 Gift Certificate
Simon Says Stamp - $25 Gift Certificate
Sugar Pea Designs - $20 GIft Certificate
SRM Stickers - SRM Product
Stamplorations - $15 Gift Certificate OR 3 ARTplorations Stencils
Taylored Expressions - Petite Stamp and Die Combo plus Embossing Folder of Choice
Top Dog Dies - Borders #1 die and Happy Birthday Banner die ($20 value)
Two Paper Divas - $25 Gift Certificate
Uniko - Pure Florals: Chrysanthemum Stamp Set and coordinating dies
Winnie & Walter - $25 Gift Certificate

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, except another sketch challenge.
  3. Please add a DIRECT link to your blog when adding your card to the linky below.  If linking to a public gallery, please use keyword FMS200.
  4. Please include our sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
  5. Please comment on other entries and have fun with all the inspiration!
This challenge will end at 12:00p PDT (Noon) on Monday, August 24th. On Tuesday we will be announcing the winners of our 200th sketch challenge who will known as a "Queen (King) of Clean".  All other prize winners will be selected randomly from our entries.



Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Winners For Sketch 199!

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


The Queen of Clean: Jeanet from Scrapping and Beppen

Thanks to everyone who played along with my sketch this week.  The gallery looks beautiful!  My pick for Queen is this adorable baby card by Jeanet.  The white space, color scheme and how Jeanet personalized the card really makes it special.  Congrats, Jeanet!  You are the Queen of Clean!




Please come back tomorrow for our amazing 200th sketch celebration!



Saturday, August 15, 2015

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 199!


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

Click HERE for all the details!

The challenge closes at 12:00 PDT on Monday, August 17th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Friday, August 14, 2015

Introducing Our Sponsors for FMS #200!

We are so excited to announce our sponsors for next week's Freshly Made Sketches #200 Celebration!  Just take a look at our supporters from this amazing crafting community!!



Please join us next Wednesday, August 19th for the chance to win prizes from our fabulous sponsors! You don't want to miss out on this one!

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Freshly Made Sketches #199 - 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 twist is to keep 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 visit your blog and to see what YOU create with our sketch!


Hi, it's Karren here and I want to welcome you to sketch #199.  And you know what that means?  Next week we hit 200 sketches at Freshly Made Sketches and we're going to celebrate in style!  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my open sketch - lots of room for interpretation here :)
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, except another sketch challenge.
  3. Please add a DIRECT link to your blog when adding your card to the linky below.  If linking to a public gallery, please use keyword FMS199.
  4. Please include our sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
  5. Have fun!
This challenge will end at 12:00p PDT on Monday, August 17th. On Tuesday 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".

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Winners For Sketch 198!

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


The Queen of Clean: Holly from Hollybeary Creations

First of all, I would like to thank you each of you for playing along with us this week! 121 Entries!!! 21 is my lucky number! ;) Thank you!! I had a great time looking at all of your amazing creations! You all made it very hard to choose my winner! But I totally fell in love with Holly's adorable Halloween card! The patterns, the details with the Moon and Vellum Cloud, the banner, the coloring on the adorable bat...I just love it!
Congrats Holly!! You are my Queen of Clean this Week!!



Please come back tomorrow for a new sketch from Karren!



Saturday, August 8, 2015

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch 198!

There's still time to play with our sketch!

Click HERE for all the details.

The challenge closes at 12:00 PDT on Monday, August 10th.

We hope to see you in the gallery!

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Freshly Made Sketches #198 - A Sketch by Cindy L.

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!  Each week, one member of our design team creates a sketch for you to try, the twist is to keep 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 visit your blog and to see what YOU create with our sketch!

Hi everyone! Cindy L here,with this week's Sketch!! As always,i am nervoes about if you guys like it or not! But the Clean Team rocked this Sketch,so hopefuly you'll join us after you'll see their amazing creations!! I know we just had a Sketch with a tilted panel,i sure hope you don't mind getting another one!! 

Aaaand,please do NOT forget to mark your calenders for August 19th! It will be our 200th Sketch!! You wanne make sure to stop by and join us on the fun! We have amazing sponsers,which makes it even more worth playing along! I wished I could play along as well!! hehe
Can't wait to see your creations!!
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, except another sketch challenge.
  3. Please add a DIRECT link to your blog when adding your card to the linky below.  If linking to a public gallery, please use keyword FMS198.
  4. Please include our sketch and a link back to Freshly Made Sketches on your post.
  5. Have fun!
This challenge will end at 12:00p PDT on Monday, August 10th. On Tuesday 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".

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Winners For Sketch 197!

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


The Queen of Clean: Petra, from Cards Creative

I want to thank each one of you for playing along with our challenge this week!   I loved looking through the gallery at each of your beautiful cards!  So hard to make a choice.  This week I chose Petra's beautiful card.  I loved her creative take on the sketch.  From that beautiful flower to all of those chevrons, there is such a great mix of elements!  This card just jumped right out at me!  Congratulations, Petra!  You're my pick for the Queen of Clean this week.



Please come back tomorrow for a new sketch from Cindy Lovell!



Saturday, August 1, 2015

There's Still Time to Play With Sketch #197!

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

Click HERE for all the details.

The challenge closes at 12:00 PDT on Monday, August 3rd.

We hope to see you in the gallery!