Freshly Made Sketches 5

Wednesday is, of course, challenge day at Freshly Made Sketches and today I'm pleased to introduce you to two new members of our design team, Cindy Hall and Jennifer Timko.  I'm so happy to welcome them to our Freshly Made Sketches team.  I know that you are going to love their cards just as much as I do.  And this week we've also got a new guest designer Anne Marie Hile helping us out.

Now, on to the sketch this week.  It's got some great lines and a circle, which I always find hard to resist.

My card base is River Rock and is layered with Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Not Quite Navy and some of the patterns from the Well Worn designer paper pack.  I love stitching my cards, so I dragged out my mini sewing machine and quickly sewed around the edges.  The leaves from French Foliage are stamped in Early Espresso and the smaller one is rock-and-rolled with Cajun Craze and Early Espresso.  I decided at the last minute to add the small leaf in the center which I colored in Always Artichoke.  A Cajun Craze button finishes it off.  The sentiment is from the hostess set Posy Punch.  I inked it up in Versarmark and heat embossed it so that it would show up nicely.

I was greatly inspired by this stunner by Erna Logtenberg when I made this.  It's a fabulous card and I put it straight away into my faves.  Thanks for the inspiration Erna!

Our Freshly Made Sketches design team has made some fantastic cards for you this week.  I hope you'll stop by their blogs for a little lot of inspiration.  Then pop back on over to Freshly Made Sketches and use the linky tool to show us what you've created.  I can't wait to see what you do with this sketch!

Lesley Croghan
Linda Callahan
Cindy Hall
Tui Nathan
Jennifer Timko
Rita Wright
Anne Marie Hile (Guest Designer)