Freshly Made Sketches 135

Today at Freshly Made Sketches our hostess is Narelle who inspires me every day.  She's fearless when she chooses colors for her cards and, of course, is well known for her fabulous layers.  She's created a lovely sketch for us this week...

...which I screwed up.  The ribbon was supposed to go in front of my tag and my "any shape" is supposed to be the Eiffel Tower but it sort of looks lost amid the other images.  My FMS teamies said they liked my interpretation of the sketch and encouraged me to go with it.  As it happens I didn't have time to re-do it as I would have liked so here it is!

Incidentally the challenge this week at Cupcake Inspirations is "Parisian" and when I saw it I thought that was a cool challenge but not having anything to do with Paris in my stamping stash thought I would have to pass it by.  Then a bit later it was like a light bulb went off in my head because I remembered this French Market stamp set that I had picked up ages ago on the clearance rack at Michael's.  It's a Tim Holtz set so I tried to layer a bunch of images together a-la-Tim, but since we at Freshly Made Sketches like our cards clean, I had to reel myself in!

As always our rockin' Freshly Made Sketches design team have created some colorful cards for you to see this week.  Be sure to check them out!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps:  French Market (Tim Holtz); So Many Thanks (SU)

Paper:  Pure Ivory (Gina K); Natural White (Neenah); Basic Black

Ink:  Pitch Black (Adirondack); Distress Embossing Ink (Tim Holtz)

Accessories:  Bricked embossing folder (Tim Holtz); Traditional Tag STAX, Pierced Traditional Tag STAX, Sentiment Strips die (My Favorite Things); Jumbo Brass brad (SU); black embossing powder, black seam binding ribbon, baker's twine