Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #318


Hello!
Happy Wednesday and Merry Christmas!  This is our last challenge of 2017!  Can you believe it?  Another year has come and gone!  I hope you're all ready for Christmas and get to spend some nice relaxing time with your loved ones!

We have a great "last" sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the hilarious and creative Linda Callahan!  So, I need you all to help me convince Linda to write a book!  She is full of amazing and funny stories and I'd love to sit down and read them all in the pages of a book one day!!!  Linda also makes beautiful cards so you need to head over to her blog and check them out!


I needed some cards for the boys teachers and know this sketch would work perfectly but it would need to be turned on it's side.  I hope this doesn't make me too rebellious!  I love the Carols of Christmas stamp set from SU and knew it was just what I needed for this card!  I threw on a few of the felt embellishments and voila!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Red Foil
DSP: Quilted Christmas
Stamps: Carols of Christmas
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Felt Embellishments, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the gorgeous cards the Design Team has created for your inspiration.
Remember you have three weeks to play along with this challenge!!!

Have a fabulous day and a Merry Christmas!

Jen

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #317


Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're enjoying your week and your Christmas preparations are going well!  We had a slight Christmas decoration faux pas yesterday when my cat (Pepsi) decided that walking across our fire place mantle and stopping to play with the pine cones and garland would be a good idea.  Not so much.  Garland, poinsettias (fakes one of course), lights and pine cones all ended up on the floor.  Pepsi just sat up on the mantle looking at what she'd done like she was sweet and innocent!  The boys of course just laughed!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the incredibly talented Jen Mitchell!  Jen creates amazing cards that always blow my mind.  I think she's the queen of clean cards! I love what she can do with paper!


The sketch is very versatile this week!  I do love the Merry Little Christmas DSP from SU and had to use it again for this card!  The stitched felt embellishments were too cute, how could I not throw one on!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Red Glimmer
DSP: Merry Little Christmas
Stamps: Carols of Christmas
Ink: Stazon
Other: Stitched Felt Embellishments, Double Stitched Squares (Lil Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to see what the Design Team has cooked up for your viewing pleasure!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen


Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #316


Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  How is your Christmas shopping coming along?  I am almost finished...I think!  I am waiting on a few things that are supposed to be delivered soon but I think I'm in better shape than I was last year. I've started wrapping gifts - it's not my favourite job so I figured if I started early and got them done I wouldn't have to dread it anymore!!!  My trusty cat helper hasn't been so helpful and tends to just lay all over the paper!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is our favourite pilot Jen Timko!  Jen makes the most gorgeous cards!  She can colour with the best of them and comes up with the most creative concepts for cards!  Head over to her blog and check them out!

So I think this is the last Christmas card that I have to make.  I love the Merry Little Christmas DSP and thought it would look great with some black and silver paper!  Very non traditional colours but I still kinda like it!  I added some rhinestones to the centres of some of the snowflakes since I thought they needed a little boost of sparkle!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer
DSP: Merry Little Christmas
Stamps: Christmas Pines
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Dimesionals, Basic Rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the amazing cards the Design Team has created to inspire you!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen