Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #225

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having great start to your week!  We are supposed to be getting a big storm here today!  Now, the question is, will we get snow or rain?  I must say I'm hoping for rain. At this point in the winter, well, the snow has missed it's chance and now it should just go somewhere else!  Right now the forecast is half rain/half snow.  I doubt it will be enough to result in a snow day though!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the one and only Jen Mitchell!  I love, love, love Jen's cards!  She is super creative and her card making style is one of my favourites!

I loved Jen's sketch this week!  It is super versatile!  I didn't really want to use a square - because really I didn't know what I would do with a square but I really wanted to use my Fancy Feathers set from Lil' Inkers!  I hadn't had a chance to ink it up yet and I do really love feathers!  This isn't the greatest picture and I apologize. I  had taken a better one that showed the gold off better but apparently it was blurry and I didn't notice!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Gold
Stamps: Fancy Feathers (Lil' Inkers)
Ink: Versamark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Fancy Feathers Die, Hello Confetti Cut (Reverse Confetti), Falling Snow Embossing Folder, Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you are able to get over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the amazing cards the Design Team has created for you!!!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #224

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  We are in a bit of a winter wonderland here!  I'm not a big fan of snow (in case you didn't know that!) but the kids are super happy!  They both had a blast at school yesterday.  They love to play in the snow and because we haven't had much this year at all they both took full advantage of it!  They both can't wait to go back to school to get some more snow play in today!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is my dear friend Jen Timko!  Jen is such a creative card maker and has become so talented in the marker department!! I'm totally jealous of her amazing colouring skills!

This week's ColourQ challenge also fits perfectly with this card!  Black, white and red are my colours!

Now, don't you all be shocked but this card was the first try with the sketch! Yup, you read that right.  I didn't change anything!  I am as flabbergasted as you are!!!  At first I wasn't sure what I would do but I do love these poppies from My Favorite Things!  I do think the poppies need a little something in their centres but I didn't want to do something that created a disaster!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Vellum
Stamps: LJD Pretty Poppies (MFT)
Ink: Stazon Black, Real Red
Other: LJD Poppies Die-namics (MFT), Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll pop over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the design team has created for you!  We can't wait to see what you come up with this week!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

CAS(E) This Sketch Bright White!

Hello!
Happy Monday!  It's Family Day here in Ontario!  I must say I do love Monday's that are holidays!  We had a church skate this afternoon with our Harvest Bible Chapel family!  It is so fun to get together with so many people!  The kids had a blast!

I had a few minutes yesterday to play in my craft room.  Since it's been cleaned I've been trying really hard to keep it clean and to make sure I put stuff away when I'm done.  My craft room has always been the one room in the house that I never cared how it looked.  Now that it's clean I don't know if I can go back to the way it was!

I saw the sketch over at CAS(E) This Sketch! and know I had to try a card.  Now, my sentiment isn't exactly in the right spot but it would have looked really funny at the bottom of my card!

I wanted to use my new Sunburst Thinlit from Stampin' Up!  I love sun bursts and when I saw this sketch I knew I wanted to try and incorporate this die!  I used the coordinating Sunburst Sayings stamp set as well!  I threw on some sequins and called it a day!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Silver
Stamps: Sunburst Sayings
Ink: Versamark
Other: Silver Embossing Powder, Double Stitched Circles (Lil' Inkers), Sunburst Thinlits, Silver Sequins, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #223

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I'm sorry I haven't has as many new cards posted lately.  It's been a busy week.  Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get back into the craft room!  

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our fabulous hostess in the one and only Amy O'Neill.  Amy designs such amazing cards and I love her colour combinations and creative designs!

So, shockingly, the first thing I tried with this card didn't work out!  I wanted to make this into a Valentine's Day card.  I tired a few different things but nothing worked out.  I found my Awesome Blossom Stamps from Lil' Inkers and knew that I would love to ink them up!  Of course then I ran into a sentiment issue but finally decided to use the Sentiments Flag Original Stamps!  Because of the way I made my flower ring, I couldn't put my sentiment across the bottom of the circle like in the sketch.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Silver
Stamps: Awesome Blossom, Sentiments Flag Original
Ink: Cucumber Crush, Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Pool party, Island Indigo, Watermelon Wonder, So Saffron, Stazon Black
Other: Double Stitched Circles (Lil' Inkers), Stitched Flag (Lil' Inkers), Circle Banners Dies (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

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

We can't wait to see what you come up with this week!

Have a great day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #222

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Today just happens to be my husband's birthday!  I won't mention which one but let's say that a really big one is coming very soon!  Thankfully he's a really easy going guy so he doesn't care what we have for dinner tonight and his request for a cake was actually just chocolate cupcakes!  I find it hard to believe that we've known each other for 29 years!  Doesn't seem even possible!!!  I'm sure I'm not a day over 20 myself!!!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our amazing hostess this week is Narelle Farrugia!  Narelle's cards are always magnificent creations.  She creates the most gorgeous layers and she is the most patient cutter outer there is!

This isn't my husband's birthday card.  Don't get excited! I didn't give him one with flowers and bling on it!!!
I do love these Circle Scribbles stamps from My Favourite Things!  They are super fun and even more fun to colour!  Of course I had to use my new Zig Clean Colour Real Brush markers again!  I just love colouring with them!

I had a hard time getting the "banners" right on this card.  I tried many, many, many combinations.  I'm not happy with this one either but alas, I had to pick something!  Sometimes I question myself!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Watercolour (Canson)
Stamps: LJD Circle Scribbles (MFT),  LJD Blissful Butterflies (MFT)
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Circle Scribbles Die-namics, Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers, Double Stitched Squares (Lil' Inkers), Stitched Banner (Lil' Inkers),  Double Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Basic Rhinestones

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the Design Team's beautiful cards!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen

CAS(E) This Sketch Airplanes!

Hello!
A quick post tonight before I head off to bed!  It's been a busy Tuesday!  Tuesday's are fondly referred to as Titanic Tuesdays around here!  Thankfully it was a relatively good day and it's almost over!  I made this card yesterday but forgot to get it posted!

I needed a card for my husband's birthday!  It's tomorrow!  I was going to do something with a coffee cup (or a tea cup in his case) but I couldn't get anything to work.  Then I saw the sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch and thought I would try and incorporate his love of airplanes into this sketch!

I remembered I had the Sky is the Limit from the SU Sale-a-Bration flyer and knew that would work perfectly with this sketch!  I used the clouds from the Reverse Confetti Sun 'n Clouds Confetti Cuts.  I stuck with a black and white theme.  I couldn't quite figure out what colour would work so I stuck with just the plain Jane black and white!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamps: Sky is the Limit
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Sun 'n Clouds Confetti Cuts, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

Jen