Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #728

Hello and happy Wednesday!
I hope you're having a great start to your week!  We are actually embarking on a bit of an adventure this week so I'm looking forward to sharing that with you!  I'm trying to be a bit more adventurous.  Now, some might say, you hike all the time, how is that not adventurous?  Well, I'm glad you asked!  I don't mind hiking where I can return home each night and sleep in my own bed.  But doing things that aren't hiking or involve me not sleeping in my own bed are a struggle!  I get comfortable and hate doing things that are new or different.  This year I'm trying to branch out and do a bit more!  We shall see how this goes.  This is adventure #1.  We have a few more planned that I'm super excited about.

We've got a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess is the lovely Narelle Farrugia!  You'll definitely want to head over to her blog and check out her amazing cards!  Maybe one day you'll see pics of Narelle and I tackling a hiking (or walking) trail together!  Hopefully in Australia because I've never been there and that would definitely be out of my comfort zone!  

Well, as soon as I saw those circles and because Narelle was the designer, I immediately thought flowers!  How could I not?  I grabbed my Spellbinders Floral Spray dies and got to work.  I was originally going to colour the flowers but decided to go for a black and white theme and throw in some rose gold foil for colour.  The card is definitely prettier in person.  It's hard to get a good photo.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black (SU), Hammermill White Coverstock

Dies: Floral Spray (Spellbinders)

Other: Classic Sentiments Press Plate and Dies Set (Alex Syberia Designs), Glimmer Hot Foil Machine, Distressed Tile Embossing Folder (SU)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I do hope you'll join in our challenge this week.  Please make sure you head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out all of the details and see some fabulous cards to get you inspired! 

You have until Monday at 3 PM EST to get your card entered into this week's challenge!

Have an amazing day!
Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #727

 

Hello and happy Wednesday!

I hope you're having a great start to your week so far!  We got out for an amazing hike on the weekend.  The wind was insane and the weather network indicated gusts of up to and over 80 km/hr.  That's a lot if you're on a mountain!  We opted for a safer ridge hike that has you in the forest for quite a while.  It also gave me a chance to try some steeper terrain and see how the hand did.  Up is fine, down is more challenging.  Anyhow, we were completely blocked from the wind pretty much the whole hike and it was fantastic so we were so thankful we got out and did it.  We're supposed to get a bunch of snow this weekend so we might not be hiking at all!  We shall see.  

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the lovely Michele Ferguson.  Make sure you head over to her blog and check our her beautiful cards! 

Michele's sketch threw me for a bit and then I decided I would use some of my new Waffle Flower stamps and dies for it.  I love anything forest like and this Postage Stamp set made my heart flutter!  I love deer and am so thankful that we have deer that walk down our road often so I get to see them on a fairly regular basis!  

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black (SU), Hammermill White Coverstock

Stamps: Postage Collage Forest Sunset (Waffle Flower), Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink: Detail Black (Pink Fresh Studio)

Dies: Postage Collage Dies (Waffle Flower), Build-A-Wreath (Spellbinders), Double Stitched Frames

Other: Embossing Folder (SU)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you'll join in our challenge this week! You can head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to get all of the details and see some fabulous examples! 

You have until Monday at 3 PM EST to get your card entered into this week's challenge!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #726

 

Hello! Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great start to your week!  Can you believe it's March?  I know some people feel like January and February dragged on but I feel like I blinked and those two months were gone.  Monday was 11 weeks since my surgery and thankfully after physio last week, I am feeling so much better.  I am excited to see the progress over the next few weeks!

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  Our lovely hostess is the one and only, Karren Johnson!  Karren makes the most amazing cards so please head over to her blog to check them out!  

Karren has such a great sketch for us this week!  I have been loving using Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers dies so I got my Lovely Layers Peonies out for this one.  I already had some pre foiled sentiments sitting on my desk so I opted to use one and save some work!  

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Rose Gold Foil (SU), Hammermill White Coverstock

Ink: Distress Oxides (Tim Holtz)

Dies: Lovely Layers Peony (Honey Bee Stamps)

Other: Classic Sentiments (Alex Syberia Designs), Lovely Stripes Embossing Folder (SU), Rose Gold Foil (Spellbinders)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you will join in our challenge this week!  Head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to get your inspiration!  You have until Monday at 3 PM EST to get your card entered into this week's challenge!  

Have an amazing day!

Jen