Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #453

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!  School has officially started for both of my kids.  I have one in school full time and one who goes a bit less than part time.  High school is mostly online and is organized and so far so good.  The elementary schools are trying their best and I'm hopeful that all will be well.  Truthfully if I think about it too much, it makes me want to throw up!  Thankfully my youngest has a great attitude about school and is super excited to be there and doesn't seem to mind wearing a mask all day!

It's Wednesday and that means that we have a fun new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the lovely Judy Rozema!  Judy's cards area always beautiful!  Did you see what she created last week out of a blob?!  Check her blog to find out!

For those of you who know me, you know that as soon as I saw that giant circle I freaked out.  Then Judy went and added a second one in as well!  Two!  Oh goodness!  I struggled friend.  Struggled.  It wasn't until I saw some stamp company advertising some new stitched pumpkins that I realized I could make my own giant pumpkin!  Totally old school!  

I used some oval dies, embossed the ovals, inked them and put them together.  The stem is totally hand cut because I didn't know what else to do!  I added some fall foliage and voila, a fall themed card!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Early Espresso, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard

DSP:  In Good Taste

Stamps: Acorny Thank You

Ink: Early Espresso

Other: Oval Dies, Tasteful Texture Embossing Folder, Colourful Seasons Dies, Sunflower Dies, Braided Linen Trim, Dimensionals 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and enter our challenge this week!  We can't wait to see what you come up with!  

Have an amazing day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #258

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!  We celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada this past weekend.  We are still enjoying some delicious turkey!  Tomorrow will be Turkey soup!  I can't wait!!!  Today however is a very special day at our house.  My husband and I are celebrating our 14th anniversary!  It's funny how that happened because I'm pretty sure I'm just 25 which means I must have gotten married awfully young!!!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is our colouring Queen, Rita Wright!  Head over to Rita's blog and see the magic she works with ink and markers!

I knew I needed to make an anniversary card with this sketch.  Our wedding colours were raspberry and gold and I wanted to tie that in.  I originally wanted to put a maple leaf on but the leaf I had was far too big.  I opted for an oak leaf because we refer to my husband as an oak tree and my youngest son as an acorn!  I figure this card truly reflects our family!  As I look at this picture here, I realize that both acorns were stamped on Whisper White instead of Very Vanilla!  Oops!  Hope my husband doesn't notice!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Gold Glimmer
Stamps: Acorny Thank You, Autumn Acorn Stamps (PTI)
Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Other: Autumn Accents Bigz Die, Acorn Punch, Acorn Die (PTI), Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the design team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #205

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!  We are officially into fall now and it has to be one of my favourite seasons - okay, it's my favourite.  I love the coolness in the air and the beautiful colours of the leaves.  I also love pumpkins...have I mentioned that before?!  I have an obsession with stuffed ones.  Okay, so I have only just started this obsession but I found the cutest knit one at Hobby Lobby when we were vacationing in Kentucky.  It made the trip home with us!  As I told my friend Linda Callahan the other day,  I'm a funky nut!

So we have a  great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches today courtesy of the amazing Rita Wright.  She is our in house colouring queen.  Well, many of our team colour fabulously but Rita can colour anything!  Head to her blog and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

I was a little stumped with Rita's sketch but then decided I would give a fall'ish wreath a try.  I whipped out the Wondrous Wreath stamp set and die and after about 4 tries finally got a half decent wreath I could use.  If you struggle with this stamp set, know you aren't alone.  If you don't struggle, know you are alone!!!!

I decided to keep the background and my banner white, though in hindsight it probably should have been vanilla.  Oh well.  I like white!  I threw on some Crushed Curry flowers and some pearls and called it a day!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Early Espresso

Stamps: Wondrous Wreath, Acorny Thank You, Pictogram Punches

Ink: Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Crushed Curry

Other: Wondrous Wreath Framelits, Itty Bitty Punches (?), Basic Pearls, Banner Framelits, Itty Bitty Banners, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you get the chance to pop over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the design team has created!  You won't be disappointed!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen

Nutty Acorns

Hello!
I hope you've had a great Wednesday!  Hump day!  We are halfway through another week!  Today was cleaning day here.  Not my favourite day but I do love a clean house!  I had a few minutes this afternoon and I decided that I would tackle another card!  I know this season of having extra free time doesn't last long so I want to take advantage of it while I can!

I decided to start with the colours from this week's ColourQ challenge.  I do love the colours this week.  I didn't have Kiwi Kiss or Soft Sky so I used Pool Party and Lucky Limeade as a substitute.  I was fairly certain that I had Kiwi Kiss somewhere but I couldn't find it!

I went on and decided I would try my hand with the sketch from this week's Global Design Project!  Now, I'm sure you guys all know me pretty well and know that when I took one look at that circle I cringed!  Why do I hate circles so much?!  I think I'd cringe no matter what shape it had been!

I decided to use my Acorny Thank You stamp set for this one!  I need to make an anniversary card for my husband!  Our anniversary is coming up next month and I usually leave the card until the very last minute!  I LOVE acorns.  Not sure why.  My son and my mom had this little thing about collecting acorns years ago and now every time I see an acorn I smile!
I decided a plain background wasn't going to work for this card so I used the Woodlands Textured Embossing Folder to create the background.  I glued all the pieces together and then ran it through the big shot to emboss it.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Sahara Sand, Pool Party
Stamps: Acorny Thank You
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade
Other: Woodland Textured Embossing Folder, Acorn Punch, Basic Rhinestones, Double Stitched Circles (Lil Inkers), Heart Punch,  Dimensionals

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

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #203 and some Acorns!

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week!  Yesterday was a big day at our house as it was the first day of school!  I had two boys who didn't want to go.  They thought homeschool sounded like a great option!  Little did they know that though it works for some families, their mom would probably lose the one marble she has left!!!  They came home from school happy and wanting to go back!  Amen!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches and our amazing hostess is the talented Jen Mitchell!  Jen's style is so fabulous.  I just love it!  I can't wait to be like her when I grow up!  You need to head over to her blog to see exactly what I'm talking about!

I really love the Acorny Thank You from Stampin' Up!  It's such a fun stamp set and I LOVE acorns. Caleb used to love them when he was little and now I love them and cherish the memory of him and his acorns!  Anyhow, brown and gold are some of my favourite fall colours so I embossed me up some acorns and away I went.  I decided I needed to make a shaker box since I am one of the only ones who doesn't do it regularly!

I had some old double sided dimensional tape laying around that I used to create the shaker box.  The hardest part was taking apart all of those sequins!!!!  Now, just to set the record straight, this isn't the first edition of this card!  It started out being all white and then just plain brown but I needed to add in the embossing. It just didn't look right without it!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Early Espresso
Stamps: Acorny Thank You
Ink: Versamark
Other: Acorn Punch, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Gold Embossing Powder, Gold Sequins, Dimensionals, Circle Dies

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you'll hop on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the beautiful cards the design team created for you!  We can't wait to see what you'll create for the challenge this week!

Have a great day!
Jen