Freshly Made Sketches #83

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I feel like this has been a long week!  Today is a very special day at Freshly Made Sketches!  Today we are all celebrating Vicki Burdick's Birthday!  If you don't know Vicki she is one talented card maker!  She designs with the fabulous Lesley Croghan on the Merry Monday Team!  If you still aren't sure head on over to her blog, It's a Stamp Thing! You will not be disappointed!  We all hope Vicki has a wonderful birthday!

Today's sketch is brought to us courtesy of the lovely and talented Allisa Chilton!  I must say I found the sketch a little challenging!  I couldn't find a "long" stamp or image I wanted to use so I decided to get out my Aviary stamp set!  Who doesn't love some birdcages?!

I really do love the new Epic Day DSP!  The colours are just so fun and fabulous!  I just had to use it!  Of course there probably aren't any Calypso Coral owls or Pool Party birds but there are on this card!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla
DSP: Epic Day
Stamps: Aviary, Bloomin' Marvelous
Ink: Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Basic Black
Other: Basic Rhinestones, Pool Party Ribbon, Dimensionals

I hope you have a few minutes to head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the beautiful birthday cards the Design Team has created!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Happy Birthday Vicki!
Jen

Fab Friday Challenge

Hello!

Sorry for being MIA this week!  It was our vacation week and we spent most of our time doing fun things as a family to celebrate the final week of summer before school starts on Tuesday!  I am looking forward to the boys starting school - especially Jacob who starts Junior Kindergarten but it does make me sad to see them growing up so fast!

I found a new challenge online and most of you know I LOVE sketches!    Fab Friday introduced their very first challenge this week and it's a sketch challenge!  Check it out!  I loved this sketch when I saw it I thought about all the wonderful possibilities!  I wanted to keep the sketch fairly clean and I knew immediately that I wanted to use my Aviary set...I hadn't used it in a while and it NEEDED to come out!  

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Crumb Cake
DSP: In Colour Pattern Stack (Raspberry Ripple)
Stamps: Aviary, Create a Cupcake (sentiment)
Ink: Basic Black, Raspberry Ripple
Other: Bitty Banners Framelits Die, Basic Rhinestones, Chevron TIEF,  Raspberry Ripple Dahlia, Word Window Punch

Here's a little picture of my train loving boys beside the train we went on Saturday morning!  We road from Waterloo (Ontario) to St. Jacob's!  The boys LOVED it!  They were in train heaven!

I hopefully will be back tomorrow with a new card!
Thanks for stopping by!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

Hello!
I am so looking forward to Friday and the weekend!  It has been a long week and I'm very excited to have my husband home with us so we can have some family fun.

I was excited that I could "play" the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week.  The sketch was right up my alley being fairly clean and simple!

I hauled out the good ol' Aviary stamp set that I must say is one of my favourites.  I haven't used it in a while so I decided that I would try it out on this particular sketch!

I make a lot of birthday cards...I should probably switch it up one of these days!  Someone requested some wedding cards so that's next on the list!

I hope you have a great day!


Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Whisper white, Basic Grey, Red Riding Hood.
DSP: Twitterpated
Stamps: Aviary, Party This Way
Ink: Basic Grey, Red Riding Hood, Lucky Limeade
Other: Basic Rhinestones