Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #289

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you are having a great week so far!  We had a lovely long weekend here.  The weather wasn't exactly perfect but it was super nice to spend time together and we got in a few great bike rides!  The boys are really getting on to "mountain biking" and loved seeing a deer on the trails!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess today is the lovely Linda Callahan!  Linda's cards are fabulous and so creative!  I also love Linda's sense of humour!  She has a special way of making us all laugh!

I saw the sweet little flowers on the sketch and knew I wanted to use flowers on my card too!  I opted for my Awesome Blossom Stamps from Lil' Inkers!  I truly do love the Watermelon Wonder/Crisp Canteloupe combo.  I think despite their retirement, I'll be using them regularly!  Of course there is some Wink of Stella on those flowers just to give them a little sparkle!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamps: Awesome Blossom (Lil Inkers)
Ink: Crisp Canteloupe, Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush, Stazon Black
Other: Stitched Rectangles (Lil Inkers), Double Stitched Squares (Lil Inkers), Awesome Blossom Dies (Lil Inkers),Sequins (SU), Wink of Stella, Dimensionals

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

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 #218

Hello and Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday and enjoyed some time with their families.  We had a lovely visit with my parents and with my husband's parents.  My kids love being with their Grannie and Papa.  They sure hate leaving!  I do too!  We didn't have a white Christmas but we did end up getting some snow before we came back home!  The temperatures have returned to what they should be (much to my disgust!) but I see the long range forecast has some warmer weather in the future!

We are back in business at Freshly Made Sketches and the amazing Kim Singdahlsen has the first sketch of 2016!  Kim makes such amazing cards!  I would love to go and play in her craft room some time with all of her fun stamps!!!  Head over to her blog to take a look at her beautiful cards!

I was blessed with some fun new stamps for Christmas!  I may have also been blessed with some new Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers.  I do believe I'm in love!  I find Copics too challenging and I do love the look of watercolour!  These markers do what I need them to and make such fun colours!  Unfortunately the lighting did no cooperate with me for this photo and you can't truly see how fun these colours are!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Paper: Water colour paper (Canson)
Stamps: LJD Circle Scribbles (My Favourite Things), Awesome Blossom Stamps (Lil' Inkers)
Ink: Stazon
Other: Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers, Dimensionals, Die-namics LJD Circle Scribbles, Basic Rhinestones, Watercolour Brush

Thanks for stopping in today!  Please take some time to head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen