Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #172

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I'm all messed up with my days because we ended up having a snow day on Monday!  The boys loved being home and being able to stay in their PJ's and play outside in the snow with the neighbours and their dog!  The boys had a blast!  It was nice to be able to have a nice day of relaxing and playing!

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  The fabulous Linda Callahan brings us this week's beauty!   Linda makes such amazing cards!  Head over to her blog and check them out!

Now, that giant heart is very much like giant circle to me.  Maybe even worse!  I don't know why I have trouble with shapes.  I think the main reason this sketch really challenged me was because was was determined to make my husband's birthday card with it (which was my first mistake).  Once I gave up the notion that this would be his birthday card, it all came together a lot easier.  If you get frustrated making cards, don't worry, you're not alone!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White

Stamps: I Like You, Sending You (Lil' Inkers)

Ink: Basic Black, Stazon

Other: Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Sequins, Twine, Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Anytime Tags Dies (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

I hope you get the chance to head to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the design team has created for you!  

Have a fabulous week!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #137

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week!  We had a fabulous weekend and enjoyed celebrating Caleb's birthday with my mom and dad - complete with an ice cream cake with an F-18 Hornet on top!  Caleb actually turns 8 today!  I can't believe that my sweet baby boy is 8 already!  Where does the time go?

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  Jen Mitchell is our snazzy hostess this week.  Her cards are absolutely amazing and if you haven't seen them before, you need to head on over there and check them out!  

I did try and create my card landscape style...I really did.  I just got so frustrated.  I couldn't get the card to work so I rotated the sketch.  I'm not usually such a rebel!

I cracked open some of my sneak peek goodies to make this card!  I am not too sure how I feel about the new In Colours yet but they are growing on me!  I do love the new DSP pack and how the Hello Honey and Blackberry Bliss look together!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Grey, Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White
DSP: Moonlight DSP Stack
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
Ink: Blackberry Bliss
Other: Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Bitty Banners Framelits, Basic Rhinestones, Honeycomb Textured Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Please hop on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the Clean Team has created for you!  You won't be disappointed!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

CAS(E) This Sketch Butterflies!

Hello!
Hope you had a great weekend!  We had such beautiful weather here and we were able to get out and enjoy it on Saturday and Sunday!  Tomorrow they are forecasting snow!  I must say that I'm not looking forward to seeing that white fluffy stuff.  Hopefully it doesn't stay on the ground and we will have springlike temperatures back in no time.

I had a few minutes in the craft room Saturday afternoon and got a card made for this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge!  I really loved this week's sketch and have missed playing along the last few weeks.

I used the Brights DSP Paper Pack and combined the Daffodil Delight with some Basic Grey.  I just couldn't help pairing these two fab colours again!  

I of course had to add some butterflies and a bit of bling!  I decided to stamp my sentiment using silver embossing powder on vellum.  Not sure I should have done that but it's done now!  

Supplies:

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight

DSP: Brights Paper pack

Stamps: Four You

Ink: Versamark

Other: Silver Embossing Powder, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Vellum, Basic Rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #125

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you've been having a great week!  I apologize for being totally MIA for the last week (and a bit).  Jacob got really sick and then had some severe side effects from his antibiotic (in combination with some pretty serious dehydration).  Anyhow, he is back to normal after several uncertain days!  He was back to his super silly self today and nearly drove me insane!!!!

I had a few minutes in my craft room on Sunday to create a card for this week's fun new Freshly Made Sketches challenge!  I really love the fabulous (and versatile) sketch that our very creative, layer queen, Narelle Farrugia has come up with for us!

So, I've gotten over my neutrals phase and have moved back to grey and yellow!  I can't help it...I just love the look!  

The sentiment is stamped using silver embossing powder but it's very hard to tell from the photo.  I was having some lighting issues while trying to get this picture!!!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Grey, Daffodil Delight

DSP: Brights DSP Paper Stack (Daffodil Delight)

Stamps: Birthday Bash Sentiments (PTI)

Ink: Versamark

Other: Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Basic Rhinestones, Silver Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful card the design team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #124

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  How is it Wednesday already?!  I guess with having Monday off for Family Day here in Ontario it makes the week go by that much faster!  It's fabulous!  I must say I like long weekends.  I don't like long weekends with a sick child isn't fun.  Jacob wasn't doing very well at bed time last night so we will have to see how he is in the morning and if we will be making another trip to the Emergency Room.

We have a fun new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  The very talented Karren Johnson brings us this beauty this week!  I just love it!

So you all know how I feel about butterflies and bling!  I also love bright fun colours!  I wanted to create a card that made me feel happy and more like spring!  We got another 5+ cm of snow last night and I think I am so done and over snow!!!

I love the Beautiful Wings Embosslit! I love mine so much that it's actually come apart and my husband has nicely glued it back together for me!!!!  At least it's not sitting around collecting dust!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry
Stamps: Create a Cupcake
Ink: Melon Mambo
Other: Basic Rhinestones, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a fabulous day!
If you want to see some beautiful card, please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog!  The Design Team has created some amazing cards!

Jen!

Deepest Sympathy

Hello
I hope you had a great weekend!  We had a good weekend here!  We had a ton of snow yesterday.  The boys were thrilled with it.  This afternoon they were out building forts...or at least trying to.  The snow was dry and they had a hard time but they managed to get a tunnel between our house and our neighbour's house!

Last week I made a baby card for my cousin and her sweet little boy Decklan who came rushing into this world at 31 weeks.  Unfortunately, Decklan suffered some major complications and was taken off of life support on Thursday and passed away.  Making a sympathy card for this particular occasion was hard and hopefully one I never have to do again.  

I decided to use this week's "CAS(E) this Sketch" challenge as a starting point.   I decided to incorporate some butterflies into the card as well.  I wanted to keep the card very neutral and soft.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla
DSP: Sweater Weather
Stamps: PTI
Ink: Sahara Sand
Other: Mosaics Textured Embossing Folder, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Circle Punch, Bitty Banners Framelits,  Basic Pearls, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by.   I hope you have a wonderful week!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #103

Happy Wednesday!  I hope everyone is having a great week!  Caleb is loving school.  Jacob still hasn't started his regular schedule.  I'm counting the minutes until Friday!!!  Friday is pantry cleaning day!!!!

Today brings us a few sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week's hostess is your's truly.  I have been feeling highly uninspired these days.  The card above is actually my third attempt at the sketch.  Seriously.  The first one was just so bad I didn't finish it.  The second one you can see if you keep scrolling down...ugh.

I love butterflies and hadn't used my Beautiful Wings embosslit in a long time.  My embosslit is so well used that it has fallen apart and my husband has graciously glued it back together for me - on multiple occasions!

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Whisper white, Strawberry Slush, Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo, Pool Party
DSP: Quantrefancy Specialty
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Basic Rhinestones, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Bitty Banners Framelits, Dimensionals

Here's card #2....
Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, More Mustard
DSP: First Edition
Stamps: Thank You Kindly, Field Flowers
Other: Basic Pearls, Black Ribbon, Dimensionals

Here are the boys back to school photos...finally!  They're growing up too fast!  Thank you MDS for these great signs!!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  I hope you're able to join our little challenge this week!   We sure do love seeing those fabulous entries!

Head over to the blog to see the amazing cards the design team has come up with!  I honestly think this is the best design team out there!  I am so thankful to be able to call this great group of ladies my friends!

Have a wonderful day!
Jen

Dynamic Duos Butterflies

Hello!
I hope everyone had a great weekend!  We still have one more day off in Canada!  Yeah!  I put my Holiday Pre-order in today!  I'm super excited!  I can't wait to get it!
We have two kids who are feeling good today so I'm happy! Monday morning we are heading to the flying field to watch my husband fly some of his planes!

So today's card is for the Dynamic Duos challenge.   This week's challenge was to use Crumb Cake and then a colour of our choice.  Naturally I started off picking pink!  I don't get a lot of pink at my house so it's usually my go-to colour!  I couldn't think of what I wanted to do with it.  I then tried some crumb cake with island indigo...that didn't work so well either.  I moved onto Daffodil Delight!  Sometimes cards don't come together easily!

I decided to emboss the butterflies (using Papillon Potpourri) in white on the crumb cake and then add Beautiful Wings butterflies in Daffodil delight!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, A Fitting Occasion
Ink: Versamark, Daffodil Delight
Other: Daffodil Delight Ribbon, Modern Label Punch, Circle Punches, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Basic Pearls

I hope you liked today's card!  Thanks for stopping by!
Jen

Paper Players Challenge

 Hello!
How did your day go?  Thursdays are a little chaotic at our house.  I was super excited to take my new Stampin' Up! Catalogue to soccer tonight and peruse through it while I sat on the field for 2 hours!  I poured a lovely hot tea into my travel mug and proceeded to walk out the door without the catalogue...ugh.

I decided to tackle the Paper Players challenge today.  This is my first time with this particular challenge!  LeAnne had a great sketch for this week's challenge.  I sat down with this idea in my head of making the perfect Father's Day card for my husband...I had the airplane stamped and ready to cut out.  Then the doorbell rang and my super nice UPS delivery man showed up with my Stampin' Up! order and once I saw this paper the Father's Day card got pushed aside and I created this thank you card instead.

I love this new Comfort Cafe DSP and the Midnight Muse Cardstock oh and the Betsy's Blossoms stamp set that will be available June 1st (which for most of you will be today!

The new SU catalogue is available today online!  Check it out!  It's full of so many wonderful things!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze
DSP: Comfort Cafe
Stamps: Kindness Matters, Betsy's Blossoms
Ink: Midnight Muse, Soft Suede
Other: Basic Pearls, Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, Modern Label Punch, Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Bright Butterflies

Hello!
Did you have a great weekend?  I can't believe it's almost Monday morning...ugh.  This week is going to be very busy for us...but at least it will go quickly.

I tackled the Freshly Made Sketches challenge yesterday and wanted to get the card posted!

I love using bright colours with the Beautiful Wings embosslit!!!  So springy!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope to have a new card for you tomorrow!

Suppplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Old Olive
Stamps: Well Scripted
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Petite Purses

Hello!
I made some purses using the new Petite Purses Die (for the Big Shot) from Stampin' Up!  I had made one when I first got the die but finally got a chance to sit down again!
It's really fun to make these cute little purses.  They are designed to hold two Hershey Nuggets which I don't think we can get in Canada but they would hold other small chocolates nicely!

Supplies:
Summer Smooches DSP and Brads!  This paper and the brads will be available in the new 2012 catalogue!

Supplies:
Twitterpated DSP and Brads

 This one would be cute for a birthday party favour for a little princess!

Supplies:
Pink Pirouette Cardstock, Silver Cardstock, Basic Pearls, Pleated Satin Ribbon, Boho Blossoms Punch

 Wedding Shower Favour maybe?

Supplies:
Basic Black Cardstock, Silver Cardstock, Boho Blossoms Punch, Basic Rhinestones

Wedding Shower again?  Customized colours?

Supplies:
Basic Black Cardstock, Very Vanilla Cardstock, Melon Mambo Cardstock, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Basic Rhinestones

CAS in Rich Razzleberry

 

Hello!  Okay, so I didn't fall off the face of the earth....it may just seem that way!  I have been busily working on some wedding invitations for a friend that I finished a few minutes ago.  They really have consumed my life for the last two weeks.  I had a minute today to work on a card before I picked up the last piece of the invitations.

I decided to give the CAS card challenge on Splitcoast stampers this week (CAS159)!  The challenge this week was just colours - Rich Razzleberry and White!  I love rich razzleberry.   I don't use it too often so it was fun to get it out and play along!

I made the bottom card first and wasn't happy so I decided to try the top one and was happier with the results!

Supplies (top card):
Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White
Stamps: Fresh Vintage, Petite Pairs
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Other: Rich Razzleberry Taffeta Ribbon, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Basic Rhinestones

Supplies (bottom card):
Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White
Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Apothecary Art
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Versamark
Other: White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Basic Rhinestones

CAS Challenge Thank You Card

Happy Tuesday!
Today is my crazy day!  I am thankful it's almost over but I still have bootcamp to go tonight!  I don't think I'll get this post quite done before it's time to leave!

I wanted to make a quick card this afternoon while Jacob was napping (and before we had to go to the school) and decided to take a look at Splitcoaststampers CAS (Clean and Simple) Challenge.  The challenge this week involved die-cuts.  That seemed pretty straight forward to me.  I really enjoy CAS cards... they're more my style!

I was reading a great post by Nathalie Hardy as she was discussing Project Life...in a nutshell she was saying that we can get very overwhelmed looking at what other's are doing...they may create more elaborate cards, or such amazing scrapbook pages and we can get discouraged thinking our's aren't good enough.  I really needed to read that post.  It made me realize that the clean and simple cards (and scrapbook pages) that I enjoy are good enough for me.  They may not be your style and that's okay!  So when you see a card or scrapbook page and think "wow, I wish I could make something like that"...DON'T!  Find your style and be proud of it!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Gray, Whisper White
Ink: Red Riding Hood
Stamps: Perfectly Penned
Other: Pleated Satin Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die