Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #314

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope everyone has had a great start to their week!  I hope my American friends have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow!  Christmas isn't that far away!  Are you ready? I am definitely not ready. The kids are bugging me to put the tree up but we have to put our tree up in stages.  See, last year our kitten was just over 3 lbs.  The tree was her favourite hiding spot.  She could climb that sucker lightening fast.  This year she's about 7 lbs.  We're not sure our tree can handle the 7 lbs so we'll have to put it up without decorations to see what she does.  I'll have to get my squirt bottle ready just in case she decides to go for a climb.  Which she will...because she's a cat!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the amazing Narelle Farrugia!  Narelle is our fussy cutting, flower making queen!  Her cards are multi-layered masterpieces!  Head over to her blog to see what I mean!

Narelle also decided to throw some circles in there!  I'm wondering if my friends from the Southern Hemisphere got together and decided to torture me together!!!  Needless to say I decided to stick true to the sketch on this one.   I am still lacking in Christmas cards so I used some of the Quilted Christmas DSP from SU along with some red and black cardstock and threw this baby together!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Basic Black and Red Foil
Paper: Quilted Christmas DSP
Other: Silly Stitched Dies (Lil Inkers),  Double Stitched Circle Dies (Lil Inkers), Christmas Greetings Thinlits (SU), Red Sequins, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the gorgeous cards the Design Team has created!  They truly are beautiful!

Have a fabulous day and a Happy Thanksgiving!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #265

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Can you believe it's the last day of November?!  Are you ready for Christmas?!  We have our tree up and the lights on but I have been having some difficulty training our kitten to stay out of the tree.  Yes, I know you can use a squirt bottle on them but this kitten loves water and the squirt bottle is just another toy!  I'm going to try putting a few decorations on tomorrow and working with her to stay away from the tree.  Should be interesting.

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week courtesy of the lovely and extremely talented fussy cutter Narelle Farrugia!  The sketch is super versatile and perfect for any season.  Of course because I'm slightly behind on my Christmas cards (like extremely behind!) so I wanted to get a simple design that I could very easily recreate!

Now, as I was putting the image of the sketch into my blog I realized I forgot the rectangular block on my card.  I guess my "merry" could work but I'm a little disappointed in myself!  I also used the silver ink which I smeared, quite a bit.  Sometimes I frustrate myself!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Shiny Red
Stamps: Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink: Real Red, Encore Silver
Other: Christmas Greetings Thinlits, Basic Rhinestones

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 for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen!

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #209

Happy Wednesday!
I hope you're all having a great start to your week!  We've had a beautiful week here so far.  Monday and Tuesday were both quite warm which was a nice change from the weather we had on the weekend!  I love warm fall day!  I know winter is right around the corner and I'm dreading it!

We have a new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches and I am this week's hostess!  Coming up with a sketch is not an easy task.  You don't want to make something too complicated and you don't want something that is too easy!  I think I may have leaned a little more towards the easy side!  I like to think of it more on the "clean" side!  I hope you like it and will play along with this week's challenge!

I am trying to get ahead on Christmas cards!  I do love the snowflake punch (as you are probably well aware!).  I like it's simplicity.  You must be sick of seeing the snowflake and the word "Merry"!  I'll try and mix it up next week!  I like to show that cards don't have to be layered or complicated (though those cards are also fabulous!).  Simple can be lovely too!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler
Stamps: Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Other: Snowflake Punch, Christmas Greetings Thinlits, Silver Sequins, Basic Rhinestones, Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out what the Design Team has created for you!  You will be inspired!  I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen!

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #208

Happy Wednesday!
I hope you all had a great weekend!  If you're in Canada, I hope you had a great long Thanksgiving weekend.   We had such gorgeous weather here.  It was the perfect weekend!  The boys enjoyed one last swim in the pool and now it's drained and we will prepare for winter...ugh.  I am not looking forward to winter at all!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the amazing Cindy Hall!  Did you see Cindy's card last week?  It was absolutely beautiful!  Cindy has such creativity!

Cindy's sketch is pretty fabulous!  It is so versatile and remember those rectangles can always be substituted for something else!  As you can see, I used snowflakes instead of that second rectangle!  I love snowflakes!  I also love white cards!  I think it's my type A personality!  The white just looks so clean!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Red Glimmer
Stamps: Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink: Real Red
Other: Christmas Greetings Thinlits,  Snowflake Punch, Basic Rhinestones, Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks again for stopping in!  I hope you will get the chance to head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the beautiful cards the Design Team has created for you!  You won't be disappointed!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen

Snowflake Fun

Hello!
Happy Saturday!  I almost forgot to do this post up!  I hope you're having a great weekend.  It was a beautiful day here.  Some friends and I went to check out the local "Made in Canada" Etsy craft sale today.  I must say, there are a lot of very talented people out there!  Wow!  I was impressed!

I had a few minutes this afternoon while the boys were out flying with my husband to get a card made!  I decided to go with this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge!  I loved the sketch!  I couldn't decide what type of card to do but realized that my Christmas card stash is basically non-existant so I figured that was a good place to start!

I decided the card looked a little plain without the embossing but used the new Softly Falling embossing folder from SU to create the background!
I must say I'm not happy that my sentiment has bumps on it.  That's not from running it through the embossing folder, it's from the die.  I tried using wax paper and even adding in another piece of paper in while I cut it out but nothing seemed to make the bumps go away.  If you know a trick, let me know!
This is a stamp and ink free card!  I was rather excited about that!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper white, Silver
Other: Snowflake Punch, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Basic Rhinestones, Christmas Greetings Thinlits, Dimensionals

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

Jen!

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #204

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I trust your week is going well!  Can you believe we are halfway through September already?  Honestly, where is the time going?  My oldest asked me today how many more days until Christmas!  I couldn't believe it!  Christmas?  It's just over three months away.  I guess I should get going on my cards!

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week courtesy of the amazing Jennifer Timko!  Our dear Jennifer celebrated a very special birthday on Tuesday!  If you haven't checked out her blog and her beautiful cards, head over there and do it and give her a little birthday love!!!

Our sketch this week is a great one!  I must say that I had to sit and think about this one for a while.  I had a few ideas and tried some different things before I finally decided on a design.  I figured I had better get some Christmas cards at least started.  I used some of the fun new products from the Stampin' Up Holiday Catalogue which was super fun!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Silver
Stamps: Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Big Rhinestones, Christmas Greetings Thinlits, Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Stitched Tags (Lil' Inkers)

Thanks for stopping in today!  I really appreciate your visit!
I hope you'll head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the fabulous cards the Design Team has created for you!  You will not be disappointed!

Have a wonderful day!
Jen