Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #731

Hello! 
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week!  We have been having the craziest weather lately!  One day it snows, one day it's sunny and warm then we repeat again and again! It's starting to get a tad annoying! I am done with winter and snow and ready for spring and warmth!

We have a fun new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week.  Our hostess this week is the lovely Donna Mikasa!  You will definitely want to head over to her blog and check out her beautiful cards!  

This sketch looked a little intimidating but it was actually really fun!  I grabbed my Stitched So Sweetly dies and went to work.  I decided to use my Envelope of Wonders dies to create some little spring flowers (okay, they're probably summer flowers but we're saying they're spring!).  I went to use my Glimmer Hot Foil Machine only to discover it has ceased to work.  I have no idea what happened.  I'm so sad.  I love hot foiling.  Oh, these electronic devices!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Hammermill White Coverstock, Highland Heather,  Gorgeous Grape, Calypso Coral, Petal Pink, Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Mango Melody, Basic Black (SU)

Stamps: Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink: Highland Heather

Dies: Stitched So Sweetly (SU), Envelope of Wonder (Spellbinders)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll join in our challenge this week!  You can head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to get all of the details and see the amazing cards the Design Team has created!  You have until Monday at 1 PM EST to get your card entered into this week's challenge.

Have an amazing day!

Jen

 

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #727

 

Hello and happy Wednesday!

I hope you're having a great start to your week so far!  We got out for an amazing hike on the weekend.  The wind was insane and the weather network indicated gusts of up to and over 80 km/hr.  That's a lot if you're on a mountain!  We opted for a safer ridge hike that has you in the forest for quite a while.  It also gave me a chance to try some steeper terrain and see how the hand did.  Up is fine, down is more challenging.  Anyhow, we were completely blocked from the wind pretty much the whole hike and it was fantastic so we were so thankful we got out and did it.  We're supposed to get a bunch of snow this weekend so we might not be hiking at all!  We shall see.  

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the lovely Michele Ferguson.  Make sure you head over to her blog and check our her beautiful cards! 

Michele's sketch threw me for a bit and then I decided I would use some of my new Waffle Flower stamps and dies for it.  I love anything forest like and this Postage Stamp set made my heart flutter!  I love deer and am so thankful that we have deer that walk down our road often so I get to see them on a fairly regular basis!  

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black (SU), Hammermill White Coverstock

Stamps: Postage Collage Forest Sunset (Waffle Flower), Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink: Detail Black (Pink Fresh Studio)

Dies: Postage Collage Dies (Waffle Flower), Build-A-Wreath (Spellbinders), Double Stitched Frames

Other: Embossing Folder (SU)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you'll join in our challenge this week! You can head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to get all of the details and see some fabulous examples! 

You have until Monday at 3 PM EST to get your card entered into this week's challenge!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen