Fab Friday on Wednesday!

Hello!

Even though I got a few minutes in my craft room I didn't accomplish anything...sadly!  I have been feeling very unmotivated lately and just couldn't come up with something to create!  I had the pleasure of making a really fun 4th birthday candy bouquet this past weekend - photo posted way below!  It felt fun to make something different from a card!

I had made a card for this week's Fab Friday challenge a while ago but kept forgetting to bring my camera downstairs to download the picture!  

I love the Mosaic Madness stamp set and thought I would do another (sorry....) black and white card!  I threw in a hint of Melon Mambo because, well, who doesn't love pink?!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Whisper White
Stamps: Mosaic Madness, Four You
Ink: Basic Black, Melon Mambo
Other: Mosaic Punch, Postage Stamp Punch, Basic Rhinestones, Boho Blossoms Punch, Dimensionals


Here's a little picture of Sweet Sadie's 4th birthday bouquet!

Thanks for stopping by!
Hope you have a fabulous day!
Jen

Fab Friday Mother's Day

Hello!
Happy Thursday!
This is going to be a super quick post since it's Thursday morning and I completely forgot I had made this card to actually enter in a challenge!!!

My friend requested a Mother's Day card for her sister-in-law who had twins!  I recently made them a baby card as well!  I didn't quite know what to do to reflect the twins.  I saw my owl punch and knew it would be perfect!  Who doesn't love two sweet little girl owls?!

I used this week's Fab Friday Sketch for the starting point of my card!  I do love this sketch though it also challenged me greatly!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Melon Mambo
DSP: Pretty in Pink DSP Paper
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Early Espresso
Other: Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, Two-Step Owl Punch, Melon Mambo Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a fabulous day!!!

Jen!

Get well!

Hello
Hope you had a great day!  I am feeling a little tired tonight!  I am glad we are nearing the end of the week!  Jacob and I had a great day at home today.  He is slowly getting better at his reading so we were working on that this morning.  What a privilege to be able to teach a child to read....something we probably take advantage of far to often!

Today's card is for my aunt.  She has been really sick for a while now and I think a card might cheer her up.  I decided to use the Fab Friday sketch as a starting point.  I combined that with the Dynamic Duos Colour challenge this week.   This week's colours are Primrose Petals and then a colour of your choice...I picked Summer Starfruit.

I realize now looking at this that my flag is a little too wide.  I guess it's a little too late to change that now!  I love the Tea for Two stamp set from Papertrey Ink.  Who doesn't love a good tea pot stamp!  I used the coordinating die as well!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Primrose Petals
DSP: Tea for Two (Papertrey Ink)
Stamps: Tea for Two
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Honeycomb Embossing Folder,  Tea for Two Die (Papertrey Ink), Basic Pearls, Sanding Block, Distressing Tool, Dimesionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!

Jen!

Blue and Silver Snowflake

Hello!

It's the end of another day...I must say I'm a little tired today.  It was a busy day.  I wanted to try and get another Christmas card done...I'm still nowhere near my goal which saddens me greatly.  I think some people may not get hand made cards this year...I hope they aren't offended but I'm not sure how many more I can turn out this week!!!

I wanted to combine the Dynamic Duos and Fab Friday challenges!  I love Midnight Muse and I love silver so this week's Dynamic Duos colour challenge was perfect for me!  Inspiring actually!!!  I then threw those colours into the Fab Friday sketch and voila!  

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Midnight Muse, Silver Glimmer
Stamps: Bright Hopes
Ink: Midnight Muse
Other: Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Snowflake Punch

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a fabulous day!

Jen!

Fab Friday Christmas

Hello!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I was a tad under the weather yesterday (okay so incredibly under the weather) and was very thankful my fabulous husband took care of the boys and did other things for me around the house!  I am feeling much better today - I even got some cards done!

I decided I wanted to get some Christmas cards done since the season is approaching rather quickly and I'm nowhere near ready to go!

I used the Fab Friday sketch to get a jump start!  Who doesn't love a great sketch?!  I usually require one to start with these days!!  Blue and silver are my new go-to colours for Christmas!  Strange since my house is decorated in red and gold!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Silver Glimmer, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Stamps: Ornament Keepsakes
Ink: Night of Navy, Versamark
Other: Snowflake Embossing Folder, Bitty Banners Framelits, Holiday Ornaments Framelits, Dimensionals, Circle and Scalloped Circles Dies, Silver Embossing Powder

Thanks for stopping by!
Enjoy your day!!!
Jen

More Butterflies!

Hello!

Happy Thursday!  I'm not used to posting cards in the middle of the day!  This is going to be a quick one because I need to down my tea and head into the school for pizza day lunch supervision then a volunteering session in Jacob's class.  

I really wanted to give the Dynamic Duos challenge a go this week.  With my crazy new schedule I don't have a lot of time to craft but decided I could kill two birds with one stone in this card and incorporated the sketch from The Fab Friday challenge!  Two fantastic sites!  Love the new Fab Friday challenge!

The DD challenge this week was Cherry Cobbler and our choice - I chose black!  I love black!  Too much actually!  I decided to get out the First Edition DSP since I hadn't used it in a while and thought it would be a great background.  Since the Papillon Potpourri was already out from Wednesday's card I decided to use it again!  I cut out the label using the "Apothecary Accents" framelits then cut another two out in black and pieced them together to make the Vanilla one look framed.  I decided not to put a sentiment on this card so I can personalize it as need be.   Thought it could be used as pretty much an "anything" kind of card.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
DSP: First Edition
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Sanding block, Apothecary Accents Framelit, Basic Pearls, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!

Jen!

My Cup of Tea

Hello!
Sorry for the lack of posts lately!  I'm currently battling a cold - a nasty cold and haven't felt much like creating.  I also have a new "job"!  I'm working in one of the kindergarten classes doing lunch duty two days a week. Job starts tomorrow.  Hopefully I'm feeling better!  I've heard the last lady quit because there was some ham flying around the classroom.  I'm a little nervous!  This could go rather poorly!!

Okay, today's card is for the Paper Players and Fab Friday challenges.  I really like the sketch from the Paper Players this week.  I had some trouble with the colours though...I actually don't own any Sahara Sand!  How is that possible?  It's probably criminal for a SU demonstrator to NOT own Sahara Sand!  I had to substitute some crumb cake buttons instead!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Gray, So Saffron, Whisper White
Stamps: Tea Shoppe
Ink: Basic Gray, So Saffron
Other: Crumb Cake Buttons, Wide Oval Punch, Extra Large Oval Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Basic Pearls, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!
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