Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #214

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Can you believe that today is the 25th!  Christmas is a month today!  I have a bit more of my shopping done but I really can't get in the mood.  I can't even get in the mood to decorate!  I have a few things done but not much.  I guess I should get on that this weekend!  Maybe later this week I'll have a few minutes.  I asked the kids if they wanted to help put the tree up and they said no...No wonder I'm not motivated!!!

Being Wednesday, we have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our wonderful hostess this week is the talented Jennifer Timko!  She makes such amazing cards!  You need to go and check out her blog!

I am a little behind on my Christmas cards.  At this point I do have some cut out and I just need to have a few minutes to sit down and put them together but that day was not today!!!  Anyhow, I thought if I made a Christmas card for this week's challenge I would at least have one more done!!!

So you're probably looking at this wondering why I picked a snowflake and "white on white" again?! I can't help it!  I love white!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamps: Four the Holidays
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Snowflake Punch, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Sequins, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the beautiful cards the design team has come up with!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen!

Seize The Sketch Ornament

Hello!
Yay...it's almost Friday!!!  I'm super excited!  I love Friday nights!  They usually mean movie night at home!  The boys love a night without homework as well!  Today my hubby and I were able to have a little lunch date - which almost never happens!  It was so nice to get out for a few minutes together!

This is another card that I was able to work on yesterday while Jake was at cooking class.  I love sketch challenges.  I'm not usually the greatest at coming up with my own sketches so I'll take all the help I can get!  The ladies at Seize the Sketch have a great sketch this week and I couldn't wait to play along.

Another Christmas card...sorry!  Only a a few more weeks of Christmas cards and we'll move on!  I like to re-use my stamps (as you all know).  I know a lot of readers can't afford or choose not to buy every stamp set or even a lot of stamp sets so it's always fun to demonstrate different ways to use the same stamps.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler
Stamps: Ornament Keepsakes, Four the Holidays
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Versamark
Other: Holiday Ornaments Framelits, Basic Rhinestones, Circle Punch, Cherry Cobbler Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

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

Jen

Snowflake Day!

Hello!
A quick Sunday night post!  I had a few minutes (really, only a few minutes) to create a couple of cards this afternoon.  I had a vision in my mind of a card I wanted to create and decided to a couple in different colour combinations!  I think this maybe be "the card".  It's not exciting but it's simple and really, I'm a simple girl!

I started with the white background/red snowflake (below).  I must say, I do love a clean white background!  I moved onto the black and red after that!

I am not sure how I feel about brown and gold - though I must say they are usually my favourite colour combination!  I think it might be because I had to use pearls instead of jewels.

I finished with the blue and silver....I do love blue and silver as well!!!

These cards didn't take long to create which is the kind I like these days!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Midnight Muse, Early Espresso, Red Glimmer, Champagne Glimmer, Silver Foil
Ink: Versamark, Real Red
Stamps: Four the Holidays
Other:  Snowflake Punch, Silver Embossing Powder, Gold Embossing Powder, Basic Rhinestones, Basic Pearls, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Hope you have a fabulous week!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #51

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Yesterday was the first day of school here in Ontario and I sent one of my babes to school today!  Caleb had his first day of Grade 1 and came home happy, excited and looking forward to tomorrow.  Overall it sounds like he had a great day and he has two fantastic teachers!

Wednesday here means that it is also a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches!  Cindy Hall has brought us a great sketch this week!  Check out her blog if you want to see some beautiful cards!!!

I decided I had better get some Christmas cards done since that season will be upon us in no time at all. I really love the Champagne Glimmer Paper and try and use it whenever possible!  I decided to combine that with the Candlelight Specialty DSP.  I mixed in an ornament (stamped with Early Espresso Embossing Powder) from the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set to complete the card!  I used the Holiday Ornaments Framelits Die to cut out the glimmer cardstock then fussy cut around the stamped ornament!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Early Espresso (Core'dinations), Very Vanilla, Champagne Glimmer

DSP: Candlelight Specialty

Stamps: Four the Holidays (retired), Ornament Keepsakes 

Ink: Versarmark, Early Espresso

Other: Dimensionals, Basic Pearls, Finishing Touches Edgelits, Holiday Ormanents Framelits, 

Here is a picture of my little cutie on his first day of school!  I made the card he's holding in My Digital Studio (following a template from Heather Summer!).  Oh how the years are flying by too fast!