Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #239

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Can you believe it's June 1st already?!  I can't.  I totally thought there was another week left in May.  I was totally shocked on Monday to realize that June was coming faster than I thought!  I also can't believe the new Stampin' Up Catalogue goes live today!  I feel like this year flew by a lot faster than I wanted it to!

Since it's Wednesday, we have a great new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our amazing hostess this week is none other than the incredibly talented Cindy Hall!  Cindy makes beautiful cards!  You need to head to her blog and check out her creations!

I started out with a simple card (see below).  It didn't take long and I do like the green but I decided it was a little too simple and that I would need to beef it up a little!  I decided I would get a head start on the teacher cards I need for later in June!  I used the Class Act stamp set from Reverse Confetti!  I think I should have embossed the white but I didn't think of it until after I had the card all put together!

Supplies:
Card#1
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Stamps: Class Act
Ink: Stazon Black, Real Red, Pool Party, Cucumber Crush
Other: Class Act Confetti Cuts,  Spiral notebook punch, Dimensionals

Card#2
Cardstock: Whisper White
DSP: Cherry on Top DSP Stack
Stamps: Just Sayin'
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Word Bubbles Framelits Dies, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches Blog to see the amazing cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #159

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Hope you're having a great week so far!  We've started out our week with a fair bit of rain and cloud.  I'm looking forward to a few days of sunshine again!  The leaves have been so beautiful but we need some sunshine to enjoy the last few days of them staying on the trees!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week our fabulous hostess is Jen Mitchell!  Jen makes the most amazing cards and you need to head over to her blog to check out those beauties!

Surprisingly despite that giant circle on this card, it didn't take me long to come up with an idea!  I may have celebrated my "30th" birthday again this past weekend and now need some thank you cards to thank some very special people who spoiled me rotten!

I decided to use a word bubble instead of a circle and the Just Sayin' stamp set worked just perfectly! I needed a little texture on that small square panel and I couldn't help but use the polka dot textured embossing folder!

The card needed a little something else so I decided to emboss some of the flowers from the Pictogram Punches stamp set!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Stamps: Pictogram Punches, Just Sayin'
Ink: Versamark
Other: Word Bubbles Framelits, Polka Dot Textured Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Accents Punches (Flower Punch), Silver Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the beautiful cards the Design Team has created for you!  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches #141

Hey There!
It's Wednesday!  Halfway through the week already!  The boys don't have much school left!  I get sad thinking that my baby is going into Grade 1 next year.  How is that even possible?  I've been busy the last few days getting stuff ready for our Church's summer camp.  My friend Julie and I are running a card making elective so I've been cutting up a storm.  I took a break tonight as I'm exhausted and figure I could make a cutting error!

We have a great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  The incredibly talented Cindy Hall has come up with a beauty for us!  I had such a great time playing with this one!

I couldn't help but use the new Moonlight DSP paper stack!  I love the look of Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey together!  Throw in some Smoky slate and I'm sold!!!

I decided to add some faux stitching and a jewel to the banner to add a little pizzazz.  I embossed the smoky slate panel with the honeycomb embossing folder...I needed a little extra texture!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Smoky Slate, Whisper White
DSP: Moonlight DSP Stack
Stamps: Just Sayin'
Ink: Blackberry Bliss
Other: Basic Rhinestone, White Gel Pen, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Word Bubbles Framelits, Dimensionals


Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please check out the Freshly Made Sketches blog and see what the design team has created for you!  You will not be disappointed!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #127

Hello!
I trust you're having a great week!  The kids and I are on our March break and spending a fabulous week with my mom and dad (Papa and Grannie) in Pembroke!  The boys are in heaven and have been having so much fun!  They sure do love being here!  I think I've put on 5 lbs (at least) since I arrived!  Why oh why does everything taste so much better here?!

Today brings us a fabulous new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week's sketch is courtesy of the amazing Jennifer Timko!  I really do love Jen's sketch and how versatile it is!  I decided I needed to turn it on it's side though!  Not sure why but I think I may have just put it together wrong!!!!

I believe that my red banner is on crooked...sigh....happens more often than it should!  I threw the sequins on because they had just arrived in my order before we left to come to my mom's house and I couldn't resist throwing them in the luggage and bringing them along!  They are quite fun!

I originally had the banner plain (not embossed) but it looked a little too boring so I embossed it using the chevron embossing folder!  I added a Bitty Button and some punched some Fresh Prints DSP Stack to put behind it!  I am loving that Fresh Prints DSP Stack!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Costal Cabana, Real Red, Whisper White
DSP: Fresh Prints DSP Stack
Stamps: Just Sayin'
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Bitty Button, Bitty Button Punch, Cherry Cobbler Bakers Twine, Sequins, Dimensionals, Chevron Embossing Folder, Word Bubbles Framelits, Banners Framelits


A few pictures of our fun at Grannie and Papa's!  My parents neighbours have let us use their rink while they're away!  The boys have LOVED it!  The bottom picture is from the Canadian Air Force Museum!  The boys were so excited to sit in those chairs!  They both want to be Air Force Pilots one day!

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

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

Have a great day!!!

Jen

Retro (Fresh) Sketches!

Hello!
How is the week going?  We had a busy day here!  I must say that I am a little tired!  I like to treat my boys teachers to chocolate covered strawberries for Valentine's Day.   I like to make them myself and really enjoy doing it so that was what I was doing this morning!  I took them into the teachers today since I don't plan on being in at the school tomorrow!

I had made some cards for the retro sketches challenge a while ago and realized I hadn't posted them!  I love the new sketch at retro sketches and actually made 3 cards with it!!!  I was on a roll!!!

I do love the new Retro Fresh DSP!  I love the colours and it fits in perfectly with my neutral phase!!!  The Just Sayin' stamp set is also one of my favourites and I wish I could use it on every card!  I threw some random pearls on the card just to add a little something.  I also discovered I'm not very good at random!    The little arrow is from the Label Card Thinlits Die!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Costal Cabana, Crushed Curry
DSP: Retro Fresh
Stamps: Just Sayin'
Ink: Versamark
Other: Word Bubbles Framelits, Basic Pearls, Label Card Thinlits, White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!  I'll be doing another couple of posts with this sketch!!  Hope you don't get bored!!!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #121

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I can't believe it's Wednesday already!  Yesterday was a busy day...very busy!  I was at the school most of the day trying to get their home reading books organized and re-distributed.  I had boot camp last night since Trevor is away (again) tonight.  Wow - she worked us hard!

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  The talented Linda Callahan is our hostess this week and she has come up with a fabulous sketch for you!  I loved it!

Of course I've got Valentine's Day on the brain!  I have one more card to share and then I may have to put the lid on it and move onto bigger things - like my husband's birthday card!  Yikes!!!

I wanted to keep this card simple and clean!  I do love the "Just Sayin" speech bubbles!  They are so fun to work with and since they have coordinating framelit dies, they are super easy to use!!!!  What more could one want?!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Red Glimmer
Stamps: Just Sayin'
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Hearts a Flutter Framelits, Word Bubbles Framelits, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!

Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and see the fabulous cards the design team has created for you!!!  You won't be disappointed!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen