Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #165

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  It's December!  How on earth did that happen?!  Christmas is coming super fast! I was wrapping some gifts this afternoon but let me tell you,  I'm not feeling too festive these days.  I think it's the strange weather we've been having.  Warm then cold but very little snow - seems so odd for this time of the year around here!  Hopefully over the next few weeks I start to feel a bit more Christmasy!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Cindy Lovell is our fabulous hostess this week.  She makes the most amazing cards.  You need to grab a coffee (or tea!) and head on over to her blog and enjoy each and every one of her creations!

This sketch proved a little more challenging that I had thought it would be!  I do like a challenge though!  I couldn't decide if I would make a Christmas card or a regular card!  Since I'm not feeling all that festive, a regular card won!  I wanted to create a fairly simple card and limit the layers.  I love layers on cards - but sometimes I just need a card that's very simple!

I so love the Kinda Eclectic stamp set.  I decided to stamp the background with Silver Encore ink.  It has a bit of sparkle in real light!  I tried different colours of butterflies but black showed up best.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Stamps: Kinda Eclectic, And Many More
Ink: Silver Encore, Blackberry Bliss, Basic Black
Other: Basic Rhinestones, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the amazing cards the Design Team has come up with for you!  We cannot wait to see what you create for us this week!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #158

Hello!
I hope you're having a great day!  Can you believe it's Wednesday already?!  I guess because we celebrated Thanksgiving on Monday and had a holiday, the week is flying by!  I love it!  We are definitely having a great week.

We have a a great new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is Jennifer Timko!  Jen makes such beautiful cards!  You need to go and check our her blog and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about!

I knew as soon as I saw this sketch that I wanted to get some practise with my Blendabilities and use a set that would require some colouring.  I haven't really used my Blendies much so I wanted to make sure they didn't get too dusty!  Of course I had to throw a butterfly in there!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Blackberry Bliss
DSP: Moonlight DSP Stack
Stamps: I Like You, Kinda Eclectic
Ink: Hello Honey, Memento Black
Other:  Bitty Butterfly Punch, Rich Razzleberry Blendabilities, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by!
I hope you can head over to the Freshly Made Sketches to check out the beautiful cards the design team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #156

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Hope you're having a great week!  We've been having great weather here and I do wish it would last longer!  Today is my Halloween wreath making class that I'm super excited about.  I think the girls are going to love these wreaths!  I mean, who doesn't love a super cute bead spider?

We have a great new challenge at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the amazing Narelle Farrugia.  She has created a great sketch for us!  Narelle is the queen of beautiful cards, amazing layers and fabulous flowers!

I must admit (shamefully) that this sketch sent me for a loop and it wasn't the circle that gave me grief.  It was just the whole thing.  This card is version #4.  It also doesn't look quite as nice in the picture as it does in person.  We had a cloudy day on Tuesday so my lighting wasn't the greatest.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Island Indigo, Silver Glimmer
DSP: Winter Frost Specialty
Stamps: Flower Patch, And Many More, Kinda Eclectic
Ink: Basic Black, Silver, Island Indigo, Pool Party
Other: Sequins, Flower Fair Framelits, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Please head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the amazing cards the Design Team has created!  You will not be disappointed!  I'm so fortunate to be part of this great team!

I hope you have a amazing day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #146

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Hope you are having a great week!  The boys and I are enjoying another week together!  We've had lots of fun and enjoyed each other's company!  They started their summer Project Life albums!  Caleb took to it right away and loved using the journalling cards and some stamps!  How I love that Stampin' Up and Project Life have teamed up together!!!!  I apologize for my complete lack of cards lately.  Having the boys home all the time means zero time for card making during the day and generally complete exhaustion by the time I get them to bed!

Today we have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches from the incredibly creative Amy O'Neill.  Her cards are so beautiful!  I love scrolling through her blog and drooling!

At first this sketch had me sweating!  I saw that flower and what I really saw was a big ol' circle!  I started to stress but I love the Kinda Eclectic stamp set and knew that I really wanted to use it on this card.

My dear friend Jenn graciously provided her swimming pool for us to use for our lessons a few days this week as the pool we were slotted to use has a broken heater and is freezing cold!  I wanted to have a card to thank her for coming to our rescue!  The "You Made My Day" stamp in the "And Many More" stamp set was perfect for this card!  I decided to emboss that and the butterflies in gold! I threw on some sequins and voila!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Blackblerry Bliss
Stamps: Kinda Eclectic, And Many More
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Versamark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Vellum, Gold Sequins, Basic Pearls

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please hop on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to have a peek at 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 Challenge #143

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!   I hope you're having a great week!  I am loving summer holidays!  They couldn't have come soon enough!  I am very sorry that I haven't been posting much.  Our church's summer camp is next week and my friend and I are in charge of the card making elective so I have been going crazy getting projects ready for camp!  Now all my "stuff" is packed up and I'm not sure when (or how!) I'll make my next card!

We have a great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches today!  Cindy Lovell has created a beauty for us!  Cindy is so incredibly talented and creates the most amazing cards!  I could spend hours looking at her blog!

I had a few minutes to open the my box of goodies from the new catalogue.  I love the "Kinda Eclectic" stamp set.  It's so fun to work with and of course I love the butterflies!  I couldn't wait to work with it!  I saw this evil circle on the sketch and knew right away what I would do!  Take that circle element!!!!  I tried different "banners" with a sentiment on it but nothing worked.  I decided I would try stamping directly on some natural ribbon.  I flipped the chevron ribbon over and voila!  It suited the card better than anything else I had tried!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamps: Kinda Eclectic, Another Thank You
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Pool Party
Other: Chevron Natural Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Small Butterfly Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Please make sure you check out the Freshly Made Sketches blog!  The Design Team has once again created some amazing cards!  I am so fortunate to be working with such a creative bunch!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen