Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #233

Hello!
Happy Wednesday friends!  I hope you're having a great week!  We had some amazing weather this past weekend!  It was so fun to get out and enjoy the beautiful sunshine!  I think the kids were aiming to see how many different sports they could play outside in one day!  We had hockey, basketball, scooter, bikes and golf going!  They were so tired when they finally came in!  It was perfect!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the amazing, Artisan Design Team member Amy O'Neill!  Amy creates the most beautiful cards.  She has a way with colour and embellishments!

Okay, so you can see the circle hiding in there right?!  I knew that I'd have to dig deep on this one!  I love the Circle Scribbles stamps by My Favourite Things.  I decided to colour some flowers up  with my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers.  They are so fun and I do have fun with them!  I decided to use a strip of vellum across the back rather than trying to pick a colour.   I wanted to keep the background simple so the flowers would really and out!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Watercolour paper
Paper: Vellum
Stamps: LJD Circle Scribbles, LJD Blissful Butterflies (Both My Favourite Things)
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Circle Scribbles Die-namics, Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers,  Double Stitched Squares (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll pop over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out the beautiful cards the Design Team has come up with!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #222

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Today just happens to be my husband's birthday!  I won't mention which one but let's say that a really big one is coming very soon!  Thankfully he's a really easy going guy so he doesn't care what we have for dinner tonight and his request for a cake was actually just chocolate cupcakes!  I find it hard to believe that we've known each other for 29 years!  Doesn't seem even possible!!!  I'm sure I'm not a day over 20 myself!!!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our amazing hostess this week is Narelle Farrugia!  Narelle's cards are always magnificent creations.  She creates the most gorgeous layers and she is the most patient cutter outer there is!

This isn't my husband's birthday card.  Don't get excited! I didn't give him one with flowers and bling on it!!!
I do love these Circle Scribbles stamps from My Favourite Things!  They are super fun and even more fun to colour!  Of course I had to use my new Zig Clean Colour Real Brush markers again!  I just love colouring with them!

I had a hard time getting the "banners" right on this card.  I tried many, many, many combinations.  I'm not happy with this one either but alas, I had to pick something!  Sometimes I question myself!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Watercolour (Canson)
Stamps: LJD Circle Scribbles (MFT),  LJD Blissful Butterflies (MFT)
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Circle Scribbles Die-namics, Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers, Double Stitched Squares (Lil' Inkers), Stitched Banner (Lil' Inkers),  Double Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Basic Rhinestones

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the Design Team's beautiful cards!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #221

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week!  If you are living along the Eastern Seaboard I hope you have dug yourself out of the crazy amounts of snow you have received.  Much to the dismay of my boys, we have lost all the snow that we had.  It rained all night on Monday and was above freezing so our snow is gone.  I won't complain but the kids now have a very wet, muddy playground at school.  My boys would definitely take snow over mud!

We have a great new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches today!  Our hostess this week is the fabulous Karren Johnson!  Karren is uber creative and I love her cards!  You need to stop by her blog today and be amazed!

Strangely enough, I already had this card half created when I saw Karren's sketch!  I am still using my MSTN Cute Critters stamps!  I have posted a few cards on my Facebook page (that I haven't necessarily blogged).  I coloured my little fox with my Zig Clear Colour Real Brush Markers.  Oh how I love them!  I could colour all day!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, More Mustard (Retired), Watercolour Paper (Canson)
Stamps: MSTN Cute Critters (My Favourite Things), Hey Foxy (Lil' Inkers)
Ink: Black Stazon
Other: Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers, Cute Critters Die-namics, Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Sequins (SU), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  I'm so glad you did!
Please head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a wonderful day!
Jen

CAS(E) This Sketch Poppies

Hello!
I don't often get a chance to do a blog post in-between my Freshly Made sketches posts!  I saw the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge today and knew I had to play and new I wanted to use this new set I got from My Favourite Things!

I love poppies!  I don't know why but I do!  They're so pretty!  I don't know if I've ever even seen a real one!!!!  Oh, I've been informed that my mother grows them so I guess I have seen a real one!  Just not a real red one!!!! I wanted to use traditional red.  I love red, black and white together!  I was going to use the die to cut the flowers out but also wanted to keep this card flat!

Supplies;
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Stamps: LJD Pretty Poppies (MFT)
Ink: Stazon Black, Real Red, Versamark
Other: White Embossing Powder, Sequins (SU)

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #218

Hello and Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday and enjoyed some time with their families.  We had a lovely visit with my parents and with my husband's parents.  My kids love being with their Grannie and Papa.  They sure hate leaving!  I do too!  We didn't have a white Christmas but we did end up getting some snow before we came back home!  The temperatures have returned to what they should be (much to my disgust!) but I see the long range forecast has some warmer weather in the future!

We are back in business at Freshly Made Sketches and the amazing Kim Singdahlsen has the first sketch of 2016!  Kim makes such amazing cards!  I would love to go and play in her craft room some time with all of her fun stamps!!!  Head over to her blog to take a look at her beautiful cards!

I was blessed with some fun new stamps for Christmas!  I may have also been blessed with some new Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers.  I do believe I'm in love!  I find Copics too challenging and I do love the look of watercolour!  These markers do what I need them to and make such fun colours!  Unfortunately the lighting did no cooperate with me for this photo and you can't truly see how fun these colours are!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Paper: Water colour paper (Canson)
Stamps: LJD Circle Scribbles (My Favourite Things), Awesome Blossom Stamps (Lil' Inkers)
Ink: Stazon
Other: Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers, Dimensionals, Die-namics LJD Circle Scribbles, Basic Rhinestones, Watercolour Brush

Thanks for stopping in today!  Please take some time to head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen