Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #164

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Can you believe it's Wednesday already?!  Where has the week gone?  December is creeping up so fast!  I do believe that Christmas is less than a month away!  Are you ready?  I'm not quite there yet!  I think this weekend we will try and get the Christmas tree up!  Still seems too early for some reason though!

We have a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  I have the privilege of being this week's hostess!  I always have a hard time coming up with a sketch! I wanted a sketch that would be clean and versatile.  Sometimes that's easier said than done!

I have a few more nature themed cards to work on and I wanted to get out my Pleasant Poppies stamp set.  I love those poppies.  I think I need to use them more often.  They always strike me as so regal.

I don't have any cherry cobbler blendabilities yet and I don't have any copics and me and a blender pen don't get along very well so this card involved me cutting out those poppies.  What I've learned from this is that I don't see as well at night as I would like!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red
Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Perfect Pennants
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Banners Framelits, Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the other beautiful cards the design team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #149

Hello!
Hope you're having a great week!   So glad you've stopped by!  We are having a good week here in Burlington.  The weather has been a little warmer this week but still not the summer I had been anticipating!  The boys and I are headed to the Brantford Zoo today for a little excursion.  Thankfully the zoo isn't big and the boys can run around and have a great time together (hopefully!).

Today, being Wednesday means another great sketch for us at Freshly Made Sketches!  This one is brought to us by the talented Rita Wright!  I love Rita's cards!  Did you see her card last week?!  So fun!  Today's sketch is fabulous.  Of course I had to be the rebel and turn it the other way.  If you actually knew me you would know how far from a rebel I truly am!  Right mom!!!!

I had trouble with the sketch to start with.  I think that's why I turned it.  I liked a horizontal panel better than a vertical one.  Now, this card is going to be for my dad.  It's not very masculine but I find masculine cards so hard to make and this one seemed to be the one that came together!  My dad turns 65 next week.  Shhh....don't tell him I told you!  I was tired of making him cards with ships on them!  I wanted to branch out and be different.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Basic Grey, Blackberry Bliss
DSP: Moonlight DSP Stack
Stamps: Banner Blast, Perfect Pennants
Ink: Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Versamark
Other: Silver Embossing Powder, Lattice TIEF, Mini Banner Punch, Silver Elastic Cord, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I do hope you'll head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out what the design team has created for your viewing pleasure!  You won't be disappointed!

I hope you have a  fabulous day!

Jen!

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #128

Hello (again!)
Happy Wednesday!  I can't believe how quickly Wednesday came around!  I must say I am a big fan of Wednesdays!  It's bathroom cleaning and bootcamp day!  Some of you might think I'm crazy but I do love clean bathrooms and who doesn't love a night at bootcamp with some great girls?!

Today brings us a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week's hostess is Rita Wright!  She has been totally rocking this online course most of our Design Team has been taking together!  Check out her blog to see the fabulous cards she's been churning out the last few days!

I was a little stumped with the sketch at first!  I had something else in mind for this card when I started out but changed my mind since I really wanted to use the Hardwood background stamp!  I decided to spare you using Basic Grey and yellow again and chose Raspberry Ripple instead!!!  I also realized I hadn't used the Hexagon die yet and wanted to give that a whirl!

I saved some of the punched out hexagons and attached them with dimensionals to give the card a bit of lift!  I threw on some rhinestones as well because I simply can't imagine a card without bling!!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Grey, Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White
Stamps: Hardwood, Perfect Pennants
Ink: Basic Grey
Other: Basic Rhinestones, Hexagon Die, Banners Framelits, Raspberry Ripple Ribbon, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you hop on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog!  The design team has created some fantastic cards!  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #122

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  They are calling for a pile of snow here so we shall see what really happens!  I think we have enough snow and spring can come any time!!!  I am wondering if school will be cancelled today...probably not, this is Canada!

We have a brand new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  The fabulously talented Cindy Hall has come up with a great sketch for us!

There was a birthday at our house earlier in the week!  My darling husband celebrated his birthday on Monday!  He's a hard guy to make cards for - though he always loves and appreciates whatever I make!  I used this week's sketch to create his birthday card!   I tried to make it as manly as I could!  He probably would have preferred it if it had an airplane on it!

Supplies: 
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Silver
DSP: Festival of Prints DSP Pack (Retired)
Stamps: Perfect Pennants
Ink: Versamark
Other: Candy Dots, Banners Framelits, Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder

Thanks for stopping by!  Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the beautiful cards our design team has created!  We can't wait to see what you create!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

CAS(E) This Sketch Birthday

Hello!

Sorry I've been MIA the last few days!  I even had a few cards to post but Friday afternoon I started to come down with that crazy flu that's going around and even today haven't been able to move around much.  I have never felt aches and chills like that before!  I am feeling a bit better but still have a long way to go!  

Last week I saw the new sketch at CAS(E) this sketch and thought I needed to make a card to go along with it.  

I wanted to leave a lot of white space...I tend to like white space for some reason!  I had to try out the Banners Framelits again and their corresponding stamps!  I embossed the stitching on there to add a little pizzazz!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Coastal Cabana
DSP: Retro Fresh
Stamps: Perfect Pennants
Ink: Versamark
Other: Needlepoint Border Textured Impressions, White Embossing Powder, Basic Rhinestones, Banners Framelits

Thanks for stopping by!
I hope to be back tomorrow with another card!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #118

Hello and Happy New Year!
I trust everyone had a great Christmas and New Years!  I was so thankful to have a two week break and enjoyed the time with my family!  I didn't craft once over the holidays and it was wonderful!  I relaxed and just enjoyed being able to do nothing!

We are back at Freshly Made Sketches with another fabulous addition to our Design Team!  We welcome the very talented Karren Johnson to our team!  I have admired her work for a long time and we are so glad she has joined us!

This week's sketch is brought to us courtesy of Jen Mitchell!  I must say her cards always wow me!  Her sketch is fabulous and so versatile this week, though I must say that it did stump me. I think my brain is still in relax mode!

I decided to haul out a few things from the new Occasions Catalogue!  Who doesn't like fun new things!    I do love the Retro Fresh DSP!  The Perfect Pennants stamps and framelits and who doesn't love natural chevron trim?!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Baked Brown Sugar, So Saffron,
DSP: Retro Fresh
Stamps: Perfect Pennants
Ink: Versamark
Other: White Embossing Powder, Basic Pearls, Natural Chevron Trim, Banners Framelits, Square Lattice TIEF, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!  Please head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check out what the Design Team has created!  You won't be disappointed!!!!

Have a fabulous day!
Jen