Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #608

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!  We are enjoying our last week of fall before winter makes its grand entrance next week.  The highs next week are mostly below zero and there's some snow in the forecast.  I'm not quite ready for it but I guess I don't have much of a choice.  The kids and Trevor are getting super excited for ski season!  I call it "meet Jesus season".  I'm pretty sure one of these days I'll have a wipe out and break something!  Maybe this year I'll get out there and absolutely love it!  

We've got a brand new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches today!  Our hostess this week is our creative Canadian/Californian Jacquie Southas!  Jacquie's cards are beautiful and always so fun so head over to her blog and check them out!  

So I took one look at this sketch and decided that running away would be my best bet!  Actually, that's not true.  I made an anniversary card for my husband with it but I have no idea where he put it so I couldn't take a picture of it and he's away this week!  Plus I wasn't overly thrilled with that particular card.  I tried using butterflies but they didn't look right and then I realized these banners look like upside down pine trees!  Winner, winner, chicken dinner!  Pine trees it is!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Hammermill White, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Shaded Spruce

Stamps: Itty Bitty Gifting (MFT)

Ink: Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Shaded Spruce, Craft White (All SU)

Other: Pine Wood Dies (SU), Evergreens (Taylored Expressions), Itty Bitty Strips (MFT)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and join in our challenge this week!  We sure would love to have you play along!  If you need inspiration, you'll find it on the blog as well!  There are some gorgeous cards posted by the team!

Have an amazing day!
Jen

 

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #556

Happy Wednesday!  

I hope you're having a great start to the week!  We've been having the most beautiful weather here!  Last year about this time it was much cooler and we had snow on Thanksgiving weekend.  We've had beautiful sunshine and and warm temperatures and we will totally take it all in!  The warm weather has lengthened our hiking season which is amazing!  We did an incredible one last weekend.  We hiked up Mount Sparrowhawk which was our first 10,000 footer!  It was a grind but oh so amazing!  Check out the view below!  

We've got a fantastic sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is our colour guru Amy O'Neill!  Amy's cards are always so pretty!  Head over to her blog to check out her creativity! 

If I said this was my first rendition of this sketch, I would totally be lying.  Same if I said it was the second or third rendition!  Seriously, this one almost did me in!  Honestly.  Sometimes the mojo just isn't flowing!

I had this bear sitting on my desk and I happen to love a sweet grizzly so I knew I would have to make a card around him!  I had this fall paper still sitting out and decided I wanted to use it up while it was still fall!  Voila!  Card is made!  It's definitely not my favourite but I wanted a more masculine card!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Soft Suede, Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Basic White

Paper: Plaid Fever (Echo Park)

Stamps: Little Birthday Notes (MFT)

Ink: Basic Black

Other: Woodland Silhouettes 2 (Taylored Expressions), Pine Woods Dies (SU), Double Stitched Circles (Lil Inkers), Tasteful Label Dies, Dimensionals

 

We met a couple of people on the summit - all previously from Ontario who offered to take our picture!  So nice to have a pic that isn't a selfie!

The incredible view from the top!

Sometimes you encounter wild animals!  These are mountain sheep.  They are generally easy going - if they're female but these moms had babies with them.  We kept our distance but the herd was blocking the trail so we had to bang our hiking poles together to get them to move along!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you will head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and join in this week's challenge!  We always love seeing the amazing cards that get entered in the challenge each week!  We definitely have a creative group that participates!

Have an amazing day!
Jen

 

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #539

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!  We've had a bit of rain over the last couple of days and we're so thankful.  I have never lived anywhere that went this long without rain.  Everything looks so green and happy now!  If it could just warm up a bit it would be wonderful!  

We've got a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the fabulous Jennifer Timko!  Jen's card are gorgeous and I'm always wow'd by her creativity!  Head over to her blog and check them out!  

 

So I flipped this sketch around a bit since my bear die was pointed the other way!  I'm pretty sure that's okay!  I'm not totally thrilled with this card but I totally lack creativity and supplies when it comes to making masculine cards (especially Father's Day cards)!  I think I need to focus on that a bit more!  Push myself out of the floral/feminine card design!

I've always made this bear out of black cardstock before but now I know this guy is a grizzly (note the hump behind his shoulders) so he's now brown!  Yes, grizzlies can be really dark or really light but this guy is just brown!  

Supplies:

Cardstock: Early Espresso, Wild Wasabi, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green

DSP: Peaceful Prints (retired)

Stamps: Handsomely Suited

Ink: Early Espresso

Other: Bear Die (Taylored Expressions), Pine Woods Dies, Evergreens (Taylored Expressions), Tasteful Labels Dies

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and take a peek!  We also hope you'll join in our challenge this week!  The Design Team has got some beautiful cards to inspire you!

Have an amazing day!

Jen