Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #245

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you've had a great week so far!  The boys and I are enjoying our first true week of summer vacation!  Last week was camp week at our church!  750 very excited kids! It was a great week and we ended the week very tired!!!  This week we are totally enjoying ourselves and will be treating ourselves to a trip to the Hockey Hall of Fame!

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our fabulous hostess in the amazing Jen Mitchell!  Jen's cards are so gorgeous!   Please hop on over to her blog and check them out!

I had been feeling rather uncreative since the end of camp.  I needed a thank you card for a friend of mine.  He is an amazing artist and gave my boys (all three of them) some hand drawn airplane prints. They are incredible and the boys love them.  I wanted to thank him for an airplane card since he's a plane lover himself!  I am not totally thrilled with the card but once the boys write notes in it, it will convey how truly thankful we are!

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Kraft, Whisper White, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight
Stamps: Send me Soaring, Another Thank You
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Sun 'n Clouds Confetti Cuts, 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 amazing cards the Design Team has created for you!!!

Have a fabulous day!!!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #241

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!  It's the middle of June and today is my parents anniversary!  Happy Anniversary mom and dad!  I hope you guys have a wonderful day!!!  

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches today!  Our fabulous hostess and head enabler is the one and only Karren Johnson!  Karren is incredibly talented and her cards always wow me!  Head on over to her blog to check them out!

Karren has a great sketch for us and it's super versatile.  Of course I had left my Father's Day cards to the very last moment.  I really have no idea how it's even possible that it's June!  I find it really hard to find great masculine images.  I knew I had this plane from the Send Me Soaring set and decided to use that.  I added some clouds and the sun because the card was a little empty.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight
Stamps: Send Me Soaring, And Many More
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Builders Border Set Die (Lil Inkers), Sun 'n Clouds Confetti Cuts (Reverse Confetti), 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 great cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches #48

Hello and Happy Wednesday!
I hope you're having a good week so far.  We had a rainy day here yesterday which meant that we were kinda stuck inside but Caleb had a friend over and the kids were occupied!  At least for a while!

We all know that Wednesday's mean that there is a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week's sketch is brought to us by the fabulous Tui Nathan!  I must confess I got the idea for my card from Ann Schach when I saw her Paper Players card this week!  I love the Open Sea and since my dad's birthday is approaching next week I thought this might work perfectly!

I used the colours from this week's The Paper Players challenge.  They just worked perfectly with the stamp set.  Sorry Ann this card looks so much like yours!

Please stop on by both blogs and check out what the design teams have created!  You won't be disappointed!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy

DSP: Nautical Expedition (Retired)

Ink: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Versamark

Other: White Embossing Powder, Silver Brads, Dimensionals

This is a photo of a little visitor we had to our backyard on Monday.  A little baby bunny.  It was so cute!  Our neighbour had the nest/burrow in their yard and there were 4 babies.  One of the babies managed to somehow find his or her way into our bunny proof backyard!  He is adorable though!

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Soaring Wishes

Hello!

I'm a little slow at getting around to my challenges from last week and this week!  I'm so ashamed!!!  It has been a crazy week and it's only going to get crazier!

The current CAS-ual Fridays challenge was to create a CAS (Clean and Simple) card using paper piecing.  I immediately thought of the "Send Me Soaring" stamp set from the Stampin' Up Occasions Mini Catalogue.  I knew one of the kites and the clouds would be perfect to use.



For anyone who doesn't understand paper piecing...that's when you cut out little pieces of paper (or big pieces depending on your image) and glue them into a stamped image.  I stamped the kite image first on my cardstock then again on my DSP and cut out the pieces and the glued them onto the stamped image on my cardstock.  I also stamped the cloud images on my whisper white cardstock and cut them out.  I realized after I finished my card that kites were a popular theme for this particular challenge!

If you're thinking that this card looks a lot like yesterday's card...it does...I'm sorry.  The kites just seemed to fit into the similar background I had used for my airplane valentine!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
DSP: Pacific Point and Daffodil Delight (Patterns Stack)
Stamps:  Send Me Soaring, Up Up and Away
Ink: Basic Black, Wild Wasabi, Bashful Blue
Other: Lattice Embossing Folder