Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #320

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great start to your week!  We've got a bit of snow on the ground right now so the kids are happy.  They like to play in the snow at school and they both really like to shovel snow.  There is rain in the forecast though so I'm assuming our snow will disappear - which I don't mind but leads to lots of indoor recesses and squirmy kids!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches courtesy of the amazingly talented Kim Singdahlsen.  Kim's cards are fantastic and she comes up with the best designs!  I could totally go and play in her craft room for hours too!  I've always wanted to visit Colorado!

I must admit that at first I was a little stumped with this design.  I started to panic a bit but then realized that I needed a baby card for my sister in law who had a baby early in December.  Now, don't think I'm a slacker and just sending the card now!  Kim had her sketch ready super duper early because she's amazing and so my card was done a LONG time ago!!!  I decided to stick with the heart theme, added some glimmer pink, threw in some texture and voila.  A card to welcome my first niece!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Glimmer Pink (Non-SU)
Stamps: Sentiment Flag Additions (Lil Inkers)
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Pinewood Planks Embossing Folder, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Stitched Flags Die (Lil Inkers), Hearts Dies (Spellbinders), Dimenaionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the amazing cards the Design Team has created!  You can also welcome our Guest Designer Teresa Kline to the team!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #238

Happy Wednesday!
I can't believe it's Wednesday already!  Monday was a holiday here in Canada (Victoria Day) so I'm all mixed up with what day it is!  I went around all day thinking it was Monday!  I almost forgot to do my post thinking I had an extra day!  Oh how these long weekends mess with my head!  We did have a gorgeous weekend though and have started the week off with some super warm summer weather!  I love it!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches courtesy of the amazing Kim Singdahlsen.  Kim makes beautiful cards!  I mean, truly amazing cards.  She is one of the chief enablers on our team!!!

Okay, you may find this scary (or amusing) but when I saw Kim's sketch, I saw circles!  I knew right away I wanted to use my PTI Dot Spot stamp set.  I had it out to do a card for camp and realized it would work perfectly with the sketch!  I used clear embossing powder on the coloured cardstock!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green
Stamps: Sentiment Flags (Lil' Inkers), Dot Spot (PTI)
Ink: Versarmark, Stazon Black
Other: Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Clear Embossing Powder, Circle Punches, Stitched Flag Die (Lil' Inkers), Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head 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 #226

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you've had a great start to your week!  We are hoping that today is a snow day (since I'm writing this at night I really have not idea what's in store)!  Last night it was snowing like crazy!  The wind was so strong and it was absolutely nasty out.  The boys prayed so hard for a snow day.  I think I'm praying for a school day!!!!

We have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  Our amazing hostess is our colouring champion Rita Wright!  Grab your coffee and head over to Rita's blog to check out her fabulous cards!

I love how versatile Rita's sketch is!  I also love that she used a butterfly not a circle!  Though you can use whatever shape you want, the butterfly is way less intimidating!   I started with the card at the top.  I wanted to do something other than black and white cards.  I love grey and yellow together and so thought I'd start with that.  the flower was a little more challenging because I had trouble finding who colours that worked.  It ended up being white and silver!

I then made the bottom card and yes, I realize that it's black and white.  I have a customer who wanted several black and white birthday cards.  I'm hoping this one will work.

Supplies: 
Cardstock: Basic Grey, Whisper White, Smokey Slate, Basic Black, Silver
DSP: Cherry on Top DSP Stack
Stamps: LJD Pretty Poppies (Top card), And Many More (bottom card)
Ink: Black Stazon
Other: Falling snow Embossing Folder, Stitched Flag Die (Lil Inkers), Quilted Flower Die (Lil Inkers), Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Please head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the amazing cards the design team has created for you!  You will not be disappointed!

Have a wonderful day!
Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #223

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I'm sorry I haven't has as many new cards posted lately.  It's been a busy week.  Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get back into the craft room!  

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our fabulous hostess in the one and only Amy O'Neill.  Amy designs such amazing cards and I love her colour combinations and creative designs!

So, shockingly, the first thing I tried with this card didn't work out!  I wanted to make this into a Valentine's Day card.  I tired a few different things but nothing worked out.  I found my Awesome Blossom Stamps from Lil' Inkers and knew that I would love to ink them up!  Of course then I ran into a sentiment issue but finally decided to use the Sentiments Flag Original Stamps!  Because of the way I made my flower ring, I couldn't put my sentiment across the bottom of the circle like in the sketch.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Silver
Stamps: Awesome Blossom, Sentiments Flag Original
Ink: Cucumber Crush, Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Pool party, Island Indigo, Watermelon Wonder, So Saffron, Stazon Black
Other: Double Stitched Circles (Lil' Inkers), Stitched Flag (Lil' Inkers), Circle Banners Dies (Lil' Inkers), Dimensionals

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

We can't wait to see what you come up with this week!

Have a great day!

Jen