Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #368

Hello
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week!  How's the Christmas preparations coming along?  I think I'm done.  That being said, I'll probably discover in a few days that I wasn't as ready as I thought I was!   I'm getting over a bad cold that my youngest decided to share with me.  So far everyone else has stayed healthy so we're hoping that remains the case!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches courtesy of our designer down under, Narelle Farrugia!  Narelle creates gorgeous card often with intricately cut, beautiful flowers.  Be sure to check out her blog!

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for this card but I remembered I had some of the galvanized metal cardstock and an embossing folder that I had yet to try out!  Once I decided to use the galvanized metal, I knew that black, white and grey would work perfectly!

I don't really know where the scraps of DSP came from.  They were just sitting in a pile and worked really well together!  They are from SU though and they're probably retired!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Galvanized Metal, Silver Glimmer
DSP: SU retired
Stamps: LJD Birthday Greetings (MFT)
Ink: Black Stazon
Other: Tin Tile Embossing Folder, Oval Dies (Spellbinders), Dimensionals

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

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #366

Hello Everyone!

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great start to your week!  How's that Christmas shopping coming along?!  I'm happy to report that our tree is still standing.  Sprite has removed a few decorations.  She actually removes them with her teeth and then carries them around like she's a dog. She's more intrigued with my banana leaf nativity scene than the tree though.  I'm pretty sure one of the wisemen is going to bite the dust.  She has also knocked over a nutcracker.  And here I thought the Elf on the Shelf was naughty.

Okay, we have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the incredibly talented Cecile Ribon!  Cecile's cards are beautiful and always contain the most amazing die cuts and elements!  Please head over to her blog and check them out!

Okay so I'm a little behind on the Christmas cards.  Actually, I don't know if that's true or not.  I have to get everything ready tomorrow.  I'm almost done.  I have to admit that not everyone on my Christmas card list gets a handmade card anymore.  Don't get me wrong, I'd love to send handmade cards to everyone but I just can't.  It's not possible anymore.

Anyhow, I saw the tree on Cecile's sketch and knew that my Festival of Trees stamp from Stampin' Up would work perfectly.  I actually had to make this card rather quickly so I embossed a tree with silver embossing powder (I couldn't get a great picture) and put it all together.  That subtle texture embossing folder may be one of my new favourite toys! I threw on some sequins and called it a day!

We have some exciting news this week as well!!!  Our Freshly Made Sketches Team is doing a Design Team Call!!!  We would love for you to join our team!!!  We have a few prerequisites  (not many at all) so head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to check those out - and you can check out the Design Team's gorgeous cards in the process as well!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  We can't wait to see what you come up with this week!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #365

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Hope you're having a great week so far!  How's the Christmas decorating coming along at your house?  We have our tree up.  That's it.  It doesn't have lights on it and it's not decorated.  We decided we should probably do the tree in stages so that our "kitten" Sprite gets used to it since it's her first Christmas.  She doesn't seem concerned with the tree yet which is good but I fear she will try and eat the lights and my decorations may be history.  I guess we'll soon see!!!

We have a new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  I have the honour of being this week's hostess!  It's always fun being the hostess and coming up with a sketch.  We've had so many amazing cards in the gallery that it's often so hard to choose winners!  I'm super excited to see what you come up with!

Of course I'm still behind on my Christmas cards.  I'll probably never have them done.  Yes, I should start in January but I'm just never that motivated!

Anyhow, I hadn't intended to use this particular set for this card and actually started using a different set but this is what we ended up with.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Grey Granite
DSP: Festive Farmhouse
Stamps: Alpine Adventure
Ink: Smokey Slate, Cherry Cobbler
Other: Alpine Sports Thinlits, Clear Epoxy Drops, Subtle Texture Embossing Folder

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the gorgeous cards the Design Team has created for you!  You will not be disappointed!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #363

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great start to your week!   We're having a much better week here.  We had a very sick cat at our house last week.  She has a bacterial infection and she's now on some antibiotics that she does NOT enjoy at all.  She only has 3 doses left and then I hope she starts to perk up a bit.  It's been a tough go for her.  She's only 2 and she's the delight of Jacob's life so we're praying that within the next day or so she'll be back to being her normal self!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the amazing Kim Singdahlsen!  I absolutely love Kim's cards and love them so much that I made my Christmas list based on the stuff she uses to make her cards!!!  Die hard fan here!!!

I knew that I wanted to use my brand new Christmas Blessings Stamp set from Close to my Heart!  I just love it!  This is not the first card I made with this set.  I made a different one that planned on using for this week's challenge but then decided I wasn't quite sold on it and re-made it.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Gold Glimmer, Gold Foil
Stamps; Christmas Blessings (Close to my Heart)
Ink: Stazon Black
Other: Circle Dies (Spellbinders), Bitty Banners Framelits, 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 create for your inspiration!

Have a fantastic day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #363

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!  We had our first dusting of snow yesterday.  I wasn't too impressed.  You see, though I've lived in Canada my whole life and have spent every single winter surrounded by cold and snow, I truly believe in my heart of hearts that I really am Hawaiian and need to spend my winters where it's a consistent and lovely temperature with relatively low humidity!!!!  My family totally disagrees with me though! Oh well....

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is one of our amazing leaders Jen Timko!  Jen makes gorgeous cards.  She is a colouring guru and an ink master!!  Please had over to her blog to check out her creations!

I kinda knew what I wanted to make when I started creating this card.  It just took me a really long time to get there.  I don't know why.  I kept getting distracted and trying different colours and different papers and finally this is what I settled on!  Very simple.  Very, very simple.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Kraft
Patterned Paper: Festive Farmhouse
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree,  Star of Night
Ink: Versamark
Other: White Embossing Powder, White Bakers Twine, Glass dots, 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 girls have created as your inspiration!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #362

Hello
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!!!  We've had some crazy weather here with some wicked wind.  I was pretty sure I was going to end up in Oz!!!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week if the incredibly creative and funny Linda Callahan!  Linda makes amazing cards and always has great stories to tell so head on over to her blog to check them out!

So obviously I need some more Christmas cards.  Honestly, Christmas is going to be here before we know it!!  Anyhow, I seriously love this stamp set and knew it would work perfectly inside that giant circle! Of course I pretty much use black, white and gold for everything these days so this card is no exception!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Gold
Stamps: Wise Men From Afar
Ink: Basic Black, Versamark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Double Stitched Circle Dies (Lil Inkers), Subtle Texture Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the gorgeous cards the Design Team has created!  You will definitely be inspired!

Have a fantastic day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches #361

Happy Wednesday and Happy Halloween!
I hope you're having a great week so far.  I'm fighting a nasty cold and will probably be the one staying in handing out candy tonight unless I feel better.  I don't often get sick but when I do I tend to be very grouchy!  The kids are excited about tonight.  Jacob is being the Black Panther and Caleb is being a giant hotdog.  Hilarious!  I'm hoping we get lots of kids so that I can get rid of all of that candy that I have!!  None left for me to eat!

We have a great new sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Our hostess this week is the amazing Jen Mitchell!  Jen is the queen of elegant/clean and simple!  Her cards are gorgeous so head over to her blog and check it out!

Okay, so I definitely messed this sketch up!  I made this card a while ago and apparently was dreaming when I saw the sketch and then made my card.  I'm a little off.  I don't know what I was thinking!

My mom gave me Tropical Chic for my birthday and I just LOVE it!!  Such a fun set!  With this set you can totally make the most colourful cards!!  It's fantastic!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Stamps: Tropical Chic
Ink: Basic Black, Lovely Lipstick, Pineapple Punch, Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green
Other: Tropical Thinlits Dies, Subtle Textured Embossing Folder, Glitter Enamel Dots, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out the gorgeous card the Design Team has created!  You will definitely be inspired!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen