Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #148

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week!  We are totally enjoying a fabulous week with my mom and dad!  Jacob is having his vacation week!  He was super excited to stay (as long as mom and Caleb stayed too!).  Today we took a trip to Ottawa and visited the Museum of Nature and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum!  Both were big hits!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches courtesy of the fabulous Jen Mitchell!  I am always inspired by the amazing cards that Jen creates!  For the month of August we have a fabulous new designer with us!  Please welcome Kim Singdalhsen to our little group!  Please stop by her blog and show her some love!

I wanted to keep my card fairly simple.  I decided to go with a black and white look.  Of course I needed to throw in some silver.  That wasn't quite enough.  It needed a something little extra so I added a pop of red in there to give it some pizzazz.  I used the new Amazing Birthday stamp set!  Super fun to work with!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Silver
Stamps: Amazing Birthday
Ink: Basic Black, Real Red, Versamark
Other: Silver Embossing Powder, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches Blog to check out the fabulous creations the Design Team has come up with!  You won't be disappointed!

Have a wonderful day!

Jen!

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #147

Hello!
Welcome to Wednesday!  I hope you're having a great week so far!  I am having a good week with Jacob!  Caleb is enjoying his "vacation" with my mom and dad!  Jake and I will be joining him next week so Jacob can have a vacation as well.  Jake does well for a night or two by himself but then starts to miss Mom and Caleb.  He has been going on already about how much he misses his brother.  I have no idea how he could do two weeks without him!

We have a great new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  The incredibly talented Jennifer Timko has created this beauty for us!  If you want to see some amazing creations, you need to check out my friend Jen's blog!  She is one creative lady!

So, this sketch threw me for a loop!  I tried a whole pile of different combinations.  This is the one that stuck.   In hindsight I should have matted the stripes but I wanted to keep the card simple.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Hello Honey
DSP: Moonlight DSP Stack
Stamps: Endless Wishes
Ink: Hello Honey
Other: Vintage Faceted Buttons, Gold Sequins, Bakers Twine, Dimensionals

Thanks again for stopping by today!
Please go and check out the Freshly Made Sketches blog and see what wonderful cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #146

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Hope you are having a great week!  The boys and I are enjoying another week together!  We've had lots of fun and enjoyed each other's company!  They started their summer Project Life albums!  Caleb took to it right away and loved using the journalling cards and some stamps!  How I love that Stampin' Up and Project Life have teamed up together!!!!  I apologize for my complete lack of cards lately.  Having the boys home all the time means zero time for card making during the day and generally complete exhaustion by the time I get them to bed!

Today we have a great new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches from the incredibly creative Amy O'Neill.  Her cards are so beautiful!  I love scrolling through her blog and drooling!

At first this sketch had me sweating!  I saw that flower and what I really saw was a big ol' circle!  I started to stress but I love the Kinda Eclectic stamp set and knew that I really wanted to use it on this card.

My dear friend Jenn graciously provided her swimming pool for us to use for our lessons a few days this week as the pool we were slotted to use has a broken heater and is freezing cold!  I wanted to have a card to thank her for coming to our rescue!  The "You Made My Day" stamp in the "And Many More" stamp set was perfect for this card!  I decided to emboss that and the butterflies in gold! I threw on some sequins and voila!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Blackblerry Bliss
Stamps: Kinda Eclectic, And Many More
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Versamark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Vellum, Gold Sequins, Basic Pearls

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please hop on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog to have a peek at the beautiful cards the Design Team has created for you!  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #145

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!  I'm so sorry that this post is only getting up this morning!  I remembered as I was heading out the door last night that I hadn't sat down and gotten it ready!  It was too late when I got home but I knew I would have time in the morning!!!

I hope you're having a great summer so far!  We had a great week at Harvest Kids Camp last week!  What an amazing week!  We had 827 kids who were very full of energy!  25 of those kids spent their week with me and my friend Julie and we introduced them to the world of stamping and card making!  What a hoot!

We had a brand new sketch today at Freshly Made Sketches!  The incredibly talented Narelle Farrugia brings us a great sketch!  Narelle's cards are so beautifully layered and always so detailed!  I love them!  Head over to her blog to check them out!

The sketch stressed me out at first with that giant circle staring at me but we had used the new Flower Patch Polymer stamp set at Camp last week and I knew that it would work perfectly for this card!  I love the layering you can do with the flowers and especially love the coordinating die set!!!

I tried to line up the circles on the card with the Polka Dot Embossing Folder but as you can see, I was not successful!  Oh well!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Island Indigo, Whisper White, Pool Party, Silver
Stamps: Flower Patch
Ink: Island Indigo, Pool party, Versamark
Other: Polka Dot TIEF, Flower Patch Framelits, Silver Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you'll head over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog, check out our sketch and the wonderful cards the Design Team has created for you!

Have a  fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #143

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!   I hope you're having a great week!  I am loving summer holidays!  They couldn't have come soon enough!  I am very sorry that I haven't been posting much.  Our church's summer camp is next week and my friend and I are in charge of the card making elective so I have been going crazy getting projects ready for camp!  Now all my "stuff" is packed up and I'm not sure when (or how!) I'll make my next card!

We have a great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches today!  Cindy Lovell has created a beauty for us!  Cindy is so incredibly talented and creates the most amazing cards!  I could spend hours looking at her blog!

I had a few minutes to open the my box of goodies from the new catalogue.  I love the "Kinda Eclectic" stamp set.  It's so fun to work with and of course I love the butterflies!  I couldn't wait to work with it!  I saw this evil circle on the sketch and knew right away what I would do!  Take that circle element!!!!  I tried different "banners" with a sentiment on it but nothing worked.  I decided I would try stamping directly on some natural ribbon.  I flipped the chevron ribbon over and voila!  It suited the card better than anything else I had tried!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamps: Kinda Eclectic, Another Thank You
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Pool Party
Other: Chevron Natural Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Small Butterfly Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Please make sure you check out the Freshly Made Sketches blog!  The Design Team has once again created some amazing cards!  I am so fortunate to be working with such a creative bunch!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #142

Hello!
Happy Wednesday!  Can you believe it's almost the end of June!  Where on earth did that month go?  Our kids have to go to school until Friday (and believe me, it's pain and torture) but then we're home free!  I can't wait to not have to make lunches every day - at least not while we're also trying to make breakfast!

We have a brand new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches today!  I am thrilled to be this week's hostess!  I have some big shoes to fill of Cindy's great sketch last week!  I decided to go with something very simple and clean.  I can't wait to see what you come up with!  I love the diversity we see in the gallery!

I have some teacher cards that need to be created in time for the last day of school.  This probably wasn't the best card to try and re-create 4 times but they're pretty much done!  One final step and I'm off to the races!  My "Another Thank You" arrived on Monday and was put to use right away!  I rubbed craft ink on the back panel to create a chalkboard effect.  Unfortunately it didn't go as planned and I ended up with "lumps".  I also find it amusing that there are no chalk boards in our school.  Guess I should have used a white board or a "Smart Board"!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red
Stamps: Teacher's Apple (PTI), Another Thank You (SU)
Ink: Versamark, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, White Craft Ink
Other: White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Early Espresso marker

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Please head on over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check out what the design team has created for your viewing pleasure!  You will not be disappointed!

Have a  fabulous day!

Jen

Freshly Made Sketches #141

Hey There!
It's Wednesday!  Halfway through the week already!  The boys don't have much school left!  I get sad thinking that my baby is going into Grade 1 next year.  How is that even possible?  I've been busy the last few days getting stuff ready for our Church's summer camp.  My friend Julie and I are running a card making elective so I've been cutting up a storm.  I took a break tonight as I'm exhausted and figure I could make a cutting error!

We have a great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week!  The incredibly talented Cindy Hall has come up with a beauty for us!  I had such a great time playing with this one!

I couldn't help but use the new Moonlight DSP paper stack!  I love the look of Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey together!  Throw in some Smoky slate and I'm sold!!!

I decided to add some faux stitching and a jewel to the banner to add a little pizzazz.  I embossed the smoky slate panel with the honeycomb embossing folder...I needed a little extra texture!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Smoky Slate, Whisper White
DSP: Moonlight DSP Stack
Stamps: Just Sayin'
Ink: Blackberry Bliss
Other: Basic Rhinestone, White Gel Pen, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Word Bubbles Framelits, Dimensionals


Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please check out the Freshly Made Sketches blog and see what the design team has created for you!  You will not be disappointed!

Have a fabulous day!

Jen