{Freshly Made} Sketches #17

Hello bloggers on this cold, snowy evening in Fort Wayne!  I finished my freshly made sketch just a little while ago and decided to post it while my bread finishes baking in the bread maker.  The house smells so good!

I like this weeks sketch a lot because I can see so many possibilities in it.  Since I need a birthday card, I decided to go with the flower in the Because I Care set.  I popped up the flower which I embossed and fancy cut with paper snips.  For my background, I cut out cherry cobbler strips, glued them on white cardstock, and used my stripes embossing folder.  I used the Happy Birthday sentiment in Something to Celebrate.  Finished!  (And I think my bread is about done, too!)

Mojo Monday 223

Happy Wednesday!  I'm posting my card for the Mojo Monday 223 challenge today, instead of waiting until the last minute.  I decided to try making a baby card using some of my nursery suite DSP.  I have a new great niece, Julie Jane, and I'm looking forward to a new grandchild in June so I am in need of baby cards.

I used the DSP for most of the paper on this card, adding blushing bride and marine mist for the backgrounds.  I also got out my scallop bunches and used Petite Pairs on the whisper white circles.  The only ink I used was perfect plum.  I like the way it turned out.  Now, I'm off to clean my desk before I take anymore pictures!

Merry Monday Challenge #2

Surprise!  It's Tuesday and here I am again.  I decided to play in the Merry Monday Challenge.  I love making and sending Christmas cards, so I like this idea of making one card a week.  Actually, I'm making multiple copies of each one because I send out a lot of cards, but 2-4 Christmas cards per week seems a lot less stressful than trying to do 50 in a week.

I have a lot of designer paper which I am trying to use up, so I'm not sure about the name of this paper, but I know I got it from Stampin Up.  I started with a white base, layered the red DSP on real red cardstock, and added the green DSP with a silver glimmer paper border.  My design is from the Pennant Parade stamp set with the sentiment from the Petite Pairs.  I added some silver embossing to the star and some dazzling diamonds to the tree.  (Please excuse my messy work area:  time to clean up or take the pictures somewhere else!)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone who reads this.   Hope everyone had a good first week of January.  I'm ready to play with sketch challenges today, and I finished two yesterday.  The first one I did was for the (Mojo) Monday 222 challenge.  I'm working on making thank you cards for gifts and decided to do a series of cards using Domestic Goddess paper from Stampin Up with the coordinating colors.

I used All Year Wishes 1 for the sentiment, with Calypso Coral, Daffodil delight, and pool party for the papers.


The second challenge is the {Freshly Made} Sketches challenge of the week.  I did another thank you card, this one more masculine.

This time I used Stampin Up's Well Worn paper for the background.  I also used river rock, soft suede, and whisper white.  I used the MDS Extreme element set to stamp the middle image and punched the other two out of the designer paper.  The embossed center panel was done using a Tim Holtz embossing folder.  The sentiment is from the Upsy Daisy set.

Pals Paper Arts Challenge: Putting on the Ritz

I just made another card with the Sounding Joy set, and I think this one qualifies for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge of the week, Putting on the Ritz.

Here is my version of a glitzed up Sounding Joy card:

I used Concord Crush and Silver glimmer paper, added silver embossing to the star words, and added pewter embossing to the Joy.  I then added two kinds of ribbon behind the main image, and there it is:  a ritzy Sounding Joy card.  What fun!

Sympathy Card

I seem to be having to make a lot of sympathy cards lately so this time I decided to use this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge to design my card.

I used Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, and Presto Patterns specialty papers.  For the ink, I used Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant.  The butterfly comes from the Stampin Up set, Thanks for Caring.  The greeting is from All Year Wishes 1, a new set from Inspired by Stamping designer Joanna Munster.  The Scallop Circle # 2 die and the Creative Memory Circle system were used  in the middle.  I hope this counts for the challenge.  I do like the way it turned out.  I have a bunch of presto pattern paper that I should use up. Thanks for visiting!

December 3: very early

Hi!  I've been stamping but haven't posted anything.  I'm trying to finish my Christmas cards so I can get them in the mail.  I've done a variety this year instead of my usual just one card.  This week I've put all the insides in the cards.  Now to address and mail them.  Fun!

I tried to do a challenge but I didn't manage to get it loaded on time.  I'll post it on here though.  I think its kind of busy, but then again, I kind of like it.  I used some designer paper I bought at Stamping Day and Night here in Fort Wayne.  It's a store dedicated to stamping and is basically a stamper's paradise!  When I can get my act together, I'll write the recipe for this card.  I used a couple of retired Stampin Up stamps, an embossing folder, and heat embossed the snowflakes and the snowman's hat.

One more bit of news:  we had a few inches of snow on Tuesday afternoon, evening.  It rained from Sunday through Tuesday and then changed over to snow:  big, fluffy flakes.  I didn't have to drive in it so I loved watching it.  I've heard it snows a lot here:  this is my first winter in northern Indiana.  We'll see!

 This one is from our living room window in the apartment.

I came downstairs and took this one from our door.  I love the snow falling!