Freshly Made Sketches #509

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is a super special day for me, as at this very moment I am on a plane to see my sister in Arizona! I haven't been there in nine years, and I am SO excited to see her (I haven't seen her since March 2020) and my home state that I miss so much.

So, as you can imagine, I wrote this post a bit early :)

And --- it's time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches! My lovely teammate and Captain of the skies, Jen T, is the hostess today!

Jen has given us free rein on the size of our card: slimline, mini slim, or standard! I chose to make a standard card, with a CAS design.

I chose the beautiful Wheatfield Dreams Kit from Taylored Expressions for my card today. It is unfortunately sold out, and no wonder, as Lori's designs are simply stunning. I love this sentiment too, from one of our family's favorite authors.

I hope you will join our sketch challenge this week, and add your creations to our gallery! This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, November 1st (NOVEMBER?). Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous cards my teammates have made on the FMS blog! 

Off to deplane and find some amazing Mexi food for brunch! Check out my IG at @joy_in_a_jar for trip updates! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Wheatfield Dreams Kit (TE)

Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine (WOW!)

Gold Metallic Thread (Kreinik) 

Stardream Metallic Antique Gold Cardstock (CutCardStock)

 

Freshly Made Sketches #508

It's Wednesday, and that means a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches! My lovely teammate Jacquie is the hostess today!

I usually make a lot of Halloween cards, but this year this card is the first, I think! And it's next week! I had gotten some new goodies from Reverse Confetti, and really wanted to use the Layered BOO Confetti Cuts die, and that is where I began creating. I also got the Large Detailed Circle Frame Confetti Cuts at the same time, and put the two together for a Halloween shaker card. While the circle gives the illusion of a different sketch, I do have some gorgeous purple glitter cardstock (DCWV) behind the main panel, which follows the sketch!

 

I used some fun sequin mixes from Picket Fence Studios, and added some purple seed beads (because I have sooo many!) for fun. The crazy eyed bats are from a border from K & Co. that I have had forever in my Halloween craft stash. I cut them apart and popped them up with foam tape. The sweet sentiment is from Halloween Sentiments (also RC).

I hope you will join our sketch challenge this week, and add your creations to our gallery! This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, October 25th. Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous cards my teammates have made on the FMS blog!  

 

Freshly Made Sketches #507

It's Wednesday, and that means a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches! I have the honor of hosting this week.

I just got this adorable bear from Sugar Pea Designs (Hey Honey), and just had to use him this week. He and his honey pot worked perfectly for the sketch!

Both the sentiment, honey pot and bear are stamped with VersaFine Clair Nocturne, embossed with Clear WOW! Embossing Powder, and then the pot and bear are colored with Copic markers. I used a Stampin' Up embossing folder for the background, and added a Sugar Cut from Botanical Branches to tie in the card base color that matches his cute nose. I added three crystal gems for bling. The little bee is stamped right on the card (the last thing I added).

 

I hope you will join our sketch challenge this week, and add your creations to our gallery! This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, October 18th. Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous cards my teammates have made on the FMS blog!  

Freshly Made Sketches #506

Come join our sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches! The very sweet and talented Amy is our hostess today! Be sure to check out her fabulous card!

Today was a "Use Your Stash" creation -- For this week's card I pulled elements out of a box where I throw everything that I cut or make and then don't use for one reason or another. The card base with the diagonals came from a Distress Background class I took from a friend several months ago. Using masking, we created beautiful diagonal backgrounds with different shades of DOX. It was a perfect "flipped sketch" background, and actually makes my shimmery deer happy. :-)

The snowflake die is from Picket Fence Studios (Snowflake Lydia), the deer, cut from gold shimmery cardstock (CCS) is Papertrey Ink, and the sentiment (cut from glitter paper) is from Stampin' Up. The only things NOT pulled from my unfinished projects box was the card base (MFT) and the three little gems (PFS).

I think it turned out pretty great! What do you think?

I hope you will join our sketch challenge this week, and add your creations to our gallery! This challenge will end at 3:00 EDT time on Monday, October 11th. Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous cards my teammates have made on the FMS blog!