Freshly Made Sketches #615

 It's Wednesday and time for a brand new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches! Karren has a fabulous sketch with an offset circle (or any shape) focal point this week!

I pulled out my Unity Stamp Co. Penguin Pals for today's card. They are perfect for my husband, daughter and me to send to our son and his family in their holiday package!

Echo Park Winter Fun 6x6 and a Stamping' Up! Embossing folder complete the quick and easy design. I hope you will join our sketch challenge this week, and add your creations to our gallery. This week's challenge will end at 3:00 EST time on Monday, December 11th. Don't miss all of the amazing creations by our Guest Designer and FMS team on the FMS blog to inspire you!

My Favorite Poinsettia Color! What's Yours?

It's December! Can you believe it?! We have a new challenge at The Flower Challenge and it's perfect for the holiday season - Use Gold!

It's no surprise that I love pink, and that my favorite poinsettia color is also pink. I like the delicate color of the leaves. So I knew the Christmas Poinsettia Star (PFS) had to be pink - with gold!

I chose some beautiful metallic papers from CutCardStock for my background mats. I stamped the poinsettia on Bristol in Versamark ink, and then embossed with Ranger Gold embossing powder. I watercolored using my Kuretake paints, and fussy cut. 

I stamped my sentiment (from String of Lights - PFS ) in Versamark and embossed that on the music paper. I tied some gold metallic thread (Kreinik) around the top for extra shimmer. I love how it turned out!

I hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge this month!

Luke 2:10-11

 10 And the angel said to them, Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy, for all the people.

11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you: He is Christ the Lord.

On this first Sunday in Advent, I hope that you receive great joy in knowing the Good News!

You can find out more about the products I used on the Stamp Simply Blog today. AND all Christmas sets are 25% off through 12/5 with code XMAS25!

Stamp Simply Supplies

• Craft Consortium Ink Drops Organic 6x6
• Angels Among Us
• Spellbinders Circles LG
• Metallic Gold Cardstock
• VersaFine Clair Nocturne

Other Supplies:

• green cardstock
• metallic gold thread 
• liquid glue
• foam tape

Freshly Made Sketches #614

It's Wednesday and time for a brand new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches! Jen M has a fabulous, fun, and challenging sketch for us this week! I love circles, but had TOO many ideas for what I wanted, and then ended up doing something that I hadn't planned or thought about before at all. Isn't that always what happens?

Today's card is a combination of products from several different companies. I started with the coffee circles from FSJ (my set from two weeks ago was still on my desk....) using three different colors of DOX inks: Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, and Ground Espresso (which I forgot I had, and just ordered this week....). I used a Reverse Confetti cover plate (my favorite) for the embossed lines on top of the circles. The sentiment is from MFT, and the coffee girl from Picket Fence Studios. I kept it pretty CAS this week.

I hope you will join our sketch challenge this week, and add your creations to our gallery. This week's challenge will end at 3:00 EST time on Monday, December 4 (whaaat? It's December already?!?). Don't miss all of the amazing creations on the FMS blog to inspire you!