Freshly Made Sketches #50-A Sketch by Me!

This week I am the sketch designer at Freshly Made Sketches. I have been enjoying some time off from design team duties and I am still off. I am only finishing off the last couple of sketches I designed before I decided to take a break.

{Supplies}

Stamps: Summer Silhouettes, Friendly Phrases

Inks: Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade,  Black

Papers: Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade,  Black, White

Extras: Circle Punches, Big Shot, Stripes Embossing Folder, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Unfortunately my camera batteries went, right as I was taking photos of my card, so I only took this photo that turned out alright...I  cannot even make it larger as it looks worse that way! LOL! I am off visiting my parents and did not get the chance to take another photo before I left...when I get home I will try again!

I hope you will join us this week at Freshly Made Sketches...

Create with Connie and Mary & Simply Stamping Challenges {To My Friend}

This is my second post for the day, if you are looking for the Merry Monday Challenge, please click here.

Good morning blogging friends! I was up entirely too late last night, my mind racing with teaching ideas for the year! This time of year, no teacher can sleep! LOL! So I went in search of some challenges to play and came across a delightful new challenge called Simply Stamping and the always fabulous Create with Connie and Mary Challenge! So I went to work! I loved the pretty colours at Simply Stamping and the CCMC Sketch was fabulous, I decided to flip it up to make a vertical card.

My card is very clean! I used the Stripes Embossing Folder (my fav) for the background of Very Vanilla! The flowers come from my absolute favourite new set called Summer Silhouettes. It is such a pretty set! I inked up my butterfly in Calypso Coral and the flowers use Pretty in Pink and Old Olive. I couldn't resist adding some bling with my gemstones...love those!!! Thank you to both teams for wonderful inspiration!!

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Summer Silhouettes, Friendly Phrases, Papillon Potpourri

Inks: Calypso Coral, Pretty in Pink and Old Olive

Papers: Subtle DSP Pack, In Colours 2011-2012 DSP Pack, Very Vanilla, Old Olive

Extras: Jewels, Butterfly Punch, Stripes Embossing Folder, Big Shot

Dynamic Duos #8-Monochromatic and SO HAPPY!!!!

Oh my goodness! Saturday today and some exciting things happening in my little world! First of all, I am DONE report cards! I am so happy about that and secondly, today is the first round of auditions for Oklahoma!!!! Yippee! I am directing Oklahoma next year for our local theatre company and I am so excited to see who is coming out to audition today!!!

But today is also the reveal for this week's colour duos at Dynamic Duos. This week is a Monochromatic Theme of River Rock and Always Artichoke. I absolutely LOVE River Rock and never get to use it. When I chose this week's colours I was so pumped to see the elegant creations the design team would create and they do not disappoint! Here is my card, I hope you like it! I am really happy with how it turned out and let me say, I LOVE this new Summer Silhouette set!!!!

My dear, dear friend has been battling some tough days with life and I wanted to make her a serene and loving card, so let her know how much I care about her! She is one of those amazing people who never thinks about herself and I am proud that she is my friend. 

I inked up another new set, it is ALL butterflies and YES, has a matching punch! Oh and the sentiment comes from ANOTHER new set...yes, I bought them all! LOL! I am so happy with Stampin' Up's new catalogue, it is the best one they have had in years!  Won't you join us this week at Dynamic Duos!  Here are the links to the fabulous Design Team!

Allisa Chilton

Anne Marie Hile

Anika Lerche

Bronwyn Eastley

Kim Singdahlsen

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Melissa Chipperfield

Paige Grabau

Sue Joyce

Freshly Made Sketch #40-{Thinking of You}

Happy Wednesday blogging friends. The past few days I have been battling a headache/tummy ache thing...unsure of what it is but hoping it will go away soon. This week I am the hostess at Freshly Made Sketches and I have a simple but hopefully enjoyable sketch for you to try! I went with the new In Colours using Gumball Green and Raspberry Ripple combined with So Saffron. The embossed background was created with my new Chevron Embossing Folder and the sentiment is also new!!! That set is called "Sweet Essentials" which is a lovely sentiment set which stamps so nicely! The stamp set I used to create the flowers is called Summer Silhouettes and I can see will be a fast favourite for me! 

{Stampin' Up Supplies Used on this Card}

Stamps: Sweet Essentials, Summer Silhouettes

Inks: Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple and So Saffron

Papers: Be of Good Cheer Designer Paper, Gumball Green and Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White

Extras: Chevron Embossing Folder, White Organza Ribbon

I have reopened my online Stampin' Up Store...to visit my online store to purchase any of the above materials I used, please CLICK HERE. I am a Canadian Stampin' Up demonstrator.

We hope that you will join Freshly Made Sketches this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

Jennifer Brum
Linda Callahan
Allisa Chilton

Lesley Croghan (That is me!)

Cindy Hall

Jen Mitchell

Tui Nathan
Jen Sannes

Ann Schach
Linda Suarez
Jennifer Timko