Freshly Made Sketches #760

The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches conjured up all sorts of things but I couldn't decide until I found some ornaments already foiled and stenciled in the package.  That lead to this.

The Ornaments are from Pinkfresh Studio.  Of course the silver foiling and silver ink on the ornaments or the silver embossing on the sentiment don't show up well in the photo but it gives a beautiful shine IRL.  When I picked the background paper it looked like it matched the lighter color in the ornaments but alas it doesn't look like it now.  It was embossed with an older 2D folder from Richard Garay that Michele gifted me many years ago.  I added some Honey Bee Winter Greenery cut from Spellbinders Treasured Antique Cardstock in Brushed Metallic.  

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Just Us Girls #847 - CASE a Designer

It's time for the Design Team to inspire your card at Just Us Girls.  

Fifth Thursday means CASE the Designer.  Pick a card made by one of the team and make your own card based on it.  Here's my inspiration.

Large floral - Mondo Chrysanthemum from EBE, colored with Ohuhu markers with Altenew artist markers on the leaves.  Patterned paper background - Honey Bee.  EZPZ 

I hope to see your card in the gallery whoever you choose to CASE.  

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Time Out #325

It's a theme challenge at Time Out.

We are being sponsored by Birch Press and the winner of this challenge will receive a $25 store credit.

We are being joined by Rita Wright as a guest designer. She and the Design Team have plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.

I saw Jennifer McGuire do a card similar to this using Pinkfresh Studio Beautiful Branch and I wanted to try it.  The flowers are stenciled with red from Altenew and Rustic Wilderness Distress ink. The top corner of the card base is cut to give the branch some open space and a second die cut glued to the back of it for a cleaner look.  It looked rather bare to me so I stamped and colored another one for the bottom.  The sentiment is from Honey Bee's Squeeze the Day.  

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The Paper Players #809

Christy has a great sketch at The Paper Players.  I wanted to do something other than Halloween or Christmas so I made a masculine card. 

My son-in-law's birthday was the other day and I gave him a card using Taylored Expressions golf set. It inspired me to make this one.  Truth be told I actually was going to use the golf bag on his card and that's why it's in green and white - the colors of Michigan State where he went to school.  Since it was ready for a card, I made this one for any other golfer in the family.  The white background was embossed with Lawn Fawn's Woodgrain.  The green is from a Christmas pack from Honey Bee, cut with a fancy edge from a now defunct company and cut again with Kristina's Finishing Touches.  The sentiment was computer generated.  

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Peace on Earth #122

I got Spellbinder's St. Nick back in February and made one card with him.  I thought I would work on Christmas cards this summer and made him but never put him on a card until now.  This one's for Peace on Earth.

I wanted to make a more rustic version so I used paper from The Paper Studio for his coat and the tree.  He's a tall one so I put him on a Monarch card (7 1/4 x 3 5/8) made from PTI Rustic White.  A simple sentiment from Penny Black finishes it off.  

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