Friday, August 22, 2025

Celebrating Freshly Made Sketches' 700th Challenge

700 Challenges is quite an accomplishment so congratulations are in order for Freshly Made Sketches.  For fun, the Design Team is showing the very first card they made for FMS.  In keeping with that, I went back and found the very first card I made.  It was for challenge #6 on October 14, 2011.  Here's the sketch.


And my card.


I have come a long way on my card making journey.  This was only a little over 4 months since I started my blog and began entering challenges and I was using a Cricut for my images.  Even the writing of my blog posts has changed and improved tremendously.  

For this week's challenge, we have this sketch from their 14th challenge.

I seldom make square cards and my proportions are a little different but here's what I came up with.


All the patterned paper came from a Honey Bee's Homestead Harvest and the card base is Ivory from Gina K.  The squares were cut with an MFT die, the Sunflower is from Spellbinders and the sentiment is a BetterPress. 

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you'll go over to Freshly Made Sketches and walk down memory lane with them.  








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13 comments:

Greta said...

Absolutely beautiful card! Love that paper and your flower matches perfectly!

I Card Everyone said...

Bobby, I was impressed with the age of the post we found together but blow away that you challenged yourself so early in your blogging history! It's a fabBOOlous card - but your card for our 700th is absolutely wonderful... you had me at sunflower!
Thanks for partying with us!
=]

I Card Everyone said...

sorry - 'blown away' =/

Anonymous said...

Fabulous cards, as usual. You never disappoint, my friend. That spider with the spooky eyes really made me smile. I LOVE him/her!!!!!

Marcia Hill said...

I love your first fa-boo-lous card Bobby and you know I love, LOVE your sunflower card! Your dsp is so pretty and your sunflower matches it beautifully!! Lovely, lovely card my friend!! Hugs. :0)

Bonnie said...

We have all evolved in our cardmaking, Bobby! There's so much more available now and experience is a good teacher! Your card for this challenge is so perfect for Fall! Love that paper and it works beautifully with the sunflower!

Lisa Elton said...

Your first entry was a cutie and today's entry is a beauty! Wow, I just love this, Bobby!

JoAnn said...

Your first FMS card is cute but your sunflower card is beautiful. Love the DSP and the pretty sunflower which matches perfectly.

TK said...

Wonderful card, and your sunflower is beautiful and oh so appropriate! The patterned paper adds quite the punch too. As for the evolution of cardmaking and writing, I'm pretty sure we're all on this journey together -- mine is just a little behind since I'm quite newer than most of you that I follow -- BUT you give me aspirations!

Loll said...

LOVE the beautiful patterned paper in the background and your gorgeous sunflower. Great card from back in 2011! That is the same year I started posting on SCS ... and then started my blog. :) We are constantly changing our styles as we are exposed to more and more products and techniques. That's why I love this hobby so much ... always growing! :) Great work both in 2011 and 2025, Bobby! xx

Cécile RIBON said...

What a long and beautifull way on FMS side! Congrats Bobby! I love the 2 cards you show us in this post. Thanks so much for celebrating ths #700 with us.

Amy O said...

What a gorgeous card! Those colors for Fall are fabulous! I'm so glad you shared your original FMS card! It's always a treat to see you in the gallery. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches for sketch #700 this week!

Jen Timko said...

I am so glad to see your first card for the challenge and it is awesome to see how we have all grown and changed as stampers. Your sunflower is lovely against that pretty paper. Thanks for all the years of inspiration and so glad you joined us for our sketch #700 celebration!