Freshly Made Sketches #702

I was so tempted to do a Christmas card for Freshly Made Sketches but my Honey Bee Fall Bouquet was calling.

The pumpkin was cut in orange and shaded with orange and white inks.  The sunflower is part of the set but the leaf comes from HB's Fall Foliage, cut in tan and inked.  The background paper is from a TH pack and the sentiment is from C9's Birdhouse Blossoms. 

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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. 

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Just Us Girls Challenge #788 - Word Week

What an easy word Elizabeth has chosen for Word Week at Just Us Girls. 

We all need birthday cards and there should be a lot of different ideas for inspiration in the gallery as well as from the Design Team.

This card is for a great grandson.  The truck is from Penny Black, colored with Altenew artist markers.  The star paper is an oldie from my stash.  The center was cut with Hero Arts rounded rectangles and that portion glued to the inside of the card. A smaller rectangle was cut from white and pieces of paper cut and folded to make it pop up.  Here's another view.

This was so much fun to make and we have a number of young great grandsons so I'll be making more with other cars and trucks. 

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Color Hues #115

I love a pink and gray combination and that's what the challenge is at Color Hues this time.

I knew I would go with a flower so I looked through the few I brought with me to the lake and settled on Peony Dream by Altenew.  The background is from a paper pack from Sunny Studio.  I wanted to do something different so using Spellbinders Stylish Ovals I cut one from the DSP and two from white cardstock to make a shaped card.  The sentiment from Hero Arts is clear embossed on the same dark grey I used for the flower center. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #697 and NBUS #77

It's been a fun and busy week but I still had time to a make card for Freshly Made Sketches and since I'm  using some new dies, I'm also sending this to Darnell's NBUS. 

I already have a Tim Holtz wreath but I loved this one with the Christmas symbols so I had to have this one too.  It's called Vault Festive Wreath and it's cut from a variety of scraps.  The background paper is from a freebie pack I got from Honey Bee last Christmas and the sentiment is from SSS.  

One more Christmas card for my stash.  How are yours coming?

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Time Out #294 - Pick Two

Have you been enjoying our Pick Two challenges at Time Out?  We have another one for you.

Please be sure to let us know what two, or more, you pick for your card.  I actually picked four.

For the rainbow, stripes, I picked a DSP from Honey Bee, tearing it along the edge, although it's not very apparent in the photo.  This was placed on a background embossed with a star folder.  The eclipsed birthday die is from CUTplorations and the "happy" is Hero Arts. 

This challenge is sponsored by Newton's Nook and they will award the winner a $25 store credit.  The only way you can win is to make a card for our challenge.  I hope to see you in the gallery. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #696, Inkspirational #346 and Seize the Birthday #310

It was hot and steamy yesterday so I stayed in and made a card for Freshly Made Sketches.  Since it was a birthday card, I'm also sending it to Inkspirational and Seize the Birthday - without the topping.

It all started with Concord and 9th's Birdhouse Blossoms.  I went looking for some patterned paper for the background, found one from Honey Bee and based my bird and house colors on it and added a heat embossed sentiment from Hero Arts.  

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Just Us Girls #782 - Die Week

Carol Mc is our host for this week's Die Challenge at Just Us Girls and she wants us to use a summer die.

That leaves it wide open for so many ideas but I went simple with my card.

Honey Bee's Flippin' Fabulous flip flops were cut from some of their DSP and the straps colored with an artist marker in Rose Quartz to match.  The same DSP was used for a border behind the 'sand' that was made using Antique Linen Distress Spray.  As you probably guessed, the sentiment is from the same set.  

I'd like to welcome Donna Mikasa as our guest designer for July.  She and the Design Team have some wonderful summertime cards to inspire you to enter our challenge.  I hope to see your card there. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #692

I finally finished a card for Freshly Made Sketches and it's for Christmas.  

I didn't realize when I bought Spellbinders Christmas Wonder that all the little die cuts were to fit in the envelope of another of their Envelope Wonder series.  If the original ever goes on sale I may get it but meantime I'll use all those cute images in other ways, like the bells on this card.  They are cut from silver, although they look a little tarnished in the photo, with bows from some TH patterned paper.  The bokeh background paper is from Honey Bee as is the sentiment, stamped in Altenew Winter Lake. 

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A You See It #350 - Triptych

I put together a card for the sketch challenge at As You See It - Triptych.

For the three images I used one of TH Wildflower dies in Kraft, which went well with the striped paper from Honey Bee.  I trimmed the panel to let the navy cardstock show and added the Betterpress sentiment also in navy.  This will work well for a masculine card. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #691

More poppies today for Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

This one is from Honey Bee's Wildflowers, cut in colored cardstock and shaded with Altenew inks.  The plaid is from a HB paper pack and the sentiment is a SB Betterpress.  

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Krafty Chicks #772

This is the week for Krafty Chicks Christmas Challenge and since I brought mostly Christmas things to work on this summer, I made them a card.  

The truck is from Newton Nook's Destination Christmas, colored with Altenew artist markers, and popped up on a panel cut with MFT's Elegant Rectangles.  A larger rectangle was cut from a tree paper from Echo Park.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.   One more down.  😁

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Freshly Made Sketches #689

Surprise!  I didn't use flowers for my card at Freshly Made Sketches.  Sorry, Cecile, but I didn't make a square card either. 

 I went with Honey Bee's strawberries instead, all cut from colored cardstock and shaded with Distress Ink.  HB's deckle edge cut some DSP from their Homestead Harvest pack, was stamped with a sentiment from Altenew's Delicate Garden and layered.  FYI:  In packing craft stuff to bring for the summer I forgot some essential sentiment stamps.  Thankfully the Altenew set had some good little ones.  Fortunately my daughter will be heading this way next month and I have a list of forgotten things for her to bring.

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Time Out #290 - Pick Two

 It's time for another Pick Two challenge at Time Out. 

There are six options and you need to pick at least two to incorporate onto your card.  Please let us know which ones you picked in your description.

I picked repeat, weather and bold.  My repeat is the three umbrellas from MFT which are cut from bold paper and for the weather I used translucent paste through a raindrop stencil for the background. (You may have to zoom in to see them.) To fit all the umbrellas, I made a mini-slimline card.  I didn't have any kind of sentiment that would work so I generated one on the computer, outlining it with a black border to make it show up.  

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Freshly Made Sketches #688

My plan for my summer crafting is to catch up on my Christmas cards.  I'm so far behind and don't want to wait until I'm back in my regular studio to get them done.  I brought a fair amount of Christmas stamps and dies with me and used one for my card for Freshly Made Sketches. 

The DSP is from a freebie pack from Honey Bee Stamps.  I used some new dies from HB called Mini-Holiday Florals and placed them on an MFT Elegant Rectangle.  The sentiment is from Altenew.  I'm wishing the berries were more the color in the paper but it's the closest I had.

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