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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FM #105

I got a chance to make a few cards this weekend and it felt sooo good.  Things just seemed to flow.  Even though my heavy cardstock got stuck in the printer and I had to rethink my sentiment on one card, my stamping came out well on another one.  I get so excited when things go well, it makes me want to keep working.  But now to post today's card before the noon deadline.  It's for Freshly Made.

I have this old 8 x 8 pack from Colorbok that I thought had wonderful colors for a card.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts stamped in their charcoal ink.  I don't often make square cards but this sketch called for it and I think I may do a couple more, especially since I have the measurements worked out.

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FM #90

If you saw yesterday's post, you saw a 4 1/4 square card, not a size I usually make.  This week at Freshly Made they had a square sketch challenge.

I went with the smaller format again.

The printed paper is from The Paper Studio, a 4 by 6 pack I bought some time ago.  The sentiment is from PTI stamped in Mememto Tuxedo Black.  To add to the celebratory feel, I added some bling to the center of some of the "bursts".   This was an easy sketch to follow and I will be using it again I'm sure.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day and please come back again.