Fresh Flowers and a Celebration with Freshly Made Sketches!

 Hello Friends!  

If you have been around a while, you may remember that several years ago I had the pleasure of designing for one of my favorite challenges, Freshly Made Sketches.  This week, they are celebrating their 700th sketch!  Past designers have been invited to join in and of course, I was honored to say yes. 

Here is this week's sketch~

We are also sharing the very first card we made as a member of the FMS design team.  I still love this monochromatic baby card!

Back to today's card.  This floral image from Penny Black was a 'must have' and I colored it with Copics and fussy cut it out.  The background panel was embossed with a Penny Black embossing folder.  I then layered die cut squares and a die cut circle on top.  I finished off with the flowers, adding some dimension to the flowers.  The sentiment is an oldie but goodie from Creative Worship Stamps.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to join in the fun at Freshly Made Sketches!  

Lee Ann

Blue CHRISTmas

 Hello, Hello!

Well, summer is just about over when you go by the school year calendar (I know officially we have over 4 months to go before Christmas).  Christmas cardmaking has been in full swing here since July.  

I used the sketch at Jingle Belles for this card~

I played with all the things for this card- my very favorite Christmas image-from the Born This Day Stamp Set at Creative Worship Stamps, my new die set from PTI, stenciling with the Diamond Tile Stencil from CWS and Distress Ink.  Image colored with Copics and fussy cut out.  The sentiment is from another favorite CWS set, Holly Christmas.  

I am also linking up to Stencil Fun- anything goes for August as well as the Peace On Earth Challenge-anything goes. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a blessed week!

Lee Ann   

What Candycane?

 Hello Friends! 

I have another Christmas card to share from my weekend crafty get away.  This cutie always gets a laugh! 

I've been around long enough to have many old, retired products.  That includes everything for today's card.  The stamp is retired Stamping Bella, the stencil is Stamplorations (out of business), the scalloped edge is MFT(oob) and the embellies are SU.  

I also used a stencil to emboss with for a bit of texture on the card front panel as I forgot to bring embossing folders with me to the retreat.  

I am linking up to Jingle Belles -tic tac toe.  I used animal, red and die cut.  

I am also linking up to Christmas Kickstart- challenge 100, Merry Go Round.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a blessed week! 

Lee Ann  

Beary Christmas

 Hello!  

I am back from a crafty retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains where I was creating Christmas cards-yep, Christmas in July.  

I was inspired by several challenges, including Color Dare Challenge.  I was wanting to get away from traditional Christmas colors and these colors fit the bill perfectly.  

I am also linking up to Addicted to Stamps and More- Christmas, Just Add Ink-Christmas in July, Just Us Girls-Stencil Week.  

The adorable image is Penny Black and is colored with Copics.  The sentiment is from Creative Worship Stamps and the stencil is from the now closed Stamplorations company.  A few sequins and some Crystal Effects on his nose finish the card.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a blessed week! 

Lee Ann  

Geo Giraffes

 Happy Summer Crafty Friends!  

Do your summer plans include crafting?  Travelling?  Projects around the home?  I am ready to catch up on all the things.  

Baby cards are on the agenda so I pulled out an oldie, yet never used stamp set from Altenew.  I was inspired by the Festive Friday Challenge~

I used masculine colors, textured cardstock, and geometric design for this card.  

Mostly I did a lot of fussy cutting after stamping the image on 3 different colors of cs.  I used an old, old SU embossing folder and the sentiment is a retired SnSS set.  

I am also linking up to Can You Handle the Pressure- Zoo Animals and Inkspirational Challenges- Celebrate.  

Thanks for stopping by! 

Lee Ann  

Rose on Black

 Hello, Hello!  

The crafting rut has struck so I am really relying on challenges and techniques, etc that I have not done in a long while.  I loved the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and for a while there it was very trendy to pop up parts of a background and use the negative space.  That fit this week's sketch perfectly. 

I added some yellow in the way of patterned paper behind the background panels and rose.  This card was a 'bits and pieces' card- things leftover from prior projects.  The rose has been in my stash for about a year.  The leaves are probably about 8 years old-yep!  The patterned paper scrap, well, we all have those stashes of little bits of paper hanging around.  

The rose is from Creative Worship Stamps, the leaves are from Heartfelt Creations (no longer in business) and the embossing folder is my newest one, from Penny Black.  

Some gold threat and sequins finish the card.  

Here is the Freshly Made Sketches sketch~

My colors are from Color Dare Challenge~  

As well as Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes.  

Thanks for visiting!  

Lee Ann

Red Tulips

Hello Crafty Friends, 

I am making lots of cards- flower and more flowers.  My friend asked for thank you cards, so that is what is on the craft table.  

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday.  

I took liberties with the diagonal strip and instead used a die cut with a diagonal edge at the bottom.  

I am also linking up to Can You Handle the Pressure and The Four Seasons Challenge- Spring.   

My image is an old Power Poppy image (thank you Marcella for a beauty) which is colored with Copics and fussy cut out. I used a MFT edge die along the bottom of the blue panel and then embossed the panel with an old SU ef.  The flowers were added to a banner and the sentiment, which is from The Ton, was stamped with Versaclair ink.  

I am not getting fancy with photography these days, so the picture is not the best.  Less time with camera= more time crafting! 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Lee Ann