Nothing like entering a challenge at the 11th hour! I really wanted to make something last night and I thought that the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches Challenge was a great chance to use some stickers that have gone unloved for too long.

The patterned papers, sentiment stickers and leaves are from SEI’s Vanilla Sunshine collection, and the flowers are Martha Stewart stickers. I embossed the Vintage Cream cardstock with a striped embossing folder from SU! and rounded the corners of the center piece with my Corner Chomper. (I waited FAR too long to own this device. I LOVE IT!) I used a tag die from PTI to cut the tails of the yellow panel across the front of the card, too.

Hope you all had a great weekend! It was a whirlwind of fun for us, visiting friends and family, shopping, etc.; I’m looking forward to getting lots of work done in the office this week so I can do it all over again next weekend!

I am playing along again in the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week using a new A Muse Studio stamp set called Under the Big Top. I paired it with some patterned paper from Crate Paper and colored it with Prismapencils, then I heat embossed the sentiment. My mom requested a card for a kids birthday party, so I am hoping she likes this!

Here’s the sketch for the week…

Gosh, it’s late and I need to head to bed! I spent the night coloring! Sleep tight!

Here’s a quick card this Friday afternoon for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge! I am about to wrap up some work so I can take the dog for a walk and head out to dinner before my husband leaves for a work trip.

I really enjoyed playing with PTI’s Rosie Posie; I held off on buying this for the longest time. At first I wasn’t sure that I liked it, but then I kept seeing so many beautiful cards with it that I decided it had to come home to me. I was going for a folk-art inspried theme on this card.

That beautiful sentiment is from WPlus9′s Folk Art Florals set. It seemed like the perfect fit for this card!

What do you all have planned for the weekend? I may do some work, but I may also go looking a new cameras since mine seems to be on the fritz; I’ve also got a Best Buy gift card that I’ve been itching to use. Any recommendations for cameras?

I love playing along with Freshly Made Sketches, and today’s card is one that I made for tomorrow’s local gathering of A Muse Studio Creative Consultants. I am really looking forward to this because it’ll give me a much needed break from work and because I really am hoping to get some great ideas from these talented ladies!

This card features two new products from A Muse Studio: the new color called Burano and the new stamp set called Floral Duet. I love them both!

I added glitter to the flowers and mounted everything on Bermuda blue cardstock, also from A Muse. Those sparklers are from Kaiser and they can be found online at Ribbon Carousel.

The new A Muse Studio catalog is being released on February 1, and I am excited to see what other goodies they have in store for us since I haven’t gotten mine in the mail yet. If you ever have any questions about A Muse, please feel free to contact me anytime.

Happy Saturday!

I’ve got a fresh and clean card for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week. Here is the inspiration photo:

And here is my take on the challenge:

I used A Muse Studio inks in Currant and Eucalyptus on these WPlus9 stamps, and the patterened paper is from Echo Park. That fantastic shimmer cardstock is from SU!; it was trimmed with a rik rac die from A Muse. It all came together pretty quickly with the help of that sketch - you’ve gotta check this challenge blog out.

The truth is that this card almost “didn’t make it!” I had a huge collapse of my photo setup last night that left a few dents in the wood floor and in the card…so I gave up and got up this morning to try again. Now it’s snowing and I am about to head back to work…have a fun day!

With about one month to go before Thanksgiving, I am trying my best to make my Turkey Day cards, but the snow tonight made it a little difficult - how on earth can it be snowing when all the leaves haven’t even fallen off the trees yet?

I decided to play along in the ColourQ Challenge as well as the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week. The cQc colors were a little bit tough for me, mostly because of the two shades of yellow. This is my first time playing along in Freshly Made; I love the idea of this blog because the sketches aren’t too CAS nor are they too complicated for my style. Here are the two challenge photos…hope you’ll play along too: