All of my cards are numbered so I can keep track of how many cards I've made along with the month and year I made them.
The layout designs that I use on my cards are provided from the design team at Freshly Made Sketches and Mojo Monday card challenges. The color schemes on some of my cards are compliments of the Color Throwdown card challenge. I owe my thanks to them for the use of these challenges.
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Friday, January 24, 2020

Thinking of you

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For this week's freshly made sketches challenge, I made this floral thinking of you card. 
As you can see, the printed paper that I used is from a floral paper pad, which I purchased as a clearance item from our local craft store.
As a border, I just used a pastel pink cardstock.
The sentiment is from some clear stamp sentiments that I got as a free gift from scrapbooking.com.
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Friday, January 17, 2020

Hello

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Here's another card for this week's freshly made sketches challenge.
For the background, I used a Valentine printed paper that I printed up from paper craft inspirations.
The scalloped circle is a die cut along with the regular circle.
After cutting out the circle, I ran it through my bigkick using a hearts embossing folder.
The sentiment and the ribbon is from a stamp and cut set that I purchased at our local craft store.
The stem of roses are just one of the embellishments that I got from the dollar store in my area. I added the leaf dies to it to give it a little more so it wouldn't look so plain.
I hope you like my card. Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Thanks a ton

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Supplies used are :
Printed paper from Clouds and Grass paper pad
White cardstock
Baby blue blank card
Whale's stamp and cut by Hampton Arts
Aegean blue chalk ink
Night sky chalk ink
Navy blue colored pencil
Black ink
Mountains framelit die

For those of you who don't know, I like to keep track of how many cards I have made since I first started making them. So I always put a card number with the year and month it was made.
I used a printed paper from a Clouds and Grass paper pad, which has been cut with a mountains framelit die. Then I adhered it to a white cardstock and then adhered it to a baby blue blank card.
The sentiment is stamped on with black ink and is from the Hampton Arts Whale's stamp and cut.
I used Aegean blue chalk ink for the whale and water spout. And I used Night sky chalk ink for the swirled water below the whale. The water swirl is colored in with a navy blue colored pencil.
This completes my card for this weeks freshly made sketches challenge.
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Sunday, January 12, 2020

I love you

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It took me a few days, but I finally got it done! I got a new die cut a few months ago and have been waiting until after the new year to use it for a Valentine's Day card, which worked out great for this week's freshly made sketches challenge.
Supplies used are :
Heart lace edge frame die cut
Flourish Thinlet Dies
Ribbon messages die cut
Roses embossing folder
Red heart gems
I cut a piece of my printed craft paper and adhered it to the underside behind the heart lace edge frame to make the die cut stand out. I also used burgundy ink around the edges of the banner and the roses background.
For the sentiment, I used my Essential Sayings clear stamps.
I'm trying to improve my Valentine cards, so I hope you like this one!
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Best Wishes

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My sister sent me a package in the mail that had some things that belonged to our grandmother years ago. She also sent me some embossing folders that she's no longer going to use because her health isn't the best anymore and it's hard on her to be on her feet for very long anymore.
Among those embossing folders that she sent was the border design embossing folder that I used with this card. I used chocolate chip ink on the edges to make it stand out a little bit.
For the middle layer, I used my snowflakes embossing folder and then I used Always Artichoke on the edges. 
I also used a burgundy ink on the edges of a scalloped oval which I used for my sentiment from my Holiday Frolic clear stamps set.
I also used my new pinecones framelit dies with the pine needles framelit dies.
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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Joys of Christmas

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I really wanted to make this card before Christmas. However, the new pinecone die cuts that I ordered didn't come in my mail until today. So I made my card to be my first card made after the New Year instead.
The supplies I used are :
White blank card
Christmas combo matstack
Burgundy cardstock
Brown cardstock
Green cardstock
Holiday Frolic clear stamps
Silver self-adhesive gems
Black pigment ink from StudioG
Pinecones framelit dies
Pine needles framelit dies.
Scalloped oval framelit dies

I actually used 2 different shades of green for the pine needles along with using brown for the pinecones.
For the background, I used a snowflakes embossing folder just so the background wouldn't look too dull and boring.
I used double-sided adhesive squares to adhere the scalloped ovals where the sentiment is stamped on. 
I also used one to adhere the pinecones and needles to the side of the card.

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