Freshly Made Sketches #715

Hello again, my friends!  BIG news: We have TWO new designers and we're so excited to welcome Donna Mikasa and Michelle Langley to our FMS family!  welcome, ladies! 

A fresh and fun new Freshly Made Sketch to play with!  Karren has a dandy for us ...

Do you agree it's just tricky enough to make us think a little?

Well, here's where my thoughts took me...

I know I have a few friends who live in warmer climates where

sand dollars may be found more often than snowflakes!

Besides, I just could not resist this gorgeous paper from HoneyBee's Vitamin Sea collection.  My little Gina Marie Designs Sand Dollar brings me back to my very first meeting with my friend Marcia at a craft show - the rest is history, right, my friend?

Here is her closeup where you might see the snowflake embellishments,

and the PTI's Elegant Edges: Snowflakes, a big die cut snowflake from

HoneyBee and one more of those Betterpress-ed sentiments.

I look forward to seeing how YOU interpret Karren's Sketch soon -

you have until Monday, December 8th at 3:00PM EST!

=] Michele

Color Hues #123

I'm still so upset that I missed the last challenge at Color Hues, I thought I'd make up for it today... it's been some time since I've made 'second helpings!'  'Tis the season for it, I think!

Tracey has a lovely color combo for us this month - and they've given us a WHOLE MONTH to play with challenge #123!  

 

Another of the goodies from The Greetery shipment to share - their gorgeous Capsule Christmas Gallery Prints... though those berries might be more 'berry' colored than pink, I couldn't resist this vintage beauty framed in eucalyptus green and tied with a gold bow...

I couldn't help but send that oval through my Subtle Texture EF from SU!

The layers are: Capsule Basics Small Scallop, Capsule Filigree border, the berry branch cutout, and to top it all off a gold hanger and bow cut from vintage gold foil using the 

wonderful freebie enclosed in my order shown below:

My 'seconds' were so simple I should make 'thirds!'

A beautiful Betterpress: Season's Greetings Evergreens from Spellbinder

using PF Ballet Slipper and Altenew's Sweet Leaf, and Just Green inks.

This just makes my CAS-loving heart happy!

=] Michele

As promised! Rosemal in grey!

Happy Monday!  Is anyone else happy to go back to their regularly scheduled days?  I wasn't even mad about laundry day!

I promised you a look at my grey Rosemal card from The Greetery so I'm here to keep that promise.  My MIL has a December birthday, so I decided to make her a card collection to last until Christmas!

As much as I love these oval cards, they are next to impossible

to 'stand up' without a 'kick stand!'  You'll forgive me for these

'flat' photos.  Cut from MFT Steel Grey card, then swiped with

Hero Arts white...

Under the small oval birthday card is an ornament for her tree

and under that is the Christmas card.  I just love the burgundy

Regency bow and Poinsettia, don't you?

I'm less-than thrilled with the swiped gold on her Christmas card,

but was too invested by this time to remake it differently.  

The whole kit-and-kaboodle was placed inside a cellophane envelope

for giving.

Next is one using the Rosemal Reflections stamp set - and I couldn't have done it easily without the fabulous stamping guide that Betsy offers free for printing!

After all the stamping is done, it is embossed with the coordinating 

Rosemal Reflections Embossing Folder.

One more... in all this glorious creamy Neenah Solar white... Shortbread Shapes Snowflake:

Right in the center I've placed one SSS Alexis Snowflake, and one

bright red Regency bow...

but I just could not add a sentiment!

Enjoy your Monday and thanks so much for stopping by!

=] Michele