Freshly Made Sketches #757

Jen Mitchell is our sketch designer this week at Freshly Made Sketches #757!  Oh, were the crafty wheels turning...

... but you won't believe where the wheel stopped...

Will it pass the 'smell test?'  Are you team sardine?  Mine are in mustard today! lol

The Stamp Market: Sardines and Sardine Greetings.

There are endless ideas for that cute little rectangle - hope you join us!

=] Michele

The Paper Players #806

Ann has a glorious theme for us at The Paper Players #806!  Take a looky loo at this:

 

Between LeAnne, Christy, and Stef I found all the inspiration I needed

to pull out a stencil and that little set from The Greetery that gets at

least one playtime each year since it was gifted to me!

Sing along if you can hear America the Beautiful in my card today!

Purple 'mountains' and amber waves of grain make up my farmland scene.

The stencil I used is from MFT an oldie called Drifts and Hills.

The farmhouse and barn were ready-stamped from a past session -

I just blended some grey ink over to make them look silhouetted in my bright scene.

Perfect timing as I'm hearing the dryer calling my name!  Hope you've had a beautiful start to your week!

=] Michele

Happy World Card Making Day!!

Oh, happy daaaaay, my card-making friends!!  My love of pie and cards came together today!  Time Out #323 made it happen with a LOT of help from Carrie and the additional dies from her Altenew Sweet Harvest set of dies and embossing folder!

My Pick 2 turned into 3: Gingham, Baking, and Apple!

Who are YOU playing cards with this WCMD?

=] Michele

One card - three challenges!

This never happens!  I started to make a card for The Paper Players #805 using Jaydee's fun sketch when I spied with my little eye the 'leftover' panel from that fabulous Maple tree trunk that I cut at Carrie's house.  If you know me at all, I really try to use the negatives from die cuts and will specifically arrange a die thinking ahead to how I might use it later... later happened today!

I first cut the panel down using my old faithful Wonky Rectangle die from MFT.

Then, I masked my tree using one of my Penny Black essential masks and added a moon in Fossilized Amber ink blended Black Soot over the rest of the panel and backed it to make the tree trunk black!

I reached for a favorite Halloween die set from SSS: Big Bat - but just used the

sentiment - using the second color in Color Hues #142: burnt red.

Just us Girls #843 is asking for Halloween dies! This Bat Trio from SSS spooks me-

and the 'hey, boo' is my go-to for my granddaughter, Lola.

Nothing left to do but give it all a spooky spritz of TH Mica spray and voila!

ONE card - THREE challenges done and dusted!

                                                            

Thanks, Carol!

I have spent a great deal of time in my studio playing cards with all of those wonderful Altenew sets Carrie sent me home with... I'll be sharing those soon, I promise.  

Until then, we're still blooming butterflies but the weather is making it pretty hard on these delicate little friends of ours.  The sun is shining today, and I hope it warms up enough for their wings to strengthen for that long flight to Mexico!

Have a great weekend my friends!

=] Michele