Freshly Made Sketches 2

I'm so excited to be bringing you a card I made for the second sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches!  We had an unbelievable turnout for our first week with 41 participants!  So I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their support.  I had so much fun looking at everyone's fabulous cards and marveling at everyone's talent.  I can't wait to see what's in store for us this week!

Lesley has cooked up another great sketch for us.  Have a look!

So on to my card.  I've been thinking that I really need to get going on my Christmas cards, so that's the theme I chose for my card.

I used Chocolate Chip as my card base for no other reason I handn't used it in a really long time.  It used to be my go-to color for a lot of my cards, but since Early Espresso came along, I have been neglecting it.  I was feeling a little guilty so I used it along with some retired designer paper called Ski Slope.

For my stamped image, I used the gorgeous sentiment stamp from Season of Joy.  I oh-so carefully inked it up with Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Old Olive and Baja Breeze markers.  I was a little nervous that the image wouldn't stamp cleanly, so I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw that it looked almost perfect!  I colored in the snowflake again with some Baja Breeze, punched it out, and layered it with dimensionals over the original image.  I think it's a little hard to see in the picture.  And I also used a red glimmer brad on the center of my snowflake and I'm almost embarrassed to so say that I think this is the first time I've used one of those!  I bought them last year from the Holiday Mini and never used them.  (Oh the shame)!

Now it's time for you to check out the samples from our amazing design team.  Then you should definitely head on over to Freshly Made Sketches and link up your project.  I can't wait to see what you create!

Lesley Croghan

Linda Callahan

Tui Nathan

Rita Wright

and our guest Designer Ann Schach