Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Freshly Made Sketches 124

Happy Wednesday!  It's a happy day here because at least it's not snowing (although we did get a couple of inches yesterday).  But that's water under the bridge.  I hear it's going to be 50-degrees by the end of the week and I am looking forward to that like you can't believe!  But before that I've got  got a fabbo sketch from Freshly Made Sketches to show you.  This one is designed by the super-talented and always funny,  Karren.


Sometimes inspiration from a card comes from somewhere that I can't define.  I walked into my stamp room to get serious about making my card for this challenge and I literally looked down and saw this stamp set (the one with the grass strands).  I haven't used that stamp set in ages but there it was front and center and just begging for ink.  So I stamped it on a square piece of card stock then cut it into three pieces.  Other than some indecision regarding butterflies or bitty flowers the rest of this card came together pretty quickly.  Isn't it funny how you can be inspired by something random that you see whether it's a stamp set, or colors, or patterns or texture.  Then all of a sudden your blank canvas is transformed!

Our always amazing Freshly Made Sketches design team have cooked up some great cards for you to see this week, so head on over there to check them out.  Then join us in the gallery!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Inspired By Nature (SU); Be (Simon Says Stamp)
Paper:  Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Old Olive, Perfect Plum (SU); Lavender Moon (Papertrey Ink); Neenah Solar White
Ink:  Old Olive, So Saffron (SU)
Accessories:  Beautiful Wings embosslit (SU); brads

9 comments:

Cindy Lovell said...

I'm glad you choose to ink up the gras stamp,because your card is SO pretty! I love the spring colors and the pretty butterflies!

Linda Callahan said...

Ahhh beautiful spring.........it will come right? In the meantime I will have to just look at your gorgeous creation!

Tracey McNeely said...

Jen this is so serene and pretty!

Deepti said...

As always this is so pretty !!

Amy O said...

So pretty! I love this, and I haven't seen this stamp in a long time. Thanks for the taste of spring.

Karren said...

Wow, Jen, the grass stamp looks fabulous cut into panels. Great idea and perfectly executed!

Jen Brum said...

Beautiful card Jen! I love that grass! So makes me think of spring...and the lack of snow! I love those sweet butterflies! I could come up with a few places to get your inspiration from....but I think we've already covered them today!!!!

Cindy Hall said...

This is so gorgeous and it makes me realize how insane I was to sell that stamp set. What was I thinking??? I will forever hoard everything from now on because of this card! :)

Narelle Farrugia said...

Oh this is so soft and dreamy Jen! I always kick myself that I never got this stamp set! As always you use the perfect stamps with pretty colours!