Freshly Made Sketches 209!

This is two weeks in a row that my Freshly Made Sketches card has been a Christmas card.  As always around this time of year I start to worry that I don't have enough Christmas cards made.  Luckily for me Jen Brum's sketch with a tree put me in mind of Christmas - but don't worry - you can use whatever shape want.  I didn't use a tree but I did use another iconic Christmas image.

The inspiration challenge at Tis' The Season had a bit of a muted-neutral look to it so that inspired the colors of my card.  I almost used green on the sentiment - to echo the green of the pine sprigs - but decided that carrying on with my neutral theme looked better.

I hope you have some time to check out the cards at Freshly Made Sketches because there's a lot of inspiration to be had there.  We'd love to see your interpretation of this sketch in the gallery!  I hope you can join us!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Texture Stamp (Darkroom Door); Jingle All the Way (Technique Tuesday)
Paper: Fog (Simon Says Stamp); Vellum (Papertrey Ink); Silver Glimmer (SU)
Ink:  Fog (Simon Says Stamp); Smokey Shadow (Papertrey Ink)
Accessories:  Blooming Poinsettia die (Memory Box)

Tis the Season 11

This week at Tis The Season is an inspiration challenge.  The colors and sparkly bits are what inspired me and once I saw the challenge at retro sketches this week was a gift tag I immediately that I wanted to combine these challenges.

I love making Christmas tags so putting these challenges together was a no brainer for me!  The silver glimmer paper provided the sparkle along with the rhinestone bling!  And since shimmery paper and snowflakes go together in my book, I added a couple of those too!

We'd love to see your Christmas inspiration at Tis The Season so come along and create with us!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Warm Words (SU)

Paper:  Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores (Papertrey Ink); Neenah Solar White; Silver Glimmer (SU)

Ink:  Hawaiian Shores (Papertrey Ink)

Accessories:  Snowflake Trio die (amuse studio); Maryanne Snowflake die (Simon Says Stamp); Stitched Circle STAX, Pierced Traditional Tags STAX (My Favorite Things); Banner Trio die (WPlus9); Basic Rhinesones, Pewter Jumbo brads, Pool Party seam binding ribbon, Pool Party baker's twine (SU); washi tape

Tis the Season!

Today I have the special honor of being guest designer at Tis the Season.  I think the fates are shining on me because early on this year I decided to create Christmas cards all year long so that I wouldn't be crazy come December frantically making cards for my stash.  Then Holly asked me to be a guestie at Tis the Season and I took this as divine intervention!

This week is a versatile sketch because those hexagons could be interpreted so many ways!  I went a pretty literal with this one because it occurred to me that I hadn't quite embraced the hexagon craze as much as I should.  I dug out some of my favorite Christmas DSP, Holiday Thyme, and used these traditional colors.  A few sequins thrown in for some sparkle and easy peasy, I was done!

Hop on over to Tis the Season and join us!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Contempo Christmas (SU)

Paper:  Old Olive, Cranberry Crisp, Holiday Thyme (SU)

Ink:  Onyx Black (Versafine)

Accessories:  Berry Blend sequins (Avery Elle)