Freshly Made Birthday Card with colourQ

It's been a while since I was actively making cards

and now finding it hard to get back on track.

This card (2 versions) is made for 2 lovely challenges

Freshly Made Sketches FMS74 and colourQ's cQc#177

 

The white base is slightly dimpled 220g paper.

The patterned paper is BoBunny's mounted on the cherry cobbler ticket

and for contrast in version 2, I placed the green border.

A simple birthday card for you.

 

Happy Birthday to Me

This birthday card is freshly made for

Freshly Made Sketches #70 with colourQ challenge $173

 

Finally making use of Cuttlebug's Happy Birthday embossing folder.

The flower and leaves are from the evergreen Spellbinders Carnation Creation.

It was my birthday yesterday.

So, Have a blessed Happy Birthday to me!!

This card is also submitted for Daring Cardmakers Embossability.

Hello Friend Freshly Made

This card is freshly made for Freshly Made Sketches FMS69

I tipped the card to portrait and kept it clean,

blue and white with a contrast of yellow ribbons on white buttons.

Patterned papers are from DCWV Citrus Stack

along with plain blue and white card stocks.

Die cuts from Spellbinders Classic and Scalloped Circles.

Sentiment die cut from Cuttlebug.

This card may be suitable for CASology Week #27 BLUE.

Happy Birthday Card Freshly Made for Color Throwdown

This card was made with 

Freshly Made Sketches FMS68 for Color Throwdown CTD224.

  

I made this card as a second attempt on the sketch with pastel colors

using pinkpaislee designer paper stack from Spring Jubilee

with Sizzix Oval and Spellbinders Butterfly dies.

Have a Happy Birthday Friend!!

Freshly Made for FMS68

This card is made for these two wonderful challenges

Freshly Made Sketches and colourQ Challenge.

 

Love the colours but struggled a while in perfecting the card.

At first, I followed the sketch to a T.  It did not look right.

So I toyed with the same papers and took a different root.

I cut a window in the patterned paper with Sizzix Ticket die

and ran the outer paper with the die on Spellbinders Magnetic Spacer Plate

to make a fine embossed frame.

The flowers are made with Spellbinders Carnation Creation

and set in place with brads.

Look, no buttons!!

What a stunning card.

Just Because... Card Freshly Made

This card is made for two of my favourite challenges.

Freshly Made Sketches and Dynamic Duos and their latest...

 

I just love Spellbinders which helped with this card.

The flowers stand out really well.

I used just ordinary plain coloured papers

and a remnant chequered wrapper for this card.

A button and two jewels complete the flowers.

Sentiment is from Hero Arts Everyday Messages.

Just because... you are you.

Thank you Freshly Made with colourQ

Another card with these two lovely challenges

Freshly Made and colourQ.

 

Noted so many beautiful cards inspired by the sketch

and decided to have a second take.

This time the card is turned anticlockwise.

Thank you Freshly Made and colourQ for the wonderful challenges.

Just Saying Hello Freshly Made

This simple and bright card is made for Freshly Made Sketches FMS66

The patterned circle is cut from DCWV's Citrus Stack,

overlaid a white card with Hero Art's Everyday Messages.

Banner is Echo Park's Everyday Eclectic on DCWV green paper.

Just saying Hello to my dear friend.

Freshly Made Thank You Card with Dynamic Duos

This three little monkeys card is made for

Fresh Made Sketches FMS65 and Dynamic Duos DD#32

 

Played around with the elements of the sketch this time (never done that before).

The delightful papers are from DCWV Animal Crackers Stack.

Sentiment stamp from Hero Arts.

Freshly Made FMS64

Made this card for Freshly Made FMS64.


Cut the flower from this lovely DCWV paper with Spellbinders Classic Circle die
and backed it with Spellbinders Scalloped Circle die in green.
The red and yellow papers are also from DCWV Citrus Stack.
Added twine to the card to make it look like a flower on its stem.
A cheerful card for any occasion.

Freshly Made with Dynamic Duos

This card is made for two of my favourite challenges
Dynamic Duos #26 ~ Monochromatic and Freshly Made Sketches FMS59

I have grown to love pairing color challenges with sketches.
I do not have the exact colours but I think the sketch turned out rather well.
The black banner is embossed with Sizzix Polka Dots.
The scalloped squares and butterflies are Spellbinders.

Freshly Made, Double the Fun

This card is made with Freshly Made Sketches FMS56

for 365 Cards Day 223 ~ Double the Fun.

Today's challenge is called "Double the Fun", and it requires you to double up on at least 3 different items on your card (e.g., rhinestones, buttons, stickers, ribbons).

I love the sketch so much that I had to make another card with it.

So double the fun fits the bill.

Two puppies from Disney's 101 Dalmations.

Two Spellbinders Labels Eleven in two colours.

Two panels to hold the ribbon tied into a bow.

Two buttons in the top right corner.

Two jewels on the collars, one pink and one blue.

Patterned paper is from Echo Park Everyday Eclectic.

Ain't this such a Happy Happy card?

Thank You Freshly Made Sketches

This week's Freshly Made Sketch FMS56 is just awesome.

This was such a fun card to make,

even the little owl is flapping its wings with joy.

I decided not to use any dies for this card

and just relied on the good old ruler and cutter

to cut all the papers.

One origami paper, plain cards cut to size,

three strands of yarn,

thank you and leaf stamps from Hero Arts,

little owl stamp from Micia Crafts.

Thank you, thank you, thank you

for a wonderful time.

This cute card was submitted for PaperPlay Challenges Week 41 ~ Simply Cute.

Thinking of You Card

This card is made for

365 Cards Day 218 ~ Feeling Contained
It's called feeling contained because it requires you to use some sort of "container" on your card.  It can be an image, an item that actually contains something, or in Michelle's case a fabulous little sticker (or two!)

using this very versatile sketch from Freshly Made FMS55

 

The thing about Freshly Made sketches ~ they always look fresh.

Used 2 patterned papers from Echo Park Everyday Eclectic.

Die cut the red scalloped circle and

stuck on this cute teapot and teacup sticker (as the container).

Stamped Hero Arts Everyday Messages in Ladybug.

Completed the card with 3 red flowers.

Thinking of you today.

Would you like to have tea?

Raining Purple Hearts

This CAS card is made for these challenges

365 Cards Day 209 ~ Color Me Purple

I used a purple polka dotted vellum paper from Daiso,

tied a violet grosgrain ribbon bow,

and die cut the hearts using Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Hearts.

It's raining purple hearts.

Here is to all the brave ones.

Have a Woof-woof Wonderful Day

This card is made for Freshly Made Sketches FMS53

using colors from Friday Mashup FM77

which fits into CASual Fridays CFC71 Fall Fun theme

(or so I think).

  

Positioned the hand cut banners in Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade.

Ran the card through the Cuttlebug using Swiss Dots to give it a dotted treatment.

Mounted the two scalloped circles and stamped the Inkadinkado Terrier.

Have a woof-woof wonderful day!!

365 Cards Day 197 ~ Sponge Grunge

Use a sponging technique to create a grungy look on your card - any theme, any design, as long as you use that technique.  Give us some grunge, and use some sponging to do it.

I am not much of a technique driven person for cards.  So this took a while to figure out.
First I tested out the sponge, some ink and paper.  Turned out OK.
Got a piece of dark brown card and sponged it with white pigment ink,
embossed it with polka dots and then sponged it again, double sponging.
Looked up Freshly Made Sketches for their 1st anniversary challenge and chose FMS24.
 

The colours I used follows Stencil Words EAD Designs September Colour Challenge 28


And the card came out like this.
Thank you 365 Cards and Freshly Made Sketches for being my friends.

365 Cards Day 190 ~ Animated

Got any favorite animated characters?

I found this delightful Tigger from my sons' old collection of Disney stickers.

He is jumping for joy amongst falling autumn leaves and having a Tigger-ific time.

I used Sizzix Flowers Embossing Folder on the white card.

Cut a panel of dark brown card and a narrower white one.

Stamped the autumn leaves using Hero Arts leaf stamp.

Tied a strand of Maya Road Twine on the side.

Mounted Tigger which was glued to a white card and cut out.

The card follows Freshly Made Sketches #51 (FMS51) again.

This card is also submitted for CAS-ual Fridays CFC69 ~ Embossing.

Birthday Card Freshly Made

Freshly Made Sketches always have very nice layouts which are quite elegant in a simple way.

I made this card following their sketch for the week FMS51.

The colors follow Stampin' Royalty's Challenge #140.

Took this photo on the balcony this morning just after 7.

The Sizzix polka dot embossing is done on DCWV cardstock.

Patterned paper in suede and white is from Echo Park Everyday Eclectic.

Suede colored scalloped square is cut with Spellbinders on the Cuttlebug.

Pool party colored paper is a piece of parchment paper,

embellished with a strip of floral ribbon.

The delightful owl stamp is from Micia.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is Mrs Grossman's Stickers.