It's a Girl for Freshly Made

My best friend from college is having a girl this December, and her shower was this past weekend.  Since I rarely make cards ahead of time, and I fell in love with the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches at first sight, it seemed like a perfect combo.

My friend is due on Dec. 23, and I'm a Christmas baby myself, so I am so hoping she'll have the most perfect Christmas present ever this year.  But I digress... here's how I brought my card together:

The T is for their last name.  The actual name is being kept secret until the birth.  

This was the second card I made... well, I didn't finish the first, but it wasn't headed in the right direction.

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P.S.  Does anyone else think Blushing Bride is the best shade of pink Stampin' Up has given us in recent years?  Please bring it back!

Supplies Used
Card Stock:  Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride, Cheerful Treat DSP, Champagne Glimmer Paper
Ink:  Rich Razzleberry, Versamark
Stamp Sets:  Nursery Necessities
Other:  Rich Razzleberry 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Brights Glimmer Brads, Brights Buttons, Twitterpated Buttons, Champagne EP, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Little Labels Punch Pack, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder

Friday Procrastination

I literally made this card the day that the Fab Friday challenge was posted, and then not only failed to post it in time for the one week Friday Mashup challenge that I also used, but am now posting just hours before the two week Fab Friday challenge closes.  And I'm posting instead of getting ready for work.  EEK!

And the card:

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More Complicated than it looks CCMC

I pretty much just have time to post the pictures of my card.  It was a doozy!  I made it so much more complicated than it looks!  But, I think it looks pretty fabulous.  Hahahaha...

Another great sketch from Connie and Mary:

 And the outside of my card:

And opened up:

I wish I had time to tell you everything I did.

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So Fresh and so Clean

This may be the cleanest card I've made for Freshly Made Sketches.  

Here's the sketch:

And my card:

I used the underside of the awesome ribbon slide to keep it cleaner.  And a few pierces in the paper created the accent shape, and I'm done!  Took longer than you'd think because I started with something much more involved and then scrapped it.  Haha...

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Supplies Used:
Card Stock:  Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, International Bazaar DSP
Ink:  Versamark
Stamp Sets:  Petite Pairs
Other:  white EP, Rich Razzleberry satin ribbon, designer ribbon slides, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, paper piercing tool

Deceptively Tricky CCMC221

Super quick post today.  I saw this sketch at Create with Connie and Mary, and I knew I wanted to make a card with it.  SO cute!  Then it was much harder to work with than I expected!  Sometimes it goes the other way, right?  A sketch looks very difficult, and then the card comes together with ease?

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Should be asleep...

But I figured I'd hurry up and post this since I happened to think of it after staying up late to finish a project for work.  


I LOVED this week's sketch at Create with Connie and Mary:

My father-in-law needed a birthday card, so I put this together.   I apologize... picture is terrible.  There is actually fabulous dimension on this card!

That's all I have the energy for, but thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Fresh SUO Anniversary

Oh how I struggle to actually post my cards, but I'm doing it this week!  I played at SUO Challenges for the first time ever, and used the fab, fab sketch at Freshly Made Sketches as well.  When I saw the challenge at SUO was to use a photo, I thought... what a great idea for a card!  And it just so happens my anniversary is this week, so what a perfect reason to put a photo on a card.  And then I saw this great sketch, and I had a plan.

This is one of my favorite photos from my wedding, and the circles are a sunset photo that we took on our honeymoon to Hawaii (this one was taken on Kauai).  I added a little texture at the top of the wedding photo, and on the black band behind the sunset.  I still need to work on the inside, but I had to get this posted before FMS closed for the week.  :-)

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Supplies used:

Card stock:  Elegant Eggplant, Midnight Muse, Basic Black, photos printed on Whisper White

Ink:  Basic Black

Stamp Sets:  Petite Pairs

Other:  Big Shot, Fancy Fan EF, Delicate Designs EF, 1 3/8" circle punch