BIG congratulations!

Freshly Made Sketches has a fun, fresh and simple sketch this week, I flipped it to fit my stamps and send some BIG Congratulations to two of my friends! Way to go ladies!!

FMS#17

I paired the sketch with these fun colors over at The Play Date Cafe, Burgundy, Gold & Plum.

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I stamped my b, preggo gal and g directly onto the Brushed Gold cardstock. I thought she could use a little jazzing up, so a bit of Perfect Plum paper piecing gave her some sass. The stripes are small strips of gold cardstock and some of that fun Japanese tape, which my brother brought me for Christmas. I'd never used it before but thought it would be fun to try out on this card and it was!

I showed this card to my DH (dear hubby) and his statement was..."I hope you don't offend anyone with that!" MEN...haha...

SU! products used:

Cardstock - Bravo Burgundy, Brushed Gold, Perfect Plum

Punch - Word Window

Stamp Set - Baby Bundle

Technique: Paper Piecing

Tess B-Day

I made this card for my good friend Berni, awhile back and didn't want to post it until she received it in the mail (of course I SHOULD'VE stamped BELATED inside since it was SOOOO LATE, oops!)

As always, I'm a fan of cutting things out...it's kind of like paper therapy and most likely a bit cheaper than retail therapy, hehe. I used the Tote-ally Tess & Happy Moments (RETIRED) stamp sets. And pulled Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze & Whisper White from the RETIRED Hand Drawn DSP. Also added a bit of RETIRED Kiwi Kiss double sided ribbon...guess I should've made this a RETIRED card instead, bwah haha.

After using one of my FAVORITE SU! punches, the Small Ticket Corner and adding a touch of BLING to the outskirts of the sentiment, I fancied up her shirt with two TEENY pieces of RETIRED chunky glitter (thank GOODNESS for tweezers)!!

Halloween Dual

It's a LiiiiiiiTTLE bit early for Christmas cards but I can TOTALLY get away with creating something orange and black at the moment...Anne Marie, Holly & I got together today and the challenge was to make a Halloween card with the following sketch.

 I pulled out my Sock Monkey stamp set and Accessories and got to cutting and cutting AND cutting...hehe

I used the paper piecing technique AGAIN...just give me some designer paper, stamps and a pair of Craft & Rubber Scissors and I'm a HAPPY CAMPER!! I was a bit stumped when it came to putting the 4 circles on the card and then a light bulb went on and I grabbed a sponge dauber and cut out the back of another monkey to lay on top of my already adhered masterpiece, ahem..and look, four perfect Pumpkin Pie circles! My card was all put together but I couldn't find the right "look" for a saying when, cha ching, yup, ANOTHER light bulb flashed and I got this KILLER idea to make a little pumpkin card for the monkey to hold that opens and says "Happy Halloween" inside. 

Bon Appetit!

Isn't this little guy cute?! He's from the VOILA SU! stamp set and

I just LOVE the paper piecing on this with SU!'s NEW black & white DSP