Another Sweet Sunday Sketch: #271

Hope your weekend has been splendid! It’s time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!! #271! Hop over to see all the fun the team made 🙂

Here’s the sketch for this week:

Here is my card for the week:

I’m unsure as to who made this!? Between the color combo and flowers (yes, again!), I need to check my temperature. Haaaaa! I try to stretch out of my comfort zone now and again, and let me tell you, this one is a huge stretch for me. 😉 Should hold me over for awhile.

I had to splatter the inside of the card to balance myself out a bit. LOL.

Oh, and be sure to stretch your dies! I did so a few times on this one with both the Blueprints 23 and the Jumbo Fishtail Banner STAX. You can get a bigger bang from your supplies. 🙂

Be sure to check out the Sweet Sunday Sketch Blog for all the different takes! 🙂

This card was made with the following supplies by My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

You can find all the past sketches HERE.

Thanks for stopping by this weekend! Be sure to join us!

Jill 🙂

MFT Color Challenge #22!

Today starts Color Challenge #22 on the My Favorite Things Challenge & Inspiration blog. Head on over there and see what our wickedly talented team busted out this week!

MFTC&I Blog–sure to be FABulous!

Here’s my card for the week:

I double die cut the Jumbo Dot Cover Up after inlaying the first set of circles. When you do this, you can’t exactly tell where you are cutting because the die is solid, but it worked out. 🙂Polka dots… love ’em! 🙂

I made a second card with some left over dots. It’s been a week of “hmmm, that’s not quite what I was thinking it would look like…”. Too funny. It’s still fun to send a shaker, right?

I popped up the black front panel in hopes that Sour Apple would show through the window a bit, but…not so much. Ha!! 😉It’s already growing on me more though. 🙂

My Hello card was made with the following supplies by My Favorite Things:

My Happy card was made with the following supplies by My Favorite Things:

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Print Join us! 🙂

My My Favorite Things Challenge & Inspiration inspirational teammates: Veronica Zalis, Vera Yates, Alice Wertz, Erin Lee Schreiner, Miriam Prantner, and Susan R. Opel!

Thanks for stopping by 🙂

Jill 🙂

MFT Sketch #230

Sketch Challenge #230 on My Favorite Things Challenge & Inspiration begins–NOW! I highly encourage taking a quick break to pop over and read the fun on MFT’s cardchallenges.com. If you haven’t played along, please do! There’s a solid chance you could win a gift certificate to get some gooooood stuff! 🙂 Every style and geographic location is encouraged to join us!

Oh oh–Aaaaaannnnd, this month, we’ve had the fabulously talented Lorena Cantó join us! How rockin’ is that!? 🙂

Here’s this week’s sketch:

Poof! Here’s my take:This is a project that looked one way in my head, and came out another. Meh, that’s ok 🙂I made a second card based on this MFT Sketch #230. This is an even looser take, but the sketch still comes through. 😉

For this card, I challenged myself to get it made and be in bed before midnight. I succeeded :). (‘Fastest Turtle’ for a reason: I’m slow. But let’s call me, ummm…”deliberate”, OK? 😉 ) It helps that I save 98% of my scraps. I used some from THIS card. Hooray for being frugal! Ha! 🙂I thank one of my (many) enablers, Erin, for the sweet hook up on this Balloon STAX set. She’s a stinker like that. 🙂

My first card is made with the following supplies at My Favorite Things:

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My Balloon card was made with the following supplies at My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

Hope you’ll join us!

My favorite MFTC&I DT teammates: Veronica Zalis, Vera Yates, Alice Wertz, Erin Lee Schreiner, Miriam Prantner, and Susan R. Opel!

Thanks for stopping by…

Jill 🙂

It’s a Sweet Sunday Sketch: #270

Hope those in the USA are enjoying the holiday weekend. I’ll be taking a few moments to be grateful for sure.

Today: Sweet Sunday for the Sketch Challenge!! #270!! Whoooooooohooo!

Here’s the Sketch for the week:

Here is my card:

Oh this cute little cow has been mooing to use him! 😉 Too bad it looks like the fella has a cold 🙂 ha!!

Be sure to check out the Sweet Sunday Sketch Blog for everyone’s projects! 🙂

This card was made with the following supplies by My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

You can find all the past sketches HERE.

Thanks for dropping in! Hope you’ll join us!

Jill 🙂

MFT Sketch #229

Sketch Challenge #229 on My Favorite Things Challenge & Inspiration blog starts today!

Here’s the sketch:

Here’s those Build-able Blooms again! I needed them a lot in May 🙂

I made a second card based on this Sketch #229: The Man Version 🙂 These bow ties are cool, right?! I “inlaid” the circles into the wonky panel strip to integrate the pieces a bit more. 🙂

My first project is made with the following supplies at My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

My Bow Tie card is made with the following supplies at My Favorite Things:

Hope you’ll join us!

My favorite MFTC&I DT teammates: Veronica Zalis, Vera Yates, Alice Wertz, Erin Lee Schreiner, Miriam Prantner, and Susan R. Opel!

Thanks for stopping by…

Jill 🙂

CREATE Magazine!

My Favorite Things Die-namics is being featured in CREATE Magazine this month! Whoot! The idea was to use one of two dies in interesting out-of-the-box ways. I, of course, chose the Proof Positive Cover-Up because, well, it is freaking awesome. So then I went mad. I die cut the plus signs in all these different colors and then pieced them together. Then came the *hold your breath*. If I screwed up my next die cutting, the time I spend piecing these would be for naught. Fortunately, I lucked out! 🙂 Phew! Insert *big sigh of relief*. LOL. 🙂 Silly silly.

I thought it turned out pretty cool. I’d love to try it again using different color combos and different shapes. 🙂 Hope you’ll check out this issue of CREATE Magazine to see all the other awesome MFT projects!

This card was made with supplies by My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

Don’t forget to join in the MFT Color Challenge and the MFT Sketch Challenge too!

Thanks for checking out my card! Join us on the challenges! 🙂

Jill 🙂

May: Page Maps! and 100!?

Today is our final collaboration with Page Maps on the My Favorite Things Challenge and Inspiration Blog!! Don’t forget: This means a BONUS Challenge this month!! Page Maps has a lot of inspiration! 🙂 Be sure to take a minute and hop over there too.

The sketch for this month:Here’s my card. Go check it all out HERE!

This color combo is fun! These are donut dies, but they work fabulously as circles too 🙂 Love me some inlaid die cuts! 🙂

MFT Card stock & Die-namics: Still BFFs.

This card was made with supplies by My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

Don’t forget to join in the MFT Color Challenge and the MFT Sketch Challenge too!

One more note: This post marks 100 posts for me on this blog. 100!? I never thought I’d ever post that many. So go figure. You just NEVER know! 🙂 BIG THANK YOU for all the kind comments, followers, thoughts and compliments. I really appreciate them all!

Thanks for stopping by! Join us on the challenges! 🙂

Jill 🙂

It’s a Sweet Sunday Sketch: #269

Today: Sweet Sunday Sketch!! #269!! Hope you can join in the fun…it’s always a good challenge! The Sweet Sunday team is full o’ fun! 🙂

Here’s my card:

Kind of a different color combo huh? It worked out pretty cool together though, I’d say 🙂 And with Father’s Day fast approaching, well, I thought I’d better get on it!

I love to die cut the die cut and die cut that die cut. That’s the quick version of how I made this panel. 🙂 Here’s the Sketch for the week:

Be sure to check out the Sweet Sunday Sketch Blog for everyone’s takes on the Sketch! Sure to a be a fun mix! 🙂

This card was made with the following supplies by My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

You can find all the past sketches HERE.

Thanks for spending a few minutes of your Sunday here! Hope you’ll join us!

Jill 🙂

Inspired by Photography…

Today is another Inspirational on the MFT Blog…Certain to be a good read! This day is all about being inspired by Art.

I am an avid fan of black and white photography. Heck, photography in general I completely enjoy. This is one of my all time favorites: “Chicago” by Jerome Hawkins.

Jerome (Pat) Hawkins happens to be my father-in-law, but he wasn’t at the time I purchased this photograph ;). Just love this one so. It was the only piece of real art I owned back then. His photographs are all meticulously done with perfection. I do not have that much patience. Ever. 🙂 Plus: Chicago.

Take a minute to check out Mr. Hawkins other photographs. 🙂

Here’s a card I was inspired to make:

I enjoy using lots of fun color combos, but I am also a HUGE fan of the gray scale. I wanted to keep this card simple, like the amazing photograph. Plus, I think these spiffy ties are fitting for a city setting–fancy like. 🙂

The My Favorite Things blog is sure to have lots more inspiration. Oh, and again: Prizes!!

This card is made with the following supplies at My Favorite Things:

InLinkz.com

Check out the My Favorite Things Challenge & Inspiration blog for all the fun on the Sketch Challenge and the current Color Challenge!! Print Thanks for dropping in! And a big thank you to my father-in-law for letting me share his photography 🙂