Freshly Made Sketches Guest! :)

Happy Wednesday! Today, I have the fun opportunity to be the Guest Designer for the Freshly Made Sketches crew! Thank you to my crafty friend Jennifer Timko, for inviting me to join in this month! You can check out their inspiring challenge blog HERE!

And here is this week’s sketch:

And here is my take! 🙂 I thought this Avery Elle Critter Crew stamp was perfect for celebrating a new home! 🙂 My friend and her family just moved into a new house yesterday, and there are five of them–too fitting! 🙂

I colored these AE cuties with C opic Markers and added them to an MFT Balloon diecut from the Balloons STAX.

This sentiment is from Avery Elle’s Home Sweet Home, which I believe is retired? The patterned paper is Lawn Fawn’s Gotta Have Gingham Paper Pad ( ❤ ). I am so excited about welcoming them all home. ❤

Thanks so much for stopping by! And thanks so much to the Freshly Made Sketches team for having me along this month! 🙂

Take care– Jill 🙂

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MORE MFT Color Challenge #35

Color Challenge #35 is on the My Favorite Things Challenge & Inspiration blog! The team made another week of great projects. Be sure to check it out.

My post for my first Color Challenge #35 card is HERE. MFT_ColorChallenge_PaintBook_35 Here is my second card for this Color Challenge:

Oh these little elephants. Adorable indeed. 🙂

I feel like I have too many neutrals on this card, but I’m going to run with it anyway. Mind the tidbit of orange too. 😉

My card is made with the following supplies by My Favorite Things:

The new Sketch Challenge #258 started this week! 🙂 <—Click here for the link 🙂 Join us!

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

Thank you for stopping by again! 🙂

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. 🙂