Off they go!

 My son and his new wife left today for their 2 week cruise honeymoon! They had to wait for football to be over. He coaches high school football.  I hope they have beautiful weather. 
  I went out and had lunch with a friend I haven't seen in over a year so that was nice. When I got home I played in my craft room.  I made a pop up box card I saw in a video super cute. I said last week I'd post a picture of my husbands birthday card but it got tossed before I remembered (I tossed it) he says I don't make him fancy cards I told him that's because they take a lot of time to just see you look at it and then I throw it away!! I made a cute pyramid card with magnets to hold it upright ... it was different! 
Sooooo anyhow here is my card for this week at freshlymadesketches
Their sketch:


My card:

The black background makes it look super crooked oh well that's it lol 

Until next week!
~S

IG: Gesh1212

Paper paper paper

 I sadly missed last week somehow. I managed to get a card made when it was my kids weddings but this past week I don't even know, just didn't happen somehow.
So I'm back at it this week!!

Sketch for this week at freshlymadesketches is :
   

So I tried stamping with distressed ink ... I'd say fail but I think if I practice it might work out and I'd have a lot more color options!!
 I used foil for the stripe on the right.

These are some of the other things I've made this week!! 

Candy Christmas train!! Just need to add the candy! This is my version from MixedUpCraft on YouTube. I LOVE her tutorials and while this isn't as fancy/nice as hers I'm just proud of myself for making it!!

This one I made to send to my son's best friend. I have a photo of him holding her daughter eating a Kit Kat that was just too cute I had to mail it to her in TN.

This is a terrible photo but I took a quick picture to show a friend, ok ask her opinion lol, but then sent it out and never took a decent picture. I sent this to my Aunt with some wedding pictures in it!!

I also made a birthday card for husband! I'll share that next week!

Ok I guess that's all ...I think this is my longest post yet hope you made it to the bottom :) 

Until next week,

~S

  IG: Gesh1212

"Keep it"

Another week another card!
 We have gotten some bad news both family and a friend this week. I thought I'd send this to my friend and on the inside say "Keep it!" and write a nice note to her.  She is one of my most favorite people to send cards to because she just truly appreciates it. She says I always know when she needs a smile.

Here is the sketch for this week:

 

The link to the challenge on Freshly Made Sketches: FMS361

Here is my submission: 

It was pretty difficult to get a photo with the embossing powder on both the gold & black so I put it on the easel and did the best I could lol. My 2 left side pieces are a little off from the sketch but I thought it looked better in that small blank space.

So until next week ... "Keep it" 

~S