Long Time No Play Along

  One of my goals this year was to play along with Freshly Made Sketches.  I just wanted to get in my craft room and if nothing came from it at least I practiced.

  Then the flu kicked my butt! My husband was out among people and got hit bad which in turn meant it hit me! I haven't been that sick in yearssssssss.
Anyhow I had to play catch up on everything and I think I can start over again!! 

  I don't have the funds for Copic markers ... if I thought I'd be able to even begin to use them well I might think about saving up, however, I did buy Arteza brush pens. I have nothing to compare them to, but I LOVE them!!! (You can see some of my attempted shading in the lilypads!) That's what I used on my card for this week. Keep in mind I'm learning!!! :)

Here is the sketch this week at https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/

Here is what I came up with:

I just thought they were super cute! Honestly who can resist Duck Butt?!?

Well Happy Spring Everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

~S

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!! I managed to make cards the week both of my kids got married but somehow didn't find time during the holidays! I hope to play along this year as much as possible!

This is something I worked on. My husband said with the kids being married now they don't need piles of gifts we stopped getting tons of stuff after we got married LOL plus we just paid for a wedding and a honeymoon!!! So we tried to make it cute!

Our normal is wrapping gifts one paper per kid and write tiny, tiny numbers on them somewhere then I tell them a number to find and open. These snowmen had their names on the buttons and the stick hands held their "couples gift".

Your only here for the Freshly Made Sketch of the week  So I'll stop babbling :)

Here is this weeks sketch:

 Here is my take and I'll admit it is last minute and quickly done! 

You're knot that old! 

Until next week
~S

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

Bride & Groom

  Here comes the bride & the groom!
  One wedding down one to go this weekend! Both of my children are going to be newlyweds this month!! 
  My beautiful daughter got married on October 12th and my handsome son will be married on October 21st!
  
  Playing along with Freshly Made Sketches this week I thought this would be cute, however, I'm not sure it fits their clean card requirement. It does go with the sketch so I'm posting it!

Sketch for this week:

Challenge for myself: Cricut access... I never go in there & to use scraps I hoard and never touch!! Both accomplished! Background paper is a pad I got at WalMart and has been great for backgrounds IMO :)

Here is my card:

Spread love ❤

Until Next Week!

~S

Merry Christmas in October!
I finished my Christmas cards today all that's left to do is sign them and address them annnnnd actually get them in the mail box in December!
As far as I know I came up with this card myself I didn't copy anything except I saw the three score lines on a card somewhere one day. 

Overhead view of all of them

One of the card fronts 

Inside of the card

Back of the card

I thought they came out kind of cute! The little ornament dangles on some clear thread from his antler! Different designs on the moose using up paper I had!
It was the first time I've used foiling. I attached it on the front of the card.

Tip: if you have a heat press it works great! 300° heavy pressure about 5 seconds.

Until next time,
~S

IG: Gesh1212

Crafty Retail Therapy

  So today a girlfriend & I did a little shopping!! 
  Everything was on sale or we used coupons and we did pretty good I think. Our last few shopping trips we just wandered and didn't find anything. 

  So which of these things doesn't belong in a craft haul? You guessed it The Monster at the end of this book!!! This was one of my favorite books to read to my kids when they were littles. Both of them are getting married next month and I can't wait for them to start trying for my grandbabies!!! So when I saw this at Michael's I HAD to buy it!!! I mean what if they don't have it when I need it?! 
  So anyhow, I got some white cardstock to try and I've always wanted a snow pen so grabbed that up soon as I saw it! The alcohol lift ink pad, well that shocked us that it was in the store so got that baby for $2.40 I don't know why but I thought it was going to be super expensive. (I'm a cheap shopper lol today's adventure I only spent $35.02 )
So it was a fun day with my friend!!! I talked her ear off and we shopped and shopped!! Took some time to gobble up some pizza too! We did our normal run Michael's, Tuesday Morning, Joann's, AC Moore and finished up at Hobby Lobby!!!! 
  I can't wait to do it again!! 
~S

Let's Talk Crafts

  So I LOVE to craft ...I'm incredibly not good at it from my point of view but I still try! 
  If you happen upon my new little blog here I'd LOVE to hear what crafty things you do!!

  My craft room is set up in sections. Lets walk around the walls of my room ...
As you enter the room to the left is a treadmill that doesn't get used! I know I'm not alone! Then a closet which I just took advantage of the space and spent 4 hours cleaning it out to use for supplies!
In said closet I have supplies for diamond painting and acrylic pour painting both of which I had stacked up on tables before. I also have my vinyl for decals. Then we come around to my heat press and htv basket. I started with the Cricut easy press and decided to get an actual heat press. Then I have shelves & shelves & shelves of paper crafting supplies. It's CRAZY how fast I accumulated all of it!! I have a giant desk that I LOVE LOVE LOVE and a Cricut.  I also have used a Happy Planner for 2 years so I have tons of stuff to decorate that I found I decorated every week and the only plans I had were to catch TV shows! So I haven't done much with that.

  I have a friend that I do a card swap with once a month, we take turns picking a style. Get's us in our rooms and working on something and who doesn't like Happy Mail?! 
Boy that was long winded!!
~ S
A couple of my diamond paintings I did for my in laws