Lets do lunch!

Time to play along again!!  I got this paper the other day and this was just the first thing that popped in my head ... weird since I don't like crab lol I'm a lobster girl!!

https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/ sketch this week is:

here is my card:

Are you team crab or team lobster?

Have a wonderful week everyone thanks for stopping by!

~S

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

Jingle Bells

 Christmas is coming so fast! My Grandpa always told me the older you get the faster time goes but I never expected this fast!!!!

  My babies are grown adults ... married ... houses of their own. My husband & I still feel way to young for all of that!! 

 Anyhow it will be here soon (I need to survive my birthday first lol some days I feel like I'm strolling down the hill and others I feel like I was kicked "over the hill") 

I'm going with jingle bells for this card! This weeks challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches  is:


Here is my take on it:

Have a wonderful day thanks for stopping by!

 Until next week,

~S

IG: Gesh1212

Snowy Bench

My Christmas cards have been done since October! However, with Christmas on my mind I made a new one for the challenge over at freshlymadesketches 
The card is just the white part I put it on a piece of red just for the photo. Speaking of photo, it does the bench picture no justice!! I tried to get a close up but the light kept showing ugh the glitter is so, so pretty!
The sketch this week:

I guess I failed again this week lol I did more of a square than rectangle. That's ok it got me in my room and it has been a couple of days. 

I hope you all have your December plans under control ... if you do I'd love to know your secret!!! So much going on this month!!

Until next week,
~S

IG: gesh1212

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