FMS challenge #300, Giving Thanks for you card

Freshly Made Sketches is on their 300th challenge this week, how great is that?  I love playing along with them, and the team cards are always fantastic. Check it out HERE.
And here is this weeks sketch:

To start with my embossing was done with a new folder in the new Holiday catalog.   As a demo, I'm in preorder month this month, but you will be able to purchase from this catalog in Sept 2017. You are going to LOVE IT! The SU catalogs keep getting better and better.
So my embossing folder on the is from a set called Quilted Christmas, what a fun set this is. And it is a set that will take you all year long, which makes it a super buy.

My colors today are Rich Razzleberry, Sweet Sugarplum, Basic Black, Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White.
I stamped my flower on vellum using my archive black, then colored on the back side and cut around it.  I placed it over a white doily, layered over the 2 papers that make up the sketch.   The ribbon I used is one of our incolors, Sweet sugarplum, but is retired with new ones taking it's place.

The two dsp pieces are cut from my Petal garden stack. and the sentiment is on the Label me Pretty punch.  I then added in a few metallic sequins.

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack

$10.00

Count My Blessings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Basket Of Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

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Freshly Made Sketches 293, Friendship card

Strangely enough, this card was a lot of work. Not because it's hard to  make up, but because I had the hardest time trying to figure out how to make it and what colors to use and how to finish it.

We all have colors we gravitate to.  Usually we like them when we craft, designer our homes and buy our clothes. Mine are cool pastels. Blues, pinks, purples.   This DSP set had the same piece of paper in Rich Razzleberry, and I wanted so bady to use that, but I was really trying to use the oranges and greens.   If there is an orange I do kinda like it is this one, Calypso Coral, and our new Peek a boo Peach!  I think a lot of why I like that one is because it pairs so well with all the other colors in the new incolor set and they are in my wheelhouse.

Anyway, back to the card. I pulled out an old framelit set, Labels Collection from my retired box. I really wanted something different then what everyone else used.  The DSP is our new 6x6 stack called Petal Garden, it is simply gorgeous!

So here is the link for the challenge and the sketch. Please check out the challenge, the team has the most gorgeous cards going on over there.

Colors today are: Whisper White, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Old Olive, black and Versamark for the tone on tone leaf images.

Graceful Garden Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$19.00

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack

$10.00

Garden In Bloom Photopolymer Stamp Set

$25.00

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Gatefold Graceful Garden

One of my cards for class this month. My ladies had a great time with it.  The beauty  of this is that both gold embossed images do not necessarily need to be colored in. Some love to color, but I have a couple who really don't want to.    The small one in the circle on the belly band on the front is gold embossed, but the light was not hitting it well to show it off.

You can make 2 of these from one piece of cardstock, cut it 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Score at 2 1/8" on both sides. Easiest way, just put the paper in and score at the 2 1/8", then turn paper all the way around and do it again.

I used a separate piece on the inside, but you don't have to.    My colors are:Whisper White thick, Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry, Lemon Lime twist.
Cut a piece of ribbon the same length as the paper and glue together.
I cut  the CS piece of  Sugarplum the length of my paper, then wrapped it around setting it to overlap at the back and cutting off extra.  I stamped, embossed and colored in my small rose, then cut it out with my layered circles. 

Graceful Garden Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$19.00

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack

$10.00

Lemon Lime Twist 1/4" Ombre Ribbon

$7.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

$35.00

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$5.00

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Freshly Made Sketches 291, Grown With Love

I'm so excited, my order of brand new Stampin Up product was on my doorstep yesterday when I got home.   We had been gone to Vegas for the day, yeah, I know, my friends get all excited when I say that.  but for us, it's a shopping trip with a great lunch.  We live 100 miles south in AZ, and there isn't much here.   So, lunch of Olive Garden for the first time in ages, and an expensive run through Costco.

Anyway, with all the fabulous bundles this year, and this is probably the best year for the SU catalog EVER, bar none, I decided to get this little bundle.  I fell in love with it right away, so passed by the bigger bundles and went with this on, plus some stamp sets and ribbon and, and and.

The DSP is Petal Garden, 6x6 stack. Some fabulously gorgeous patterns that match up with the Petal Garden suite and Graceful Garden stamp set.

My colors today were mostly taken from the Petal Garden stack, Whisper White, Old Olive, Berry Burst, Sweet Sugarplum and Smoky Slate.

I went a little overboard on ribbon, but they are so yummy this year. This one is Berry burst and is just gorgeous.

Here is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  The team did a fabulous job, go check them out.

Grown With Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$21.00

Garden Grown Framelits Dies

$30.00

Grown With Love Wood-Mount Bundle

$53.00

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack

$10.00

Berry Burst 1/2" Finely Woven Ribbon

$7.00

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