Freshly Made Sketches #504 // Festive Friday Challenge #93

 2 challenges inspired today's card...

Freshly Made Sketches // #FMS504 ...A sketch challenge!! I had a hard time deciding whether this sketch should be a seascape or a skyline design.  In the end I went with skyline and love how it turned out.

Festive Friday // #FF0093 ...An Inspo list challenge!! From the 10 items on their inspo list honoring Balloons Around the World day, choose three.  The three I chose for this card...balloon, red, and clouds.

Verse of the Day:

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9 (NIV) Courtesy of YouVersion

CAS Colours & Sketches #435

 A single challenge inspired today's card...

CAS Colours & Sketches // #435 ...A double challenge!!  This week we were given both a color combo and a sketch.  The color combo: Ballet Blue, Rose Red, and Summer Sun.

Verse of the Day:

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.

Psalms 127:1 (NIV) Courtesy of YouVersion

TGIF Challenge #310 // Freshly Made Sketches #479

2 challenges inspired today's card...

TGIF // #tgifc310 ...A color challenge!  Their color combo for this current challenge is Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo, and Pool Party.  

Freshly Made Sketches // #FMS479 ...A sketch challenge!  This week's sketch is clean and simple with so many possibilities!  It is definitely going in my "to use again" file!!

Verse of the Day:

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

ROMANS 8:1 (ESV)

INKspirational Challenge #234 // Just Us Girls #575 // Hand Stamped Sentiments #359

 2 cards....

Card #1 inspired by one challenge...

INKspirational Challenge // #234 ...A photo challenge!  When I first saw this photo I was thinking I would make a dog lovers card, but I remembered this soccer ball die and decided to make a soccer lovers card.  Drawing my inspiration from the red soccer ball on the bed.  Once a soccer mom always a soccer mom!!

Card #2 inspired by two challenges...

Just Us Girls // #JUG575 ...A trend challenge!  The trend for this challenge...embossing folders!!  I used my dotted clouds folder to create a blue skies backdrop for my card.

Hand Stamped Sentiments // #HSS359 ...A sketch challenge!!  This frame was laying on my pile of pieces and parts that got cut but never used, and I am determined to put to use the items that a piling up there.  So...this Very Vanilla frame became the start of my take on this week's sketch from the Hand Stamped team.

 

Verse of the Day:                                                                                  Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

JOHN 13:14 (NIV)

Try Stampin on Tuesday Challenge #488 & CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #401

 2 challenges inspired today's card...

CAS Colours & Sketches // #401 ...A color challenge!! The trio of colors for this challenge...Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, and Cherry Cobbler.  I used Bermuda Bay ink and card stock, Pool Party ink for the balloon, and Cherry Cobbler ribbon and candy dots to embellish my hot air balloon.

Try Stampin on Tuesday // #TSOT488 ...A sketch challenge!! I love the festive pennants in this sketch.  At first glance I was thinking I would make a birthday card but in the end I decided on this sentiment to finish it off..."You're off to great places"!!

 

Verse of the Day:

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

JOHN 1:14 (ESV)

The Library Challenge #68...The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat....what a great book!! This is the book that pulled off the shelf for the current Library Challenge.  The Library Challenge calls for us to use the cover, the title, or the story as our inspiration!  For my take on this challenge I am using Stampin Up's Above the Clouds bundle and used the cover as my inspiration.

#bethegift challenge:  How someone today who wouldn't expect!  (Be sensitive...during this time of Corona as much as hugs are needed we want to be careful)

One Card for Three Challenges

 One card for three challenges...

Cardz 4 Guyz...Monochromatic! I usually am not a fan of monochromatic card but I am so loving the way this one turned out!!  Thanks to the Cardz 4 Guys team for pushing me outside my comfort zone with this challenge!!

CAS(E) this Sketch...a sketch challenge...this sketch paired up perfectly with a monochromatic challenge.

Time Out...Adventurous was our challenge word.  One our my biggest adventures was a hot air balloon ride in Albuquerque, New Mexico!!  So it seemed fitting to use Stampin Up's Above the Clouds bundle for this challenge.

      

#bethegift challenge:  Give the gift of forgiveness today!  Think of one someone you need to forgive and reach out to them with forgiveness!!

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #074

Today I am playing along with the Tic Tac Toe challenge.  My three in a row on this game board runs down the left hand side...Mountains//Hot Air Balloon//Pink.  I created my mountains with Stampin Up's Waterfront stamp set...the hot air balloon was created with Stampin Up's Above the Cloud bundle...my pink was Stampin Up's Blushing Bride ink.

#bethegift challenge: Send a surprise Starbucks gift card online and make someone's day a little brighter! 

Just Us Girls Challenge #541 & Freshly Made Sketches #440

Just Us Girls has a color challenge for us this week...Turquoise, Kraft & White.  I am pairing this color challenge with the sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches. 

  

#bethegift challenge:   Tell someone one today 3 reasons why you believe in their work...we need each other's encouragement.

Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge #339

Today I am playing along with the color challenge from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge.  Their color combo is...Rococo Rose//Seaside Spray//Mint Macaron.  I decided to use Stampin Up's Above the Clouds stamp set and matching punch to create my card.  The grassy fore ground was created with the grass stamp from Stampin Up's High Tide stamp set...it creates the perfect meadow!!

#bethegift challenge:  Knock on someone's door today...don't have an agenda...just love large!!

Hand Stamped Sentiments #336

Here is another take on the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments.  Their current color challenge is....Poppy Parade, Pool Party, and Daffodil Delight. 


Materials used: Stampin Up's Above the Clouds, matching punch, Poppy Parade/Pool Party/Daffodil Delight inks, hemp

#bethegift challenge: Prepare a basket of joy.  Deliver it to someone in need of being remembered.

Sketch Saturday #604 & The Library Challenge #56

What a fun card this turned out to be!!  Very different from my usual creations.  But between these to challenges it called for something a little out side the box for me!!  The Library Challenge was based on the book Egg Drop by Mini Grey...use the story, the cover, or the title for your inspiration.  And the Sketch Saturday challenge was to "create a scene".....I'd say I have created quite the scene here!!

Materials used:  Stampin Up's Above the Clouds, Waterfront, and Hey, Chick stamp sets...Garden Green, Pool Party, Real Red, Early Espresso, and So Saffron inks...Hot Air Balloon punch that I then altered...black cording.


Update:  What an honor to be a Librarian's Choice!? 

Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Happy New Year!!  Today I am playing along with the Sweet Stampin Challenge.  Here is their challenge...

Hey Sweet Stampers

It's time for a new challenge

and this time we have the lovely theme

of New Year/New Start/Hogmanay

I used Stampin Up's Above the Clouds bundle and went with one of my favorite color combos...Chocolate Chip and Marina Mist.

In 2020, I will be following the #bethegift challenge...

Today's challenge...Ask one person how you can support them this year.

A Beautiful Ride....

Today I am playing along with the Library Challenge....use the title, cover, or story from the chosen book to create your card.  Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne is their choice for challenge #37.  Of course I right away thought of my new Above the Clouds stamp set and matching punch from Stampin Up.  I just love hot air balloon so this set was a must have for me!! 


 3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts learned...Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic//essential in every way!!  Contentment//Learn this and you will be truly happy!!  About the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!!

Above the Clouds...Life is a Beautiful Ride

Freshly Made Sketch had another fun sketch.  I paired it with Stampin Up's Above the Clouds stamp set.  This set can be found in the new catalog that just came out and it has a matching punch!  

Last month we went to a hot air balloon festival and it was such and amazing event.  If you ever have the opportunity to go to a hot air balloon glow...you really should!!  it was the coolest thing ever!!  


3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts). a gift of peace, hope, joy...Psalms 91 has all three packed into one place!!!

Above the Clouds

Here is a preview of another new stamp set (Above the Clouds) available next month from Stampin Up's new catalog!!  It can be bought in a bundle with a matching punch.  Yippie!!!  For today's card, I used the sketch challenge from CAS(E) this Sketch as my inspiration.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) a gift at 8am, 12pm, and 8pm...first patient of the day comes in at 8:00--an opportunity to be a blessing//lunch time--I feel very fortunate that I can go home and enjoy lunch with my hubby//the close of the day--time to relax with a book!!