Freshly Made...Tis' The Season...Sketch

Good morning Stampers! It's almost the end of the week! Yay! Looking forward to the weekend as I hope to spend most of it creating! I have a new creation to share with you today!  This time, however, I inked up a different stamp set, thought I give Kinda Eclectic a break, lol.

The Designers over at Tis' The Season have an awesome color challenge and I combined it with sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. Amazing talent from both blogs, check them out if you have a chance!

Here is how their challenges inspired me:

I inked up Joyful Christmas again. Ever buy a holiday stamp set only to realize (for some reason) you didn't use it as much as you wanted to, initially? Well, that's my feeling with this stamp set, I want to ink it up as much as I can! Of course, it's more fun to play with it now, especially when I use our new Stampin' Blendabilities Markers! Wouldn't you know it, once I saw Rich Razzleberry as one of the colors to use, I knew I was going to be coloring! I really like how this came out but after I was done with it, and even now that I'm blogging about it, I want to step it up a bit...we'll see. 

Well, I better get going! Lots to do today! Hope you have a wonderful Thursday!  Until next time!

Tis' the Season Thursday

Morning Stampers! Can't believe it's Thursday already!  I'm back today featuring another stamp set that is being retired. Which retired stamp set are you going to miss?

The designers over at Tis' The Season have a wonderful inspiration photo for creating Christmas cards all year long. It's been awhile since I played along with them and with our new Stampin' Blendabilities Markers I had the perfect stamp set to color in! Never to early to start working on holiday cards, no? Hopefully I'll play along with them more often.

Below is how the photo inspired me: 

I love this stamp set, Joyful Christmas! I colored it in with our Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities. Not sure if it will be in the new Holiday Catalog, which we, as demonstrators won't be able to preorder from until sometime in August. Anyhow, it's a great set to color in. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today, until next time!

Joyful Christmas

Happy Wednesday Stampers! Hope your week is going well! What a beautiful feeling to be in the Christmas spirit. The other day I watched the CMA Country Christmas special and I can really listen to Christmas music all year long.

I'm back today with a new card that I created by combining two blog challenges. A color challenge from Fab Friday using Coastal Cabana, Real Red and Gumball Green and a sketch from Retro Sketches.

This is my creation:

I really like the way it came out because I stepped out of my comfort zone again, this time by creating a square card. I usually always create a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base so it was fun creating this one. I finally purchased the Joyful Christmas stamp set and I'm so glad that I did! I used gold embossing powder to bring out the lines in the poinsettia. The smaller stems, I colored them on Whisper White and cut them out then popped them up with dimensionals.  I felt like I should add more to my card, but finally decided to leave it alone. 

What about you, have you created different size cards?  Do you have a usual size of your cards?

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time.