With Gratitude

Happy Saturday!

The designers at the Sketch Saturday challenge blog have a new sketch to share with everyone today!  It's a fun one - I really liked that big circle focal point...

I decided to use the rose image from The Craft's Meow Happiness is... stamp set and paper pieced the flower and leaves with papers from Crate Paper Portrait Collection patterned papers.  The sentiment is from The Craft's Meow Timeless Tags stamp set.

Card details
Stamps: Happiness is...; Timeless Tags (TCM)
Ink: Versafine
Card stock: PTI; Crate Paper Portrait Collection
Other: Spellbinder circle, petite circle, and ribbon banners dies; SU ribbon; sewing machine; lace; Copic markers

Hop over to the Sketch Saturday blog to see everyone's beautiful card samples made with this sketch as well as how to play along with us so you can win a great prize!!

Have a great day!
jessica

Sketch Saturday: You are my Sunshine

Good morning!

It's time for another Sketch Saturday challenge!  It's been a joy to be this month's guest designer.  This week's sketch was a bit of a challenge for me, but I guess that's the way it's supposed to be, right!?  lol!

Here's the sketch:

For my sample, I flipped the sketch to its side and used Little Freida's Daisy image and a sentiment from Baggin Some Rays - both stamp sets from The Craft's Meow Stamps.

Card Details
Stamps: Freida (TCM)
Ink: Versafine
Card stock: Crate Paper's Emma's Shoppe; SU
Other: Spellbinder oval dies; PTI tiny tag dies; Emma's Shoppe stickers; Sewing machine; Copic markers; Punch Bunch flower punch; Twine; Wild Rose flowers

Hop over to the Sketch Saturday blog to view all the other amazing samples that the designers have prepared for this week's challenge!

For those of you who are interested in seeing the adorable kids from my class at the Teddy Bear Picnic Day, I thought I'd share a couple of photos with you...

What a fun day we had together and I am ever glad today is Saturday!  lol!  It's been a chaotic last few weeks figuring out my daily schedule teaching 3 primary grades in one classroom and getting to know each of my 13 little students, but we have all adjusted well and are getting into the swing of things quite nicely, I believe.  They are learning and so am I!

Have a wonderful, RESTFUL weekend!
Jessica

Sweet Days of Summer

Good morning!

It's Saturday and that means another Sketch Saturday challenge has been posted!  Here's this week's sketch:

This week's sketch was fun to play with - I choose to use the merry go round image from The Craft's Meow Life is a Carnival stamp set for my card. The 3 stripes on each side of the bottom panel were a bit of a challenge, so I took some liberties with the sketch and used striped paper for the stripes...

Card Details
Stamps: Life is a Carnival; Little Freida at the shore sentiment (TCM)
Ink: Versafine; Versamark
Card stock: Crate Papers Emma's Shoppe
Other: SU ribbon & oval punches; Wild Orchid flowers; sewing machine; white embossing powder; Copic marker

To see all the other designer's samples for this week's challenge as well as how to enter your card for this week's $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamps, please visit the Sketch Saturday blog!

Have a great weekend!
Jessica