Freshly Made Sketches

I'm back with my favourite Sketch site. I like clean and simple cards with not too much frou-frou and this fits the bill to get the mojo going. I borrowed a cute Gina Marie Onsie die from my friend and before you know it, I had whipped up 4 baby cards.
Here's the Sketch 259...

And here's the card I made based upon it...

I think it would work great for a boy!

Hockey cards

I was asked to make up 5 hockey cards in the team colours, so when I found the hockey paper last week at my local scrapbook store, I thought I better get working on them. I used a cute image from Your Next Stamp and tried to match the jersey colours as best I could. I loved the cheery colour combo and I think the recipient really liked them too.

They turned out much brighter then they appear in the photo and I glossed his helmet and skate blades.

A Teenager in the Family! whaaat?

Can't believe my beloved nephew is a teenager! Of course, I had to make a special card for this momentous occasion...

I didn't really have any electronic device or hockey type images but I thought this guy worked pretty well.

At the last minute, it was decided that a birthday cake was going to be needed because Life's Little Instructions says "everyone should have a cake on their birthday" so the famous rainbow cake was called into action once again. Here it is ready for transport, it is so tall I was worried it wouldn't make the drive but it was actually quite stable even without the skewers.

And the inside was beautiful..

Even with a large crowd of well-wishers at the party, we barely got though half the cake. A special cake for a very special boy.

Whippersnapper Jackson

Here's my card for this week's Little Red Wagon Challenge #173 Totally Teddies.
I used the Whippersnapper Stamp called Jackson. Isn't he a cutie? And he coloured up really quickly.

I'm enjoying the challenges. It's really helping me to focus on accomplishing my goals AND using my supplies.