Freshly Made Flower

Happy Wednesday! Half the week is now over. Yay!!  I wanted to join my friends at Freshly Made Sketches again this week. I love the sketch Kim created for us. I was going through my box of things I needed to use and found this little tag and the embossed background. I was like hmm....seems perfect. It was a quick card to put together, but I love it!!  Cards with lots of white space are just so, well, FRESH!  Ha!! 

It is so cold here, much colder than we are used to this time of year. It seems like we didn't get a lot of time between super hot and "winter" to go do some outdoor things. I'm hoping it warms back up a bit! I hope you are staying warm if your weather is like ours. Laila closely monitors the temperatures and any chance of snow, so she's jealous of those who already have some. :) 

Have a great rest of the week. 

Stampin' Up! Simply Sketched

Wednesday!   You know what that means, right?!  Freshly Made Sketches!  Woo Hoo!  This week have a great sketch from the amazingly talented Cindy L.   Just like last week, I had an almost immediate idea for the sketch.  The doily was a given as was the chevron ribbon.  I hadn't decided on the image, but after deciding I wanted to watercolor, Simply Sketched was an easy choice.  It's a great set and one you can only get if you are the hostess with the mostest!   Definitely worth hosting a workshop for, that's for sure! 

I used my Color Coach for this color combination and it is one of my favorites.  Smoky Slate, Pear Pizzazz, and Pool Party are three of my favorite colors and I love using them together.   

Laila is totally addicted to these sunglasses.  She doesn't want to take them off.  EVER!   She even took a nap in them one day!  I think because Jason and I both wear glasses, she thinks she needs some as well.   It's cute, but trying to get them off of her for bedtime is a pain.  She even wakes up yelling "Glasses ON!" sometimes.   Goodness!   Toddlers really are crazy.  lol  

Stampin' Up! Simply Sketched

I thought I'd share a card we are making at my techniques class later this month.  It's a new technique to me called acrylic batik and this was my first attempt.   I think I need a bit more practice, but I like it!    I left the card pretty simple since the focus is more on learning the technique.

Laila got to have her first ice cream cone last week!   She thought it was yummy.  She really didn't eat much of it, but I think she enjoyed what she did eat.  That makes me happy.  :)