fresh & fun

I just checked and saw that my blog counter past the 250,000 mark. It’s high time for more Fresh and Fun Freebies!!!

This time I am giving away:

• one unmounted Rough Edge Alpha stamp set from Stampin’ Up!
• various May Arts Ribbon
• Medium and Small Vintage Prima Flowers
• My Amy Westerman #16 sketch challenge card

To be eligible for this drawing, just add a comment to this post. One comment per person. Please let me know what tutorial I should write next, or what other feature you would like to see on my blog.

I will pick a winner with random org on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. Thanks so much to all my daily visitors. I am having a blast with this blog and it’s all because of you!

The new challenge was posted today.:

Let’s see your scenes!  A Muse images work so well together that creating scenes is simple and fun!  So your challenge this week is to create a scene card.  You may use your choice of ink, papers, colors, stamps (please use at least one A Muse stamp if possible), embellishments, etc.  

This week, the winner will receive:
·  A Muse Stitched Uppercase alpha clear set
· Clearsnap new pigment inks in Papaya Cream & Whisper Grey
·  And an assortment of Strano ribbons

So what are you waiting for? Get those A Muse stamps out and start stamping!

As you probably all know by know, Amy Westerman posts a sketch challenge on her blog every Sunday! This weeks was a tough one for me.

I have a hard time with the sentiment circle in the center. So I moved it just a little bit off to the side. I used a Hero Arts image Amy send me in a RAK.

Amy had stamped her birds in a soft kind of brown, so I kept the soft tones going. I colored the birds with Ciao Copic Markers from selection B and C.  The image looked a bit too bare.That’s why I added paper piercing in two corners. I repeated the paper piercing on the Close to Cocoa strip that holds the ribbon and saying.

The saying is from a Stampin’ Up! set called Tiny Talk. I stamped it on Vanilla Cardstock, punched it out with 1 1/4″ circle punch and layered it on a 1 3/8″ Close to Cocoa Circle. The Card base is Close to Cocoa as well. The patterned paper is from the big Cosco My Mind’s Eye paper pack.

 Ribbon and Vintage Prima Flowers from Starlitstudio.

Cambria Turnbow simply rocks! That’s all there is to it. Look what she send me:

She wrote a great tutorial on how to make those medaillons with the  square step corner punch. If you haven’t seen it, check it out over HERE. Thanks so much, Cami. You are wonderful!