OWH sketch 189 - my coolest friend

Hello and happy Sunday!

Time for another sketch challenge from Operation Write Home! I've been trying to use up some of my 6x6 pads that are nearly finished or those that are not my favorites... this one definitely falls into the "nearly finished" category. I love these bright winter patterns and colors! 

This was the first time I made a snow hill and didn't try to glossy accent the heck out of it. What do you know? I really like it plain (I know it's harder to see. I popped it up on dimensionals; you do see it more clearly in person.) 

This is sketch 189, by the way:

Crate Paper snow day collection
Paper Smooches swanky snowdudes
Smokey Shadow/PTI card stock

Thanks for visiting me today!

Jen

OWH MWT - winter love cards

Hello there peeps!

 

I didn't think I was going to get to the OWH MWT challenge today (it's to make winter cards!) but I decided to clean my craft space for 15 minutes. Then I was crafting all of a sudden. I can't help it, I don't think. Clean = mojo for me. Oh well, go with the flow, right?? :)

 

So. I wouldn't normally go for a lot of yellow, but the yellow in this pretty snowflake paper from Crate Paper was begging for it.

 

Crate paper: Snow Day collection
Gina K dark chocolate; Bazzill pineapple bliss
Unity's Ippity sentiment; Twinery twine
Tim Holtz scattered straw, antique linen, walnut stain

So I embossed it, and then lightly rubbed my TH scattered scraw ink pad over the top. It really makes the embossing pop!  A little love sentiment, a little twine bow... and done!

 

Enjoy the rest of your week, friends!

 

Jen

Today is YOUR day.

Happy Thanksgiving, blog friends! My self-imposed spending freeze is O.V.E.R; I ran my five mile race this morning. My time was not very impressive but I ran the whole thing! My six year old asked if I won a prize when I got over the finish line - I told her the joy of finishing was my prize. And then I picked up my race pie. :)

 

Anyhow, I have a card that I think is apropos for today:

(Details: Crate Paper, Gina K Designs cardstock; Unity Stamp Co sentiment and Tim Holtz inks, plus some gems of unknown origin.) 

 

Here is my daughter at her school program yesterday, dressed as a Pilgrim.  None of her friends flubbed a line or stumbled over the words in their parts. For a group of first graders, it was very impressive!

 

And here is me with my munchkins after the race this morning:

 

Have a wonderful turkey day!

Jen

OWH sketch 135 - i miss your face

Yesterday my husband and I attended the wedding of one of his employees. It was a beautiful mass and we had so much fun with the other staff at the reception. I even got my husband to dance - swing, we took lessons when we were dating and the only thing that stuck was swing dance - and it was great! Ahh, memories of our own wedding a lifetime ago (okay, almost 9 years. Feels like a lifetime... in a good way, of course!) :)

Today's OWH sketch and the wedding made me inspired to create some missing you cards. I inked up this new-to-me sentiment and dress, which is super fun:

MME All Spice and Crate paper - portrait collection
Unity Stamp Co stamps
Tim Holtz - walnut stain and scattered straw

This one doesn't fit the sketch but I was having a hard time finding the right sentiment for the mustaches until today. :)

Unity Stamp co sentiment, DCWV paper

Thanks for visiting me! Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

Jen

Unity's FWF 8/24; Ippity Chicks sketch 43

Happy Friday! I hope your weekend is ready to kick off. For us, this is my husband's busiest time of year. We publish an independent phone book and the book has to go to the printer next week, so for now we see my husband only a few minutes each day. He does sleep, but I don't count that as quality time! It'll be September before we see much of him, but he's such an awesome guy. I think he'll appreciate finding this by his sink one morning. :)

Anyhow, I saw the new Chick Challenges sketch and I immediately knew what I wanted to do. In fact, I was tearing out this sheet of Crate Paper as I thought, "I should really dig through some more paper stacks..." nope. This card fell together in just a few minutes. I find that amazing - it sure doesn't happen often! LOL

Side note: does anyone recognize this sentiment? I thought it was Ippity but can't find the set name! 

Ippity's Shine shine shine
Crate Paper dp and MME for the scrap, I think
Tim Holtz scattered straw distress ink
Momento tuxedo black ink

Thanks so much for visiting me today. Be sure to check out all of the blog links on the Unity blog, you'll be glad you did! Have a fabulous weekend, friends!

Jen