With Sympathy

Well hello there!  I know I'm hit or miss on this blog but I'm still creating.  Just don't seem to remember to take pictures and post like I used to.

I got energized a few evenings this week and broke out some of my crafty stuff so hope over the next few weeks I'll have a few more to share with anyone stopping by to visit.

Combining a sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches and a color challenge from Color Throwdown I had a good time coming up with this card, although never a fun card to have to send out.  I broke out my Minc foiling machine and some new Heidi Swapp foil I got.

My new Ginko Bundle set from Taylored Expression had just arrived in the mail so I was anxious to break it out and use it on this card.  Can see this being a favorite of mine on cards in the future, I'm a sucker for any type of floral stamp...so I am pushing myself to do some masculine cards that I'll be sharing as well.
Hopefully, you can see the shine from this foil in some of my pictures.  I also added a little score tape and foiled over that and think that adds a great little touch and is so easy to do.  I'm a pretty clean and simple stamper most of the time but have so much stuff I'm trying to experiment a little more with some of my supplies.

Thanks for stopping by to visit me and hope you have a wonderful weekend!

GGSC95: Something Old/Something New

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations we go out with the old, in with the new.  So we are challenging you to use something old/something new on your creations this week.

We are bidding farewell to two of our wonderful design team members, Frances and Jackie.  They are wonderful sources of inspiration and I know I'll be continuing to follow both of them.  Kristen will be opening up a design team call to fill their two spots, so keep an eye out on the Going Grey with Scrap-Creations blog for that announcement in the next few days.

Oh, this was such an easy challenge once it hit me when I needed to do.  I pulled out some older papers I had in my stash and some REALLY OLD chipboard letters from Heidi Swapp that I got in a scrapbooking kits ages ago.

I kept this pretty simple doing NO stamping whatsoever this week on my card, but using some of my favorite things.  Ribbon from Clear & Simple Stamps is one of my favorites as well as the NEW sizziz dies I received about a month ago.  These are the Fancy Labels Framelits.

I went with a NEW sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #149 on my card as well. 

Hope you will hop on over to Going Grey with Scrap-Creations and see what the other girls created and then help us ring in the New Year but creating something old/something new.

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Card details:

Stamps: NONE

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Dish all the Dirt Brown, Gable Green, patterned paper unknown

Inks: NONE

Embellishments: Fancy Labels Framelits from Sizzix, Chipboard Sticker Letters from Heidi Swapp, Orange You Fabulous ribbon from Clear & Simple Stamps