Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 202 (TSSC202)

Welcome to week number 202 of my sketch challenges.  Hope you are ready to create this week. I have an easy and fun sketch for you!   Come on and play along.

I have been making nothing but Christmas cards for weeks so I decided to make something different for this sketch. 

This is one of those cards that looked a lot better in person.  Ever notice that sometime when you take a picture of a card it shows stuff that you didn't see before, like poor coloring, lol!  Oh well.

Hope you find time to play along this week!  Remember to link up directly to your post and not your whole blog.  Happy stampin!

Top three picks for sketch challenge 201!

Well another week gone by--I hope that those of you in the states enjoyed your Thanksgiving!  I know I did.  I love Thanksgiving except for the fact that it means that Christmas is VERY near and as usual I have not even begun to shop!  Go figure!  Anyway, here are my top three picks for this week in no particular order....

Please remember that these are just snippets of the full card and if you click on each it will take you to the original post and you will be able to see the whole card with all the details and you can even leave a kind comment for the creator! 

I hope you take a moment to check them out.  Thanks to everyone who played along this week!

Winners, feel free to add my badge to your blogs!

Here is the HTML code.

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Be right back with the new sketch!

Mary Jo

Couple of challenges

I have so many cards that I have not shared on here yet. But I need to post these two today so that I can link them up with the challenges they go for. Do you ever do that. Participate in a challenge and then by the time you post the card you missed the challenge?! I do it all the time. So here are two I am trying not to miss this time. The first is the Create with Connie and Mary sketch...

 This is the first time I am using this dove--I just love it.  So pretty.
Stamps:  Comfort and Joy
Paper: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink: Basic Black
Other: ribbon, snow burst embossing folder

Next up is the 411 sketch for this week...

Stamps: The sounding Joy, Scenic Season
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Ink: Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Other: ribbon, brad, embossing folder, markers, nestability die

Both of these cards also fit the Latenightstamper's challenge to make Christmas cards with non-traditional colors.

Happy Today!
Mary Jo

Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 201 (TSSC201)

Welcome to a new week of my sketch challenges.  It feels like a brand new event now that we are past the 200 mark!  I am so surprised that I have been doing this for 201 weeks now.  That is really a long time, lol!  Anyway, I hope you are inspired to play along this week.  Here is the sketch...

And my sample which is as usual combined with the Latenightstamper's challenge for the new week--non-traditional Christmas!  This is always one of my favorite challenges.  I so love different colors for Christmas.  Maybe it is because I make a few hundred cards each year and get tired of the same old think, lol!  So here is my non-traditional card...

I'll tell you I have been using the heck out of this new Snow Burst Embossing Folder.  So fun!  I can't wait to see what you make with the sketch inspiration.  Remember to come on back and add you link below--or better yet add the code to your own blog so your readers can play along right from your site!

Hope you have a great week!
Mary Jo

Top three for sketch 200!

Oh my what beautiful cards last week!  I really had a hard time(again)--wanted to put them all on here.  There was not one that I didn't love!  Thanks so much to all of you who played along!  Funny that even with a bribe there was not 25 players, lol!  I am going to send a prize to one random winner anyway--just not the choice of what!

Here are my final picks--after many change of hearts....

Please take a moment to click on each and view the entire sample.  You will be taken to the creator's blog where you can leave them a comment telling them how wonderful their samples are!

Winners, feel free to add my badge to your blogs!

Here is the HTML code.

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Be right back with the new sketch!

Mary Jo