Freshly Made Sketches: 500th Sketch!!!

It's a big day!!!  It's time for a new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and it's our 500th sketch!! We are celebrating today with prizes from our wonderful sponsors and also many of our design team prizes have prizes on their blog (check it all out below) PLUS we have a fun sketch by Linda!! This is what I did with it.

Although I'm feeling fall coming (my very favorite season), I decided I needed one more card full of vibrant floral colors so I created a rainbow of stripes behind my Poppystamps Floral Stem Collage. The Playful Hugs tucked in perfectly with that flower. 

Five hundred sketches is such a HUGE milestone.  We can't thank you enough for supporting our challenge over all these years.  The very first sketch was in September of 2011.  It's fun to look back because one of the original design team members was Linda who also designed today's sketch for #500! (Another original is Jen Mitchell!)  I wasn't a design team member but I was absolutely honored to be a "Perfect Princess" for that first sketch.  I was invited to join in September 2014 and I absolutely cannot believe it's been that long.  It is such a joy to work with the sketches every week but even more so to work with the amazing design team!

I mentioned prizes.  Here are the sponsor with prizes just for playing this week.  Head to the FMS blog because there's even more listed there!

Then check out each team member because many of us have prizes on our blog. The prizes vary - I have two sets of products to give away.  I will randomly pick from comments on this post for the winners; however, all winners must in the US for mailing purposes.

I raided my overly large not-yet-used stash and pulled out two sets of products that might work together.  The first set is a fun set.  These are products that have been hiding in my stash until the point when all of the people in my life who would appreciate the cuteness have grown up!

I think I'm regretting parting with this stash as soon as I posted that picture.  The animal scene from Waffle Flower is just the cutest.  I tucked in a "hugs" heart die from Concord & 9th that could work well with any of the products but I had envisioned it with the panda bear dies.  And I adore the girls with their bouquets of flowers in the Newton's Nook set.

My second prize are floral sets with a big butterfly to top it all off.

The Simon Says/WPlus9 was a Stamptember set so only available for a very brief period.  Check out the amazing ways to use it at the link. It was a hard one to let go but I've found that "builder" stamps to create scenes are not my favorite type to use (Side note: I actually don't have any real artist talent - I can't draw a stick figure that you'd recognize! So a big reason that I'm drawn to this hobby is that people do the artistic work for me and design the stamps and dies.  I do believe I'm creative which means that I can put together the beautiful products created by others into a pleasing card! Thus the reason that I find the builder type stamp sets hard to work with!)  The variety of flowers and toadstools from i-crafter is simply it turned out as I was exploring my stash that I have two of them!  The Memory Box big butterfly is just because all those flowers need a butterfly!

All you have to do is comment below.  Our 500th challenge closes next Monday and on Tuesday I'll announce winner's on my blog!

I do hope to see you play along.  It's a huge week for us - we love to be inspired by all of your cards and we're so excited to send out prizes to many of our players!

SUPPLY LIST

Dies: Poppystamps Floral Stem Collage, Playful Hugs

Other: Memory Box Fairy Drops