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Hello stampers!!!

I am very excited about today as we have a couple of NEW Diva’s on the design team and you will be seeing their beautiful creations on our diva blog so pop on over there and see what they have come up with also for this design.

Today is a color challenge and I don’t honestly know what I was thinking when I picked these colors but this one really took some thinking for me. I haven’t used my Baroque Motifs set in a long, long time so I decided to pull it out and play around with it.

Todays challenge is:I hope you have fun placing these colors in your design and will share with us on Mr Linkey on the Diva Blog. Its alot of fun to see what everyone elses take is on the same colors you used.

Recipe:

Stamps

• Baroque Motifs

Ink

• Orchid Opulance
• Versamark

Cardstock

• Regal Rose
• Orchid Opulance
• So Saffron
• Garden Green
• Shimmery White

Accessories

• Rich Regal Brads (So saffron)
• Paper Piercer
• Punches Three Punch
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat Tool
• Sponge
• Scallop Oval Punch
• Large Oval Punch
• So Saffron Striped Grosgrain Ribbon
• Dimensionals

For the swirl stamp that is in the middle of the card, I used Versamark and clear embossing powder. I embossed the swirl. Then I took a sponge wedge and inked it with the classic ink Orchid Opulance and whiped over the swirl. This technique is also done with pastels and is known as Popping Pastels. I just used ink instead of my chalks. No lets see what you can do!! Come on play along!!

Blessings,
Heidi

Hello stampers!! I am so excited because my favorite BROWN BOX delivery man brought me a package yesterday and I got some new goodies to play with. I have been wanting to play along with the Stamping 411 gals for a while now and today is the day!!

Their sketch is :If you click on the sketch you can see what everyone else is doing for this sketch also.  Take a peak and go on over there. I am sure they will love your visit.

My take on this sketch immediately drew me to the upcoming Holiday Mini Catalog’s SWEET CENTERS! I even have the cool little cups that fit in the middle of the set to play with but for now, I just made it simple.  Well at least I tried to.

I just love how this turned out and hope that it inspires you. If you would like to know more about this set and don’t have a demonstrator, please email me and I will be happy to help you out.

Recipe:

Stamp Set

• Teeny Tiny Sentiments
• Sweet Centers

Cardstock

• Basic Black
• Only Orange
• Orchid Opulance
• Green Galore

Ink

• Basic Black Marker
• Green Galore
• Versamark

Accessories

• Lined Embossing texture plate
• Spritzing Tool
• Bold Brights Brads (Green Galore)
• Scalloped Edge Punch
• Whisper White Satin Ribbon
• Black Embossing Powder
• Heat Tool
• Paper piercer
• Dauber

I am not sure if you can see it or not but I used my sponge dauber on the Green Galore CS to try to bring out the dry embossing. That is where I used the Green Galore ink pad and made it stand out.

I hope this inspires you to do some stamping today and play along with the 411 gals also.

Blessings
Heidi

Hello stampers:

Welcome to this weeks Diva Coffee Break Design Challenge and I hope that you are having a great week. This week has been bitter sweet for me. My girlfriend, Julie Semones and I went to Women Of Faith and when she came here, she brought along a little baby girl, Shih Tzu, for me that I had picked out from Michigan. The bitter part came when she took home my Sheltie, Ginger, to give her the forever home she deserves.  I love her for doing this for me so that I could still see Ginger. I will be breeding “Grace” when she is of age and that is one of the things I love to do, is share my baby girl with everyone else. So anyways, this weeks card, we did together and I love how my card turned out. It took a minute for me to figure out what I wanted to do but here it is.

Here is my version and take of this sketch.

Don’t you just love that Rich Razzleberry paper??? I totally love it. I find myself ALWAYS going for that color now so if you get sick of seeing it, just yell at me… Did you happen to see the butterflies? They are embossed and NOT with versamark. ?????? Ya thats what I was thinking when Julie showed me this awesome technique.

The butterflies are embossed with CLASSIC ink and clear embossing powder and the best part is,,, little tiny words like this sentiment can be read when embossed. Details pop like never before. I find that when you use Versamark on detail and little words that it never turns out right. Tomorrow I will show you the difference between the 2. So stay tuned.

Looking for something to do today? Why not stop on over to the DIVA BLOG and take a look at the other diva’s blogs and see if any of them inspire you to create with us. Once you complete your card, upload it to our blog w/ Mr Linkey.

Have a blessed day !!!
Heidi

Ok stampers guess what today is??? Yes well its the Big Shot Challenge with the Diva’s but do you know what else
that is super duper exciting today is????
STAMPIN UP’s New 2009-2010 Catalog is HERE!!
And what better than to introduce you to the New IN COLORS!! Aren’t they GORGEOUS!!
I was not sure I was going to ever give up last years, but OH MY these are soooooo yummy when you put them together!! They as usual ALL go together no matter the color.
I have wanted to make one of these super cute Top Note Purses for so long but have never just sat down and did it. But I did tonight and I can tell these will be a favorite with me and a class on the schedule soon!!

This is the front.

This is the set all together. I love the way this entire set just coasted together. I wasn’t sure what or how I was going to incorporate the background stamp into these cards but I did it and I love it!!

Here are the cards close up. They are the 3×3 cards.

And this is the back. I added the little scalloped envelope and put a little card in it.
It just screams “Give me to someone who is down and needs a cheerful pick me up”

Well there you have it. The brand new In Colors all wrapped up in a cutie patootie Top Note purse! Oh did you see the POLKA DOT ribbon??? Yes that is new too!!  Gotta love Stampin Up!!

Have a blessed day. Go check out the rest of the divas over at our Diva Blog

Now go make a card and add your Big Shot supplies to make it unique.

Heidi

Well today is another Diva Challenge with sketch and also my Birthday!! How old you ask? 28!Hee Hee!! Yep,……. and if you believed that… GOD BLESS you and you are my best friend in the whole world. Nope honestly if you add 10 to that number you know my age. Yep hitting the big 40 slowly but surely. But for now I will just be totally happy with my age now!!
So for this challenge I made myself a birthday card!! I hate to play the blues, but its the one of the 3 card I have gotten and I had higher hopes for more cards, but OH well. Tammy Fite and Susan Timmerman sent me 2 birthdat Rak’s this week and I was so surprised!! Thanks ladies!!

So for my card I used my favorite colors Chocolate Chip and Pink (any pink) along with the Cupcake Stamp set that THANK GOODNESS they are NOT retiring or I would cry!!

This card was absolutely so fun to make that I think I might have gotten carried away with the embossing. You want embossing, you got it, both Dry and Heat… LOL And the aluminum embossing technique that I did was super cool once I finished it.

• I started out with the Ballet Blue Background CS, layered it with Basic Gray and Brushed Silver.
• The Brushed Silver is Dry embossed with the Small Dots from the SU Textures Backgrounds.
• On top of that is 1″ strips of DSP from the Patterns 11 Hostess Pack in Basic Gray and layered with Ballet Blue. I added the newer Silver Brads to the ends and used dimensionals to attach.
• The next step is my favorite. I used the SU Textured Backgrounds again on Brushed Silver and dry embossed it with the argyle pattern.
• Then I took my veramark pad and rubbed it on the entire piece of paper.
• I applied clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.
• I then took the paper piercer and pierced all of the diamond edges to look like a tool box.
• The Brushed Silver is layered with Basic Gray and Ballet Blue CS.
• Then I took the sentiment from All Holidays, stamped it on Whisper White CS in Basic Gray.
• I colored in the “D” with a Ballet Blue Marker and embossed the whole thing.
• Layered again with Ballet Blue and Basic Gray CS and added the Silver Brads to the edges of the sentiment.
• Dimensionals were used to attach.
• I then punched the arrows out of Ballet Blue.
• Clear embossed the edges of the large one and total embossed the smaller ones.
• Added the sentiment from Three Little Words “I love You”
• Attached all the arrows.

We gave it to my husband because he just found out yesterday that he has Strep throat and he is miserable and he loved it. He said its very shiny and manly. So my attempt at this challenge is completed. I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial on how I made this card.

Blessings
Heidi

Yay its a BIG SHOT CHallenge this week and I FINALLY am making my girlie dresses …. I couldn’t do just 1 I had to do 2. So here you go.

Please check out our Diva Blog and play along with us. We love to see your creations. Sorry for the short post but today is Field Day for my 2 kiddos and I have to be at school pretty early.

Have a blessed day.
Hugs
Heidi

Today is BIG SHOT day!!! And I am loving my Big Shot lately. I got a new die that I am playing with now, and will show you gals later but for today I am using the Scalloped Circle and the Birds on a Branch dies. I was so unsure if these colors were going to work and I really had nothing in mind what to do today so I went through my precut card paper ( I cut my paper in half and store it on my desk so that I have to play with colors I don’t always play with) It makes you go out of your box sometimes and play with those lonely papers that don’t always get used. But anyway, I came up with this sweet card thinking of someone special in my life that I am missing right now. So this cards for you, sweetie!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Bird on a Branch
Ink: Close to Cocoa
Paper: Kraft, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, Pacific Point, and Parisian Breeze DSP

Hello Divas!!!!!!!! Yes its Wednesday again and I am so in love with these colors!! This pic was sent to us by our own Diva, Kristin Moore. I actually thought this was super cool from the minute I saw it and thought this was really going to be a challenge to put these colors together. But actually it was alot easier to do once they started falling into place.

I had to keep on making a few more wedding cards and so this fit right in and I think this is going to be a stunning card for a lucky someone. Not sure who yet, but someone.

Yay another week of Diva’s Coffee Break Designs. I absolutely love designing with our lovely Diva’s. Everyone has one take or another on the great challenges and its alot of fun to see how everyone views it.
We had a great Easter Sunday with a great church service, then we took off to Lowe’s ( oh we have been living there for the past 3 weeks working on a total remodel of our bathroom ) and then we came home and just chilled out. My husband made a great lunch for us, he worked on the bathroom on the finishing touches and we ended up at my in-laws for a couple hours.