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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 running a little late today on posting. I had a somewhat bad night last night and hubby got called into work and I completely was bummin’ due to that. The poor man finally had one day of regular work and then got called back to work at 7pm and didn’t get home until midnight. Bless his heart he worked all last week 12 hr days + including the entire weekend. Ya, the money will be awesome but my honey means more and plus he was getting a little cranky and the entire family (kids especially) were having Daddy withdrawals.

Anyways, this is the sketch for this week. Use any current Stampin Up ONLY BIG SHOT supplies. From dies, to embossing texture plates to the dry embossing folders. You can make a card or a 3D project. Its free for all day!! When you are done, go to the Diva blog and post your picture on Mr Linkey.

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I did copy this layout from the catalog but changed the colors to make it my own. Pretty plain and simple but a nice girly fun Thank You card for someone you need to send to.

Recipe:

Big Shot Supplies:

• Stampin Up Background 1 Texture Plates
• Little Leaves Sizzlit Die
• Many Thanks Sizzlit Die
• Standard Texture Plate
• Standard Silicone Rubber
• Decorative Strip Spacer Platform
• Decorative Strip Cutting Pads

Cardstock

• Rose Red
• Chocolate Chip
• Old Olive
• So Saffron
• Tall Tales Designer Paper

Accessories

• Scallop Edge Punch

Ink

• Chocolate Chip Marker

I hope you all enjoy my project. As I said its a pretty simple one, so please give me some grace this week for not doing something super WOW!!

Hugs
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

Its Diva Sketch Week and also my new Blog. Julie and I have been working on getting this thing up and running all weekend and its finally visable for gals to come visit. I love the new colors. If you don’t know already, I used the new Stampin Up IN COLORS.  I love them already!!! Especially the Razzleberry …… and I am not a purple person at all. This sketch is so fun and so easy, I hope to see at least 25 + players this week. I couldn’t resist using my Just Buzzin By stamp set for this. It was calling this sketches name. I know I will be doing a couple more with this sketch.

So are you going to play along with us??? We would love to comment on your blogs when we see you upload your posts to Mr Linky on the DIVA blog. Go on over and see what the rest of the Divas are doing. They work really hard to make up some really nice cards for you to see.

Recipe:
Stamps: Just Buzzin By
Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Summer Sun, Sunshine Garden DSP
Ink: Basic Black, Real Red, Summer Sun, More Mustard
Accessories: Scallop Square Punch, 1 1/4″ square punch, White Signo gel pen, Red Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals

Have a wonderful week.

Its Diva Day!! yay and its a color challenge!! I so love to have new colors to try to make something with. I think I did it with this one. This card is actually for my hubby for fathers day from me. Shhhh. He has been working so hard on the outside of our house and also on the inside, that he deserves a complete day of doing NOTHING!!

This is the inside of the card and I love it!!

I hope that he enjoys my card as much as I did making it for him!!

Well stampers, now its your turn. Go check out the other Divas blogs and the main blog and play along with us!!

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

Do you like?

Recipe: I will provide this a little later today. Go check out the other divas and what they are doing.

Blessings
Heidi

I love Wednesdays!! Its another COLOR challenge and this one was a real bugger for me. I dont know why these colors were not working for me but I really was struggling with this one. Anywho,,,, I did it and I think I am OK with my card. I might try another one today and see if I can twist it a little more. So what do you think??

Recipe:

Go over to the Divas Blog and see what everyone else is up to. They would love to see you visit their blogs also. If you get a chance play along with us too.

Blessings
Heidi

This was a super fun sketch to play with. Along with the fact that I have been creating all day for my craft even this weekend and next and I was super energized with a creative mind to play along with this sketch.

So for my take on this I used the Bella Rose paper that I have NEVER ever used and oh my is it gorgeous. Then I cracked open my brand new butterfly die cut for my Big Shot and made my butterfly. I think I had the most fun with him/her.

Can you see his/her cool tentacles that I made out of hemp twine? Boy was I being creative let me tell you!! Pink round brads for a little Bling and body and a little ribbon and I was done. This was so super fun to make. Now for the punch……. I double dare you to go over to the Divas Blog…. www.divacoffeebreakdesigns.blogspot.com and make one of these and upload it to the site. I bet you won’t!! Prove me wrong.!!! Go ahead, I double DOG dare you!!

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