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Today is my husband’s grandpas 90th birthday and I had to make him a card to go along with his present we got him. Have you seen those cute new postage stamps that have all of the old TV shows on them? Well we weren’t supposed to get him anything, but when I was at the PO yesterday, I saw those and had to get them for him. I am hoping he will love them as much as I loved getting them for him.

This card turned out exactly how I wanted it to. I was using my new Big Shot die Scallop Oval and wanted to make this as manly as I could, but turns out, I have NO manly stamps. So guess what is on my list.  If you have a suggestion for me, please let me know. I am kindof stumped here. Anyways. I used one of the texture plates and then sponged it so it would POP a little more. I paper pieced the cupcake and used as many manly colors as I could.

I did use a non stampin up product on this called a glitter pen , basically because I wanted to add some flare and sparkel to it, but thought that if I used the dazzling diamonds, it would be too much for him. Anyways, we will be celebrating his birthday tonight with him and I am sure seeing lots of the family.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. And again, if you have any suggestions for the manly stamp set, please let me know in your comments.

Hugs
Heidi

Recipe:

Stamps

• Crazy for Cupcakes
• Fundamental Phrases

Ink

• Chocolate Chip
• Brocade Blue Marker

Cardstock

• Kraft
• Brocade Blue
• Chocolate Chip DSP
• Close to Cocoa
• Whisper White

Accessories

• Scallop Oval Sizzix Die
• Texture Plate
• Big Shot
• Cat & Mouse Alphabet
• Sponge
• Dimensionals
• Glitter Pen

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:
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

** DON’T FORGET I AM POSTING A NEW CREATION EVERYDAY SO STOP BACK! **

Hello stampers and WELCOME to my blog I hope that you are having a great time looking through all of these creative blogs and your brains are just filled with tons of ideas. I am so happy that I am a part of this blogging event. I picked a beautiful NEW stamp set from the HOSTESS level 3 collection called “Kind and Caring Thoughts”. I think its one of my favorites and I hope you like what I have created with it. This card was alot of fun to make. I embossed the flower stems on this and the Rich Razzleberry background is on glossy cardstock and I used my reinker and alcohol to make this swirl pattern.Recipe:

Stamp Set

• Kind and Caring Thoughts

Cardstock

• Soft Suede
• Rich Razzleberry
• Whisper White
• Bermuda Bay
• Glossy Cardstock

Ink

• Rich Razzleberry (Reinker)
• Bermuda Bay
• Versamark

Accessories

• Scallop Oval Punch
• Large Oval Punch
• Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon
• Silver Brads
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat Tool

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For my next beautiful card I used the open flower and the Crushed Curry & Dusty Durango for the main colors along with the Razzle Lemonade Designer Paper.

These colors are so striking and I love the combo of the Old Olive with it. I hope that you are enjoying my designs and please stop back the next 2 days as I will be adding more blog candy daily and also another creation per day from this gorgeous stamp set.

Recipe:

Stamps

• Kind and Caring Thoughts

Cardstock

• Crushed Curry
• Dusty Durango
• Whisper White
• Razzleberry Lemonade DSP

Ink

• Crushed Curry
• Dusty Durango

Accessories

• Dusty Durango Polka Dot Ribbon
• Word Window Punch
• Old Olive Brads
• 3 For You Punch
• Modern Label Punch
• Color Spritzer Tool
• Dimensionals

****Monday’s NEW CARD****

I absolutely LOVE this card and the colors. I never thought to put a subtle color with it like Going Gray. I embossed the flowers with the new technique I learned from Julie again and I PROMISE after this tour is over I will show you how to do it! I may even do my 1st ever U Tube video. Keep watching.

Recipe:

Stamps

• Kind & Caring Thoughts

Cardstock

• Going Gray
• Melon Mambo
• Whisper White

Ink

• Going Gray
• Melon Mambo
• Versamark (for roses on Melon paper)

Accessories

• Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat Tool
• Scallop Oval Punch
• Large Oval Punch
• Scallop Edge Punch
• Melon Mambo Polka Dot Ribbon
• Dimensionals
• Paper Piercer
• Neutrals (Going Gray) Crayon
• Blender Pen
• Sponge

I have blog candy and you are gonna love this little twist. For every post that goes over 50 I will be adding something AWESOME to the blog candy. Please make sure you put your name and also your favorite thing on my blog.

***** PLEASE NOTE (Monday July 27th UPDATE***** I hope that I did not mislead anyone but what I meant by going over 50 posts was in 50’s ….IE 50, 100, 150, 200.  So, so far, there is 2 added blog candy items added to the original.  HOWEVER…. Don’t you just hate this??  Since I am at 130 right now  if it goes over 350 I promise there will be a Gift Certificate on top of  the blog candy. So go tell your friends and other blogging buddies to come check out my blog.

Have fun and keep going on the tour…..

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 here we are on day 2 of  Christmas card stamping. This has got to be one of my favorite stamp sets and I hope (are you listening SU?) that they don’t retire this one for a long time. It is called Snow Swirled and it is one of those stamps that is so easy, yet you can make it such an elegant card also, by adding a little embossing or whatever you choose. Our theme was easy cards, so we just stamped this one.
This card I used the new 5/8″ Satin Whisper White Ribbon on and the one above we used the
Organza Ribbon on to give them 2 different looks.

Recipe:

Stamps:

• Snow Swirled

Ink:

• Real Red

Cardstock:

• Whisper White
• Old Olive
• Snow Burst DSP (retired)

Accessories:

• Scalloped Oval Punch
• 1 3/4″ Oval Punch
• Organza Ribbon
• 5/8″ Satin Ribbon
• Dimensionals

I hope you enjoyed day 2 cards and will come back tomorrow to see what else we stamped up for you!

Hugs

Heidi

On Tuesday a couple of my new stampin’ buddies got together and decided that Christmas cards were what we needed to get started on, and that is just what we did. For the next couple of days I will be posting our cards we created together.

This one is a simple, quick and yet striking card that we did. I used the Rich Razzleberry instead of the normal red & green Christmas colors and they loved it.

I myself have decided not to let Christmas sneak up on me this year in my card making. How are you doing with it so far? You know its only 4 months away!! YIKES!!!

Have a great week and we will see you tomorrow with another card we made for Christmas.

Recipe:

Stamps:

• Season of Simple Grace

Ink:

• Chocolate Chip
• Soft Suede
• Encore Gold

Cardstock:

• Kraft
• Rich Razzleberry
• Garden Green
• Very Vanilla

Accessories

• NoneHave a wonderful week.
  Hugs
  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

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.