Good morning everyone! I apologize for my post being late. I got my card uploaded last night to the Diva site, but was so wrapped up in watching the Olympics, that I completely forgot my own blog! OOPS!!

This week we have a beautiful color challenge. I absolutely love these colors and chose the pinwheel card as my design.  It is so simple the ONLY stamping I did was the tag!

And here is my card

Stampin’ Up! Recipe

Rich Razzleberry Cardstock

Certainly Celery Cardstock

Perfect Plum (Textured) Cardstock

Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper

Accessories:  Finial Press Embossing folder, Pretty in Pink Corduroy Brad (dyed Rich Razzleberry and sprinkled with Dazzling Diamonds), 1 1/4″ Square punch, Window punch and Modern Label punch.  The stamp set used for the saying was Pocket Silhouettes.

I hope you’ll all play along with us this week – remember if you submit a card, you could be picked as our Designer of the week!

Good morning everyone!  I hope you’ve had a good couple of weeks!  I am sorry I have been missing.  I started school the beginning of January and it is really taking more of my time than I thought it would.  I LOVE what I’m doing, but I miss designing!

This week we have a sketch challenge that the Diva’s are bringing you.  When you complete your card please go back to the Diva’s blog and post your name and URL (direct link to your card), so we can see your creation!

Here is my card that I designed…

Stampin’ Up! Recipe

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock

Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink

Stampin’ Up! Accessories

Stampin’ Up! Stamp Set

Well I totally goofed last night! I got the card challenge up on the Diva’s blog, but completely forgot to post my card on MY blog! LOL ohhh goodness!

Here is the sketch challenge for today

I look forward to seeing what you all come up with!  Here is my card!

Stampin’ Up! Recipe

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock

Stampin’ Up! Ink

Stampin’ Up! Accessories

Stampin’ Up! Stamp Set

Well Scripted

If you are participating in our challenge, please be sure to check out the Diva Blog and post your creation using Mister Linky.  You can find it here:  http://divacoffeebreakdesigns.blogspot.com

Have a great day!

Good Wednesday morning bloggers!! I am soo sorry it has been so long since I’ve posted!  No excuses, life just got in the way of things   I’m back though, and am very excited to bring you this weeks challenge from the Diva’s!

These colors are VERY different – and I found it quite challenging to put a card together.  I will admit, I did find a card to use, on  the Stampin Connection (a SU Demo’s website).  I changed it a tad – here it is:

Stampin’ Up! Recipe

I hope that you’ll give this challenge a try and go back to the Diva’s blog and post to Mister Linky.  We’d love to see what you come up with!

Happy New Year everyone!! Seems like it has been so long since I posted last….a lot has happened…including me going back to school! Yes today was my first day of school!! I am very excited had a great day long class…by December, I’ll be graduating! YEAH!!

Today we have a sketch challenge!  Be sure to check out the Diva’s site, for a new look, new sketches, new color challenges and maybe even some special challenges thrown in there, every now and again

Here is my sketch for today, using the new clear block rubber stamps!! You can get your hands on your own, by ordering out of the new Occasions mini – there is a link to the catalog on the left…remember if you order now, for every $50 you spend, you’ll get a FREE item out of the Sale-A-Bration mini!!  Act now – these new clear blocks ROCK!!

I used the Vintage Vogue stamp set, along with the Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper.

RECIPE

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock

Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper

Stampin’ Up! Accessories

Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink

Here is the closeup of the flowers on the side…I used a technique that I learned from Carole’ Ann using the Crystal Effects and Shimmer Paint to make faux pearls…I LOVE this technique!

That’s it for today, until next week!

I pray that this new year, the new decade brings a lot more joy and peace to the world…I pray that this year you and your family have faith, health and wealth…God bless each of you!!

My Wish for You in 2010
May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills.
May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!
May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy
May the problems you had, forget your home address!
In simple words – May 2010 be the best year of your life!!!

Well it is definitely looking like Christmas around here!! We went light searching tonight, and had a blast! Here are some lights from a downtown area not far from us…they have done this the last 3 or 4 years I believe! It is BEAUTIFUL in person!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I wanted to take a few minutes to thank all of my faithful viewers for taking the time to view my creations over the past year.
I will be continuing with my creations in 2010, and hopefully will have more items to share with  you.  I am however, starting school in 2 weeks, and not sure how much time I’ll have.  My New Years resolution (one of them) is to share more on blog – maybe I’ll even share my work through school (getting a Graphics Design certification).

For now, I wanted to share a little ditty I found by another demo. I had to try this one on my own, when I saw that I had to pay for and join another group (which I just don’t have time for!).  I’m telling you ahead of time, that I am NOT using ANY Stampin’ Up! products for this, as it was my first go, and I didn’t want to waste my beautiful paper!  I will be making more of these, and may even use them for my Christmas tags this year….we’ll see how much I get in the next day or so LOL

I HOPE to have a small video tutorial on this soon – just have to try to get my stuff set up – as I’ve NEVER done a tutorial before LOL  Wish me luck!!

LOL well I got it done, it is still processing through YouTube, but you’ll be able to see it here when its done!

Just a side note, the Diva’s are NOT going to have a card this week or next week, they are taking some time off to enjoy their families and the holidays!  A few of them had mentioned adding a card to the Diva blog – you might want to check it out!

Merry CHRISTmas everyone!! Have a blessed holiday!

Good morning everyone!!  9 day until Christmas – YIKES! I REALLY need to finish my shopping!! LOL I HATE waiting until the last minute, but sometimes you get the best deals that way!  It is going to be a weird Christmas this year, my son just called and told me he is on call all day, from 7 AM – 7 PM Christmas day…trying to figure out when as a family we’ll be celebrating.

This color challenge is the Diva’s last challenge for 2009.  We are going to take a couple of weeks off, come up with new sketches, new color challenges, and maybe even a new look for the Diva’s blog.  The one thing we can tell you for sure, is that we’ll be back at the same address!

Now onto the color challenge for this week.  I didn’t think I’d like the colors when I first saw them, but boy when I got working on my card, the colors REALLY popped!

This week I started working on uploading tutorial videos to the SUDSOL group, a group of SU Demonstrators.  If you are a Demo and haven’t found the group yet, find the banner on my blog, click it and check out SUDSOL! There are some great tutorials, business ideas etc.  While I was working on uploading the videos, I came across this great tutorial and KNEW I had to try it.  Thank you to Barb Millikin for putting this video together.

First the colors -

And now my card -

And a close up of the top of the card

Stampin’ Up! Recipe

I hope you all have a wonderfully Blessed Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!

Stampin’ Up! Announced on their website today that on January 4, 2010, the following list of stamp sets will go from the dormant list to the retired list.

If any of these stamp sets are on your wish list, make sure to purchase them before they are gone for good!