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Hi all!

The end is near....7 more days! Time for a Divine Diva inspiration challenge. Here's the inspiration piece Lori gave us for this week.


Beautiful! I love the colours in this room and the damask ottoman so that's where I started with this card.


Damask Designs from Papertrey Ink is stamped with black ink onto Shimmery White paper and matted onto Whisper White. I added the Happy Anniversary sentiment and then a ribbon from Michael's (Martha Stewart). A pearl brad from K and Co finishes it off.

I think I'll give this card to my brother and SIL as they celebrate their second anniversary next week.

Check out what the other Divas have come up with inspired by this beautiful room.

• Chat Wszelaki
• Chris Olsen
• Julie Warner
• Keri Brown
• Lori Rider

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

A Few Teacher Cards

Well, the end of the year is drawing near and I am really going to try hard not to have to make cards up the day before school ends! I usually do that and then run out of time and don't get everything made that I was hoping. So, this year I am starting with two weeks left. Go me!


This first card is for my older son's teacher. I used the same Making the Grade set by Cornish Heritage Farms that I used for teacher cards a lot last year. I also used their Lined Paper backgrounder stamped in Bashful Blue. The scallops along the side were made with the scallop border punch from SU! Along the bottom, stamped in Real Red, are the pencils from SU!'s Elementary Essentials set. The little apple is on a dimensional. I finished it off with a piece of Old Olive grosgrain.

My other son's teacher is getting married in two weeks so she gets a wedding card.


I have no idea what colours her wedding is, so I went with what I like! Pink Pirouette and Chocolate Chip on Shimmery White paper. The shimmer makes it tricky to photograph. Sorry about that...

Again, the scallops are made with the scallop border punch but I added small Hero Arts pearls to make it special. The damask pattern is made using Damask Designs but the sentiment is made using the SU! set Together Forever and a Stamp-A-Ma-Jig. To finish this off, a soft pink satin ribbon from Offray was tied in a bow. I must look into getting some Fray-Check or something, because this ribbon seems to get raggedy fast.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by! Hope you have a wonderful Monday and a great week :)

A Card for A Friend

Here's a baby shower card I made for a dear friend who is adopting a baby boy who is due to be born any day now. I am sooooooo excited as she and her husband welcome this little one into their family! I can't wait to meet him :) I made a second stamped image panel and adhered it to the side of a plain white gift bag to coordinate the gift and card. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a photo of that!

I really like this sentiment and thought it was perfect for an adoption. I used Papertrey's Bitty Baby Blessings for both the sentiment and onesie image. They are both stamped in Basic Black ink. The onesie is stamped again on patterned paper (I think it's Making Memories) and pieced to the cardfront. I cut the Bashful Blue scalloped layer and white layer using Nestabilities dies, while the accent colour of Barely Banana was cut with a paper cutter. The image is adhered to the cardfront using dimensionals.

A row of piercing finishes it off and satin ribbon from Michael's finishes it off.

I have been doing very little stamping this week as I have been in my classroom getting it ready for the new school year which starts next Tuesday. In the evening, I have been coming home and hanging with the family and just crashing! I even got a pile of new SU! stuff last week and haven't touched it! *gasp* What I REALLY need to do is clean up my crafting space. It is such a mess that I can't even think about creating! I've been sorting all day at work so the last thing I feel like doing is cleaning up when I get home. Hopefully I will get a chance to tidy and stamp this weekend.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are enjoying the last few days of summer :)