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Good morning!

Today is another Divine Diva Challenge. Here's the picture that is to inspire us today.


I was drawn to the colour scheme, the flowers and the large white frame around the top. Here's what I came up with.


And it's SU! only! Imagine that! ;)

I pulled out the Big Shot and cut some flowers in Ruby Red using the Birds and Blooms die and used Old Olive to cut an image using the Little Leaves die. The centers were made using hand punches and a 1/2" circle punch. The middle sized flower is on a dimensional. I added a sentiment from Really Retro stamped in black onto Marigold Morning cardstock and finished it off with an Old Olive ribbon. The Marigold piece is layered onto a white base using dimensionals.

Check out what the other Divine Diva's have some up with for you today!

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

Have a great day! And thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today. I've been limiting my computer time lately as there's so much to do offline so I do appreciate when you use your time to come and visit me :)

DDIC8

Design Diva time again!

The inspiration piece we were challenged to use is below and you can find the print here if you just have to have it!I was inspired by the colours for this card. I am finding that seems to be my starting point for most of my cards lately. I challenged myself personally to use SU! only stuff and to use some of the new catalogue stuff. I'm thinking I'll use this for my card camp coming up the second weekend in August. E-mail me if you are interested (I'm in the GTA-west of Toronto by the way).

Anyways, here's the card.


It uses the new Bermuda Bay cardstock and ink (marker), Kiwi Kiss (retired, but still much loved), white and Chocolate Chip. Pretty straight forward stamping on this one. Chocolate Chip ribbon finishes it off. The sentiment is from SU!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies have come up with for this challenge :)

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

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Hi friends!

I just noticed on my Feedblitz and Google reader combined, there are now 200 people subscribed to my blog! I am in SHOCK! lol I had no idea that there were that many of you out there :) I totally appreciate you coming by to see what I've come up with, even though it's not every day that I post and I don't do a whack of tutorials and all that stuff. If only I had the time!!! Bring on summer, I say!

So, I haven't been able to get much in the way of stamping completed lately. A bit of time constraints, and a bit of mojo. I've been hanging close to my family the last few days and not really dissappearing into my craft room for a few reasons :)

Anyways, today is the third Diva challenge hosted by Lori. Here's the picture we had for inspiration.



And here's my card.

I went with colours on this one. The yellows and greens made for a good card camp card in that you could give this to kids and adults alike. I did get some inspiration from a card posted out there in cyberland, but didn't save the one I was looking at. Sorry I can't give her props! If I come across it, I'll be sure to let you know.

Check out the other Diva creations-

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

And congrats to Nola who won the blog candy offered up by Jessica at There She Goes :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to look! Have a great day,



Stamps: Big Bold Birthday
Ink: Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Very Vanilla
Accessories: ribbon (SU!)

Another SUO card

I tried my hand at the OCC Challenge today which was to use 2 or more hearts on your card. I missed the "2" part and only used one. My bad. I'll still give it to hubby though as he won't care if it meets the challenge or not!



I used the retired set A Light Heart for this card. The love part was stamped in Regal Rose ink. I stamped the o again and then inked the small love sentiment up with marker and stamped it over the heart. It was punched out with a 3/4 inch punch and popped with a dimensional. I then layered it up with some Sweet Always paper and ribbon. It was corner rounded with a punch before adhering it with dimensionals to a Chocolate Chip card base.

Not much to this card. As I said, it's for hubby and quite honestly he doesn't appreciate the embellishments so they are not wasted on him! He knows that and is not offended. Straight and to the point. Love you.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! We've got a busy weekend ahead. Hope yours is great!

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A SU! only card to share with you today based on this card by Jaydekay.


I changed the layout up a bit and omitted the tag and hardware. I stamped the sentiment in Basic Grey ink directly onto the card instead of adding an extra layer. The heart from the set Always is stamped in white craft ink and embossed in white. It's raised on dimensionals. I added a big ol' bow tied in taffeta ribbon to balance out the heart and sentiment and get my "triangle of design" happening. The Polka Dot background stamp was inked in pink on white cardstock to make the dotted panel.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I'm excited because in a bit my friend Sheilagh is coming by and we are going to head to Stamping Bella. Can't wait to see what goodies she has to take a peek at :) It's my first time there. I know for sure I want to pick up the Hockeymomabella but I doubt that's all I will come home with LOL

Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Sending You Holiday Peace

Here's a sample of a card we will be making at my card camp this weekend. I've got 6 coming on Friday and 10 (2 classes) on Saturday. I always cut a few extra and make them up as the ladies are making cards. I figure if I'm cutting, I may as well do extra while I'm at it. And by now, most of the ladies have been to a few camps and know what they are doing so I can sneak in some personal stamping waiting for questions or someone needing a hand. I'm looking forward to it! I've really met some wonderful people through this hobby :) I've got a few spaces left Saturday night from 7-10 so if you're willing to come out to Brampton, let me know!


So this is the card. I used the set To You and Yours. I like this set a lot as the images are nice, sentiments are good/useful/ones I would actually use on a card, and it's kinda cheap! My kind of set. The dove image is stamped in Real Red on Whisper White and framed in Basic Black. A Read Red piece is pierced with the mat pack and piercer and adhered to the card base, and a strip of Basic Black has a red ribbon tied and it's adhered. The sentiment is stamped in red and punched with a black mat. The sentiment is on a dimensional. SU! only baby!!!

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

Tango Thanks

So, I finally dug out some of my new SU! goodies, cleared a 6x6 space off of my table and made a card. Can you see all the junk in the background? It's an embarrassment. I hope I'll have a chance to clean it up this weekend. It's bringing me down....


I am loving the Tangerine Tango colour! I thought it would be my least favourite of the In-Colours but it's right up there, I think second only to the Kiwi. Combine these with my beloved Chocolate Chip and this could possibly be my new favourite colour combo. We'll see ;)

I started this card out by deciding upon using this striped patterned paper. If I plan to use patterned paper, I will pick the colours out of that to coordinate. I stamped the leaves image from Pocket Silhouettes in Kiwi Kiss and then the sentiment in Chocolate Chip over top. I thought about putting the image over to the right alone, but I am into layering stamps right now and thought if I left the right side white space it would balance out the ribbon knot. The Whisper White cardstock and designer paper (Hawaii Papaya? sorry-don't have my catalogue handy) are layered onto a Chocolate Chip piece to create a small border around the panel. This is a layout I've used often. Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon is tied and knotted.

I then took a piece of Tangerine Tango and stamped that same leaves image in Tangerine Tango ink a few times along the bottom to make the card base. The main image panel is then adhered using dimensionals.

A fairly simple card I guess!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! I have been busy most of the week setting up my classroom for school which starts on Tuesday. I plan to take this weekend to relax with my family and also get some cleaning done. I hate to come home from work the first day to a messy house!

Before I go, make sure to check out Jessica's Customer Points Rewards Program over at There She Goes which was announced today. Is it awesome , or what?!?

Hope the rest of your day is great!

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I tried my hand at using these fantastic swimsuits for inspiration today-this one in particular. These suits were part of the Inspiration challenge posted over at SCS today. They are full of the new SU! in-colours!


When I looked at the suit, I first thought of the Baroque Motifs stamp set and wanted to stamp the flourish from there on the Baja Breeze cardstock. Of course, inked up they never would have shown up. I am pressed for time so wasn't in the mood to emboss. I then thought to use the Sizzix die that SU! will soon be selling called Swirls Scribbles.

First I made a Basic Grey card base and layered a small piece of Baja Breeze cardstock to the bottom. I cut a few of the shape out of Kiwi Kiss and Going Grey cardstock and layered them around where the two colours meet. I used my two way glue pen to adhere them. I found it works best to "dot" the glue along the shape instead of trying to run it along the shape. A Xyron would probably be handy for this. Too bad I sold mine!

I stamped the sentiment from Happiness Always (an SU! hostess set) in Basic Gray and then knotted a Regal Rose ribbon around the card front.

Not much stamping on this card!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great.

Angela

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Managed to find a bit of time this morning to do the sketch challenge at SCS.

I used the new SU! hostess set Happiness Always. It's a 2 step stamping set. I made the base colour of the images using the first stamp stamped off one time to achieve a lighter colour. There is a second stamp that goes over top and it has random tiny letters all over it. I stamped that full strength over what I had stamped off. That way I have two shades of the same colour creating my flowers. I did it for the leaf and stems as well. Colours are More Mustard, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip.

The images were stamped on Vary Vanilla cardstock and layered on More Mustard and Chocolate Chip paper.

The card seemed a bit off balance to me, so I added a olive grograin ribbon down the left side to finish it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela

O mojo, mojo! Wherefore art thou mojo?

I guess it's true what all the stamping rock stars say about stamping every day! I haven't had a chance to in the last little while and my mojo has taken a hit. I wasn't even interested in doing the Feature Stamper challenge at SCS on Sunday! *gasp* (of course this had nothing to do with the FS's work! Just me getting my butt in gear...)

I did manage to pull out Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant and Taken with Teal to try the colour challenge today. Fabulous Flowers was still out on my desk from Saturday and that is what I finished up using. I tried a few other things but they just weren't happening. I fould this combo tough.


Anyways, it's a pretty straight forward card. Stamped the flower images randomly in all three colours and added Dazzling Diamonds to the flower centres using a glue pen. I scalloped one edge of the Teal cardstock using the new SU! scallop border punch. After I punched the border, I went back with a 1/8" hand punch and made little holes along the scallop. I initially planned to use a dotted grosgrain but switched to the plain to keep this card Stampin' Up! only. I actually think it looks better with plain ribbon anyways. The sentiment is from SU!'s All Holidays set.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I am hoping that I can get my mojo in gear as I have a number of projects to create for upcoming birthdays and a baby shower. I could probably use something I've already created if I had to, but what would the fun be in that? ;)

Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela

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OMGoodness, how cute are these bags from PinkLemonadeBags on Etsy? I used this bag here for inspiration to make my card.

Just yesterday this cute Simply Circles (SU! retired) set arrived in the mail from Kendra (thanks Kendra!) and I was looking forward to trying it out. When I saw the Inspiration Challenge bag above, I knew exactly what set I was going to use!

I used a wicked colour combo of River Rock, Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip inspired from the bag. Great guy combo. I tried to stamp my circles on Baja paper as is the background on the bag fabric but it looked plain nasty so I switched to white. Much nicer. I contemplated using Chocolate Chip at the bottom on the bottom of the card but wasn't sure how I would add a sentiment on the dark paper so I used River Rock instead. Tied it up with some Chocolate Chip ribbon from SU! and it's done!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela

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Good morning!

Today was colour challenge over at SCS and the colours were Sahara Sand, Groovy Guava and Whisper White. I just can't get into the Guava for some reason! Has to be my least favourite colour to work with so it really was a challenge for me!

Here's the card I came up with after many changes and adjustments.


I kept it pretty simple so I could have the double ribbon the focus. As I've said before, I can't make it work when there are too many things going on so I try to have one thing stand out. I chose the ribbon this time. I used the SU! set Together Forever and randomly stamped the flower on Sahara Sand and adhered it to a layer of Groovy Guava. I then stamped the sentiment from the same set in Sahara Sand. I finished it up by tying a length of both double stitched and taffeta ribbon.

A very simple card to make but it took a looooooong time for it to come together!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Angela

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Had time to do the Featured Stamper Challenge today before breakfast. The boys were downstairs playing so nicely that I couldn't bring myself to interrupt them to eat! Don't worry, I got myself downstairs and made waffles just in time for them to ask "What's for breakfast?"

Today's first card is based on this card by Stephanie Hargis. I changed the colours, stamps, placement of sentiment and omitted the piercing and corner rounding. I wanted to use this gorgeous Bella Rose paper today. It's sooooooo pretty! The other colours are Pink Pirouette and I used Papertrey's white for the base. I prefer to stamp on Whisper White so that is what the foot print is stamped on. Sentiment is from Papertrey's Bitty Baby Blessings and stamped in Chocolate Chip ink. Unfortunately, I don't know the name or manufacturer of the foot print stamp. When I first started stamping, I had no idea that information such as that would be important! I now know better.

This second card is a super simple one using new stuff from SU! I used the Bella Rose DP and stamped the sentiment from Wow Flowers in Kiwi Kiss. Olive ribbon was tied around and a hat pin from the Pretties kit finishes it off. It's based on this card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela

LSC176 and a Chocolate Kiwi

A card for the Limited Supplies Challenge at SCS. You can check it out here. The challenge was to make a summer card using limited embellishments, no patterned paper and no more than three layers.

These are the only summer stamps I have really. The butterfly and summer sentiment is from SU!'s Perennial Favourites. I've had a layout for the Wow Flowers rolling around in my head similar to this but since my new goodies hadn't arrived yet, I tried it out for the challenge. Goodies have since arrived so you can see my other layout below.

I decided on my colours by going through my paper and pulling out the brightest ones I could find. I don't work with the brights much so this was fun. Colours are Cool Caribbean, Green Galore, Summer Sun, Only Orange, Pink Passion and Lovely Lilac. Inspiration taken from Natasha Trupp's Fall to layout #1 seen here.

I stamped the butterflies on their colours in the same colour ink and then punched with a 1" square punch. I purposely had them off the edges. Too much lining up gives me a headache! lol Then I mounted with dimensionals, tied a ribbon and added the sentiments. Inspiration from atomicbutterfly at SCS for the sentiment combo. The welcome sentiment is from SU! Warm Words.

This next card was created when the goodies arrived! I used the new SU! set Wow Flowers (available Aug 11) along with the new Kiwi Kiss colour and Chocolate Chip.

I stamped the flower motif on Kiwi Kiss paper and punched it out. You could also cut squares to 1" and go that way. They are adhered to Very Vanilla cardstock and then raised on dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped in Kiwi Kiss.

I think this might pass for a "man" card. I cut the ribbon straight-for some reason that seems less feminine? I don't know. And it's a flower, I know, but it would pass for a funky 70's motif and that's all the rage.

Lurve the Kiwi Kiss muchly!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'm off to tend to my sunburn now-ouch! I was at the beach today and it was overcast (I know! I know! Those are the worst days!!!!) and as you can guess, I'm burned. I don't know what I was thinking! I'm quite fair and am usually the sunscreen Nazi, but today it just didn't happen. Don't feel sorry for me-it's my own fault!

Have a great evening!

Angela

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A quick post today!

Today I completed two cards for the Featured Stamper challenge. The first is based on this card by {Teneale} and the second on this one. I've had both of these cards in my favourites for a while so today was a great day to try casing them!

The first one is pretty much the same as hers except I tied the ribbon differently and used Oh, So Lovely, the SU! hostess set instead. I would have preferred to use Easy Elegance since I love it so, but knew that I had to change a few things! This also uses French Script. Colours are Pretty in Pink and Close to Cocoa. Very Vanilla is the neutral.


The second card has more changed up. The colours are Basic Grey, Regal Rose and Whisper White. I used the Starlight, Starbright set from Verve Visual and instead of using the flower from the Friendship Blooms SU! set (which is where the flourish is from), I punched a star from Regal Rose paper and covered it with glitter. It's popped up as is the entire Rose panel. A ribbon from a share finishes it off. That ribbon is actually where my jumping off point for this colour combo was.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela

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Hi there! Thanks for stopping my blog today :)

I particpated in the Inspiration Challenge (IC131 on Splitcoast) this week and really enjoyed it again. I'm thinking this might be a regular one for me from now on. I hope that being off for the summer I will be able to do more of the challenges.

Anyways, our inspiration came from this winning room design from Domino magazine. I was immediately drawn to the closet doors and the soft shades of blue. This first card was created with that softness in mind. I chose to use Going Grey for the flowers as I felt that it would give a softer look. I think I was right :) The card base is Bashful Blue and the flowers from Garden Silhouettes are stamped in Going Grey alson with {thank you} from the All Holidays set. A blue ribbon (not sure of the make-sorry-I received it in a share) is tied at the bottom and Dazzling Diamonds in the center of the flower finishes it off. All supplies are SU!




Since I had all the supplies out and dirty on my table, I decided to make another card but change up the colours. This next card is pretty much the same but I used Purely Pomegranate ink for the flowers and sentiment (for you is from the SU! set All Holidays) on Very Vanilla cardstock. The card base is Basic Grey it's finished off with a Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon that I purchased (in bulk! I love it so much....) from the SU! holiday mini. The pearls are from the SU! pretties kit (or similar such pearls). I love this combo and was thinking it would be nice for a Christmas or New Years card-it's so rich looking.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Angela

IC130 Sound of Music Inspiration

I was checking out the Inspiration Challenge for this week and wasn't planning to try it until I started cleaning up my room (of course-inspiration always hits when I should be doing something else.......). The challenge was to make a card inspired by movie dresses. I came across the Baroque background stamp and started to think about how it reminded me of the dresses and play clothes Maria made in The Sound of Music-you know-the ones she made out of drapes? See them here.

A pretty simple card really. I just stamped the BG in Old Olive on Vanilla, added the sentiment and ribbon and rounded the corners. I kept it simple as the pattern is pretty bold. It's a bit like a card from a catty with this BG stamp that I recall seeing.

I really had fun making this one as The Sound of Music is one of my favourite movies ever!

Thanks for stopping by and spending some time reading my little blog :)

Angela

FS69 Featured Stamper Challenge

The Featured Stamper challenge at SCS is my favourite challenge to do. This week the featured stamper was mmbc. She has so many beautiful cards to choose from!

For the first card, I chose this card to CASE. I changed it by making it a different size and I chose to have the apple peeking through a punched layer of black cardstock which is raised on dimensionals. All materials SU!

For the second card, I used Verve Visual's anniversary birds to CASE this card. I changed the colours and ribbon as well as the sentiment. I kept the rest really similar. The colours for this one are Old Olive, Regal Rose and So Saffron.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Two Quick Cards

I made two more quick cards based on the layout from my Builder Birthday card from my previous post.

The first card is made withe the SU! set Wild About You. I used markers to separate the sentiment words so they would fit the space better. All produsts are Stampin' Up! Sorry-not sure of the DP name but the other colours are Almost Amethyst and Wild Wasabi.

The second Like it a Latte card was made with the retired SU! set of the same name. I used some retired SU! designer paper that I love called Loves Me and combined it with Close to Cocoa and Regal Rose ink and paper. The heart is on a dimensional and I used liquid applique to make the foam sparkle and puff out.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Angela

Father's Day 2008

A card I made for my FIL for Father's Day. Pretty simple really. I just inked the sentiment stamp up with my markers (Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Sage Shadow) and went to town. Very little stamping involved on this one. I did try to use some hemp cord to make it "manly" but it looked bad so I changed it to the Chocolate Chip twill. It's the least girly ribbon I had!

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Angela