Quick Update...

Hi everyone, so sorry I've been so quite lately. Life seems to take some pretty quick turns at the drop of a hat. Last Tuesday October 21 one of my cousins was in a very serious car accident. The driver in the other vehicle was killed. My cousin Jason was not, but he has some very serious injuries including broken bones in his back & neck. I come from a very close knit family and alot of my extended family has spent many hours at the hospital with my Aunt & Uncle and their family during this time. Please keep Jason in your prayers as he goes through this very difficult time in his life.

I hope to get in some stamping time soon, but my first priority is my family. Please keep checking back for any updates. Take Care, Diane

Happy Monday!!!!

Hi everyone, I hope you had a fabulous weekend!

Today's card is one I made for a couple different challenges. First I wanted to participate in last week's SCS color challenge, I LOVE the color combination for this challenge. The other challenge is for Beate's WSC, I did change it up a bit, I made a square card instead of the tall card shown in the sketch. I LOVE square cards!!!!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Dreams Du Jour, Pocket Silhouette's, Stitched.

Paper~ Pink Pirouette, Basic Black, Whisper White.

Ink~ White Craft, Basic Black, Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose.

Accessories~ Blender pen, Designer label punch, oval punches, Scallop punch, paper piercer, Pink Taffeta ribbon, Non- SU! product - Cuttlebug 'Swiss Dots' folder, Nestibilities, decorative pearls.

BIC - Upsy Daisy

Where does the time go? This week has flew by! The kids & I had a three day week this past week and we have been enjoying this long weekend! I was able to sqeeze in some stamping time though!!

Today's card is my card for Beate's BIC #27. What a fun image to work with! I decided to work with the colors in the image to create my card.

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Upsy Daisy, Twill, Pocket Silhouette's,

Paper~ Basic Gray, Bravo Burgundy, Pink Pirouette, Parisian Summer DSP, Whisper White.

Ink~ Bravo Burgundy, Going Gray, Pink Pirouette.

Accessories~ Filigree brads, silver brads, oval punches, scallop punch, ticket punch, non-SU! products - Stickles star dust.

WSC61

Today's card was made using Beate's weekend sketch challenge #61. I also used the challenge from the OCC girls to use bling on your card. This card took a little more time then I hoped it would, I had a hard time getting all the elements to work together. I hope I finally got it to work! What do you think?

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Dreams Du Jour.

Paper~ Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Nave, Whisper White, Baja Breeze DSP.

Ink~ Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard.

Accessories~ Jumbo eyelets, Circle Ice Rhinestone brads, So Saffron brad, Chip Board, Scallop punch, paper piercer, Non-SU! product-Marvy jumbo punches, Cuttlebug folder.

Chocolate Daisies - 4 in 1

Today's card is one I made for a few different challenges. Since I started working outside of the house I don't get as much time to stamp as I would like, so I've had to combine a couple of challenges that I like to do into one card. First challenge comes from the girls over at the OCC, the challenge was to use bling on your project. Bling you say?, I can do that! The next challenge was from the gals over at CCEE Stampers, their challenge was to make your own DSP. No problem in that challenge either, I LOVE my background stamps and of course my Cuttlebug! Last week's 'Ways to use it' Challenge 186 over at SCS was to use a quote, I love this quote from the 'Inspired by Nature' set. And finally, I am always looking for an opportunity to use up some of my scraps and I was able to use a few on this card, thus my 'Go Green' Challenge! Whew, 4 challenges in one!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Upsy Daisy, Inspired by Nature, Stitched.

Paper~ Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip.

Ink~ Craft White, Chocolate Chip.

Accessories~ Flower Fusions, Ice Rhinestones, Pink Pirouette Striped 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, vintage brads, paper piercer, Non-Su! product - Marvy Scallop circle punch, Stickles star dust.

I LOVE 'Inspired by Nature'....

Can you tell? It shouldn't be a surprise to me since I LOVE coneflowers!

Today's card is one I made the other day while I was on a roll using this stamp set. Now all I need to do is change up the color of the flowers, LOL!Hmmmm, I wonder what a blue flower would look like!!!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Inspired by Nature, Sanded.

Paper~ Old Olive, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Muirfield DSP.

Ink~ Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive.

Accessories~ Large Oval punch, Chocolate Grosgrain 5/8" ribbon, vintage brads, sponge.

WSC - Serene Spring

Hello everyone, I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Today's card is one I made for Beate's weekend sketch challenge #60. I was also able to use up some of my scraps on this card, you know how much I like to do that!!!

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Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Serene Spring, Upsy Daisy, Sanded.
Paper~ Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Muirfield DSP.
Accessories~ SU! Punches - Scallop Circle, Large oval, circle 1 3/8" & 1 1/4", blender pen, sponge.

BIC - Inspired by Nature

Today's card was inspired by Beate's 'Be inspired challenge' and this week's OCC challenge.

When I first saw this image I was drawn toward the layout and the colors of this image. The OCC challenge calls for colored stitching on your card. My favorite background stamp 'Stitched' falls into that catagory! This is what I came up with, I hope you enjoy!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Inspired by Nature, Stitched.

Paper~ Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Whisper White.

Ink~ Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, Old Olive.

Accessories~ Vintage brads, Chocolate grosgrain ribbon, sponge.