Scalloped Moments

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What a day!

I had my monthly Stamp A Stack here today and had two new girls join us which in turn gave us a full table – I might have to put this on twice a month if more people wish to come – how cool would that be? I just love this job and being able to do it when it suites me and my family is just a double bonus.

Its been a busy day and I’m so grateful that I managed to do my Utah Divas Sketch Challenge card on Thursday :)

Here is this week’s sketch ….

OOOhhhh Scallops!!

When I saw this I thought this was the perfect time to use my Scallop Square die in my Big Shot – mind you I’ve had it for a month or so and hadnt used it yet so this was the perfect opportunity!

Here is my card …

Scalloped Moments

Yes I know … I’ve used Every Moment Stamp Set yet again but I just love that set!

Now you might notice that my scalloped square is not really a square on my card.  What I did was cut out a square using the die and then I moved the square along within the scallops and ran it through again to create the scalloped rectangle.  Easy :) so now you have two uses for the scalloped square die!

Now this die is in the Summer Mini which finishes on 31st March so if you want it or anything else in the mini then make sure you get your order to me before the end of the month – and dont forget the 10% discount that you get if you order with me before 31st March. All purchases of $100 or more also earn Sale•A•Bration sets as well so dont miss out on the discount AND the free sets!

Now why dont you play along with this week’s sketch?  Just click on the sketch above to go to the Utah Divas International Blog and feel free to post your link in a comment here – I’d love to see what you make with it!  I’ll send a RAK to anyone who plays along and posts a comment with their link.

Now the next Designing Diva is the lovely Ruthie Burkey so be sure to stop by her blog and see her lovely creation … oh and dont forget to say hello!

 

 

 

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Builder Sketch

Well hello and welcome to another Utah Diva Sketch Challenge albeit a little late.

Here is this week’s sketch ….

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This week’s sketch really had me stumped for a while and I’d seen so many cards lately with the swirly plant image from the Sweet Summer Sale•A•Bration set that I wanted to use it before Sale•A•Bration is over!

This past week I received my Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue pre-order and I thought I’d sneak the two gorgeous Builder Wheels I got in my pre-order into this card.

That is one of the best things about being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator is that not only do you get the catalogues one month before release but you can also place a pre-order from that catalogue so you have plenty of time to make lots of delish samples to show your blog readers and customers.

I will have lots of more samples to come over the upcoming weeks but for now here is today’s card …

Builder Bliss

Now after making the card I shared on Thursday I had to use my Itty Bitty Shapes Punches again and thought this time I’d team them up with the Bitty Buttons.  I saw this colour combination on Gretchen Barron’s site this past week and immediately fell in love so saved it for my memory bank so to speak.

From the photo you cant see the buttons so well but they really do make the card pop.

The strips I stamped with the Builder Wheels are Delight in Gladness in Melon Mambo and Butterfly Bliss in Peach Parfait. I just added some strips in Old Olive and Melon Mambo which I ran through the Crimper.

The more I look at this card I do like it more and more!

Now the next person in the Diva Sketch Challenge list is the lovely Ruthie B so be sure to pop by her blog and see what lovely creation she has made this week!

You can find the links to all the Sketching Divas over at the Utah Divas Blog

 

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Sweet Morning Cup

Well it doesnt take long for another Saturday to rock around does it? Seems like only yesterday ……

As it is Saturday (again) its time for another Utah Divas Sketch Challenge and here is this week’s sketch …

Utah Divas Sketch #125

I’ve been looking at this sketch and been wondering all week what on earth to do with it!  I think I looked at using 3 or 4 different sets before I decided on Morning Cup Stamp Set.

I decided this week that I’d rotate the sketch – only because I havent rotated it for a few weeks and have to keep Carol on her toes!

Here is my card …

Sweet Cuppa

I had decided to use the Sweet and Sour Specialty Designer Series Paper as I wanted something bright and funky! However when I put the DSP piece on the centre panel the embossed flourish didnt pop as much as I’d like so I thought I’d do an ‘emboss resist’ on the DSP and wow it sure does pop – I only went over the embossed edges so it still has the pumpkin pie background there.  I just stamped my images onto Stampin’ Up! Watercolour paper and coloured them in using the Watercolor Wonder Crayons and the colours from the Sweet and Sour Specialty DSP being Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie. I love my crayons!!

Now you may remember a few weeks back I unmounted my Take a Sip Stampin Round Wheel – well for the background I just lined these stamps on the block and inked them up and stamped in Rose Red onto the Rose Red card base.

Now if you’d like to learn how to colour using the different tools we have then why not contact me and book in for my Watercolour Technique Class which will be held here at my home on Friday 4th March.  You will learn how to colour using the different mediums and see the difference on different cardstocks so be sure to contact me and reserve your spot today as seats are limited and they are sure to fill fast.

Now its time to skip over to Ruthie B’s blog and check out what she’s made for this week’s sketch.

Here is the list of all the Utah Divas Sketch Challenge Design Team just in case someone is late with their post or one of the links isnt working …

Adriana
Alisa
Barbara
Becky
Elizabeth
Jeannette
Leonie
Ruthie
Tammy
Carol

I do hope you liked today’s card

 

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OOO Pretty Tree!

I thought I’d pop in today and share a card made using another couple of challenges …

Firstly this week’s Utah Divas Colour Challenge ….

Combined with this week’s Cards & Things Sketch Challenge

Now I am expecting a gigle when my lovely friend Lisa reads this post!

The tree on my card reminds me of our ‘road trip’ to the Stampin Up! Convention in 2009 in Canberra. As we were driving into Canberra Lisa was sitting behind me going ‘Ohhh purty trees’ and was getting a wee bit excited …. or maybe it was because it was her first time away from all three children and hubby in some time?

Here’s my card …

Purty Tree

Recipe:
Stamps
: Lovely as a Tree
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Regals Paper Stack
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, More Mustard
Accessories: Stampin Write Markers, Stampin Sponges, 1/4″ Grosgrain ribbon

This is another ‘queasy’ card to put together and really is suitable for any occasion and for both males and females.

Now dont forget we still have the Flood Relief Appeal going – when you purchase stamp sets to the value of $30 or more Stampin Up! will donate $2 to the Queensland Flood Relief Appeal. You have until 15th February to get your orders in to help with that.

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Sweet Summer Moments

Well we’ve definitely had some summer moments here in the last week! Here in Sydney its been the hottest week in 85 years and today was a shocker with 41°C – thats 105.8°F for my American friends. Way too hot for this Diva!

When I saw this weeks sketch I freaked – circles ugh … but … not to let the team down I changed it a little. During the week I also saw Gretchen’s Diva Colour Challenge and thought why not combine the two?? They are such purty Colours!

So here’s this week’s Utah Divas Sketch challenge …

and here is the Utah Diva’s Colour Challenge …

now arent they pretty colours???

Now for my card ….

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As you can see I still did use a couple of circles. Thats the great thing about sketch challenges – you can ‘interpret’ them how you feel and my poor Beautiful Wings Embosslit has been feeling a little neglected of late so I used that as well.

The flowers come from the lovely Sale•A•Bration set Sweet Summer which I got for free this week just by ordering $100 worth of Stampin’ Up! products. Gotta love free stamps! So if you’d like this Sweet Summer set or one of the other Sale•A•Bration stamp sets you can email or phone your order through to me – you’ll get one free set for every $100 you order.

Maybe youre thinking you’d like to try this Stampin’ Up! Business opportunity for yourself and if so now is the time to join. If you join during Sale•A•Bration you will receive a bonus free stamp set from the Idea Book & Catalogue to the value of $79.95 and I’ll also give you a Sale•A•Bration set of your choice plus a bonus ‘joining’ gift from me.

Have Questions? need more details? then feel free to contact me or check out the information online by clicking on the “Join my Team” button in the menu up the top. You can join online so there are no forms to fill out and send off – the hardest part of joining is deciding what stamp sets and inks to choose!

Now its time to skip over to the lovely RuthieB‘s blog and check out her lovely creation for this sketch and here’s the full list of all the Utah Divas Sketch Design team …

Adriana
Alisa
Barbara
Becky
Elizabeth
Leonie (you are here!)
Ruthie
Tammy
Carol.

Dont forget to leave them some comment love ;)

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Take a Sip

I’ve mentioned before how much I love to make cards from a sketch and when I saw the latest one from the lovely Makeesha on her Inkspirations Blog I had to have a play.

Now I had a design in mind for this sketch and I knew what images I wanted to use but seeing they were on a Stampin’ Round Wheel I had a few problems getting a single cup image on the squares and after trying for an hour I decided to give in and contemplated taking the rubber off the wheel and cutting it up.

So after a little deliberation this is exactly what I did!  So now my Take a Sip Wheel looks like this ….

I think the images will come in quite handy like this and to replace the wheel its only going to cost $11.95. All I did was to pop a bit of snail adhesive on the back of the stamp and popped it on an acrylic block to stamp. I simply just rubbed the snail off the block after use using the Adhesive Remover.

Here is my card ….

Recipe
Stamps
: Take A Sip, Great Friend
Paper: Concord Crush, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Lap of Luxury DSP
Ink: Concord Crush
Accessories: Stampin Write Markers, Pretty in Pink Taffeta, Big Shot, Lots of Tags sizzlets,
Stampin Sponge, Stampin Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, 1 1/4″ Square Punch

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Sweet Birthday Sketch

There is nothing like school holidays for the days to mingle together and you end up forgetting what day it is and wonder where that last week has gone!

Its hard to believe that the girls return to school next week and we’ve just had 6 weeks of holidays – where did all that time go? Mind you I think these holidays have been the most productive and we did the Christmas thing, then went to Victoria for a week to visit family and since coming home we’ve decluttered the kitchen, Linen Cupboard and both the girls’ rooms! Whew no wonder I’m tired!

Well its Saturday – I know this cos my Outlook tells me it is – so that means its time for another Utah Divas Sketch Challenge and here is this week’s sketch …

Now since last week I didnt rotate the sketch or anything I decided I had to do something to it this week so I’ve turned it upsidedown ….

I just love the Every Moment set – maybe due to those lovely Daisies and I love Daisies :) It is such a clean crisp image set.

I also love the Sweet and Sour Designer Series Papers – not sure if you can see it in the picture but the Rose Red paper layer is actually embossed! There are a few papers in this pack that are embossed and they are divine!

I also love the Stampin’ Up! Watercolor paper. I’ve tried other Watercolour paper but nothing comes close to the Stampin’ Up! paper.  The colours just blend so well on it and I’ve just used my Aqua Painter and the ink from my classic ink pads to colour the image.

I do hope you like what I’ve done today as I really enjoyed colouring this one and putting it all together.

Now its time to skip over to the lovely RuthieB‘s blog and check out her lovely creation for this sketch and here’s the full list of all the Utah Divas Sketch Design team …

Adriana
Alisa
Barbara
Becky
Elizabeth
Leonie
Ruthie
Tammy
Carol.

Dont forget to leave them some comment love ;)

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Diva Sketchy Saturday #92

Its hard to believe that I’ve been doing these sketches now for 92 weeks – wow thats nearly 2 years! How time flies ….

This week’s sketch comes from you from the lovely Carol and my sponsors this week being Nespresso, Ease a Cold (cold & flu tablets) and the makers of Ibuprofen!

Yes I’ve come down with the dreaded flu and just when the kids are due to go back to school and I have a few bookings this week so I hope I am ok to do those and not have to reschedule any.

As soon as I saw this sketch I had a few ideas running thru my head – yes it got quite noisy in there!  Now those ideas were put on the back burner as I have a “Christmas in July” stamp a stack on Monday so thought I’d go with a Christmas theme today and had to use one of my new Christmas sets – Christmas Classics … well it is new to me!

Here is my card …

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This is a simple and ‘easy to put together’ Christmas Card with minimal colouring but colouring those baubles is so easy and they turn out so nice dont they?

I still have some of the gorgeous Ski Slope Designer Series Paper from last year’s Summer Mini Catalogue and I so so love these colours together. I should just have enough for Monday’s Stamp A Stack too.

I do hope you like my little card and now its time for you to skip along to the next Sketchy Saturday Diva being the lovely Ruthie B. So pop over to Ruthie’s blog to see what she has created.

Now if you get to a blog that hasnt got their challenge card up then you can view all those in the Sketch Design Team at the Utah Divas International Blog.

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Soft Roses

Its a chilly Saturday here in Sydney and I’ve had a nice morning of shopping with the hubby and even managed to get me more things than the rest of the family – which doesnt happen very often. 

I even got some new coffee cups I’ve been after for a while so a good morning in all.

As its Saturday its time for another Utah Divas Sketch Challenge from the lovely Carol.

Now when I first saw this one I thought ‘hmmm ok’  but then it dawned on me what I could do and what sort of a challenge would it be if I didnt change it any?

So me being me gave it a good old rotation and this is what I came up with ….

I really do love this Rose is a Rose set and will be sorry to see it retire in 2 months however if you dont have this set and would like to get it before it goes then you can and if you buy it before 31st July then you can get it at 20% off!  Pretty good deal huh?

Now I did hear from the lovely Max today and she said she cant participate in this week’s sketch – something to do with her mother visiting from England and leaving on Monday and wanting to spend every waking minute with her.  Max I hope you have a wonderful few days and Mum has a lovely trip back home. So this week the next stop on the Utah Diva Sketch Hop is the lovely Ruthie Burkey.

So skip on over toRuthie‘s blog and see what she’s created for this sketch.

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Haiku Blossoms

Good Morning and what a chilly one it is here in Sydney!  Its 9am and it hasnt even got to 8C (50F) yet!  Its times like these you thank God for giving people the brains to invent things like gas heaters!

Its Saturday again so that means another Utah Divas International Sketch from the lovely Carol.

Now it wasnt until after I’d finished my card that I realise that maybe this one was supposed to be rotated into a landscape card going on the way the bow is but hey I always change something right?

Here is my card ….

I thought too with our Deals of the Week I’d use some of the Haiku DSP in my card.

Recipe
Stamps: Asian Artistry
Paper: Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Haiku DSP
Inks: Jet Black Stazon, So Saffron, More Mustard, Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Aqua Painter, Apricot Appeal Grosgrain Ribbon

I’ve had this paper for a little while and not used it so I thought that this was the perfect opportunity!

It also goes so well with the lovely Asian Artistry Hostess Set which I’ve been wanting for a while.

Dont forget this week’s deals finish on Tuesday night so if you want some of the following Designer Series Papers please be sure to ring me before Tuesday to place your order.

Item Page Description Regular Price Sale Price
112470 132 Haiku Designer Series paper $16.95 $10.17
113976 132 Pink Flamingo Designer Series paper $16.95 $11.02
113992 133 Tea Party Designer Series paper $16.95 $10.17
113975 133 Raspberry Tart Designer Series paper $16.95 $11.02
114037 133 Sweet Slumber Specialty Designer Series paper $22.95 $14.92

Now its time to skip along to the next Designing Diva being the lovely Max and see what she has created using this great sketch.

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Spring Song

Its been a busy week and with the great Deals of the Week special its also been a good one :)

Today its time for another Utah Divas International Sketch from the lovely Carol.

I struggled with that diagonal panel so I decided to leave it out but I did put the circles on a diagonal.

I’ve used the lovely Spring Song stamp set which I received as a gift from the very lovely Andrea Buckland.

Andrea is a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator in Western Australia and was my Secret Sister in the last round of the ESAD Secret Sister Swap.  She is the lovely lady who has spoilt me over the past three months.

I hope you like this card as much as I did making it. I love that little sparrow!

Recipe
Stamps: Spring Song, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Paper: Always Artichoke, Autumn Days DSP, Soft Suede, Whisper White
Ink: Jet Black Stazon, Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink, Always Artichoke, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede, Regal Rose, Old Olive.
Accessories: Circle Scissor Plus, 1 1/4″ circle punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch, 1 3/4″ circle punch, Dimensionals, Stamping Sponges, Aqua Painter.

This is such a lovely stamp set and using the softer colours makes it so soft and ‘springy’.  Thank you Andrea for this lovely stamp set.I thought that with the ‘green’ of the card you could still give this to a man and since Father’s Day is coming soon I thought I’d pop a Happy Father’s Day stamp from Teeny Tiny Sentiments on.

I have a demonstration tonight so I best make sure I have everything packed for that!

Now its time to skip over to the next blog of the Utah Divas International Sketch Team being the lovely Maxine Conrad. So leave a comment then pop over to Max’s blog to see what she’s created for this sketch.



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Autumn Days

I hope you’ve been enjoying the bits from Convention I’ve been posting. Today I’m taking a break as its another Sketchy Saturday – Utah Divas Sketchy Saturday that is :)

This is this weeks sketch …

Now I thought to myself that I hadnt really changed anything on Carol’s lovely sketches for a while so it was time to alter it in some way so I rotated it.  Sorry Carol couldnt help myself once I realised!!

I have to say I loved making this card!  As soon as I saw my lovely friend Lisa making her Convention swap card I knew I had to make one with a grassy theme.  I knew what I wanted to do once I saw the sketch and rotated it – I just had to find a saying to go with it. So after searching the Idea Book & Catalogue I found one that I think fits.

Here is my card ….

I’ve used the wonderful Autumn Days stamp set. Now when I first saw this set I thought  “oooooo I like that” but then thinking about it wondered if I’d use it much but I’m happy to say that yes I do use it a bit. Its an awesome set for those man type cards and also ones for doing landscape stamping too. The Pheasant that comes with it is rather nice too!

The sentiment I used is from the Dreams du Jour stamp set – another I wondered if I’d use much which I have!

The patterned paper comes from the Autumn Traditions Designer Series Paper pack.

This is a very simple card to make and I’d really love to show you just how easy it is so ring me or email me to book your demonstration in! June and July are already filling up so you’ll need to be quick! Or why not sign up and become part of my Stamp A Latte Team and I’ll help you with your launch demonstration and you get to keep the sales and the bookings!

Now its time to skip along to the very lovely Max’s blog to see what she’s made. You can also check out all those on the Sketch Design Team over at the Utah Divas International Blog.

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