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19 February, 2011 10 Comments

Good Morning and welcome to another Utah Divas Sketch Challenge!

I have a busy weekend with a Demonstration today and tomorrow. Thankfully they are both doing the same Make n Takes so I dont have to unpack tonite and repack again tomorrow.

Here is this week’s sketch ..

This past week I heard that the father of a demonstrator friend is rather sick in hospital so I wanted to create a card for him to let him know that people are thinking of him and praying for him.

Here’s the card I created …

I wanted this week’s card to be of a male/masculine theme and thing I’ve achieved that.

The background on the base card is done with a wheel called Sandy Speckles and I just love it! I’ve also used it on the piece with the sentiment on it.

I do hope you like my card and now you can skip along to Ruthie B’s blog and check out her lovely creation. Now just in case someone has a broken link or doesnt have their project up as yet here’s a list of all the Utah Divas International Sketch Challenge Team ..

Adriana
Alisa
Barbara
Becky
Elizabeth
Jeannette
Leonie
Ruthie
Tammy
Carol

Have a great weekend!

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Vintage Wings

4 October, 2010 6 Comments

Its been a very very wet long weekend here – we’ve had lots of rain so its kept us inside but that’s OK cos I got new cupboards to put in so we’ve been reshuffling the house all weekend. I am glad to report that we are nearly back to normal and we’ve recycled what we can, donated a couple of items to friends and thrown out a lot of rubbish!

The cupboards look great and so happy with them – just have to wait for two more doors to attach as they didnt come in the delivery.

Last Friday I did a workshop for a lovely friend and she asked if the make n take could be something using the embossing folders and butterfly dies. So what’s a girl to do??  then the perfect card popped onto my head – and it wasnt even painful!

Here is what we made ….

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Recipe
Stamps: Occasional Quotes (Level 3 Hostess set)
Inks: Blushing Bride, Soft Suede
Paper: Soft Suede, Blushing Bride, Very Vanilla, Pretty in Pink, Vellum Cardstock
Accessories: Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Folder, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, Stampin Sponges

I just loved making this card and sharing it with the girls on Friday night and I hope they all liked it as much as I did.

Would you like to make this card? then why not contact me to book your workshop in? they are lots of fun and I do all the work – you just need to provide the table and chairs and invite your friends. So easy – and you can earn free stamps too!

Dont forget there are just two weeks left of the Recruiting Bonus – when you join my Stampin’ Up! team you will receive a bonus ‘In Colour Pack’ worth over $80 which includes cardstock, markers and classic ink pads – now that’s an absolute bargain!  You’ll also receive a bonus gift voucher from me as my thank you for joining my team. Email or ring me today if you’d like more information about joining my Stampin’ Up! Team.

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Inspired by …

4 September, 2010 4 Comments

As you know yesterday I was on a mission to make some ‘male’ themed cards and so after making yesterdays “So Autumn” card I pulled out my Inspired by Nature set as the grass stamp in this set is so good for ‘male’ cards.  I also pulled out Baja Breeze & Not Quite Navy inks and cardstock cos well blue tones are boy tones right?

This is what I came up with …

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Recipe
Stamps: Inspired by Nature, Occasional Quotes
Paper: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White
Inks: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note Die, Large oval punch, Stampin’ Sponges

So what’s the verdict?  is it male? female? or is it both?

This is another one of those ‘multi use’ cards that if you changed the sentiment it could be used for any occasion.

I did create a few more cards with my Inspired by Nature yesterday so stay tuned as I’ll be showing them on my blog over the next few days. Inspired by Nature is a great set for any occasion and I’m happy to have it continue in the new 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogue and I really should use it more!

Hope you have a great Saturday despite the rain – but we do need it. If you are in one of the areas thats been affected by flooding then please stay safe.

Now if you happen to pray please pray for those in New Zealand who have been affected by that Earthquake early this morning.  Praying all my New Zealand friends are safe.

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Introducing Phillipe …

17 April, 2010 10 Comments

Welcome to Saturday and another Utah Divas International Sketch.

I love this sketch!

It has so many opportunites!

I’m not sure what it is about sketches but they just get my creatives juices flowing. I’ve sat here during the week (staring at my new ink pad storage unit) trying to think of ideas to create with the new stamps I received – free stamps too!

Some of you may be unaware that while you can earn free stamps during Sale A Bration we too can earn free stamps as Demonstrators. You can earn sets for signing up new demonstrators and for the total amount of Sales you do during the Sale A Bration period. This year I earned 3 free stamp set which arrived on Thursday and I’m really looking forward to putting them together and creating some more this week.

Here is what I created for todays sketch

I’ve created this card using the new Autumn Days stamp set from the Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue.

I’ve had quite a few requests for Sympathy or Thinking of You cards of late so I thought this one would fit that category.

I dont have any of the Autumn Traditions Designer Series Papers but loved the colours they used to I just used the swatch in the catalogue to choose the colours of cardstock and inks to use. I also replicated one of the patterns of the papers in the DSP pack using my stamps and inks. This is the leaf strip on my card.

I also received my Soft Suede Cardstock and Ink this week and I must say I loved working with this colour this morning and I can see its going to be a new favourite and whats even better is that it wont be retiring come September! Gotta be happy about that!

I love all the elements of this stamp set with the wheat, grass, leaves, pine cones and of course Phillipe – the very splendid pheasant!

So now that I’ve introduced you to Phillipe its time to skip along to the next blog in the Utah Divas International Sketch Design Team being the very splendid Lori Ames blog to see what she’s created this week.

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