SAB Swap Cards

I joined two SAB swaps on Splitcoast Stampers last month. Here are the cards I designed to swap.
FRIENDSHIP BLOOMS
STAMPS: Friendship Blooms, Whimsy Jumbo Stampin' Wheel
PAPER: Lavender Lace, Elegant Eggplant, River Rock, Whisper White
INK: Elegant Eggplant, River Rock
ACCESS: Square Punches, River Rock Double Stitched Ribbon, Staple, Dimensionals, Lavender Lace Eyelets, Crop-A-Dile








BIRTHDAY WHIMSY

STAMPS: Birthday Whimsy
PAPER: Cutie Pie DSP, Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
INK: Chocolate Chip
ACCESS: Markers, Silver Brads, Photo Corners Punch, Dimensionals, Certainly Celery Ribbon












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Swap for Downline Meeting

Sweet Baby Card for swapping

Here is the card I designed for the swap at my Downline Meeting last week.
The swap theme was to use a "SAB" set or a "NEW" set from the Spring-Summer Collection. I used the SAB set So Many Scallops.
I used the SU! small star punch to make a stencil. I punched the star in the center of a scrap of cardstock and used a sponge dauber and bashful blue ink to stencil the stars as a background.











RECIPE:
Stamps: So Many Scallops, Boho Backgrounds
Paper: Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Certainly Celery
Ink: Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Basic Black
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, Photo Corners Punch, Small Star Punch, Sponge Dauber, Paper Snips, Paper Piercing Template & Tool, Brads, Bashful Blue Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals

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Have a creative day!

Tagged!

I have been tagged by Jean (Bear Hugs and Inky Paws)

1. Stamping Style: Fresh & Fun

2. Inspiration: Challenges on SCS keep me from doing the same thing over and over

3. Color: Pink & Brown

4. Work Space: My fabulous Stampin' Studio

5. Perfect Day: The house is clean, laundry is done, and I can stamp without interruption

6. Wildest Dream: Win the Lottery!

7. Ink: Stampin' Up! (there is no comparison)

8. Family: Married to Paul (almost 25 years), two children (Bryan, 20 years & Kelsey, 16 years), Logan (our 4 year old tweeny Dachshund)

9. Beverage: Starbuck's Passion Iced Tea Lemonade

10. Biggest Challenge: To be a morning person!

I will tag:

Tandra - A Little Inkalicious

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E is for Excellent

Excellent Award

Chat, Me, My Stamps & I, sent me this "E" award today. She is always an inspiration to me. Her ideas are always fresh and new, she is amazing at the SCS Challenges. She has mostly original designs on her blog and in her gallery. Thanks Chat!

It is now my turn to give the "E" award. Check out Patty's blog, Patty's Stamping Spot. She is a very talented stamper and has lots of great ideas to share. Her flower garden is awesome too!.

Double the Challenge

I have been busy all week catching up from being gone last weekend. Today I was so excited to have some stamping time. I love to do the challenges on SCS. Today's challenge was the Inspiration Challenge and I combined it with the Sketch Challenge from Wednesday. I had this set still sitting out on my desk that I unpacked from Regionals. So I decided to use it and this is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

Stamp Set: So Much
Paper: Not Quite Navy, River Rock, Ruby Red, Garden Green, Naturals Ivory
Ink: Basic Black, Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red
Accessories: Aqua Painter, Lg. Silver Brads, Blue Bayou Double Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals



Have a creative day!

SCS Regional Swaps

I love swapping at these events and it is especially fun to join a "SCS" group because you know the cards will be great. I participated in a swap, hosted by Michelle Fischer. I signed up for two groups of 10 card fronts. Here are my two cards that I made for this special swap.
Stamp Set: Fabulous Flowers
Paper: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Ballet Blue, Whisper White
Ink: Ballet Blue, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Dimensionals, Brads, 5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Sponge Dauber

The large flower is stamped and then cut out and stamped again and the center is trimmed out and popped up with dimensionals.




Stamp Set: Happy Heart Day
Paper: Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Basic Gray, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Gray, Going Gray, Pretty in Pink
Accessories: Metal Edge Tag, Scalloped Circle Punch, Aqua Painter, Markers ( Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Always Artichoke), Heart Brads, Dimensionals
The ear and foot are stamped, cut out and popped up with dimensionals

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SU! Regionals with Friends

Attending the SU! Regional Seminar in Anaheim was so much fun. Getting away with special friends for the weekend and for seeing friends face to face that you only communicate with via SCS online. It was a weekend for both. Here are some of the pictures that capture these moments.



Here we are at the Anaheim Convention Center. I am on the left, Jean is in the middle and Chat is on the right. We had a great time!






Here I am with my online friend Tandra, meeting face to face for the first time. We are looking forward to more SU! events so we can see each other again.

A (Name) Tag Game

I have been tagged by Chat (nitestamper) to play a middle name tag game.

These are the rules:
You must post the rules before you give your answers. You must list one fact about yourself for each letter of your middle name. Each fact must begin with that letter. If you don't have a middle name, just use your maiden name. After you've been tagged, you need to update your blog with your middle name and answers. At the end of your post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged and need to read your blog for details). Here goes:

J - JOYFUL - always happy and smiling
E - ENCOURAGING - everyone to do their best and be themselves.
A - ARTISTIC and creative with my SU! stamps & accessories!
N - NEAT - everything has a place and is in it's place!

Now my turn to tag:
Cambria - Stamp a Little Love Baby
Lorri - Dream Big
Patty - Patty's Stamping Spot
Laurie - Just Give Me Stamps

My Regional Swaps

As promised, here are two of the cards I made to swap at the Anaheim Regionals.


Stamp Set: Best Kind of Friend
Paper: Blue Bayou, River Rock, Really Rust, Naturals Ivory, Mellow Moss
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Scalloped Circle Punch, Gold Brad, Blue Bayou Stitched
Ribbon, Horizontal Punch, Dimensionals








Stamp Set: Embrace Life
Paper: Lovely Lilac, DSP Prints Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, Lovely Lilac
Accessories: White Taffeta Ribbon, Ticket Corner Punch, Sponge Dauber, Dimensionals





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I've Been Missing from the Blogging World

Where have I been? What have I been doing?

I have been preparing to attend the Stampin' Up! Regional Seminar in Anaheim, CA. I have devoted the past two weeks to stamping my swaps in every minute of free time I could find. The day finally arrived on Thursday, Jan. 31, and I flew to Anaheim, CA along with two of my best friends for the weekend. We attended the Friday Regional and had an awesome time. Swapping, meeting new friends and enjoying all that the Regionals had to offer. I am back home and ready to share with my blogging friends again. I will post photos tomorrow after I get them downloaded off my camera.

"NEW" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon from Stampin' Up

Look at this beautiful ribbon! If you know me, then you know that I LOVE ribbon...all widths, all colors, prints, solids and now STRIPES! Stampin' Up! introduced these 4 new Striped Grosgrain ribbons in the 2008 Spring-Summer Collection catalog that was just released on January 2nd! I couldn't wait to get them, they are available in Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, & Pumpkin Pie. Each spool has approx. 10 yards of 1/2" wide ribbon and sells for $7.95.
If you would like to order some for yourself, please contact me to place your order today! I am going to be sharing some creative projects using this ribbon, so check back to see.

SCS Combined Challenges

I created this card using today's color challenge from SCS and yesterday's challenge to use the Pocket Heart Template. I love this set, Time Well Spent, that I received for FREE from Stampin' Up! right before Christmas. One of the many perks of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is getting FREE, unexpected gifts in the mail.

My card is created using only this set. The flowers are stamped in Basic Black, and then I watercolored the images using the ink colors and the aqua painter. Then cut each one out and used dimensional adhesive to adhere them to the front of the card. I hope you like it!
RECIPE:
Stamp Set: Time Well Spent
Paper: Rose Red, Apricot Appeal, Sage Shadow, Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red, Apricot Appeal, Sage Shadow
Accessories: Gold Brads, 1/16" Hole Punch, Dimensional Adhesive



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Creative Anniversary

Today is my 9 year anniversary as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator. I have met so many wonderful people during these past 9 years and cherish all the memories from stampin' events, like convention and regionals. My downline & sideline gals are so awesome and I love being their "leader", but mainly cherish their friendships. So here is a card I designed for the Limited Supplies Challenge on SCS today, the challenge was to create a card without using Whisper White or Very Vanilla cardstock. When it came to adding a sentiment, I thought it was perfectly fitting to use "Creative Anniversary" in honor of today.

I used the basic black marker to ink the words "Anniversary" from the stamp in Hugs & Wishes, and then hand printed the word "Creative". The flowers are from the Office Accoutrement set and are stamped on soft sky, cut out and mounted using dimensional adhesive.
Finished size is 4" x 6". All supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Office Accoutrement, Hugs & Wishes
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Taken with Teal, Soft Sky, Tempting Turquoise Designer Series Prints
Ink: Taken with Teal, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Black brads, 1/16" hole punch, dimensionals, Basic Black marker, paper piercing tool and template, soft sky ribbon, 1" circle punch, 1-1/4" circle punch


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Have a creative day!!

Sketchin' Flowers

I started working on this card for the Sketch Challenge on SCS and was sidetracked onto other things and then went back to complete the card and then added the Ways to Use It Challenge to complete the card. I usually don't like to combine challenges but this one just worked out that way. I love these colors together and the DSP is perfect. The center panel is popped up using dimensional adhesive. The paper flowers are from Making Memories, otherwise all the supplies are from Stampin' Up! I hope you like it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Just Like You, Embrace Life
Paper: Perfect Plum, Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana, Whisper White, Flowers for You Designer Series Paper
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Basic Black, Pretty in Pink
Accessories: Brads, Dimensionals, Paper Flowers

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Have a great creative day!

Embracing the Challenge

Here is the card I designed for today's color challenge on SCS. The challenge colors are Taken with Teal, Real Red, Certainly Celery. I used the slit punch to create the scalloped edge and the 1/8" hole punch for the center of each scallop. The image is stamped in Basic Black and colored in using the blender pen and the Real Red re-inker. The scalloped edge panel is popped up with dimensionals and the ribbon is threaded underneath and tied.

Stamp Set: Embrace Life
Paper: Taken with Teal, Certainly Celery, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink: Certainly Celery, Basic Black
Accessories: Slit Punch, 1/8" hole punch, silver brads, 5/8" red grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals, blender pen, real red re-inker


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Happy New Year

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, happy 2008!

SU! Spring-Summer Designer Series Papers & Coordinating Colors

Here is the new updated list of Designer Series Papers from the SU! 2008 Spring-Summer Collection catalog. I think it is very helpful to know which colors coordinate when planning a project.

SU! Spring-Summer Designer Series Papers & Coordinating Colors

Azure: Brilliant Blue, Very Vanilla

Bali Breeze: Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie

Berry Bliss: Purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa

Cutie Pie: Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Certainly Celery, Rose Red, So Saffron

East Coast Prep: Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard

Flowers for You: Certainly Celery, Lovely Lilac, Regal Rose, Tempting Turquoise

Fall Flowers: Old Olive, Really Rust, Soft Sky, Sahara Sand

Ginger Blossom: Ruby Red, River Rock, Cameo Coral, Groovy Guava

Jersey Shore: Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue

Le Jardin: River Rock, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue

Notebook: Soft Sky, Kraft, Vanilla

Olive Press: Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Porcelain Prints: Blue Bayou, River Rock, Wild Wasabi

Spring Break: Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky

Spring Fling: Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron

Spring Silhouettes: Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla

Western Sky: Ruby Red, River Rock, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky

Thanks for stopping by and have a safe New Year's Eve!

SCS - Inspiration Challenge

It is so great to be in my stampin' studio doing challenges again from SCS.

Today is the Inspiration Challenge - a cocktail dress from Nicole Miller. I designed this card using the colors in the dress and the design on the skirt of the dress looked just like Baroque Motifs.
Stamp Sets: Baroque Motifs, Celebrate Everything
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla, Brushed Gold
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Gold Encore
Accessories: Gold Brads, 3/4" Circle Punch, Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, Dimensionals

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SCS Limited Supplies Challenge

I designed this card for the challenge on SCS. I couldn't wait to use one of my new sets from the new SU! Spring-Summer Collection catalog. The challenge was to use the items from this list to create a card. The items I used are in ( ).
Stamps
one stamped image that can be colored - (Happy Heart Day)
optional: sentiment
optional: an image to ground the main image like an oval, grass, etc. (White cardstock sponged in certainly celery and snipped to look like grass)
Paper
any shade of white - (Whisper White)
2-3 patterns of designer paper - (Flowers For You)
NO other colored cardstock
Tools
NO specialty tools - No punches, No CB, No Piercer, etc.
any coloring tools - (SU! Markers - Going Grey, Regal Rose, Lovely Lilac)
sponges OK
Embellishments
one piece of ribbon - (5/8" Celery grosgrain)

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Stampin' Up! New Catalog Release

I received my new Stampin' Up! catalog on Saturday, Dec. 15th. One perk of being a demonstrator is getting the catalog early. I also received my cases of catalogs on Dec. 20th. The cover features the color Groovy Guava. Although the first day to place an order isn't until, Wed. Jan. 2nd - I have been making my wish list.
One of the first things that I do when I get a new catalog is take it to my local Office Max and have it coil bound. This process is simple to do, and can be done while you wait. They cut the spine off, punch holes in the side and place a plastic coated wire coil through the holes to hold it all together. The front and back covers are laminated.

I printed off the dormant list from the SU! website and the pages showing all the sets, laminated these at home and took them with me to be bound in the back of my catalog.
I love having the ability to fold back the pages onto the other, keeping my place in the catalog.




If you would like to purchase a NEW Stampin' Up! Spring-Summer Collection 2008 catalog or if you would like to earn one for FREE please contact me for more details.






It's a great day to be creative.
Barbara