Three Clovers Designs Challenge

Morning all! I'm excited because today is Three Clovers Designs Challenge day! This weeks challenge was to make a Christmas card without traditional red and green and I think I did it!

First, you need to check out Kerry's Challenge HERE. Then you need to play along. While I'd love to tell you what products I've used for this card I can't. The majority of them are not Stampin' Up! and therefore due to the new IDA I cannot link you to them or tell you where I've gotten them. There is a hint in the color though if you are really interested in knowing.

While I know you can't really see it there is a ton of sparkle on this card. Everything below the black line has Dazzling Diamonds glitter on it and the owls eye lashes and detailing has glitter as well.

This is definitely another of the Three Clovers Designs Challenges that I love! Thanks for letting me be a part of your fun ride Kerry!

I hope your week is going well and I'll see you back here tomorrow for the week's Blogger's Challenge!

Bermuda Joy

Happy Monday! Did you have a wonderful weekend? I did! I feel like I got a lot accomplished...both in stamping and in my personal life so...yay!

A quick card for ya today with a confession. This card is completely CASE'd. I loved it so much that I wanted my stamp club to make it and I also think I'll be making some for my personal Christmas cards. This card is made with the ornaments from Delightful Decorations, the snowflake stamp from the Level 2 Hostess set called Christmas Punch, and the Winter White embossed sentiment is from Many Merry Messages. The colors are Chocolate Chip and Bermuda Bay which lends it a very fun almost retro type of look. I used Whisper White cardstock on this card but my stamp club used Shimmery White and it is beautiful! Oh, and the ornament 'hooks' are just part of a paper clip. My wonderful husband clipped them off for us...What a guy, huh?

So, today is Kyler's school conference. I'm looking forward to it as I see this as a a way to help him grow into a confident young man...he however, is not looking forward to it but I remember feeling that way as a kiddo too.

I hope that you will all make this Monday a most wonderful day and I'll see ya soon!

UDI Sketch Saturday

Happy Saturday morning to you! Today is going to be a fun day at my house as a couple of stamping friends are coming on over to make THIS Christmas planner. Yay!

Before that though I get to show you the card I made with this weeks Utah Diva's International sketch with bonus challenge! You probably can't guess the sketch 'cuz I got a little carried away...in order to make this punch art work for the sketch I had to flip the sketch on its side. I bet you can guess the bonus challenge, huh? Yep, that is right...punches! This time I made a gingerbread man...isn't he just too cute? I got the directions for this guy at the same place as the snowman so refer to THIS post for more info. For this card I used the Merry Moments Designer Series Paper pack. The sentiment is from one of the stamp sets that I've used quite a bit this winter called Sweet Season...so appropriate, huh?

Alright...go to the UDI blog HERE and check out the sketch...it is a great one that can be used in lots of ways!

In the meadow...

Good morning friends! I've been so absent from my blog recently I bet you thought I decided to stop crafting. Well, that is not the case I've just been super busy. I've started a new Dove Chocolate Discoveries business and have been working on getting bookings and such. I'm very excited about it but in no way does that mean that I will stop crafting or being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator so keep checking back to see new posts!

Today, since we are supposed to get some snow, I want to show you the punch art snowman card that we made at stamp club on Wednesday night. I would LOVE to say that I came up with this snowman idea but I did not. There is a wonderful blog called Paper Punch Addiction and Kim comes up with the neatest punch art then sells the directions for them at a very reasonable cost. So, I used the directions to make this super cute snowman with Shimmery White card stock then added some of the beautiful snowflake patterned paper from the Christmas Cocoa DSP pack. On top of the snowflake paper is a window sheet that has little snowflakes on it...it just adds to the cuteness of the whole thing. Then when I was done I decided it needed a little something else so I added the gold brads in the corners. Oh, and the 'Merry Christmas' sentiment is from the set called Christmas Greetings. I love this little set because it is an innie and outie set...a sentiment for the inside of the card and outside of the card...very convenient!

There you have it! I hope you like Mr. Snowman! Today is another run around and get things done day for me. Kyler is home from school today, too so he'll have homework to work on and he'll be packing to go to camp for the weekend. Busy day for sure but I'll be back tomorrow with my Utah Diva's International sketch card. Sometimes there is a bonus challenge attached to the card sketches and tomorrow there is a bonus challenge. I'm not telling you what it is but I will tell you that my card today has a hint on it.

So, with that I'm out. Have a SUPER Friday everyone!

A Word From Senior Army Leaders

Most of you who visit my blog know that my husband is retired from the Army so you have to know that on Veterans Day that I would have to post something. The above letter is from Senior Army Leaders and especially special to me because they make an extra effort to thank NCO's for their exceptional work...Todd was an NCO and did indeed work hard. Please click on the photo to make it larger so you can read it. We have a long, strong, and proud history of military service in our families so my phone calls will be many today. I hope that, even if you don't have members of the military in your family, that you will take the time to thank a Veteran today. One other thing...please pray for our troops. They need it now more than yesterday and tomorrow more than today.

If you have or are currently serving in the military or have family members that are or have...thank you! Your service has not gone unnoticed and we love you!

Something new...

Morning friends...today something new starts on my blog. A month or so back I joined a Yahoo group called Utah Diva's International. UDI is a group of SU! demonstrators and we all share our work, advice, and stamping fun with each other through a Yahoo group and through the UDI blog. Well, earlier this week I got an e-mail asking me to be on the design team for one of their challenges...they have an inspiration challenge, a sketch challenge, and then they also have stampers that update their blog everyday. I got to choose which team I wanted to be involved with and guess which one I chose? That's right! Sketches...I do love 'em and I think they love me too! So...today is the first sketch challenge that I'm officially part of the sketch team. And a good one it is too!

My card for this sketch challenge is made with patterned paper from the Holiday Lounge Designer Series Paper pack as well as stamps from the Christmas Punch and Sweet Seasons stamp sets. The card itself is pretty self explanatory, I think but if you need any information just let me know!

You will find the sketch HERE. I would definitely encourage you to participate if you have time as this is a very versatile sketch.

Alright, that is my fun news for the day. I hope you like the card and I'll see ya soon!

Blogger's Challenge

Morning everyone. Today is Blogger's Challenge day. Today's challenge is to pick a technique and make a project with it. I am not a technique kind of gal but I decided to give it a try anyway so off to SCS I was to find just the perfect technique.

What I decided to do is the Grid Technique. HERE is a link to the directions on SCS. I figured that since I needed to make a birthday card for Scott that I'd combine the two and here is what I came up with. Scott is 22 this year...I just couldn't decide what to use as a main image so I used Lovely As A Tree and went from there. I just scored the grid marks on my Confetti Vanilla card stock, then inked up my old Canvas background stamp, sponged some extra color around the edges and that became my main image. The rest...well, I wasn't feeling very inspired so it is very simple. I had to use some hardware though as ribbon would never do on Scott's card!

Overall, I like the grid technique but probably could have been a little more creative with the overall layout of the card.

If you'd like to check out what the other bloggers have done just check out the list in my side bar and you'll be all set to go!

Also, I told you that I'd let you know who won my blog candy from Sunday's post and that is...

Heather A said...

What a great gift idea! This is something that I will do.
TFS.

November 1, 2009 5:08:00 PM PST

Congrats Heather! I need you to e-mail me your snail mail address (click on the e-mail button at the upper left hand side of my blog) by Sunday evening.

Please don't forget about the digi image that is being sold to raise money for Henry's Memorial. More information can be found about that HERE. I'll be back tomorrow with a neat announcement!