Diva Inspiration Challenge #86

Almost time to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! My grandmother was Irish, so in honor of her I would like to share an Irish Blessing with you:

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

I hope you all have a very festive and safe St. Patrick's Day!

To see what my creative team came up with, just click on their name:

Maria
Elizabeth
Carol
Katy
Robin
Karen

Post a link in the comments section with your blog entry or public gallery showing us what creation you were inspired to come up with!! If you upload to a public gallery, be sure to put DivaIC86 (no spaces) as the keyword. Have fun!!

Inspire Stampin' happiness wherever you go!! :)
~~Maria~~

Birthday Bling

Happy Wednesday!  Today's project is mine.  It's a birthday card for my aunt.

This is definitely a girly-girl card!  Lots of pink and lots of bling!  There is glitter on the DSP background and the DSP paper-pieced gifts, and there are rhinestones (from the Eggcellent Eggs kit) on the sentiment.   The image layer is a die-cut from the Two Tags die.  The gifts are from Happy Moments and the sentiment is from Vintage Labels, both SAB sets you can earn for FREE!  The image layer and all the sentiment layers are sponged with Real Red ink.  It's attached to the card with dimensionals.  I found the layout while blog surfing, and it stuck in my head.  Of course, now I can't find the blog.  ACK!

Supplies(all SU!):  Stamps- Happy Moments, Vintage Labels.  Ink- Chocolate Chip, Real Red.  Paper- Very Vanilla, Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Sending Love DSP.  Accessories-  Big Shot, Two Tags die, Scalloped Oval punch, Large and Small Oval punches, Pretty in Pink Satin ribbon, 1/4" Real Red grosgrain, Eggcellent Eggs kit rhinestones, sponge dauber, dimensionals.

Until next week...
Happy stampin'!

Tote-ally Tess

I am so in love with this stamp set!  Isn't it adorable?  I think it's perfect for thank-you cards for customers.  This card is from Brenda Taylor and I love the scallop frame she's added.  :)

• Tote-ally Tess stamp set
• Kraft, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Whisper White card stock
• Welcome Neighbor designer series paper
• Basic Black ink pad
• Versa mark pad
• Black Emboss powder, SU markers, pretty in pink brads, pop dots
• Big Shot using oval scallop frame
• Word Window punch and Modern Label punch

Thanks for sharing Brenda!!

Simply Adorned

Happy Monday Friends!

Hope you have had a fabulous weekend.  One of our very talented Divas, Monika Davis made these absolutely amazing inserts for our Simply Adorned jewelry.

Isn't this awesome? 

Here is the reverse side

How elegant !!!  Monika, you did a fabulous job with this.  Way to go !!

Click here to see Stampin' Up!'s Simply Adorned line.

Have you made any inserts?  Post a comment and link to your blog.

Have a wonderful day!

diva sketch challenge

Thank goodness for pre-posting. I broke my computer on Tuesday and only had to add the text here. Guess I was getting a little too comfortable in my life right now. Anyway, welcome to the sketch challenge. Click on any of the links below and you will then be able to hop, skip and click to the rest of them.


Adriana
Alisa
Jeannette
Leonie
Lorie
Max
Ruthie
Tammy
Tiffany
Carol.

Diva Inspiration Challenge #85

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!! How can you not want to have a scoop of today's inspiration?!? Even though the weather has been on the chilly side, this frozen treat would still hit the spot!

To see what my creative team came up with, just click on their name:

Carol
Katy
Robin
Karen

Post a link in the comments section with your blog entry or public gallery showing us what creation you were inspired to come up with!! If you upload to a public gallery, be sure to put DivaIC85 (no spaces) as the keyword. Have fun!!

Inspire Stampin' happiness wherever you go!! :)
~~Maria~~

Are you ready for Spring?

Hello Friends,

Happy March!! I am so excited that March is the official month for the word - SPRING!! 

Without any chit chat about the word winter, let's move on to a wonderful Spring project. 

You will be very familiar with one of our Design Team members, 'Gretchen Barron.'  Gretchen created this fabulous card and when I saw it, I smiled from ear to ear.  I am looking forward to seeing the beautiful spring flowers and this card made me think of SPRING !

Here is what Gretchen wrote:

Talk about Spring ... isn't this fun! The diagonal nature of Layer Two provides all kinds of possibilities for extra pattern, color and texture in your card. I used Certainly Celery, Orchid Opulence and Very Vanilla as my colors, along with the new Shades of Spring Designer Series Papers. The stamp set is Fifth Avenue Floral (fabulous) and I used 5/8" Certainly Celery Ribbon. If this doesn't make you think spring, I don't know what would!

To color in the flowers, I used the Floating Reinker Technique that was so popular a few months ago. I love this look and it's sooooooo much fun to do. When that color spreads across your cardstock, it's just like magic. You can read more about this technique HERE. Details and more photos are available on my blog at http://gretchenbarron.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/01/stamping-411-saturday-sketch-challenge-a-rose-is-a-rose-.html

I have actually taught a class using the technique Gretchen used for todays creation.  Go ahead, give it a try and link here to this post, so we can take a look at what you came up with.

Happy SPRING :)