diva sketch surprise challenge

Welcome to another saturday sketch challenge. A surprise was added to the sketch this week and the team was asked to use rub ons on their creations. You may start your hop, skip and jump on anyone's link. Their site will direct you to the next blog. Let us know what you think.

Adriana
Alisa
Elizabeth
Jeannette
Leonie
Lorie
Max
Ruthie
Tammy
Tiffany
Carol.

Finnally Friday with A Friendly Bird!!

Hello all!!! Sorry I've missed posting the past couple of Fridays. Just really busy and I lost track of the days!!

Ribbon is one of my favorite embellishments to use and I use it often! You can do so many different things with ribbon to create a truly unique card or project.

Here are some ways you can use ribbon on your creations:

* Make ribbon flowers

* Use green ribbon as stems and leaves for flowers

* Make ribbon butterflies

* Use ribbon as a background through "punched windows"

* Use ribbon scraps to create a unique background for your creation

I'm sure there are many more ideas than those I've listed and I would love to hear how you use ribbon!

My idea was to create a "ribbon punched window", but I'm not sure it came out as well as I had envisioned it!!

I started with a strip of Almost Amethyst and used my Boho Blossoms punch for the flowers. Then I took scraps of ribbon from my stash, Old Olive striped and plain gg, White satin, White taffeta and Elegant Eggplant ric-rak. The placement of each of the ribbons was pretty much random and I just put the punched strip over them to see how it looked.

I cut the bird from chipboard with my Birds & Flowers die and covered with Afternoon Tea dsp. I highlighted the wing and beak with a piece of Elegant Eggplant and crystal rhinestone for the eye!

The distressed the edges of the Almost Amethyst strip before attaching. The bird is popped up with dimensionals. The sentiment is from the new set in the Occasions mini: Vintage Vogue.

Happy Stamping!!!!

~~~Ann~~~

Diva Inspiration Challenge #84

Thursday already?!? Where has the last week gone? This week's inspiration picture is nice and bold. I found it on Clipart.com and just loved the big bold flowers and colors. Have fun with this week's challenge!! :)

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 DivaIC84 (no spaces) as the keyword. Have fun!!

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

Good News!

Mini Products Still Available for Purchase

Stampin' Up! has chosen to carryover several products from the Holiday Mini Catalog. This list of products (shown below) is available for purchase. In addition, these products will be available in the next Idea Book & Catalog. 

As usual, there may be additional products from the Holiday Mini Catalog (not currently listed as write-in products) that also may appear in your next Idea Book & Catalog.  

Item #	Description	Price
116794	Ornament punch	$15.95
116806	Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint	$5.95
116854	Frost White Shimmer Paint	$5.95
116807	Platinum Shimmer Paint	$5.95
116829	Décor Elements Blocks	$9.95
116824	Stampin' Up! Textured Impressions Folder Petals-A-Plenty	$7.95
116821	Stampin' Up! Holiday Windows Magnetic Movers & Shapers	$29.95
116819	Stampin' Up! Table Setting Bigz XL die	$42.95
116820	Stampin' Up! Embosslits Merry die	$11.95
116823	Stampin' Up! Sizzlits Merry Details die	$5.50
116822	Stampin' Up! O Christmas Tree Pop-Up Bigz XL die	$42.95
118140	Stampin' Up! Tree Decorations Sizzlits die	$5.50
118108	My Digital Studio	$79.95
116519	Charming stamp set	$19.95

Thanks for stopping by today!

Until next week...

Happy stampin'!

diva sketch challenge

It doesn't look like much, but the possibilities are endless with this sketch. There are so many visions running through my head. Let's see at least eleven different ideas from the team right now.

We're trying something new this week. We will be hosting a link to the next person on the list so you don't have to keep coming back to the divas for the next link. Hope it works well for you. Please let us know how you like this idea. Of course, if you like jumping back and forth you may continue to come back here and hit each one individually.

Adriana
Alisa
Elizabeth
Jeannette
Leonie
Lorie
Max
Ruthie
Tammy
Tiffany
Carol.

Diva Inspiration Challenge #83

If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise.......

When I saw this picture for today's inspiration, first thing I thought about were the endless hours of singing Teddy Bears' Picnic with my daughter when she was younger. It was a favorite song of hers' and she even had a book of it too. So, every night at bedtime my daughter would request this book and we would sing this song as we made our way through the book - again and again... Definitely a precious memory that makes my heart smile. :)

For ev'ry bear that ever there was will gather there for certain, because today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

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

Maria
Elizabeth
Carol
Katy
Robin

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 DivaIC83 (no spaces) as the keyword. Have fun!!

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

Spring Fever

It's been awhile since I showed one of my own projects, so I thought today would be good day to post my latest idea.  I found this cute little journal at a craft store in the $1 bin and instantly knew that it had potential!

I'm really looking forward to Spring - especially after all those crazy snow storms last week - so I thought these colors would work nicely :)

I'll have more pictures and info on my blog if you're interested!

Supplies: 

Old Olive cardstock

Sweet Pea DS paper pack

Sending Love epoxy brads
Whimsical Words SAB set

Old Olive 1/2" striped grosgrain ribbon

Linen Thread

Curly Label punch

3/4 inch circle punch