DCBD # 135

I hope you all had a very nice 4th of July. We had a cookout with my daughter and her fiance' (she hates that word). Later in the afternoon we went to my niece's 16th birthday party.

Yep!! You guessed correctly. It is Diva Coffee Break Designs challenge time. I hope you will do this challenge along with us this week. It is an easy one. If you do, go here and click on the Mr. Linky widget to sign up.


You will have to tell me what you think of this card. I honestly think it is too plain. Maybe you could tell me what you think I could have done to improve it. We all have different ideas, so I would love to see what you would say. In case you wonder, the true friend is supposed to be tilted. That is how I wanted it.


Recipe for this card: Stamp set: flower lines (hostess level 3); Cardstock: melon mambo, rich razzleberry, crushed curry, whisper white, and DSP lovely flowers (hostess level 3); Ink: rich razzleberry, versamark, and stampin' marker melon mambo; Tools: paper piercing tool, 1 1/4" circle punch, and 1 3/8" circle punch; Accessories: whisper white taffeta ribbon (dyed rich razzleberry with ink pad) and iridescent ice EP.

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Altered Tin

I realize it is the 4th of July and this is not something for that occasion, but I have a birthday party to go to for my niece. She is turning "sweet 16" tomorrow, actually. I do hope you all have a wonderful 4th. Be safe and enjoy your families and friends.

Her gift is very simple, money. I had bought quite a few of these tins, which are really for gift cards, at Micheal's for really cheap a while back. I remembered I had them and decided to alter one to put her gift in. She may have another use for it once she takes her gift out.

Some of you may already know that I used mostly retired stuff on this. The DSP is parisian summer (retired), so saffron, and bravo burgundy CS; Ribbon: so saffron from the sale-a-bration (retired) catalog; Stamp pad: bravo burgundy; Stamp set: sincere salutations; Punches: snow blossom (retired), scallop circle, and scallop oval.

Tell me what you think. I always love getting comments. I know I could have dressed this up even more, but sometimes less is best.

I hope this has inspired you to papercraft too!!

Have a great 4th of July,

Chris

Hello everyone! It is time to break out your die cutting machines. Stampin' Up! has the Big Shot. I love it! It takes all kinds of dies. Of course, there are exclusive dies made for Stampin' Up! only. You are going to get to see some of these in my card today. If you are interested in a Big Shot just let me know or any of the dies too.
As you can see below this is the Diva Coffee Break Designs challenge for the week. I used quite a few different ones for my card. We always try to encourage you to do this challenge with us. If you do go to the DCBD blog and sign up using the Mr. Linky widget. We would love to see what you can create also.
Here is what I came up with for this challenge. I kept debating on putting a sentiment on it. I decided not to. I still may when I go to give it to someone. I hope you will take the time to tell me what you think of it. Yes, there is a lot of detail, but remember the Big Shot cut everything out. I just had to arrange and layer it however I wanted to.

Ingredients for this card. Stamp set: none; Cardstock: confetti white, glorious green, close to cocoa, rich razzleberry, melon mambo, crushed curry, and DSP lovely flowers (hostess level 3);

Tools: top note die, scribbles swirls sizzlit, birds and blooms sizzlits, eyelet edge punch, stamping sponge, and sanding block; Accessories: chocolate chip taffeta ribbon, filigree brad, and silver brads; Ink pad: soft suede

I hope you enjoy my card and also take the time to visit the other Diva's blogs. Most of all we hope you join us in this week's challenge. As always thanks for looking.

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DCBD #133

Hello, everyone! I hope your week has been going well. It is time again for this week's DCBD challenge. It is a fun one and pretty simple too. You can keep it very basic or really step it up a lot. It probably depends on how much time you want to spend on it.

I really love how this card turned out. I wasn't so sure I was going to like it when I first started working on it. I just never know what it is going to look like until I am all done. I may have somewhat of an idea, but not the whole. Please comment and tell me what you think.

I hope this has inspired you to want to create a card too. If so remember to sign up with the Mr. Linky widget on the DCBD blog, which you can get to by clicking here. Please go to the other Diva's blogs and see what they have come up with for this challenge too. It really is a lot of fun.

Supplies for this card: Crazy for cupcakes stamp set; baja breeze, whisper white, and chocolate chip cardstock; Parisian breeze DSP; chocolate chip and baja breeze classic stamp pads; summer sun, chocolate chip, and creamy caramel markers; boho blossoms punch, large oval punch, and scallop oval punch; dazzling diamonds glitter; blender pen.

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Baby Card Class

I had told you Thursday that I would post the last baby card when I finished it up. I also said I would have it done on Friday. Well, I didn't get it done on Friday like I had said. Sorry about that.

It is now Saturday and I finally finished this last card for my class. I hope you all like it. You can always leave me a comment letting me know what you think. In case you are wondering about the colors, I got them from a sample in the Fall/Winter 2007 Stampin' Up! catalog. Who would have thought red would go with the other colors, but once again they do.

Thanks so much for taking the time to look at my blog. If you ever have any questions you can ask in the comments or you can email me.

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Baby Card Class

I worked all afternoon making these three cards for my next card class. I still have one more to make. I will try to get it done probably tomorrow sometime. I will post it also when I am finished with it.

As you can tell this is going to be a Baby card class. I know we all get invited to baby showers at some point or other. It is nice to have a card already made for the occasion. When designing them I wanted to make a boy, girl, and the other 2 for either or. You can tell me if the card above could be for a boy or a girl or do you think it is more for a boy also?

I have never done the challenges that StampinUpLNStamper's have had. I have been wanting to enter for quite some time now. Well, I am going to enter 1 or maybe 2 of these in it. This weeks challenge is to make a children's card. I did double check to see if a baby card qualifies. I was told that it does. Now I need to decide which one to enter. Hhhmmm..........................

Back to the class again. This is going to be the same as the one's I have had in the past. Everyone that takes this class will make 8 cards all together (2 each of the 4 designs).

DCBD #132

Another week has went by and it is Diva Coffee Break Designs sketch challenge time again. I love the colors in this sketch. I would love to have made a card using flowers, but there is a special holiday this Sunday. I decided I wanted to make the card for my husband. You know when your business is making cards and such you better make a card. It doesn't look good for your business if you don't. At least I don't think so.
This is what I came up with for the card. You will have to tell me what you think. Some of you may be saying it looks childish. I have to agree with you, if you are thinking that. My husband, you see, loves airplanes. I wanted to make an airplane for him. I decided to use my punches to come up with it. I think it turned out really cute. When it was finished I thought the bear from the Cute and Cuddly set would be so cute to use as the pilot. Even though it looks childish, I know that my husband will love it. That is all that matters. I will have to remember and sometime make one similar for a baby card though.

I hope that you have been inspired by seeing this card to want to make a card yourself. Like I said the color sketch is great this week. If you do participate remember and go to the DCBD blog, which you can get to it from here, and sign up. I try to visit every one's blog to comment on your creations too.

Recipe for this card: Stamp sets: cute and cuddly and all holidays Card stock: bashful blue, whisper white, kraft, night of navy, and always artichoke Tools: large oval punch, star punch, large star punch, slit punch, paper piercing tool, white uniball gel pen, and stamping sponge Accessories: 1/4" whisper white grosgrain ribbon and soft subtle brads (bashful blue)