Category Archives: Stampin’ UP! Designs

A new box of goodies sits on the dining room table. Stampin’ UP! released a new catalog the first of January, and though it’s gorgeous it took me a few days to place my initial order. Last night I cut some rubber and put my mind to go SUO (Stampin’ UP! Only) on my sketch-take for Beate’s challenge. This set is called Pretty Amazing, and it is beautiful. Stampin’ UP! was my first rubber love, and I am always pleased with how their colors and images coordinate so beautifully.

Make sure you check out these fabulous bloggers this morning for more sketch inspiration: Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, MaryJo Albright, Sharon Harnist .

• Stamps: Pretty Amazing – Stampin’ UP!

• Cardstock: River Rock, Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and Ginger Blossom Patterened Paper

• Ink: Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip and River Rock Classic

• Accs: Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Build-a-Brad both Stampin’ UP!, Nestabilites by Spellbinders and sewing maching

Woo-hoo for Friday! Today’s sketch (Has Beate really been at this for 30 weeks already?) is in response to the support I received yesterday for the Divine Design challenge. Y’all were just ‘so kind’, so open, so willing. Thank you for all of the comments and emails that I received. You sure know how to make a heart warm and be encouragers. 

It was fun to work the pieces of this challenge together. I thought the sketch was going to be easy-peasy, but em…all of the white space was tricky. Finally, I cut and and embossed the ‘so kind’ sentiment with my Nestabilities and then laid it back into the negative white space. That seemed to give me the pop that I wanted without ‘extra’ stuff.

Make sure you check out these fabulous bloggers this morning:

Cambria Turnbow

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer 

Laurie Schmidlin 

MaryJo Albright

Sharon Harnist

• Stamps: Priceless by Stampin’ UP!
• Cardstock: Cryogen White and Purely Pomegranate by Stampin’ UP!
• Ink: Pomegranate Classic by Stampin’ UP!
• Accs: Ribbon and Pretties Kit for the stick pin by Stampin’ UP! and Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend!

It’s Beate Sketch time! I found this beautiful paper in my stash. It’s by Bo Bunny. I added the stamped images on Curious Iridescent White with this stem from Oh, So Lovely by Stampin’ UP! It’s stamped in Palette Burnt Umber and colored with Copics. I restamped the image on the soft blue paper, colored in the stem and then trimmed out the flower heads to adhere to the blue. Then I cut the circle medallion with my Nestabilities. The brads were white, I colored them in to match the blues in the pretty paper. Ribbon is Stampin’ UP!

I’m going to check out Beate, Charmaine, Jenn, Laurie, Mary Jo and Sharon. It’s a weekend of celebrations for the Sketch ladies!  My friend, the most fabulous, Sharon Harnist is celebrating an acceptance to the Spellbinder’s Design Team. Well-deserved honor, for sure! And, certainly worthy of celebrating, Beate Sketch artist extrordinaire, Charmaine is snuggling and cuddling a beautiful ball of blue baby blanket this weekend as they welcome Baby Isaac to the family. Congratulations, Charmaine!

I’ve got 2 projects set up to show you over the weekend that I completed for my friend, Taylor‘s trading card swap. Speaking of Taylor, she’s partying this weekend, as well….make sure to check out her blog. She’s celebrating 7 days straight for reaching 1,000,000 blog hits. Lots of fun, fabulous prizes each day! Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend!

My friend, Sharon is the guest hostess for the Splitcoast Color Challenge today! Good times! You can see the challenge directions (including substitute colors if you lack any of these) by clicking this link. The challenges are a wonderful way to stretch your brain and do something out of the ordinary! You can see Sharon and Jessica’s samples by clicking their names.

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Cherish her, and she will exalt you;
    if you embrace her, she will honor you. ~ Proverbs 4:8

The youth pastor at our church announced his engagement to a woman that Wes and I adore this past Sunday. It’s such an exciting time in a young life. We are thrilled for them! I picked up a small Starbucks card so that they might enjoy a latte as they end a nice dinner date or meet to make wedding plans in the coming months. 

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