Team Challenge

UPDATE: This card got selected for the Stamper's Showcase! Thank you so much!

At our Stampin Up Team Meetings - we have challenges for our monthly swaps. For the August Meeting, the challenge was to use the sketch for the current Stamping 411 Challenge.


Everyone puts their cards on a table and we vote on the favorite card for the swap. I don't know if I've ever even gotten a vote... but this time... my card won! I was shocked and excited and so thankful that others liked it enough to vote for it! Thanks guys!

Ok, so... without making you wait any longer..... Here's my card:


I started with Bermuda Bay, Dusty Durango and Basic Black card stock. After adding texture and tearing the strips, I inked the Dusty Durango with the same ink color and that's ok, but I wanted even more umph on the textured Bermuda Bay piece. Notice how the paper seems to change color as it nears the edge? That's the effect of the Certainly Celery I used to ink the edges.

The star is from the Fun and Fast Notes stamp set. It was one of the sets I selected with my demo kit. What? Oh yes, you can customize your kit. Isn't that cool? Anyway... It's stamped onto Whisper White in Dusty Durango and then cut out and inked. The colored stars are stamped in black and colored in with markers. Finally, the star in front has Crystal Effect over the yellow and white. It's got texture and shine and really enhances the colors.

Last but not least, I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to position the phrase from the Wings of Friendship stamp set... oh yeah then a little piercing.

Use Your Scraps - Groovy Gnome

A friend of mine sent out a call for help this weekend. She was cleaning out her stamping room and needed someone to come and take away the things she decided to let go of. I was the first on the scene and she filled my car with goodies. I worried that there wouldn't be any for the others and if you were called upon to help and were left empty handed, please call me!

I spent the weekend going through things, sorting and organizing. There were two full boxes of paper scraps. There was more than just scraps though, it also had a few stamped images that someone had started and tossed in the scrap bin when something else seemed to work better. This is always the way with me, so I fully understand why these images were in there. You too?

This little gnome was one of three, fully colored images in the boxes and... well... I just couldn't NOT do something with them. They are so cute!

The entire card is made with scraps! I don't know the names of the DSP, stamp image or ribbon. I think the card base is Groovy Guava. The buttons came from my button jars and the colors just seemed to work with the DSP. Behind the image is a paper that looked like balsa wood. It's not double sided, so I know it was not Stampin Up.

Non-Traditional Christmas Color Challenge

I went over to Sharon Field's house to today for a play date. Sharon's stamping room is jam packed with stamping goodness! It was like walking into a candy store. Papers in every color you can imagine, ribbons to match. Stamp sets stacked up high. Markers and reinkers and glitter... oh my!

We had fun playing with some of the new things in the catalog. Here's the card I made for her color challenge. We were to use specific non-traditional colors to create a Christmas Card. It was originally taller, but I was not all that thrilled with the stuff I did on the Bermuda Bay paper. So... when I got home, I took it apart and reworked it.

Thank you Sharon, it was a blast!

Nitrocat wins a Blog Banner!

I pulled a second number from the Royal Blog Tour and the winner was # 23~!

Nitrocat said:

I've been following you through AQ for quite awhile already. Can't wait for the Faux Etching tutorial!
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You can read more about her and see her new banner on my Design Blog!

Stampin Up Color Codes - and an easier way to use them!

Go to my design site to get the Stampin Up Color Codes. You can enter them into your photo editing program each time you use them. That works. However, I was entering them over and over.

So, I spent a couple of hours putting together a Photoshop Color Swatch of Stampin Up Colors and it's VERY useful! You can have a categorized list of the Stampin Up! Color Families that you can select with the eyedropper tool. Easy peasy!


No need to open a web page or other document; The colors are available on your sidebar anytime. It's even easy to install!

You can get your own here!