DCBD challenges

DCBD challenge #8

 

 

 Hey everyone,

For this week’s challenge, we didn’t have a sketch or anything….we just had to create a New Year’s card….my interpretation of that is a New Stampin’ Up Year’s card with a stamp set out of the NEW catalog! This stamp set is one that we received at Founder’s Circle a couple of months ago and I have been dying to use it so I got it out this week and played around with it. I am doing another card with it for a swap so I can’t show you that one (yet). The set is called Simple Friendship and I LOVE IT! It comes with the butterfly, the circle stamp, the true friend and some flowery stamps too. I had a ton of Urban Garden DSP so I thought I would use some of that up (just in case it retires next week). I wish they would tell us which papers were going before I made all of my Leadership swaps (this is one of them). The circle punch is our 1 3/4 inch one and I used the scallops from the pennant die to fit around it. I used baja breeze, kiwi kiss and not quite navy for the colors. I hope you like it. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Also, check out the other Divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar. Thanks for looking!

 

DCBD challenge #7

 

Hey stampers,

It is time for this week’s Diva Coffee Break Design Challenge…..here is the sketch I had to use…..and it had to be a Christmas card since it is Christmas Eve…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is what I came up with…..

 

 

 

  

 

 

This photo really doesn’t do the card justice. I took the picture 8 times but I couldn’t get the flowers on the brads or the glitter on the trees to show up well. I used the vanilla hodgepodge hardware kit for the brads and pushed them through the kraft taffeta ribbon. I stamped the trees twice on vanilla and then sprinkled with dazzling diamonds. This is a super easy card but looks really pretty close up. I hope you like it. Why don’t you try the challenge and see what you can come up with? Don’t forget to check out the other Coffee Break Divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Thanks!

 

 

DCBD challenge #6

 

This week’s Diva Coffee Break Design challenge (it should say #106 in the photo) was to use these colors to make any card we wanted. I always have a hard time with the colors so I started looking through our Designer Paper and found the Holiday Treasure paper polka dot piece that matched perfectly. It says in the catalog that it is Baja, Chocolate chip, Ruby red and Old Olive but I held the old olive and kiwi next to it and it looked closer to kiwi to me. The ruby red and red riding hood are almost the same too so here is the card I came up with……

  

I used the Always set and the Holiday Treasures DSP plus chocolate chip, baja breeze and riding hood red cardstock. For the ink, I used Baja, chocolate chip and kiwi and then accented with the riding hood taffeta and the baja breeze ribbon. Super easy card! I hope you like it. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. Then give this challenge a try yourself. Don’t forget to check out the other Diva Designers listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar.

DCBD challenge #5

 

For this week’s Diva’s Coffee Break Design challenge, we had to make a card with this design. The smiley face threw me off at first because I was like "what is that for?" but it just means an image goes there.  I enjoy the design challenges much more than the color challenges. They take me about 10 minutes. The color challenges take me all day. So, here is what I came up with for this week………

 

I decided to do a semi Christmas card (because of the colors)  but it can also be used anytime. I used Riding Hood Red, Old Olive and the Bella Rose DSP. I stamped the background with the Bella Toile stamp and used the Bella’s Bloom for the flower. The saying is from one of the hostess sets…. I think it is called Best Yet. Super quick and easy card. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Make sure you check out all of the other Divas in the group…..click on each one listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar.

 

 

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WOW!  Several fabulous sales are going on! FREE Shipping on all orders over $70 until December 23rd.  It is also time to stock up on Retiring Stamp Sets which are 10% off (also until December 23rd). Click on the graphic (right) to view the list of retiring sets in a convenient PDF. Click HERE for a visual view of the retiring sets. Make sure you log in and it shows Lisa Freeman as your demonstrator at the top.

DCBD Challenge #4

 

Hey everyone! This is my weekly Wednesday challenge for the Diva’s  Coffee Break Design team. This week it was a color challenge and boy was it a tough one. For those of you that know me well, these are not my colors at all! I am more of a chocolate chip/pink pirouette or chocolate chip/ baja breeze girl. I had a very hard time coming up with something in these 4 colors, but I finally did. I don’t think I have used my garden green pad in about 5 years. It was totally dry when I opened it! I hope you like what I came up with. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of it.

 

For this card, I punched out a circle from a postit note and stuck it while I brayered Summer Sun across the paper, Then I took a sponge and sponged Pumpkin Pie all over. I removed the postit circle and lightly sponged a little bit in the circle. I then stamped the Garden Green grass from the Inspired by Nature set. Lastly I stamped the words in Riding Hood Red. I wanted the words over the sun a little more but I did that last and I wasn’t about to do the whole card over again. I hope you like it. Make sure you check out the rest of the diva designers…. the list is under the coffee cups in my sidebar.

DCBD Challenge #103

 

  This is the 3rd Diva’s Coffee Break Design Challenge. We had to design a card that matched this design. I hope you like the one I came up with. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I used crystal effects on the flower to make it shimmer. I am really having fun doing these challenges! I just wish I had more time to do it! To see the other Diva’s designs, click on the names under the coffee cups in my sidebar.  

DCBD challenge #102

This is my 2nd design challenge for the Diva Coffee Break Design group. It is supposed to say #102 in the 1st photo but I couldn’t edit it so let’s just pretend that it does.  We had to use the 5 colors given to create any card we wanted, so I chose one that I have been demoing this month and just changed the colors. How easy peasy is that?  And, here is the card that I came up with…..drum roll please…….

 

 

For the cardstock, I used close to cocoa, so saffron, bravo burgundy, and always artichoke (regular and DSP). For the ink, I used the baby wipe technique for the leaves with ink refills in cameo coral, so saffron and bravo burgundy. The Season of Friendship set is one of my favorites now. You can do so much with it! I hope you like my card. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. Why don’t you try the challenge for yourself and see what you can come up with??  Tune in next Wed. to see what my next challenge will be. Also, don’t forget to click on the link in my sidebar (under the coffee cups)  to see what all the other Coffee Break Divas came up with. I am sure you will love them!

DCBD Challenge #101

 

I was recently asked to join a group of talented demos called the "Diva’s Coffee Break Designs BLOG TEAM". Each week we are assigned a card design challenge and have to come up with a card using that design. Here is the blank sketch and then underneath that is my card. I used the Upsy Daisy set and the Chocolate chip DSP to create this one. Check out the other girls in this group. Their blogs are listed in my sidebar under the coffee cup.  Why don’t you give this design challenge a try and see what you can come up with??