Eastern Elegance

I am loving Stampin' Up!'s rubons. I used the Eastern Elegance set for this card - the large flower. the layout and colors were challenges from Beate's blog and Splitcoast Stampers site. They make it so easy to create a card.

The colors are Basic Gray, Whisper White, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. I used a rhinestone brad, silver hodge podge ribbon slide, and taffetta ribbon. Of course, I had to do some paper piercing - I just love adding that to my work.

I noticed that lots of bloggers add little bits of their life in their blogs. Really, a blog is supposed to be an online diary - not that you want to read about every event or thought that goes on in my life.

The biggest deal right now is that my oldest daughter, Lilly, is visiting her dad in California. Poor thing is at the hospital tonight with a pilonidal cyst (near her tailbone). She just had one about a month ago too. Since she is a Type I diabetic any ailments affect her blood sugars. It is hard to be away from her while she is going through this even though it is pretty minor. Luckily she'll be home on 4/2.

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6x6 becomes 12x12

Recently at a workshop I wanted to show how Stampin' Up! products work well for scrapbooking. Besides showing the great Simply Scrappin' Kits we created a 6x6 scrapbook page as a "make & take" project (the Blue Bayou square in the middle). Then I easily incorporated the 6x6 page into a 12x12 page. This one still needs a title, a few accent photos, and journaling but it is almost ready and was really quick to put together.

I used Fall Flowers DSP, Old Olive, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, and Whisper White for my color palette. I stamped the back of the 12x12 Old Olive cardstock and then paper pierced for a different background look. The stamp sets are Friendly Flowers and One of a Kind. For embellishments I used the Boho Blossoms punch, Felt Fusion Flowers, and silver brads. Add some pretty ribbon and there you go... I cute page.

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Finally!

I have been having the worst creative block lately. I think that it's because I have to create this layout for our annual report and nothing seems to spark me. It will be emailed out and I work for the gov't so it can't be anything super fancy looking. Plus I am running out of time and really, I am just not that into it.

It's taken me days and days to create the cover for this journal, and I am not so happy with it. But it'll do. I am going to use it to record challenges from other bloggers and splitcoast so that I have a little inspiration reference I can quickly go to. The colors in the photo are a little off - the green are all Old Olive but it sure doens't look like it here does it? I also used River Rock, Ruby Red, Groovy Guava and Ginger Blossom DSP. Various stamp sets were used - all floral. The second photo shows some of the paper piercing details.

That brings me to my next dilemna: I have too many floral sets. I need to branch out. So I need to take some time to really study the catalog and make some good purchasing decisions. The first thing on my list is the new Silver Hodgepodge Hardware. Have you checked it out???? Really cute!

I have updated my class schedule on my Stampin' Up! Web site: http://www.desiree.stampinup.net/ Take a look and sign up for Technique Tuesdays or a card-making class or scrapbooking.

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Tomorrow never comes....

Yeah, I had every intention of being super creative on Saturday. Instead I got up late and then took a long nap in between reading this month's bookclub selection. What an engrossing book!!! Sunday rolled around and instead of working on this project I've been wanting to start I continued reading, and napping!

I finished the book around 1am and then started feeling creative - of course! However, I needed to get to sleep so I could function at work today. Again, nothing to show from my creative table.

I did make this card a few weeks ago though. It'll have to suffice. I can't remember the paper that I used. Chocolate chip cardstock is the main card. Stampin' Up! ribbon and brads were used as well. I found the quote online. I'm being really helpful here, aren't I???? In any event, enjoy! And I'll keep looking wistfully at my craft table.