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i am having a horrendous time with my computer, camera and memory sticks. only by the grace of God was i able to post today. who knows what will happen saturday. maria has a cute norman rockwell print for the inspiration picture today on udi and it's perfect for this upcoming halloween weekend.

i made a 'punch' card today. my pumpkin, ghost and bat are all made out of the large oval punch and the moon is the large circle punch. i don't have the bat punch so i had to make my own. i drew my bat onto the large oval and then cut it out and also used the small oval punch for the bottom of him. the ghost eyes are made with 1/8" punch and i used the spider web embossing folder for the card itself.

have a good day. :)

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Black and vanilla and a smidge of concord crush. i did this card for a swap and the only color is the spotlight where i used the crush and celery. you may click on the image to see it up close.

while i'm up here in michigan enjoying our cool autumn weather adriana is down in florida with the warmth and sunshine so skip on over to see what
adriana has created today for you.

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thursday means inspiration challenge over on udi. what inspires you on any given day? while i love pirates, i wasn't inspired to create something pirate-ish so i went with the colors i saw: bashful blue, white and espresso. then i threw in a little navy for shits and giggles. just very quick and simple.

enjoy your day.

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good morning. yesterday was my 16th anniversary with my wonderful husband, chip. what a lucky person i was the day i met him. :)

saturday is here again so it's time for another sketch challenge on udi. click on the 'udi' to go and see the sketch.

here is my card for today. quick, simple and low key. just some 'lovely as a tree' stamped a few times and finished off with the pinecone accent.

skip on over to see what adriana has made for you. did you know that this week and last week adriana was in columbia, south america? did you think she took all her stampin' stuff with her? haha. really, she preposted. she rocks.

enjoy your weekend. :)

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ok, is it me or does the picture look blurry. i think i'm losing it. anyway, the card looks great in real life. i inked the spider web emboss pad so that the web would stand out. i colored my ribbon with the concord crush marker and then used my heat gun on it to get the curled look. i made an itsy bitsy spider and popped him and the 'spooky' with dimensionals.

hope ya like it. :)

skip on over and see what adriana has made for you this week.

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maria's picture on udi for the inspiration challenge is just beautiful. hot air balloons are one of my favorite things. if you've never been up in one i highly recommend it. it is such a rush. the quiet beauty of floating above the earth and looking down to see God's creation.

i was fortunate to go up several times while i was in college. i worked an annual rally and i was an observer. an observer has to make sure that the pilot follows the rules for each of the tasks when competing. the first time the pilot asked me to go up i thought i was in heaven. that was a long long time ago. :)

enjoy your day.

my card is lookin' a bit pale this morning. guess i need to learn more about the settings on my camera. i took it in natural light too. hmmm.

our sketch on udi is very basic and simple. i really couldn't go too wrong with it today.

i had a scrap of dsp for the background, embossed the mini medallion and added a little butterfly to the tag that hangs from the ribbon. the medallion is also popped up with a dimensional. easy peasy.

adriana is next on your skip through the sketches. have a great first weekend of october! :)

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it is a bittersweet day for me today. this is my last day as an active SU! demonstrator after almost eleven years. when i lost my job three and a half years ago i knew it would be a struggle to stay active, but i managed with the help of one or two friends. but that is no longer to be either, as they are unable to make enough purchases to keep me active.

but, i will continue posting, though you will have to put up with my existing 'stuff' and you probably will not see much in the way of new product, unfortunately.

and with that said i had better move on to today's inspiration on udi. out of all those vivid colors on the featured gum ball machine i was struck most by the green, red, black and gray. go figure. so that is where i am at with my card today. i did think about throwing in some of the orange and blue but just couldn't work it into the card. the image was 'colored' with the white shimmer paint on the blossoms and some of the leaves have a bit of platinum shimmer paint as well. anyway, i hope you like my simple card. as always, i leave the sentiment off until i will use it.

please be sure to check out what the rest of the inspiration team has made for you today.

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hi. i love how cute the sketch is this week on udi. tell me, what is it about pink and black that is so fun? i'm so pleased with the way my card came out this week. i just love it and hope you do too! sorry the picture is a little blurry. on the gift bag i added glitter to the dots and popped the heart up with a glue dot.

check out what Adriana has made for you today now.

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this is my card for this week's inspiration challenge on udi. i had to smile when i saw this picture, not only because it is a crazy inspiration picture but because i live about ten miles from the 'cereal city' of battle creek mi. if you've never experienced it, you should come in june for the world's longest breakfast table.

so i created a colorful background and then embossed the upsy daisy flowers onto it for my card. it was a challenge to piece the colors together but i was happy with the way it turned out. be sure to look and see what the other team members created today also.

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easy sketch today for the udi sketch challenge. not like some of the last few weeks. haha.

concord crush, white and a smidge of pear pizzaz were used to make my card. that and an impressions plate for the big shot. very simple and easy.

adriana will have a beautiful card for you also so click here to see her card.

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i wish i was in today's inspiration picture on udi. WOW! so beautiful and so peaceful. solitude and a cool breeze. what's not to love. :)

you can't tell by the picture but i used the shimmer white card stock, ran it through the big shot and then 'colored' it with an aqua painter. you can click on the picture to get a better view.

i still cannot find my teeny tiny wishes so i left the greeting off for now. be sure to see what the rest of the team made for you today.

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happy saturday everyone. it's been a great week here weather wise. a touch of autumn is in the air and i'm lovin' it. pleasant days and cool nights. what's not to love!

this was a funky sketch this week on udi. definitely a 'challenge.' i added the center piece as an after thought and i love it. i found this stamp at hobby lobby and fell in love with it. is it not precious?

enjoy your weekend, but go see what Adriana made for your before you get started on other things.

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today's inspiration picture on udi is many colorful crayons. it was hard to decide how to approach the picture to create my card this week. in the end i tried to make the rows of colorful crayons with my buttons. i'm not sure what it is about these bitty buttons, but i just love them.

check out what the rest of the inspiration team has created for you also.

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today's sketch was a bit out there on udi but i had alot of fun creating it and knew what i wanted to do the second i saw it. i made flowers in a vase. i had some big shot scraps and used those for the vase and the white accent. i markered in the stems and made leaves the same as the oval. definitely not a 'mailing' card.

have a great weekend and don't forget to skip over to see what adriana has made for you today. :)

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is it really september already? two thirds of this year have come and gone. wow. today's picture on udi reflects the new month . . . autumn, apple season, back to school. who doesn't like a shiny fresh apple?

i chose to use red and vanilla for my card instead of the apple theme. sorry the photography isn't the best. i wasn't able to photograph it in natural like and therefore looks 'unnatural.' i also used the friends wheel. it is about the only wheel that i really like and find it appropriate as a back to school card. i wheeled in real red craft ink and then lightly sprinkled dazzling diamonds on top of it before it dried. punched the edges, added a little bow and called it good.

please check out what the rest of the inspiration team has created today for you. :)

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as i mentioned on thursday this week is about sympathy cards. this is for our friend whose gramma died. i wanted to keep it somewhat masculine and i hope i achieved the look for him. i love the symplicity of this sketch and how the card turned out. i hope it appeals to our friend and his family.

now, skip on over and see what barbara has made for you today or you can return to the diva site and go from there.

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it's been a week of deaths in hickory corners. our friend's gramma died, another friend's brother in law died and chip's mom died. so my card today and on saturday are sympathy cards that i made.

i am drawn to the 'sense of time' set when i think of sympathy cards. there is nothing like a death to comtemplate time.

maria's beautiful picture today on udi is where i want to be right now. a deserted island, an umbrella, a chair, a cool breeze and a gorgeous view. but, that's not gonna happen anytime soon so i used the colors as my inspiration for my card. aren't they gorgeous?

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my card today is a tribute to back to school for my daughter. she will begin her sophmore year at western michigan university in another week or so. wasn't she just in kindergarten? wow! anyway, orange and yellow are her favorite colors so i used those for the base. then i used the newsprint dsp to create the focal point. i felt like i was making a ransom note cutting out all of those letters. haha

hope she likes it.

now skip on over and see what adriana has made for you today.

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where did this week go? hard to believe it's already thursday. maria picked such a pretty picture today for the udi inspiration challenge . . . some refreshing summer lemonade. yum.

i went with the colors for my card today since i didn't have any lemonade handy. simple, quick and i like it. i think i'll send it to my sister for her birthday in a few weeks.

be sure to see what the rest of the inspiration team has created this week. :)