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Welcome Back!  This week is inspiration week!  I found this awesome picture on Pinterest awhile back and wanted to use it for inspiration!  I found it challenging, and from all the reports that I heard back form the design team, they, too found it to be a challenge.  That’s ok!  This is why it’s CALLED a CHALLENGE!  It may seem intimidating at first, but just chose one element from the photo, and go with it.  It could be the colours, it could be the Candy Canes, it could be the roses.  Give it a go, it’s fun!  Here is the photo to inspire you:

Enter more than one card if you get a chance, the more the merrier!  If you do not have a blog to post your card on, you can use a free photo hosting site like Photobucket, or just email me the photo and I’ll post it for you!  Jump in with both feet!  We’re going to have random prizes on some weeks too so you NEVER KNOW when you might be in the running for some stamping goodies too!!!  I’ve got to have at least 5 entries in a week before I’m going to offer up a prize though!  Now, lets get on to the details of the challenge….

1: Choose a card or project that inspires you

2: Create your own Project

3: Load your project online somewhere, or email it to me at branicinoz@gmail.com and mention who on my design team inspired you.

4: Link your project below by clicking on the frog, which will take you to the link site.

5: Links close Thursday May 31st at 10am.  Winners will be posted later on May 31st.

Now, for the inspiration!

I chose to focus on the Roses, and the bow for my inspiration and came up with this:

Madonna used the Candy Canes to inspire her background:

Tina also used the roses for her inspiration:

Kirsty gave us a bundle of Candy Canes:

Brooke was inspired by the colours:

Tanya also used the candy canes for her inspiration:

There you have it!  Be inspired!  Show me what about this image inspired you, or who on the design team lit your creative spark this week.  Click on the froggie below to link up your image:



Convention Bound!

Today is the day!  I’m heading off to Convention 2012 in Canberra!  As this post goes live, I’m packing my last minute items, chasing the kids around and heading up to Adelaide for a morning of Mommy time with the kids before catching our 4pm flight to Canberra.  I’m beside myself with excitement!  I’m so looking forward to catching up with all my demonstrator friends that I get to see only once a year.  Not to mention that I’m dying to know what BIG announcements Stampin Up! has up there sleeve!  Will we get My Digital Studio?  I’m REALLY hoping to be able to tell you that this weekend!  Is the Catalogue release date moving up by one month like it did overseas?  I don’t know!  But I’ll find out the answers to all of these questions and more once I get to Canberra…so I’d better get going right?

I’ll be posting updates form Canberra as I can, but I’m not making too many promises.  I’ve got the family joining me on this trip AND evening activities planned each night of Convention so I won’t have a lot of time for blogging until maybe Sunday.  In the meantime, I’ve loaded up my Convention swaps to show you, starting from tomorrow.  Catch ya later!

So I know ribbon is not REALLY fabric, but I wanted to show you this cute card I made with ribbon scraps.  I just adhered some scraps to a piece of card, then punched a window with the circle punches, and adhered the scrap panel in behind.  I think it turned out kinda cute!

Another challenge issued to me by Tracey Eaton was to use the Emboss Resist technique.  I chose the French Foliage set for this one and stamped the greeting on a “flag” across the centre.  I’ve then used a bow of vanilla seam binding and an old olive button laced with twine to finish it off.  I’m really happy with how this card came out!

This card was the second one that I made with the Pocket Silhouettes set when I had me series of challenges set forth the other week.  I was inspired by a card that I saw on Splitcoast, and modified it to make it my own.

I punched out 3 squares to use as a mask, then stamped through the holes, and sponged the background while the mask was still on.  Before removing the mask, I traced around the inside of the squares with the fine tip of the marker.

I used the trendy trees set again, inspired once again by a card I found on Splitcoast.  This one uses not so much trees but reminds me more of candy or lollipops.  I’ve used the embossing edge folder with the rows of hearts to emboss a strip on the card, then stamped the circle image along the top of it.  I think this is pretty cute!

Hi Everyone!

Just popping in to announce the winner from last week’s Festive Friday.  I loved all of the entries this week!  It seems that Glitter and Glimmer was a popular one as we had more entries than ever before!  It was a hard decision, but I chose this card from Rochelle Blok:

I love how the Glimmer paper really is the focus of the card, and the rest is fairly simple.  Thanks for playing along Rochelle.  I have a PRIZE for you!  Contact me to send me your details and I’ll put something in the post to you!  Here is your winner’s badge:

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