Month: December 2011

Unscripted Sketches #139

Happy Saturday and Happy New Year’s Eve! I’d like to share my final card as a member of the Unscripted Sketches design team…I’m transitioning to a new opportunity in 2012!

After being a member of the team for over a year, I thought it was a good time to step aside and create a spot for a new designer to step in and become a part of the team!

Unscripted Sketches was the first design team that I joined, and I’m so honored to have had the opportunity to create with the fabulous ladies on the team! I wish each of them the best, and I plan to play along with Unscripted Sketches again soon, and I hope you’ll find time to play along, too!

Here’s my card! I took the picture when we were traveling for Christmas…since I didn’t have my light box with me, I had to improvise!

Supplies: card base, patterned paper (Basic Grey – Out of Print), image and sentiment stamps (Priscilla – Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps), embossing folder (Sizzix), adhesive gems (aMuse Studio), ink (Tsukineko Brilliance), Copic markers.

Here’s our sketch for this week (I rotated it for my card):
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan! 
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a safe and wonderful new year celebration…see you in 2012!

colourQ #117

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Happy Tuesday and welcome back for another colourQ challenge! If you recently celebrated Christmas or Hanukkah, I hope you had a wonderful holiday! We’re back from a short trip to visit with Scott’s family in California!

I’m sure you’ll have fun playing along with us this week if you have time…our last colourQ of 2011 lets you get creative with the color combo!

Here’s my card…I know it’s Christmas-y, but I got these stamps right before Christmas and couldn’t wait to use them:

Supplies: card base, embossing powder (black & white), Copic markers, sheep and sentiment stamps (Memory Box), snowflake stamp (Imaginisce), patterned paper (Stampin’ Up! – houndstooth; aMuse Studio – red woodgrain), ribbon, ink (VersaMark, Tsukineko Brilliance), brads. 
For this week’s colourQ, you get to pick part of the combo! My extra color was red (of course!), but you can pick any one extra color and create something wonderful to share with us!

To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, January 1 at noon Central Time! Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.

As always, The rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some fantastic and fun projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s colourQ!  

Unscripted Sketches #138

Happy Saturday and a merry Christmas Eve! It’s time for another Unscripted Sketches challenge! If it’s Christmas or Hanukkah where you are, I hope you’re enjoying the holidays!

Here’s my card for this week:

Supplies: fox image and sentiment stamp (Lawn Fawn), flower image stamp (aMuse Studio), patterned paper (My Mind’s Eye mini pad – I think it’s the “Be Merry” collection, which is retired, but somehow I found a mega pad at a local craft store.), Copic markers, embossing powder, adhesive gems, card base, deckle scissors.
and here’s our sketch! I hope you’ll find some time to play along with us this week!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan!
And also, don’t forget to link up your entry for this week’s challenge at the Unscripted Sketches blog for the chance to be picked as one of this week’s Top 3!

colourQ #116

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Happy Tuesday and welcome back for another colourQ challenge! Today, I’m going to knock out my Christmas baking (or at least try to get most of it done)! I’m making peanut butter fudge, chocolate crinkles and peppermint bark…and sugar cookies if I’m feeling really ambitious!

This year, I’ve really enjoyed baking and cooking from scratch. It’s rare that I use a box mix these days, but I will if I don’t have a lot of time to make something for an event. I do, however, try to make sugar cookies for my monthly craft group meeting…since they may not let me come over if I don’t! (Just kidding…I think!)

Here’s my card for this week (no coloring…eek!):

Supplies: card base, kraft cardstock (PaperTrey Ink), image and sentiment stamps (aMuse Studio –  Nordic Noel), white embossing powder, white opaque marker, adhesive pearl, twine, embossing folder (Sizzix), green cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), ink (VersaMark).

And here are our colors for this week! I hope you’ll find some time to play along with us!

To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, December 25 at noon Central Time! Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.

As always, The rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some fantastic and fun projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s colourQ!  

Some Odd Girl’s 2nd Annual Holiday Hop!

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I’m excited to be a part of this year’s Hol-ODD-day Hop at Some Odd Girl Stamps!

My card is for the “Non-Traditional Colors” category, and features the fun and festive “Bright Lights Kaylee“! I had so much fun coloring her sweater to match the paper, then adding Stickles to the lights to make them twinkle!

Supplies: image (Bright Lights Kaylee – Some Odd Girl Stamps), sentiment (aMuse Studio), paper (Crate Paper – Snow Day), card base, Copic markers, Spellbinders die, Stickles, lace (KaiserCraft), corner punch, snowflake accent (Imaginisce), cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), embossing folder (Sizzix).

To keep hopping along, pop back to the Some Odd Girl Stamps blog! This hop runs from Monday, December 19 through Wednesday, December 21, so you have lots of time to check out all of the fantastic Odd creations!
Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Unscripted Sketches #137

Happy Saturday and welcome back for another Unscripted Sketches challenge! I changed a few things on this week’s sketch and made this festive card:
Supplies: card base, image and sentiment stamps (Paper Smooches – Santa Paws), ink (Tsukineko Brilliance – Graphite Black), paper (Echo Park – Holly Jolly Christmas), Copic markers, cardstock, twine (Divine Twine).
I love this stamp set! I usually color my dogs grey (black doesn’t show up that well) to match my dog, Midnight, who is a black dachshund mix. I love that the dog in this set is a dachshund!
Here’s our sketch for this week (I rotated it for my card and placed the sentiment in the smaller rectangle):

I hope you’ll find time to play along with us this week! This is a very versatile sketch that can be modified for lots of different creations! 
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan to see what they’ve created with this week’s sketch!
Thanks for stopping by! Don’t forget to link up your entry at Unscripted Sketches for a chance at being selected as one of our Top 3 for this week! 

colourQ #115

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Happy Tuesday! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! This past Saturday was my monthly craft group meetup and Secret Elf gift exchange! It’s always great to get together with my friends and have fun getting crafty!

While I was there, I made my card for this week’s colourQ challenge. At first, I wasn’t sure what I was going to make, but I started playing with some paper and a border punch and came up with this card:

Supplies: patterned paper (Crate Paper Peppermint mini pad), cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), card base, rub-on sentiment (Pebbles), border punch (Martha Stewart Crafts), red grosgrain ribbon, button brads (Making Memories), star punch.
and here’s our festively colorful inspiration for you to play with this week! 


I hope you’ll play along with us this week!

To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, December 18 at noon Central Time! Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.

As always, The rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some fantastic and fun projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s colourQ! 

Denami Blog Hop: Gift Wrapping!

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Hi! Thanks for stopping by to see what I’ve created for the DeNami “Gift Wrapping” blog hop!



You should have arrived from Wendy Harril‘s blog, and now you’re at my blog (Suzanne Bier)! In case you get overwhelmed by all the fabulous gift wrapping ideas along the hop and lose your way, you can always go back to the DeNami blog to get back on track!

For this hop, I made a small gift bag that you can make out of any size of paper to fit your gift! (I used 6″x6″ cardstock.) 

Supplies: cardstock, watermark ink (VersaMark), white embossing powder ,  snowflake stamp (DeNami  Med. Lacy Flake), sentiment stamp (DeNami Contempo Christmas), ribbon, tissue paper.

First, stamp (and heat emboss, if you want to) your design on two 6″x6″ squares of heavy patterned paper or cardstock. One square will be the front of your bag; the other will be the back. Then, score in 1″ on the bottom and sides of each piece of paper. 


Before doing any folding or cutting, you can use a border punch or decorative scissors on the top of each square to make your bag look a bit fancier when it’s complete. (It’s easier to cut or punch at this point, because it’s so much harder to do it evenly later; I learned that the hard way!)

Cut a slit along each side of each square in the lower corners of each sheet, fold in the bottom and sides to create a “box” bottom. Then, adhere one bottom to the other, nesting one half inside of the other to make a bag. I’ve found it’s easier to adhere the sides at the same time. Just put adhesive on the outer sides of the half that you are nesting inside the other.

Then, punch two holes in the top and thread ribbon through each side to create handles.

I also created a matching gift tag and threaded it through the ribbon before I made the handles. If you add a tag later, it’s easy to tie one on the handle with twine!

Don’t forget to leave comments on all the blogs you visit for your chance to win a $20 DeNami gift certificate! One random participant and TWO lucky commenters will win! You have until December 12, 2011, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on ALL of the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).

Your next stop on the DeNami hop is Lani Misner! I’m sure she’s got something fantastic for you to see!

Thanks again for stopping by!

Crafty Contagion Challenge: 12 Days of Christmas!

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Happy Saturday! This week, the Stamping Together Divas have all contributed to this week’s challenge at our Crafty Contagion blog, which is inspired by the 12 days of Christmas! Each of us chose one of the days and then created a card inspired by that day!

My card was inspired by the “10 Lords-A-Leaping.” My first thought was to use frogs, and then I dressed them up for Christmas:

Supplies: card base, image stamps – (Santa hat – Paper Smooches; frog – Stampin’ Up!), ink (Stampin’ Up!) sentiment (Making Memories rub-on), glitter brads, Copic markers, cardstock, (Stampin’ Up! & Bazzill), patterned paper (My Mind’s Eye – 12 Days of Christmas), corner rounder, pom-poms.
The rub-on sentiment actually said “happy holidays,” but I borrowed an “o” from another of the sentiments and used it in place of the “a” to make my custom sentiment.
There are 11 more fantastic cards for you to see! Head over to the Crafty Contagion blog to check them all out!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope I’ve inspired you to craft something fun and festive!

Unscripted Sketches #136

Welcome back for another Unscripted Sketches challenge! We’re featuring a very versatile sketch for you this week!

If you haven’t played along with our challenges before, every Saturday morning, we post a sketch for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it…make a card, a scrapbook page, or anything your imagination comes up with! There’s no right or wrong way, as long as you’re using the Unscripted Sketch as the inspiration and basis of your creation!

Here’s my card! I’ve been wanting to use these stamps for a while, and I thought this week’s sketch would work well with them:

Supplies: image and sentiment stamps (Paper Smooches – Santa Paws), ink (Tsukineko Brilliance), Copic markers, card base, cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), Liquid Applique, white opaque pen, patterned papers (My Mind’s Eye – 12 Days of Christmas), brown grosgrain ribbon.

I hope you’ll find some time to play along with us! We’d love to see what you’ll create with this week’s sketch:

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan! And also, don’t forget to link up your entry for this week’s challenge at the Unscripted Sketches blog for the chance to be picked as one of this week’s Top 3!