PPA 52 a sketch challenge

I generally prefer colour and inspiration challenges to sketch ones, because they allow for more freedom. But I have to say that I love the composition of this sketch for the PPA 52 challenge. And as I looked at it to decide what to do instantly one of the cards I designed for this months Card class came to mind. So I thought I would use that as my starting point. And this is what I came up with.

Once again I am using the Daffodil Delight DSP and the Tempting turquoise too. On the last card, I used the stripes, for this card I just flipped it over for these very cool elements from the Artistic Etchings set. I adore this print. The Congrats is from the awesome Perfect punches stamp set.

I decided to make this a congrats card because my awesome Upline Caroline LeBel placed #6 for Demonstrator of the Year for the 2009-2010 Stampin' Up! year and #1 for Senior Associate Promotions in her downline!! Way to go Caroline!!! I am soooooo proud of you. You truly are an inspiration. Caroline has had a very difficult year personally yet she still remained within the top 10 for all of Canada amongst some very determined women. It is quite and achievement. So, I am going to be sending this to her along with a little something else I am working on! Keep your eyes on your mail over the next few weeks Caroline!

Don't forget to go back to this post, and this post and leave comments to be entered to win a fun prize pack. You must leave a comment every day for the 5 July Card Class cards to be entered to win.

Cheers,

First ever card class!

Happy weekend everyone!!

And it is a beautiful day here in Toronto. Some of you may have noticed that I changed my blog banner yesterday. Let me know what you think of it? Why the Bee you ask, well for years my sisters have always referred to me as "B". And when I was trying to come up with a blog name a while ago, the "Bee" just made sense. And now that I have 3 team members, I am affectionately calling them members of the "hive".

Anyhow, I wanted to share with you two of the 8 cards that we will be making for my upcoming "Eight Great Greetings" class next Sunday. If you have not yet RSVP'd please do so as soon as possible. There are still a few spots left.

The first card is for Father's day. I got the idea from this card and changed up the colours a bit.
The second card I just played around with. I think that primary colours are fun for Congrats, and that way the card is good for lots of different occasions, season and male vs. female etc. I really hope that you like what you see, and if you want to join us on April 5th, just send me a message.

Cheers,

Sale-a-bration cards....

Here are the cards that we were making at my Open House yesterday. Thank you everyone who came, and I will post the Door Prize winners either later today, or tomorrow. The first card was made using a "Top Note" cut out in Designer Paper. I then cut the note in half so that the stripped half could show too. Some of the Certainly Celery ribbon was tied on the top and the "A Little Something for you" stamp from the "Yummy" set was used. All of this was mounted on Close to Cocoa paper. The second card uses both the "Botantical Blooms" and "Congratulations" set. The card base is Rose Red. The flowers and sentiment were stamped on Whisper White using Basic Black for the outline, Rose red, So saffron and Certainly Celery to stamp the insides. This piece was then mounted on a piece of the so saffron FREE Sale-a-bration paper.

Cheers,




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