Why is Blogger not publishing my Scheduled Posts??? Help??? Also Link for The 12 Days of Christmas Character Cafe Blog Hop with MEGA HUGE Prizes to stay on Top for a couple of weeks!!!

Scroll Down for All New Posts This post on top for two weeks.

I am so frustrated my last 4 Scheduled Posts blogger has not posted then when I have time to get on line and check it is not up????  What is going on with that?????  I don't always have time to get to my computer and make sure a post is up so this is causing major problems and frustrations for me!!!!  Does anyone have any insight????

I schedule the post for like today I had a post scheduled for 12/8/09 at 7am and at 9am when I got home from taking Willow to preschool my post was not up, so I go into edit post and it says post scheduled for 12/8/09 at 7am (two hours before) I don't get it does anyone have any ideas to help me???

So frustrated!!! 

But Happy Tuesday everyone, and Don't forget to paly in The Character Cafe Blog Hop to win your very own COPIC Air Brush System and 11 other prizes too!!!!  Wooo  Hoooo!!!!

Remember this card, I posted it on Friday 12/4/09 for The Character Cafe 12 Hops of Christmas New Release Blog Hop????  Well we are still doing the 12 Hops of Christmas with 12 prizes the biggest being a Copic Air Brush System the contest still goes for a couple of weeks, so I wanted to leave a link at top so you can still get to my blog hop post and play along if you want to.  To find out more of how to win the awesome Prizes from The Character Cafe go to this Blog Hop Post here!!!!

Two DT Challenges in one Whimsical Wednesday a Wizards of Waveryly Place Inspiration Challege "The Diedrich Dare" DT, and Make a Winter Themed Card with a Butterfly, Fairy, or Angel on it, with the Flutterby Wednesday Challenge DT Sample.

A Madelynn Card for Madelynn.

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!!!!

Today I combined my Diedrich Dare post Which was an inspiration Challenge with my Flutter By Wednesday Challenge which was to create a Winter Themed Card.

Madelynn gave us this great Wizards of Waverly place inspiration you can see below.

I know all of my team mates have taken time to make some really cool inspiration piecs this week so check them all out when you time.  We are welcoming two new Dare Devils this week so a big huge Welcome to Jacquie N. and Valerie Wooo hoooo glad to have you both on the Dare Devil Team!!!!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Darla Wilson ...Debbie Lee (not participating this week) ... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie... Sandra McLean...Randi Whall...and...Kris...and New Team Mates Jacquie Nordane and Valerie Urtaga

To play along with Flutterby Wednesday make sure to make a creation with a Butterfly, Fairy, or an Angel and link it up to our Flutter By Creators Blog (Danni) we are getting ready to launch our very own Flutterby Challenge Blog at the beggining of the year so that is very very Exciting News!!!! Then you will link right up to the Challenge Blog Yea!!!!!!!

Be sure to head on out and check out my Lovely Team Mates Fluttering Creations when you get done here today!!!!!!

   

The FlutterBy Wednesday Design Team:

Danni (Our Flutter By Wednesday Creator)

Ann...Cassie...Chris...Christine...Harriet...Heather (me)...Jodi...Kristie...Lelia...Michelle...Nancy...Nicola...Stef...Pam...Karen...Kris...Taylor...Kimberly

So below is the Inspiration that sweet 9 year old Madelynn gave us to make a creation with!!!  I took it literally and used all the colors in the plate, Pumpkin Pie, Pixie Pink, Perfect Plum Old Olive, and Brocade Blue, and Whisper White in SU! Card Stocks I also like the swirls on the plate so you can see below the colors I made my swirls on the inspiration piece.

Here is my Creation!!!!!

I used my Scallop Circle Nestie and cut it out 3 times for the Pink, Green, and White layers and I traced it on The Puple, Blue, and Green layers then cut it out.  I used my SU! CB folder and ebossed the swirls on the white with that then I took Ink pads in these colors and distressed the swirls too!!!!

I had to use this image because Marie at The Greeting Farm made this Madelynn stamp after Jess's Daughter Madelynn and she is the one that issued us this inspiration and so this is a Madelynn card for Madelynn!!!!

I colored her in these copics:

Coat:V00, V12, V04, V17, G24, G85, G94

Shoes: C3, C5, C7, B100

Scarf: Y00, Y61, Y65, Y68

Socks: B02

Hat: B21, B24, B26, B02

Flower: RV00, RV02, RV06

Hair: E33, E35, E29

Skin: R00, E00, E95, RV21

Here is a side view I popped some of the Scalloped circle layers and not others.  Madelynn is popped up twice and the Butterfly is punched MS and then cut down to size with scisors.

Well off to bed lots to do tomorrow we got about 4 inces today but it does not look like we are canceling school tomorrow which is a bummer to me I wish I did not have to drive Willow across town and back again!!!

Have a Very Stampendous Wednesday!!!

Heather

The Rusty Pickle is sponsoring Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge - Puppy Love - My DT Sample

Puppy Love and a Sketch

Happy Tuesday Friends, Family, and Stampers!!!!

Today is a fun day because our Rusty Pickle Store is Sponsoring The Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge. Most of the girls on The Rusty Pickle DT decided it would be fun to participate in the Challenge with the Tuesday Morning Sketch DT.

So Melissa the creator of The Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge sent us all the sketch so we could participate today. This sketch was a fun sketch and the DT creations I have seen so far are awesome!!!!

So Here is a list of The Rusty Pickle DT, and The Tuesday Morning Sketch Team as well. If you have some time head on over to the Challenge Blog and see what all the DT for the Sketch Challenge came up with today!!!! Also head on out to the Rusty Girls and let them know how wonderful their creations all are today I loved seeing them as they started posting their sketch challenge DT samples!!!!

Michelle - Rusty Pickle Owner and Illustrator

The Rusty Pickle Store and Blog

Design Team

Heather DT Coordinator - (That's me)

Jenn

Tracy

Rachel

Billie

Kim

Nancy

Ali

and

Jacquie  - (Not participating in the Sketch Challenge today)

Tuesday Morning Sketches DT:

Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge Blog:

Theresa

Tammy

Joni

Melissa (Challenge Creator)

Chupa (Dec. Guest)

So Here is the Cool Sketch for this week over at the Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge Blog.

I took the Sketch and flipped it so the big half circle is on the bottom and the Sentiment I moved to the other end of the card.

  For this card I got out SU! Card Stock in Old Olive and I used 3 different patterned papers from Die Cuts With a View Paper Pack.  I printed and colored my image up on NeeNah Card Stock. 

I got out some green Dew Drops to add as the round things on the half circle, on the sketch.  I also cut my shapes for the Image matte and the sentiment out with Labels 5 Nestibilities.

Above is the Cute Image and one of my favorites from The Rusty Pickle Digital Images!!!!

I colored up the image with these colors of Copics:

E30, E31, E33, E35, E29

     

Here is the Side View of my card so you can see the dimension on the card.  I popped up the half Circle part of the sketch using just the rubber layer of stamps, and the Nestie layer is double popped up with the foam and rubber layer, and the Puppies are popped up another two thicknesses using Foam and Stampin Dimensionals to pop it up.  I hand wrote the sentiment.

Well we are getting snow as we speak and it is our first snow of the winter here.  They say we could get as much as 8 to 10 inches so I am not looking forward to that at all.

So far no school closings here, but there are closings all over the state already as the part of Kansas my Hubby is from is expecting 15 inches and they already had a couple inches of snow on the ground from Sunday!!!!

Well I must go now and  write up a post on the Rusty Pickle Store/Blog about sponsoring this fun Sketch Challenge!!!!

Be back tomorrow for Flutter By Wednesday and Whimsical Wednesday - "The Diedrich Dare" Challenge DT samples and I love one of the cards to pieces Madelynn gave us a very fun challenge for this week!!!!

Have a very Stampendous Tuesday All!!!!!!

Heather

Special Christmas Shoes - A very cool Rusty Pickle Image and Stampation.

Special Swanky Christmas Shoes!!!

Good Morning All!!!!

Happy Monday everyone!  Today I am sharing a card with you that I was particularly proud of when I finished it.  You know lots of times you make a card and think well it's O.K. but once in a while you make a card and even you can think it is wonderful????  Well I just loved this card when it was done it was one of those rare moments!!!

So Today I am sharing with you these great Dressy Shoes Michelle over at The Rusty Pickle Designed.  I just think they are fun to color and make a card look pretty cool to a friend or lady who love shoes especially!!!!

All of my Rusty Pickle Team Mates will be posting creations throughout the week on their blogs so don't forget to stop by and see what Wonderful creations they have for you each day!!! 

I am also very excited that we are starting a New Freebie - Weekly Contest at The Rusty Pickle Store/Blog so stop by and see how to play along!!!!!!  Links are just below.

Michelle - Rusty Pickle Owner and Illustrator

     The Rusty Pickle Store and Blog

Design Team

Heather DT Coordinator - (That's me)

Jenn

Tracy

Rachel

Billie

Kim

Nancy

Ali

and

Jacquie

So here is my Creation for today.  It is a Christmas or Friendship or Even Valentines Day Card lots of Red, White, and Cream in the card with a slight amount of black and gray too.  I used SU! Card Stocks in Whisper White, Real Red, and two DSP's from older retired paper packs both SU!  I also used my Big Shot and my Cuttle bug embossing folder Text and Textile, and my Nestibilities Large Scallop Circle.

The Flowers are Prima and the Ribbon is also SU I adore that peppermint striped Ribbon but it is not only good just at Christmas it is also great for lots of things year round too!!!!

I colored my Image up with these Copics:

R20, R35, R29, and R59

C2, C3, C5, C7, and 100 (Black)

Here is a side view so you can see that Yummy Ribbon better and the dimension on the card too. 

I added SU! Rhinestone brads from my SU! Pretties Kit in the flower centers, and the sticker Rhinestones in the corner are from Hobby Lobby. 

I wanted to do one of those great swirly patterned rhinestone things everyone uses but I do not own any of the pre made swirl pattern ones and I tried to make my own and it was a horrible mess so I took them all off and just added three single ones to the bottom left corner.

 Tomorrow The Rusty Pickle is sponsoring the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge and most of The Rusty Pickle DT girls are making creations for the Sketch too.

So come back tomorrow for a real eye candy treat!!!!

Have a very very Stampendous Monday All!!!!

Heather

I'm So Excited a new Weekly Freebie Contest over at The Rusty Pickle Store/Blog!!!!

I posted this at The Rusty Pickle Store/Blog Today too.

 Hi Stampers!!!!!

We are starting somthing new here at The Rusty Pickle Blog/Store and we hope you will enjoy it!!!!  Every Couple of days we will be posting some of the DT Members Creations and the images they used to make each creation.

One special DT Creation will be secretly chosen by us at the beggining of the week as the Freebie Project!

How do you win the Free Image???

 Well above is a picture of the Rusty Pickle Freebie Button.  If have this button posted in your side bar with the title Win Rusty Pickle Images Weekly and, you have happened to comment on that post with the surprise image one random commenter will be chosen each week to WIN one of the images of your choice featured in the post that had the Surprise Creation featured in it!!!!!  Wooo Hooo how awesome is that???

So now onto the DT Creations for Today.  Today we will be featuring DT Members Jacquie, Tracy, Ali, and Nancy.

First up is a wonderful New Technique Tracy Happened upon this week printing Digi's on Foil!!!!  Yes she wanted to get a material that was flexible for her project and she happened upon this fun new Technique.  I will let her words explain just what she did here.

I knew I wanted to make a topper for this lovely ornament but my silver card stock was too thick...it would not shape the way I wanted. Soooo....I fed a piece of tin foil through my printer hoping the ink would stick to and it did!!! I knew the ink would stay wet on this surface so I just poured on some embossing powder and heated it up. Lovely texture...

Isn't this pretty? I am just loving this. It opens up a whole new world of printing digis...on who would have "thunk" it....tin foil!!! Trial and error but it worked.

I adore this creation Tracy WAY TO GO!!!!!!  Below is the Cool image Tracy used to Create this Wonderful Ornament Topper.  It is actually a FREE Digi Download right now!!!!  Thanks Michelle!!!!

Now Jacquie has made this lovely Creation using one of the images from our New Release Baby Set that premiered on Thanksgiving Week.

I love all the bright cheery colors that Jacquie used and I love how she used the same sentiment on all her creations for this release.

Here is the image that Jacquie used for her wonderful happy Creation.  You can purchse this Digi alone or with the entire Baby Image Release Here:

Now onto Ali's WONDERFUL Winter Wonderland creation mostly in White I love it to pieces so so creative and pretty!!!!! 

I really love how she took that embossed half circle and put the image on it.   I think it reminds me of a Snow Globe the way she did it!!!!!  You can purchase this sweet Digi Here:

Lastly We have Nancy's Perfect Christmas Creation using this wonderful Cardinal Image that Michelle designed recently.  I just adore all the finishing touches that Nancy added that wonderful holly punch and the colors and the sponging on the edges just Perfect!!!!

Here is the image Nancy used to create this wonderful Christmas Card above.  You can purchase this Digi Here:

Last but not least for today is one more Elegant and AMAZING creation by talented Tracy.

All the rich Gold's and the patterns and sparkle, Tracy Added makes this card nothing other than STUNNING!!!!

Se those pearls at the bottom and then Notice how she used two different scalloped circles on gorgeous sparkly papers to matte the sentiment???  Simply gorgeous!!!!

Here is the lovely image that Tracy turned around and printed twice to make that great little decoration below her sentiment!!!  You can purchase this Digi here:

 

Well that is all for today I will be back on Wednesday with More wonderful Creations by our Talented DT girls!!!!

 

If you have time to stop by and give the girls some encouragement for all of their hard work on these creations I am sure they would be delighted to see you stop by!!!!

 

Heather 

Etsy Inspired Challenge DT Post - A Punched Pendant Christmas Card

Brilliant Blue and Gold Pendants

are Sweet Too!!!!

Happy Saturday My Friends, Family, and Stampers!!!!

Today we have a great Etsy Shop for your inspiration!!!  The Shop is called Too Stinkin Sweet and they have some really great items in the shop.  Mosty Soaps and bath products but they are all so cute I want to just order them all!!!!

So as you know Saturdays are Etsy Inspired Challenge Days on my blog and all you have to do to play along in this fun challenge is to go to this weeks store choose some inspiration pieces to make a project off of make your project and then post a link to your project on The Etsy Inspired Blog so we can check out your creations and so you can win this weeks prize!!!!!  You can see the Prize that Too Stinkin Cute is offering this week here

Speaking of which this week is another week sponsored by Unity Stamp company which means the challenge has two prizes this week, and the sponsor prize this week is the Unity Stamp Set Eco Chic.  Have your project linked up to the Blog by next Friday at Noon PST to be entered to win this great Unity Stamp Set!!!!

So when you are done here if you have not already been to visit my team mates make sure to head off and visit them and see what great creations they have made too!!!!

Ashley our Etsy Inspired Creator and Team Leader

De Swanick... Emily Niehaus... Heather Schlatter... Jackie Bowman... Joy Stagg... Kerry Angeles... Kristen Dyer... Lee Murphy... Shannon Bracken... Tiffany Johnson...and Kelly Marie (our December Guest Designer)

Here are some of the Great Items you will find in the Etsy Store for this week Too Stinkin Sweet!!!!!

Here are the particular pieces I choose for my inspiration this week.

I got out SU! Card Stocks in Pacific Point Blue from last years in colors and the Metallic Gold Heavy Shimmery Card Stock SU! sells.  I also used some Shimmery Organza sheer ribbon on my project. 

To make the Medallian/Pendant I cut out a Circle Shape with my Colluzel and then I took a decorative Corner Punch and took the Corner sizer part off and punched all around the circle to create the pretty pendant.

I also took a square of the Metallic Gold Card Stock and embossed it with my CB folder Text and Textile and I die cut the flower with some of my SU! die cuts bottons and bows, and I added a Brilliant Blue Button to the center of the flower.

The Pacific Point Card Stock Square is embossed with my Big Shot and CB embossing foler Swiss Dots and then I took my Metallic Gold Stamp Pad and distressed the edges of the Card Stock with that.  I distressed the small gold square with my Pacific Point Stamp Pad.  The Flower is also embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Well I hope that you enjoy my Project today for this weeks Etsy Inspired Post and I hope you play along with us by going to this weeks shop Too Stinkin Sweet and picking out an inspiration piece, making your own project then linking it up to the Etsy Inspired Blog to win the Prize from Unity and from the Etsy Shop by next week at 12 Noon PST!!!!

Have a very Stampendous Saturday!!!!  The girls and I are heading out about 8am to drive an hour to Salina KS where my Sister in Law BIL and my 3 nephews live so we can go to a Sweedish Tea put on by my BIL and SIL's church the girls are really excited they get to dress in their Christmas Best and enjoy the tea put on by little girls dressed up in traditional Sweedish Costumes.  It should be fun just wish we did not have to leave so early!!!!!

Heather

New Release Blog Hop with The Character Cafe - Lots of Big Big Big Prizes!!!!! (Copic Air Brush System is one of them!!!!) and the Best Images ever!!!! Join us on The Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Hop!!!!

Star Angel Star Angel,

 Won't You be Mine???

Happy Friday Everyone,

Can you tell where I was going with my Title???  Earth Angel, Earth Angel (The song now I can not get it out of my head!!!!

So Today is the Big Day for the December New Releases for The Character Cafe!!!!  We have 12 new images this month and they are all so so so cute I love them all!!!!  I feel so lucky and so blessed to get to Design for this company and so happy I get to play with these wonderful images!!!!

So Here are the Blog Hop Rules for Today:

This month Kendra and Kelly came up with the best Blog Hop idea ever we are doing the 12 days of Christmas so along the hop each of us will be telling you what our prize for the 12 days of Christmas is. 

On the 10th Day of Christmas

 The Character Cafe Gave to me

 10 Bright Buttons...

To win all of the prizes you need to do the following:

For the Grand Prize which is all of the 12 days of Christmas Prizes in one box for you, you need to complete the entire Blog Hop and comment on each DT girls project then if you are not already a follower become a follower of The Character Cafe Blog.

The prizes range from a Copic Air Brush System, to Copic Markers, to Bling, to Brads, to all 12 Free Digi's from the release so you do not want to miss doing this blog hop!!!!!

How to Win Extra entries into the 12 days of Christmas Blog Hop Candy???

If you post on your blog or another forum let us know on the Company Blog and you will recieve an additional 5 entries into the candy for each of your posts.

If you refer someone to the hop and they let us know that you refered them then you will recieve an additional entry for each referal you give us.

If you use the Freebie image you will earn along the hop to make a project and you post it somewhere come let us know and you will recieve another 5 entries into the Blog Hop 12 Days of Christmas Candy!!!! 

How to win this months release images???

Each DT will be giving away the image they designed with for the hop so when you comment on each blog you will be entered to win each of the images in a random drawing we will do later.

If we reach over 50 participants in the Hop we will give someone the first 6 images in the New Release Blog Hop, if we get over 100 participants we will give another person the 2nd 6 images in the New Release Blog hop and the prizes will go up with each 50 participants that we get!!!!!

Now here is a list of all my DT Sisters for The Character Cafe Team:

Owners Kendra and Kelly

Sr. DT

Billie...Heather...Sara

DT Girls

Angela...Annamarie "Lola"...Deanne...Diane...Donna...Piali...Rachel...Sarabeth...Sheri ..."Fink"

Blog Hop Order:

You should have started this hop at The Character Cafe Store, I am the 10th Stop on the Hop so you should have come to me from Kendra's Project, and when you are done with me hop onto Team Mate Sara's Blog, but her project might be up late so Hop onto team mate Fink's Blog if Sara's project is not up yet.  She will be along soon!!!!  The Hop will end at The Character Cafe Blog (where you will want to start following if you have not done it already!!!!! To win the prizes).

So Here is my Project for the Hop. Angel Star is just about the cutest creation ever don't you think???  I love her she is totally adorable!!!

I got out SU Card Stock in Lovely Lilac, Elegant Eggplant, and The Heavy Metallic Silver Shimmery Card Stock SU! sells too.

I used my Cuttle Bug Embossing Folder Stars, and My Nesties Sets Scallop large Rectangle, and the Nesties Shapeabilities Star. I also used my Martha Stewart Boarder Punch the Doily Lace punch.  I added some white sheer organza shimmery ribbon behind the small Star Angels on the Star Nesties.

Here is Star Angel don't you totally love her???

I colored her up using these Copics:

Skin: ROO, E00, E95, RV21

Hair: Y21, Y26, Y28

Dress: V000, V12, V04, V17

Star and Halo: Y02, Y08, Y38

I also painted Angel Wings Shimmerz on all of the Star Angels wings, stars and Halo's too.

I made the small star angels in Black and White, Purple Monochromatic, and Sepia Shades.

Copics:

Black and White: C00, C01, C02, C03, C05, C07, B100

Sepia: E30, E31, E33, E35, E37

Purple Monochromatic: B0000, B000, B00, B01, B02, B04

I was so totally bumed that after I colored up my Big Star Angel and sponged the edges with rub on color and painted the shimmerz on her star, halo, and wings I ran it through my nesties to cut it and it tore the edge so that is my flaw in my card but there was no time to redu her so I had to leave the sad little tear in the Sentiment that comes with Star Angel which Says

When you Wish upon a Star:

Well here is my last side view of Star Angel so you can see the deminsion on the card better.

Well I really hope you play along with us on the hop this month these prizes are amazing amazing amazing!!!!

Have a Wonderful Friday and a Wonderful time along the hop!!!!!

Heather

Whimsical Wednesdays - "The Diedrich Dare" DT Post and Flutter By Wednesdays DT Post Cards all in one posty post for you today!!!! Texture, and Frogs, and Butterfly's Oh My!!!!!!

Some Crazy New Stamps with a

Fluttering Sketch too!!!!

Good Wednesday Morning All!!!!!

Happy Day to you how is everyone today???  I think today is the day we will start to get back in the swing of things after the big Thanksgiving Trip and visiting and coming home.  Willow stayed home from Pre-K yesterday and stayed in bed most of the day with a Tummy Ache but today she seems all better so that is a good thing!!!!!

So today I have two cards to share with you one for Flutter By Wednesday and one for Whimsical Wednesday - "The Diedrich Dare"  Flutterby today was an open challenge so we could create anything we wanted to, and Nicky drew the sketch for Whimsical this week.

To play along with Flutterby Wednesday make sure to make a creation with a Butterfly, Fairy, or an Angel and link it up to our Flutter By Creators Blog (Danni) we are getting ready to launch our very own Flutterby Challenge Blog at the beggining of the year so that is very very Exciting News!!!!  Then you will link right up to the Challenge Blog Yea!!!!!!! 

Today we also have a Guest Designer Mercy who is a good pal of one of my friends so I get to hear about her amazing talent all the time!!!!!  Mercy has her own Sketch Challenge and DT so be sure to check her out!!!!!  This week we are also saying good bye to team mate Taylor and we will miss her!!!!  We are also welcoming a New Team Mate too!!!!  Welcome to our fun team Kimberly!!!!!

Be sure to head on out and check out my Lovely Team Mates Fluttering Creations when you get done here today!!!!!!

The FlutterBy Wednesday Design Team:

Danni (Our Flutter By Wednesday Creator)

Ann...Cassie...Chris...Christine...Harriet...Heather (me)...Jodi...Kristie...Lelia...Michelle...Nancy...Nicola...Stef...Pam...Karen...Kris...Taylor...Kimberly

So here is my Flutterby Card for the week.

I got out SU! Card Stocks in Only orange and Bashful Blue and the orange layers are CB embossed with Swiss Dots, and Seeing Spots embossing folders.  The nesties cut outs are labels #1 and the Flutter By's are punched with a Martha Stewart Punch.

I actually got this stamp and 3 others for Piper for Christmas because she loves to stamp too and they had a little girl stamp named Piper I showed it to her on the Internet and so I got all 4 of these and as far as she knows they are all Piper stamps!!!!  She will love these crazy looking Crafting Kimmie Stamps!!!!!

I colored up my image with these Copics:

Skin:  R00, E00, E95, RV21

Dress: YR00, YR02, YR09, YR68, 0

B21, B24, B18

Dolls:  RV00, RV02, RV06, YG00, YG03, YG09, E50, E51, RV00

Hair:  Y21, Y26, Y28

Here is the side view so you can see all the dimension.

Now onto the next task of the day.  My Whimsical Wednesday card!!!!!  I know my sweet Mega talented team mates also have lots to show you today so stop by and visit them for some wonderful Eye Candy!!!!  We have said Good Bye to Team Mate Lisa Slusser and today we are adding a new Team Mate Kris to our team so I get to be on two teams with Kris now Flutter By and Whimsical!!!!!  Welcome Kris!!!!!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Darla Wilson ...Debbie Lee (not participating this week) ... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie... Sandra McLean...Randi Whall...and...Kris

Now here is Nicky's ultra cool sketch for this week we hope you play along and link your creation up on the Diedrich Dare Blog just make a project using the sketch and link it up to play along this week we have had some amazing participants the last few weeks!!!!

So here is my Project for today (Yep I used one of Piper's stamps again, but it is O.K. they clean so pretty she will never know I could not resist using a couple of them before I wrapped them!!!!).

I had to use this image because 7 year old Nicky loves loves loves Frogs and Green so this ones for you Nick!!!!!  I used SU Card Stocks in Pixie Pink, Pink Passion, Gable Green, and Green Galore on this card.

I colored my image up in these Copics:

Skin: ROO, E00, E95, RV21

Dress and Frog:  RV00, RV02, RV06, YG00, YG03, YG09

Hair:  E30, E35, E29

I used my Nesties label 4 and to cut the Shapes, CB embossing folder Seeing Spots again to add the texture.

I added some bright round and star shaped buttons where Nicky wanted to make sure we knew the sketch had buttons (So Cute Nicky LOL) and I added some sheer shimmery Organza Ribbon to the top and bottom of the card for that part of the sketch and of course I had to use more frogs to finsh off the sketch at the top!!!!  Oh I also distressed the edges of the darker Pink Card stock with my kitchen knife too!!!  LOL!!!!

Well Tucker has been playing oh so sweetly while I have typed up the rest of this post I did not already have saved from when I started it yesterday so I must go play and read books now!!!!  Such a fun job being a Mom!!!!  I love spending time with them all!!!!

Have a very very Stampendous Fluttering Sketchy Wednesday my friends!!!!!

Heather

Two Huge Copic Give Aways over at the Rusty Pickle!!!!! Set of 12 and Set of 72!!!!

 The Wonderful Owner of The Rusty Pickle Digital Delights Shop is hosting not 1 but two Copic Marker give aways on her Rusty Pickle Store/Blog

The first set is a set of 12 Copic Markers and all you have to do is leave a comment in the comment section of that post.  For an extra entry make a card or project and post it and a bit about the give away on your Blog!!!!  This entry ends on Michelle's Birthday December 8th.

The Second Set is a WHOLE Set of 72 Copic Markers!!!!!  Yep that right!!!!  To be entered to win you get one entry for every $10 in Rusty Pickle images you purchase and if you participate in the first part then post a post about it on your blog then you will recieve an additional entry into the drawing!!!!!!  Yea!!!!!  This contest ends on December 24th at 11pm eastern.

So what are you waiting for head on over to The Rusty Pickle and get yourself entered to win these wonderful Copic Markers I could not live without them!!!!

Heather

What do you mean it's Saturday??? My Etsy Inspired DT post a few hours late!!!! And I thought I was doing good to put all the pictures and links into a Draft on Wed. before we left!!!!

Dream Weavers with the Barefoot Weaver

Hello Friends, and Stampers!!!

Happy Saturday Morning I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying time with family and friends!!!

We are in Lebanon Kansas population 300 which is close to Smith Center Kansas if anyone has heard of that.  Here I thought I had done so good getting all my Etsy Info in my post, had the card done the pictures inserted into a post and the links and everything all done on Wednesday before we left then we got here and I lost track of dates and for some reason I had it in my head that today was Friday when someone told me it was Saturday I was like no it's Friday and then I realized I had never gotten on the computer and changed my posts from Drafts to Scheduled yesterday so, I'm sorry it is up late!!!!

I wanted to share with you today a wonderful shop called Barefoot Weaver they have some gorgeous things as you can see below in my pictures from the shop!!!  The prize they are giving away this week is this adorable flower pin go check it out!!!!

So if you want to play along this week just head out to the Etsy Inspired Blog or go from the links on my blog and go to the shop pick out a couple of inspiration pieces and make a creation and link it up in the Etsy Inspired Blog by next Friday at Noon PST to be eligible to win the prizes from this week.

We also have an addtional sponcer this week 7 Kids College Fund store.  They are giving away as prizes this week to the Etsy Inspired Winner these cool items!!!!!  High Hopes Tobogan Joyride, and the Green Apple Memory Box Note Cards.

Etsy Inspired Design Team:

De Swanick... Emily Niehaus... Heather Schlatter... Jackie Bowman... Joy Stagg... Kerry Angeles... Kristen Dyer... Lee Murphy... Shannon Bracken... Tiffany Johnson...

Here are the inspiration Pieces I picked out for this weeks project.

And here is my project for the week.

I used some card stock from a paper pack I bought at Hobby Lobby called the Butterfly Pack, and the flowers are Prima, and the image is from The Greeting Farm Rain, Snow, Shine, Miss Anya Stamp set.  SU Card Stock in Taken with teal.  Image Stamped on NeeNah heavyweight Card Stock with Momento Ink.  Scalloped Circle cut using the Nesties large Scallop circle dies, and my SU! Big Shot.

Here is Miss Anya colored up in these copics:

Skin: R00, E00, E95, RV21

Shirt and Shoes R81, R85, R87

Skirt: G20, G21, G24

Hair: E43, E71, E77

I also cut butterfly's from the patterned paper and added them to the inside of the card they are popped up using Stampin Dimensionals from SU!

Well I guess I better go lots going on at the Farm today my Hubby and His younger brother took off with two of the kids (we have 9 kids 8 of which are 5 and under here at the farm so lots of cousins to play with!!!!) to go to the State Football Game for the team they both played on in High School.  Their High School Team currently holds the record out of every High School in America of the longest winning streak in America right now they have won 79 Games in a row and if they win today they will have their 6th Consecutive State Championship Trophy so the boys headed out to the game about two hours away.  Us moms are going to take the rest of the 9 kids with us and go to the Tree Fest in town in a couple of hours.

Have a wonderful day!!!!  And don't forget to play along with Etsy Inspired this week!!!!

Heather