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Then the Stampin’ Up! Survey panel might be the thing for you. Here is more innformation. I received this as an email from Stampin’ Up!

Stampin’ Up! is looking for 400 stampers and crafters who are willing to participate in a market research panel discussing stamping and crafts. In exchange for their participation, Stampin’ Up! will send panelists a free goodie box of stamping and/or crafting products every three months .

If your readers would be interested in applying to be on this panel, they can apply at www.stampinup.com/survey or at the following link:

 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ky1ak_2bMXt2GeHqNJ_2b1Derg_3d_3d

More information for your readers:
• Stampin’ Up! uses feedback for research only and does not share answers or personal information with anyone else.
• Stampin’ Up! will not contact you and ask you to purchase anything, or attempt to recruit you to be a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator.
• Panel members can expect to participate in the panel for at least six months. The panel is occasionally refreshed to gain new insights as well as allow others the same opportunity.
• There is no cost for to participate in the panel.
• Your only duty as a panel member is to answer surveys. Surveys typically take between five and ten minutes to complete.
• The frequency of surveys can vary depending on the research needs of Stampin Up! Panel members will receive no more than one survey a week, but typically should expect to receive one or two surveys a month.
• You can quit the panel at any time.
• You will be selected to join and notified via email if your background matches Stampin’ Up!’s research needs.
• You must live in the United States or Canada to be on the panel.
• You must complete at least 80% of the surveys sent to you to receive a goodie box.
• Stampin’ Up! demonstrators are not eligible to be on the panel.
More detailed information about the panels can be found at www.stampinup.com/survey. 
 

Later added:
I forwarded Stampin’ Up! Sue’s comment. I hope they get it fixed soon so that the information of the last entry doesn’t stay. That sounds like a major glitch.

Even later added:
I heard back from Stampin’ Up! They gave me a new link. I replaced the old one with it in the post above. This link should work properly now.

It felt good to stamp after my cleaning chores were done yesterday.  I loved the layout of the print that is today’s inspiration piece and used it as my sketch. I based my color choice loosely on the image as well.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate chip Cardstock folded in half.

I found that when using the a color block layout with designer paper, it’s easiest if you start with a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of cardstock and tape onto that. That’s what I did here. Color really won’t matter, since you will cover the entire piece up.

The Bella Rose Designer Paper panel in the center measures 2 1/2″ x 4″ and is taped to a 2 3/4″ x 4 1/8″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock.

I inked up the berry stamp from Kindred Spirits in Riding Hood Red ink and added Chocolate Chip on each stem with my marker, before stamping the image on to the designer paper panel. Next the edges of the designer paper were paper pierced along with the edges, that didn’t have berries stamped over them.

My thin Kiwi Kiss borders measure 1/8″ in width. The small strips on top and bottom are 5/8″ wide. The Baja Breeze paper is from the Autumn Vine Designer Paper pack in the Holiday Mini catalog, the Polka dotted paper is from the Bella Rose Designer Paper. Both pieces on top, as well as the short one on the bottom are 2 1/8″ long, the polka dotted one on the bottom measures 3 3/8″.

I punched a ribbon slot in the bottom Kiwi strip, right next to where my main image ended and tied Kiwi Satin ribbon around the card vertically. Over it I layered a Chocolate Chip Designer Label Punchout, followed by 1″ circle with Autumn Vine Designer Paper. The words from the sentiment were inked up seperately in Chocolate Chip ink, stamped over each other on Whisper White cardstock and punched out with the small oval punch to finish off my sentiment layers.

The main image looked a little to plain, so I covered all the berries first in Crystal Effect, then with Dazzling Diamond glitter.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with for this inspiration challenge! Have a great day! Hugs and smiles

Use the colors or the pattern from this canvas by Elise Remender….anything that will inspire you to create your card.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Check out the cards made by the Inspiration Challenge Team:

Charmaine Ikach

Danielle Lounds

Dawn McVey

Jennifer Buck

Silke Ledlow

Susan Roberts

If you upload your image to your splitcoast gallery, don’t forget to add BIC25 in the keyword section. That way your card will appear in this search: SCS Submissions

Random.org picked #82.

That is Genelle Collins with this beautiful card!

Thank you all for playing! I am so excited we had over 100 entries this week. I think I will raffle something away with the next challenge to keep that up.

I haven’t checked all the entries yet, but the ones  I have seen look incredible!

I am sorry I didn’t post all weekend. Friday I chilled, Saturday I went shopping with Reba and layed out and read a book. Sunday I worked on SCS stuff all day. I just finished my cleaning/baking/laundry chores and will stamp this afternoon.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

Charmaine is soooo sweet.

She sent me this adorable card over the summer.

Thanks girlfriend! Hugs and smiles

Check out this gorgeous card from Antje!

I check out her blog all the time. If you haven’t done so, you should take a look too.

Hugs and smiles

I really like the look of today’s sketch.

I had a hard time deciding if I wanted to go with cute or elegant.

Since I just recently got Flowers for all Season, cute won out.

Big surprise, my card base is a piece of Chocolate chip cardstock. This time it measures 4 1/4″ x 11″ and is folded in half.

For the second layer, I taped a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Mustard Autumn Vine Designer paper on the same size Mustard cardstock. I paper pierced the edges.

The Chocolate Chip strips measure 1 1/4″ x 3 3/4″, the Bella Rose Designer paper strips are 1/8″ smaller. Again, I paper pierced the edges. On the right side of the right strip, I added a Shimmery White strip that was punched with the scallop edge punch.

I stamped the sunflower image from Flowers for all Season in Brown Palette ink on Shimmery White and punched it out with the 1 3/4″ circle punch. The image was colored with Aqua Painter and More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze (shading), Garden Green and Kiwi Kiss. I adhered it on Chocolate Chip cardstock and cut around it to create my second layer. Next I added a ribbon slot and paper pierced around the edges.

The sentiment is from Smarty Pants. I stamped it with Chocolate Chip on the left hand top on the left hand strip. Next I adhered the image layers with dimensionals on the bottom right and tied Riding Hood Red ribbon through the ribbon slot. Last I taped the More Mustard layer to the card base with dimensionals.

Charmaine, I was thinking about you the whole time I worked on this card. Whenever I see a ladybug, I think of her!

Have a great day! Hugs and smiles

To participate in the challenge and be entered in the  raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

 If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC59 (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 59) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

Post a link to your card to this blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.

I will determine the winner  with Random.org on Monday at 11:00 a.m. CST

To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of

Cambria Turnbow

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer

Laurie Schmidlin 

Lori Craig

MaryJo Albright

Sharon Harnist

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions

Angie Tieman rocks!

She sent me this gorgeous, sparkly pocket card this summer.

Thank you, Angie!

I am sorry I didn’t get the card front done earlier yesterday. After I got my teeth cleaned all sparkly white and got a gold star from my dentist, I had some shopping to do. After that the usual housework/SCS work got hold of me. I finished the card front in the evening and decided to post it this morning.
When I began the card, I used this weeks Color Challenge on SCS Kiwi Kiss, Very Vanilla and Baja Breeze) as my starting point. For the flowers inside, I wanted some more POP and added Tangerine Tango and Riding Hood Red. I figured I could just use the challenge colors (+Chocolate, always plus chocolate).

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Kiwi Cardstock folded in half.

Next is a 4″ x 5 1/2″ layer of Chocolate Chip, followed by two pieces of Urban Garden Designer paper. The smaller one measuring 2″ x 3 3/4″. Underneath that layer is a Scallop Edge punched piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. I paper pierced the edges of the chocolate/designer paper combo and set it aside.

For the main image I stamped the branch from Eastern Bloom in Chocolate Chip on a 1 7/8″ x 3 7/8″ piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.  It was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Kiwi Kiss cardstock and the edges were paper pierced.

Next I punched eight Chocolate Chip squares with my scallop square punch and created the scallop rectangle layer. I taped the stamped layers on top. The Baja breeze flowers were punched out with the Trio Flower punch, sponged at the edges with Baja Breeze and sponge daubers, layered with a 1/4″ circle punch and topped with silver brads (that go through all the way to the chocolate scallop layer).

The layers were adhered with dimensionals to the chocolate/designer paper layer. 5/8″ wide Chocolate grosgrain ribbon was tied around the left hand side of all layers. Then those were attached to the card base with dimensionals.

I stamped the favorite definition from Define your Life in Kiwi Kiss on Very Vanilla Cardstock. Over it, I stamped Friend from Fundamental Phrases. I had seen this combo in the current catalog and LOVED that idea. The sentiment combo was punched out with the wide oval punch, adhered to Chocolate Chip cardstock and hand cut around it to create the chocolate layer. Another Baja Flower was adhered to the bottom right and a row was paper pierced underneath the definition. The sentiment layers were attached with dimensionals.

Let me know if you need a detailed description of yesterday’s post. Otherwise I just leave it. Have a wonderful day!
Hugs and smiles