http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com Happiness: Good Friends, family, summer at the beach, creating with rubber stamps Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:27:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's Holiday Blitz tutorial is for a double ball ornament. It was written by Carol Dunstan. It's an easy, fast and fun project that I plan on repeating with Rebecca. I think she will enjoy making some of these ornaments. That hatpin, pearl and glass bead are all from Stampin' Up!'s ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/06/holiday-blitz-on-scs-double-ball-ornament/ Sorry my sample for the challenge is a bit late. I didn't get work on it until 8:30 a.m. (EST) in the morning and I am not the fastest stamper. I did know I wanted to use My Mind's Eye "The Merry Days of Christmas" Paper to tie this card ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/06/layered-christmas-tree/ Here is the sketch for this weekend: To participate in the challenge, 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 WSC105 (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 105) in the keyword section. That way we ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/06/weekend-sketch-challenge-105/ I love Gina K's Holiday Cheer set. So when I needed to come up with a variation picture for the Luminaria tutorial, I grabbed that set. The Riding Hood cardstock base was stamped with the snowflakes from the set in Cranberry ink from Adirondack and sponged with the same color. I ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/05/luminaria-gina-k-style/ Today's tutorial is for a simple Luminaria. They can be created lots of different ways, but I thought I start showing an easy one, all out of one piece of cardstock. The images and the background were printed out with the new Flower Soft CD-Rom. It contains some super cute images ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/04/tutorial-and-product-review-on-scs-flower-soft-cd-rom/ Thank you all for your kind words. I really appreciate it! Random.org picked #127. That should be Rachel Hope! Rachel, email me your address and I will get the dies out right away. They are already packed up, ready to go. Have a wonderful day! Don't forget to check out the Holiday ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/03/holiday-cheer-goes-to-rachel-hope/ Our annually Tutorial Holiday Blitz week is going on at SCS right now. I already missed alerting you about the first two wonderful tutorials, a scrapbook wallet tutorial written by Makeesha Byl and a Matchbook Candy holder by Theresa Momber. I am sorry about that. I was crazy busy packing ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/03/holiday-blitz-on-scs-snowglobe-card/ Last week I crossed another 100,000 in blog visits. My counter got messed up sometime last month or so. It should be showing 3,200,000, but it doesn't really matter! Thank you so much for always visiting my blog and leaving comments. I really appreciate it! This time I will raffle away ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/02/candy-time/ I am sure you have noticed already that I am not using much Stampin' Up! products anymore. I decided not to sign the new IDA and today is the first day that I am officially not a demonstrator anymore. I didn't think I would ever quit being a demonstrator, but ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/01/big-changes/ Yesterday was the birthday of an acquaintance of mine. She is the Mom of Lucas and Rebecca's friends and I see her almost every day. I drive the kids to school, she picks them up. So when her daughter told me in the morning that it was her Mom's birthday ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween-3/