http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com Happiness: Good Friends, family, summer at the beach, creating with rubber stamps Fri, 16 May 2008 14:03:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I made this sample for today's sketch challenge as well as this weeks Color Challenge on SCS. Now looking at the sketch again, I see that I didn't follow my own sketch! Oopsie!!! The card base is a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of Basic Black cardstock. The next layers were ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/16/soft-friend/ Back in January I saw a card by Corinne Somerville and really liked the layout. So here it is as our sketch challenge for this weekend:   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 ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/16/weekend-sketch-challenge-48/ Here is my last Grid technique sample. I made this card to show off a grid on a rectangle, a non stamped grid as well as a grid with a border around it. The card base is a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of Basic Black cardstock, layered with a 4" ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/15/griddy-love/ Today's tutorial on SCS is the reason yesterday's card looked the way it did. It's about the Grid technique. I made three samples for this technique, all a bit different. I will show two today, one tomorrow. This is the card I made for the main tutorial. The card base is a 5" ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/14/tutorial-on-scs-grid-technique/ I knew I wanted to incorporate the quilted lines of the bed cover, the straight lines of the layout and of course the very elegant looking color combo from today's inspiration piece. Here is what I came up with: I picked Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky and Whisper White as my colors. Bordering ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/13/baroque-holiday-thanks/   This weeks inspiration is muted colored bed linen. I think I found it at  Restauration Hardware, but I am not sure. Use the colors or the pattern….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 ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/13/be-inspired-challenge-13/ Random.org picked #3. I was excited. It has never before picked a low number. Cool beans. The winner is Amy, aka. thisissomuchfun with this fun card. Thank you to everyone who participated in the challenge. Your cards were amazing! Personal Note: I didn't get to stamp yesterday and have nothing new to share with ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/12/wsc47-winner-amy/ I made a 8 1/2" x 11" scrapbook page this weekend so I could use the Weekend sketch as a layout. The page base is a sheet of Chocolate Chip cardstock. Layered over it are a 4 1/2" x 10 1/2" piece of Brocade Background Designer paper and a 3 1/2" ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/11/scrapbook-sunday-29/ This week's color challenge was not that easy for me, it included LOVELY LILAC. I hadn't done a challenge in so long, I thought I would just skip another. I don't know what changed my mind. I just did it (like ripping of a bandaid). I love the Pretty Petals background ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/10/lilac-blooms/ What stamp set do you use when you can't decide on one? One of your favorites of course. After thinking a long time about what to put in the oval of today's sketch challenge, I decided on my old faithful bird from Always. The card base is a 5 1/2" x ... http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/05/09/faithful-bird/