Final Whimsical Wednesday with the Diedrich Daredevils..

It is with sadness that I share that this will be our last Whimsical Wednesday post. With Jess's children getting busy with new pursuits Jess has made the hard decision to end the challenge blog. I have absolutely loved being part of this team and working with the sweet sketches her children have provided. As well, I have made some incredible cyber friendships that I will always appreciate. Thanks ladies for including me on this fun journey.

For our last challenge you again have a whole month to participate. There is also a huge prize to be won! Boy do I wish I could enter to win hee hee. The challenge is to use the inspiration photo of the yummy cupcake by therecipegirl.com to help you make your card. I actually made two cards to help ease my sadness at the end of this group. I used the colours red, white and blue (as well as a few others) and chose papers that had these colour elements. I used some new Tim Holtz stamps I picked up today at scrappingreatdeals.com- they hadn't even been priced or put online yet lolz! The paper is also from Webster's pages Vellum package that I also picked up there. I adore Webster's pages and can't stop buying it! Speaking of which my friend Sheila from SGD's is donating 3 new High Hopes unmounted stamps for the July prize!!! I love my sweet friend Sheila- thanks so much for helping us do a huge send off!

For the last time I invite you to hop on over to the challenge blog to get started on the challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations. I have also included the links below. Good luck to those who enter and Happy Stamping to everyone!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

Whimsical Wednesday huge surprise!

Hey Everyone!

I am in shock June is  here already. Where did May go, seriously! For today's Whimsical Wednesday challenge I took the flowers out of the challenge photo and the quote for inspiration. When you read the quote on the challenge image (below) it's about appreciating life which is a great wisdom I can see passed down from our Elders. I had this card made awhile back and have been saving posting it to my blog till now. I chose paper with an explosion of colour and an image of sweetness and wisdom to inspire me. Hope you like it.

 I also want to share that with summer being so busy for us with family, vacations and work the DIEDRICH DARE will be taking a bit of a break....

HOWEVER....

We are issuing a challenge TODAY AND the 1st week of July to keep you busy...and just to keep you intrigued? We have one HECK of a PRIZE!

Today's Challenge is a WONDERFUL inspiration piece that my sweet friend Sara sent to us and we also used it for our ATU challenge last Sunday. 

Now...here's the deal. You have ALL MONTH to play along. There are NO restrictions on number of entries, etc. You just have to link it up here and we have to be able to see the inspiration piece somewhere on your card or project.Entries will be accepted until JUNE 30th, 2010 at 8pm CST.

The catch? Well, ok, it's NOT a catch..it's more like LOOT....TONS OF IT! CHECK THIS OUT:

ONE lucky winner will receive:

• TWO Kraftin' Kimmie stamps of Choice, sponsored by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!
• This HUGE prize from Tamiko's:

1. Spellbinders Frameabilities Scalloped Edge Frame
2. 1/4" Scorepal tape
3. Sticky thumb adhesive tape
4. Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
5. Robin's nest tear drops
6. Robin's nest dew drop
7. Robin's nest mini dew drops
8. 2-3 bags of Lion coffee (a little something from Hawaii)

• A FREE Digital Image sponsored by Daredevil herself, Sara Henton
• TWO Rubber Stamps from a newly released BabyBud Designs (manuf. by C.C. Designs) sponsored by Daredevil Krista VanTol!
• ONE 4x6 Set of choice from The Greeting Farm

Can you BELIEVE the generosity of these sponsors??? We are SUPER stoked for this and it's nothing we've ever had the privilege to offer our players before.  Good luck to all who participate!

To help get your mojo running I invite you to hop on over to the challenge blog to get started on this week's challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations. I have also included the links below. Good luck to those who enter and Happy Stamping to everyone!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

Better late than never- let's get our Whimsy on!

*please click on pic for a closer look*

I am soooooo late today with my post. Lot's of reasons why but let's just say life gets in the way sometimes lolz. BUT I am here now and ready to share my card today again using our sponsor Sweet Pea stamps. Before I go any further I would like to thank our May sponsor's Sweet Pea stamps and to steal Jacquie's great term the awesomated Randi for organizing this for all of us. Our guest inspiration kiddies today are Kim's girls Kaeli and Emilie and their dare was to make our cards sparkle. Oh...sweet girls after my own heart- I am such a glitter girl! I coloured my mermaid with copics and then used different colours of glitter on her mermaid tail. I hope my card has enough bling girls- if it doesn't it's because the rest of the glitter is all over me, my dog and my 2 cats from the clouds of glitter from my craft studio. Yep you read that right....my studio...formerly known as my craft room. A couple of fun ladies I was colouring with last night decided we are 'artiste's' (said with a hoity toity tone) and one lady correctly pointed out that as an artiste my work space can't be called just my craft room but rather my craft studio. I agree and I appreciate you bringing this to my attention.

Okay...now lean in closer....I want to let you in on a little secret- we may have a big announcement to share with you next Wed and let me just say I am soooo jealous about what part of this announcement means for you. I am soo terrible at keeping good secrets. My hubby and I have to buy each other's gifts the week before Christmas or we run the risk of caving and exchanging them early lolz.

To help get your mojo running I invite you to hop on over to the challenge blog to get started on this week's challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations. I have also included the links below. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

2 sketches to choose from today for your Whimsical Wednesday

Today at the Diedrich Dare blog we are spending our Whimsical Wednesday with 2 more guest designers. Heather's 2 cutie patooties Willow and Piper (love those names!) have given us 2 different sketches to work from. Click here to go to the challenge blog and check them out. I had wanted to make a card from each of the challenges but time ran short on me so I combined elements from both. I used Willow's sketch and used one of my Sweet Pea images that had butterflies in it for Piper. You girl's did an AMAZING job with the sketches and I have filed them to keep using! I am really getting more comfortable colouring my Sweet Pea images well enough to do them justice. I think next week I am going to branch out and try the gorgeous hair like Randi does. 

To help get your mojo running I invite you to hop on over to the challenge blog to get started on this week's challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations. I have also included the links below. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

Another sketchy treat from the Whimsical Wednesday blog..

Thank you so very much to everyone sweet words to my daughter last week for her great sketch! She was glowing from all the praise and she has been on a card making frenzy at times now lol! This week I am so excited to work with a sketch from Jacquie's daughter Kyah. Seriously...isn't it fantastic! I loved working with  your sketch Kyah and hope I did you proud. I would use one of your sketch's anytime sweetie! Oh and quite honestly I am SURE I will be using this one again =).

I used this month's sponsor's stamps again this week for the challenge as I finally received my happy mail from Sweet Pea stamps (I swear you would think I lived in Iceland with how long it take mail from the US to reach me yet I can drive across the border in just under an hour). I got 3!! Sweat Pea stamps to add to my collection. WOW, thanks so very much!! This is my first share with one of the images I received. I am loving colouring these fantasy images I just wish I could get their hair as incredible as they are in the pictures...or as well as fellow daredevil Randi- seriously have you seen her amazing work with these stamps! I may need to find out where Randi lives and go for a visit hee hee. Just to colour..you don't need to feed me Randi.

I invite you to hop on over to the challenge blog to get started on this week's challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations and I have also included the links below. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

Whimsical Wednesday presents Mix it Up May!

Today is a very special day for us Diedrich Daredevils as we are adding to the sketch talent roster this month by getting a few more of the Daredevil's lil'daredevils to challenge us this month. Today's lil'daredevil comes from my household and is my youngest DD! Kaitlyn is our first guest in our Mix it Up May challenge and she made this sketch for you to try. She wants you to know the following details- the ribbon doesn't have to be polka dotted and can be anywhere on your card and your stamp doesn't have to be a 'people' stamp. She cracks me up lol. She also made a card with her sketch and she did it all on her own with no help from Mom. I think she did amazing!

I'm also thrilled to announce that SWEET PEA STAMPS is the May sponsor for the Diedrich Dare blog!!! All month long, the DT will be featuring creations with Sweet Pea Stamps fantasy image collection! That's a whole lot of Sweet Pea eye candy!! So be sure to check out the Daredevils' blogs this month.

Sweet Pea Stamps range anywhere from whimsical to artistic. They are made of hiqh quality, unmounted red rubber. They have an amazing collection of images from three talented fantasy artists: Ching-Chou Kuik, Elaine Cox, and Lisa Victoria. If you would like to see more samples, please check out the Sweet Pea Stamps blog.

THIS WEEK'S PRIZE:

$20 Gift Certificate to Sweet Pea Stamps!!!

I invite you to hop on over to the challenge blog to get started on this week's challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations and I have also included the links below. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

Smells like Spring here at Whimsical Wednesday

Smell that? Dirt, rain, worms...ahhhh...the sweet smells of Spring. Such a change after the smells of Winter- when I could smell through my stuffy nose that is! This week's challenge to us Daredevils is to make a Spring card. I used my new Whipper Snapper stamps as I adore the cute critters in it. Reminds me of the critters I am seeing all around my house as the animals are coming out to enjoy the sun with the rest of us. I made my own sentiment for this card as the Owl with his wing's spread out wide reminded me of a question my kid's ask me almost every day..'how much do you love me?' We find unique ways to express ourselves and the current fave is 'like a sesame on a bagel' hee hee.

Before I direct you to the challenge blog to get started on this week's challenge details or to see my fellow daredevil's delish creations I must give a huge shout out to The Greeting Farm for sponsoring our challenge this month. I have loved using my TGF stamps and I hope you all enjoyed our whimsy Wednesday's with The Greeting Farm as well. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Krista

Ready for another Diedrich dare? It's a colour challenge!

Get yer Whimsy on with us Daredevils this week as we are inspired by colour this time. Nicky challenged us with the colours of yellow, green, white and black and it had boy written all over for me. All I could think of was dinosaurs. This great image from The Greeting Farm (who are also our prize sponsors for this month woot woot) was perfect and I used my Basic Grey stash to pull out the exact colours I needed- sweet. Love when it all comes together like that! I must say I am LOVING being part of this team and the cool challenges each week. Oh I almost forgot to mention I coloured this sweet boy's hair black to play along with the copic creations challenge blog this week too as black hair truly is a challenge for me tee hee. I am thinking it turned out not to bad eh?

If you want to play along this week, use keyword DDSC32 and then link it to Mr Linky at the bottom of this post. Also click here to go to the challenge blog and peek at what our featured Daredevil Kim made and also to see the details for this week's challenge. If you have already been to the blog and are hopping along here are the rest of the Daredevil's to help stir up that mojo.

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Sara...Krista

Whimsical Wednesdays are back with a sketch

Jack has given us Daredevils a sketchy challenge this week. I am again using this month's sponsor The Greeting Farm as I love using their stamps with my copics. I also love the stamps they have that look very similar to a fave movie of mine tee hee. This one is dressy Jeremy who also reminds me of Emmett from said fave movie. I made this card for my nephew's birthday that is coming up very quickly. He will be 13! He is a skater dude (is that the cool/hip term for skateboarders now??) and I thought this dressy Michael digi stamps was perfect for the uber cool and reserved look he has now that he is almost a teen. I used some of my Basic Grey Kioshi line that had a more manly feel to it. I also kept it fairly clean of embellishments- didn't want to embarass my cool dude with too much 'girly' stuff lol. This sketch was so much fun- thanks Jack!

Click here to go to the challenge blog and peek at what our featured Daredevil Jacquie made and also to see the details for this week's challenge. If you have already been to the blog and are hopping along here are the rest of the Daredevil's to help stir up that mojo.

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Sara...Krista

It's a Whimsical Wednesday with The Greeting Farm

**edited to add that I am not sure why my photo looks fuzzy a wee bit but if you click on it it's nice and sharp =)** April at the Whimsical Wednesday blog is sponsored by one of my fave companies The Greeting Farm. As you may know from some of my older posts I love those big headed kids! Our dare is to use the photo above to inspire us. I want to be a little girl and have that room! Lucky for me I have tons of paper in these colours and I dove into my Valentine's day stash to see what I could use. I found not only the paper colours I needed but also this groovy sparkley frame. I also found this Princess Anya image that I had already coloured. Lucky! This card was super fun to put together and so much so my youngest DD wanted to make one as well and wanted me to post it tee hee. Can't resist her when she is taking after her mama.

To see more about this week's challenge and the prize from TGF up for grabs please click here to go to the challenge blog. Now grab a cup of tea and hop around to the other Daredevils and see what yummy creations they have to share. Have a great day! Andrea

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Sara...Krista

Get your Whimsy on!

It's Wednesday so it's time to get your whimsy on! This week Jessica's son- Captain Jack- has issued a sketch challenge for us. Here is my take using Tulip from The Character Cafe- our March sponsors. I used my new Basic Grey paper (Green at heart), prima's and straight pins that I grabbed from Scrappingreatdeals last week. I know I am usually very chatty but I have a wicked cold and fever and my throat is too sore to talk. Which translates into my fingers are too tired to type too much lol. I have taken some pics to show you how I got my flowers to match and also a picture of what kept getting in my way while I was trying to take these pictures. I will let the pictures do the talking. Just look at him and explain to me why HE looks annoyed lol!! Click here to go to the challenge blog and I have also included all the names of the ladies who are participating in our dare this week on our DT. I can't wait to join  you in the hop and see what they have made!

The Dare Devil Designers:

Cassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jacquie Peifer... Jessica Diedrich... Kim Ross...Rebecca Ednie...Randi Whall...Kris...Andrea..Sara

Whimsical Wednesday Daredevil challenge #27

**Don't forget to scroll down below for my blog candy give away**

This week's Daredevil challenge is a sketch brought to us by Nikolas. Jessica's little guy did a great job designing this sketch- it was a pleasure to be inspired by! On my card I used a Belle by The Character Cafe who are our sponsors for the month of March. I really like colouring Belle and her wistful expression.

Don't forget it's CONTEST time on the DARE blog, folks! ONE LUCKY WINNER will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to the TCC store to choose some cutie patootie digis! So head on over to the DARE blog now and see how you can enter to win!

Don't forget to stop by the rest of the Daredevils to see how they were inspired.

The Dare Devil Designers:WCassie Larson... Heather Schlatter... Jessica Diedrich...Jacquie.....Rebecca Ednie... Sandra McLean...Randi Whall...Kris...Sara Henton

Have a great Whimsical Wednesday! Cheers, Andi

Whimsical Wednesday challenge #26

This week's Whimsical Wednesday the Diedrich daredevils were challenged to use the Alice in Wonderland picture above and create a card. I just saw the movie and absolutely loved it! I adored the book as a child and I remember reading it at such a young age that quite a bit of it was over my head- especially when the caterpillar was talking. I had to reread it as I got older to appreciate the lyrical dialogue more and the visualizations in the story. Johnny Depp was of course fantastic and I have to admit I stared at his make up throughout the film lol.

This month's sponsors are The Character Cafe so I used their Bad KittE digi image to show a girly naughty cat. This digi actually comes with a second image with the fish tail hanging out of her mouth lol ;). I experimented quite a bit while colouring this image. I even tried to get the teal fur worked in. Not sure how well I succeeded but I know my niece will love it when she receives it. She was sent the first card I made with this image and I know she will love seeing it again as she is such a cat lover.

Us Daredevils are excited about having another fabulous sponsor this month-don't forget it's CONTEST time on the DARE blog, folks! ONE LUCKY WINNER will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to the TCC store to choose some cutie patootie digis! So head on over to the DARE blog now and see how you can enter to win!

Don't forget to stop by the rest of the Daredevils to see how they were inspired by the Cheshire Cat picture.

The Dare Devil Designers:Winmsical Wednesday Diedrich Dare Challenge Blog:

Cassie Larson... Darla Wilson ...Heather Schlatter... Jessica Diedrich...Rebecca Ednie... Sandra McLean...Randi Whall...Kris...Valerie...Sara Henton

Have a great Whimsical Wednesday! Cheers, Andi

Guess what...I'm a Daredevil!

I am sooo excited to share that I am now part of Jessica Diedrich's Daredevils! Its a super fun blog that posts a challenge every Wednesday. I am pumped to be part of this fab team. You know what I really love about it- that her kiddies are the ones who create the sketches for our sketch weeks- can you say stinkin cute!

Here is my first official Daredevil post and its based on the sketch you can find here and at the Daredevil blog and please be sure to use DDSC24 when uploading to online galleries . On this card I used one of my Kraftin' Kimmie stamps - Puddles of Love. I wanted to use a 'kid' stamp to go with our kid inspired sketch. Our featured Daredevil this week is Sandra. So  hop on over to the challenge blog to check out the sketch and deets then stroll through the names below to see what the rest of the lovely ladies have created for you today :)

Cassie Larson

Heather Schlatter

Jacquie Peifer

Jessica Diedrich

Kim Ross

Kris Palakiko

Randi Wall

Rebecca Ednie

Sandra McLean

Sara Henton

Valerie Urtiaga