It's The Final Challenge.....sniff...

Hello everybody, today is kinda sad for me because its the very last challenge for us Daredevils over at Whimsical Wednesdays! But we're going out with a BANG...so read on....

We are having one last Inspiration Challenge, check out the delicious photo from the super sweet Jacquie!

So you want to play along and have a chance to win some FABBY prizes???? Check out whats up for grabs:

• TWO digi's of your choice from Baby Bud Designs Etsy Store!
• 'Sweet Message' 4x6 stamp set from The Greeting Farm!
• 2 Rubber stamps from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
• 3 High Hopes Stamps from Scrappin' Great Deals
• 1 Digital Stamp and 1 Stamp from Queen Kat Designs donated by our own DT member Sara!
  
  Thanks to these companies for the great giveaways!

The doors to The Whimsical Wednesday the Diedrich Dare will officially close on Wednesday July 14th, 2010! So with that comes many thanks....

Thanks to all the wonderful sponsors we were privileged to work with each month, I know I had alot of fun working with each and every one of your wonderful stamps!

Thanks to all the DareDevils, you are all so creative in your own way and I can say I will walk away taking tons of inspiration from each of you!

I want to give a heartfelt THANK YOU to Jessica for creating this fun blog and especially for having me on this wonderful team! Thanks for all of your hard work and everything you've done! You're one special gal! And I can't leave out her awesomely cute kiddos Madelynn, Nicky, Jacky and Ava who were the brains behind all the fun sketches we got to work with! I just have to say it has been a PLEASURE!

Before you go, please visit all of the wonderful DareDevils and wish them goodbye, and load up your card HERE for your chance to win some goodies!

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Thanks for swinging by!

Inspiration Challenge at Whimsical Wednesdays!

Can you believe it's JUNE already?! I can't believe summer is almost here! 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 sweet Sara came up with. Isn't it amazing? This is just absolutely perfect for a summer challenge!!! Don't ya think? I love this verse! Here's the photo:

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??? It's nothing we've ever had the privilege to offer our players before. I cannot WAIT to see who the random winner is! I want to play so I can win too...LOL!

Here's my take on the challenge: I was inspired by all the bright fun colours!!!
I coloured up a much neglected Whipper Snapper stamp called 'Love Bug'. I used lots of fun bright colours and added some stickles and crystal lacquer to the shell.

See you in a few weeks and in the meantime, have fun & check out what the other DareDevils have to show you:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

A very Sparkly Whimsical Wednesday!

For my exciting Claudia & Company Announcement scroll down or click HERE!!!!

Today's Dare Challenge is brought to you by

Kim Ross's sweet daughters, Kaeli and Emilie:

Make your cards SPARKLE!

This stamp is called September Rhythm and was my favorite of the three stamps I got to work with!!! I just love her.

I used my copics and let me tell you I had markers all over the place when I was finished...I grabbed them and took a pic in case you were interested in any colours that were used.
I also added some shading with my prismacolor pencils. Then out came the Stickles, again! I looooove glitter, so this was THE perfect challenge for me - thanks girls! I used, Crystal, Frosted Lace, Lavender and Lime Green and went to town. I took a close up so you can see all the SPARKLE! I also used my clear glaze pen on some of the leaves, her lips and to outline her eyes. I love those lashes!

I just want to give a huge shout out to Lynette from Sweet Pea Stamps! Thanks so much for your generosity, this was a fun month - lots of glitter for me (and that makes me HAPPY)!!! I just love the artistry in Sweet Pea Stamps. I might just do a wee bit of shopping soon!!! And also to the uber talented sweet pea herself Randi for all of her hard work!!!!!

Before I let you go check out what the other Daredevils have to show you I have to tell you that you won't want to miss next weeks post for Whimsical Wednesdays. We have a HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT with a PRIZE THAT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!!!! Seriously....major sponsors for the month of June so don't miss it, k?

Check out these Daredevils:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Come get your Whimsy on...

Happy Whimsical Wednesday!

This weeks SKETCH challenge at the Diedrich Dare Blog is brought to you by Heather's cutie patooties Willow & Piper!

Check out these adorable sketches:

I loooved both sketches, great job girls! I followed Pipers sketch cause it seemed to fit with the big wings on the Sweet Pea Stamp I used BUT used the great idea from Willow to add a scalloped border.

I think I found my inner 'pea' this week. I had soooo much fun colouring up these stamps, I didn't want it to end. I used the Sweet Pea stamp 'My Buddy' by Ching-chou kuik. I'm calling her the Purple Frog Fairy. I was so inspired by all the purple on my fellow Daredevils cards last week, I was dying to use my purples!

I coloured her up with my copics and added some shading with my prismacolor pencils. Then I grabbed my stickles and went to work!!! Have I said before how much I love glitter??? I used my new Stampin Up Beautiful Wings Embosslit and added a little tiny purple butterfly to follow Piper's instructions!

Make sure you 'fly' over and join the dare this week, and also check out what the other Daredevils have to show you:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Another Whimsical Wednesday!

Welcome to another Whimsical Wednesday!

This week we have a super fun sketch from Kyah!

Here's my take on the sketch:

I finally got to play with one of the Sweet Pea Stamps, this one is called Rising Flame from Ching-Chou Kuik's Fantasty series.
I have loved mermaids since I was a little girl! I guess the irish in me came out 'cause I envisioned this beauty with red hair all wrapped in green seaweed and pearls! So fun!


Be sure to take the Dare this week and follow Kyah's rockin' sketch! Now take a look at what the other Daredevils came up with:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Another Whimsical Wednesday....

It's another Whimsical Wednesday at The Diedrich Dare Blog! This month we will be using some super cute sketches and challenges from some super cute kiddos!

I'm so so excited about our sponsor this month.....SWEET PEA STAMPS! I love their beautiful images and can't wait to play with them! I will have a card with one of these gorgeous images to show you next week! A huge thank you to Lynette and Randi from Sweet Pea stamps!

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.

To start it all off, this week we have a fabulous SKETCH from sweet Kaitlyn, daughter of Daredevil Andrea!


What a rockin' sketch Kaitlyn!!! I loved it! I flipped the sketch to make it fit on my card and used some buttons instead of the flower!

So pop by the Deidrich Dare Blog and link up your card, this week you could win a $20.00 Gift Card from Sweet Pea Stamps which we will be giving away next week, so you have until Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. CST to enter! Now take a look at what the other Daredevils came up with!

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Spring is in the Air at The Diedrich Dare!!!

Happy Whimsical Wedneday!

For this weeks challenge, Madelynn wants to see us all create a SPRING CARD!

Before we get into details I want to give a HUGEAMONGOUS THANK-YOU to Marie from The Greeting Farm for sponsoring the Diedrich Dare this month. I absoloutely adore The Greeting farm....and was beyond ecstatic to work with them this month....so, thanks Marie!!!!

Onto this week's challenge....Spring! How easy is that? Well it was for me, spring type cards are right up my alley as I tend to lean towards bright fun cheery colours. The image on my card is called Lady Baby Bug. I coloured her up with my copic markers and added lots of sparkly glitter! I had this perfect ladybug paper in my stash and had to use it! I borrowed my mom's new ladybug punch - how perfect! And I used a brand new ladybug charm I got from Phebe on the weekend! I love ladybugs (except the biting ones..hehe).

So pop by the Deidrich Dare Blog and link up your Spring Card, and don't forget to see what the other Daredevils came up with!

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Happy Spring!

I DARE you to take this color challenge!!!

Happy Whimsical Wednesday to you all! This weeks challenge at the Diedrich Dare Challenge Blog is a COLOR Challenge! Here's your inspiration:

How's that for a challenge? Well it was for me anyway!!! I must say I've never used this color combo before, but I always like a good challenge, and I'm pretty happy with the outcome of my card!
Here's my take on the color combo:

I used the incredibly adorable Tennis Anya from The Greeting Farm (our sponsor this month). I'm a HUGE tennis fan. I played it in highschool, and almost every Saturday afternoon with my brother way back when....I beat him everytime of course...lol...oh I love the smack talk! Brings back memories of fighting over a point, or if it was in or out, then it was game over when someone inevitably starting acting like McEnroe! Thats why I couldn't resist adding this cheeky little sentiment, to go along with her firey reddish hair!

Be sure to hop over to the Dare Blog and load up your card for this fun challenge and don't forget to check out the rest of the DareDevils for some inspiration:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day!

It's a Whimsical kind of Wednesday...

Happy Wimsical Wednesday! This weeks challenge is a rockin SKETCH by Jack!

I'm all in my glory this month because the sponsor for the DD Blog is The Greeting Farm and I can't get enough of them! Have you seen their new website? Its too stinkin cute! I used WS Rain Rain image, isn't she adorable? And appropriate with the rain we've been having lately! And there's lots more to come, ah the joys of spring. At least its not snow!
I coloured her with my copic markers and added some brads for buttons and repeated the brads in the corners. The dp is American Crafts and the cute button and heart charm is from a recent shopping trip to The Town Scrapper. The little teeny tiny sentiment is from Stamping Bella!

Be sure to join in on the fun with us this week over at Whimsical Wednesdays the Diedrich Dare Blog and don't forget to check out what the other DareDevils have come up with:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day!

Ready for a colour challenge?

Are you ready for another Whimsical Wednesday DareDevil Challenge? Well this week its a COLOR challenge. Here's your inspiration:

This was my take on the challenge: Pink & Brown with a little Bling on the side!!!

This month's sponsor at Whimsical Wednesday's is one of my absolute favorite stamp companies THE GREETING FARM! I just can't get enough of them!!! I chose to use the cute digi stamp WS Audrey (she was a freebie a while back and couldn't resist). Isn't she the cutest little tomboy?
As usual, I coloured her up using the copic colors in the picture above. I like clean and simple layouts and it seemed to work with this image. I paper pieced her ball cap using some dp by Pink Paislee. I added a little bit of bling by adding some rhinestones to the top and bottom corners of the image and also put some blingy bobbles in her ponytail!

So take the dare this week and play along, to win a great prize from our sponsor, The Greeting Farm. And don't forget to check out what the other Dare Devils have come up with for even more inspiration:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great week!

Wowee I'm a Dare Devil!!!

Sorry for the late post, but now I'm here!!! Soooo without further ado, I'd like to share MORE exciting news! IM A DARE DEVIL!!! I'm soo excited! Have you seen this totally cute and amazing challenge blog? WHIMSICAL WEDNESDAYS THE DIEDRICH DARE, is a weekly challenge blog that alternates color challenges with sketch challenges designed by Jessica's cute lil kiddo's! I mean how cute is that??? My 8yr old son looooves to color with me and make cards too so when I was invited to join this team I couldn't resist! A BIG thank you to the girls over at Whimsical Wednesdays The Diedrich Dare, I'm so looking forward to working with all you talented ladies!!!

Here is the sketch for this week designed by Jack!

Being brand spankin new and my first post, I didn't have anything from the sponsor this month which was The Character Cafe, so I chose this little super hero image (from Stamping Bella) in honor of Jack and his amazing sketch!!! Jack - this one's for you!!!

ALSO, a BIG shout out to my friend Andrea who inspired me about a year ago when I dove back into card making! I took one of her classes to see if I could get back into cardmaking after years of only scrapbooking and after like 30 seconds I was hooked again! Seriously she is one of the funniest peeps I know, my favorite 'enabler' (haha), love her sense of humor and mostly her amazing talent!!! You rock girl!

Anyway, you must play along with us Daredevils this week, check out The Dare Devil Designers they are full of amazing talent and inspiring ideas:

Cassie Larson, Heather Schlatter, Jacquie Peifer , Jessica Diedrich, Kim Ross, Rebecca Ednie, Randi Wall, Kris Palakiko, Andrea Murdock, Sara Henton

Have a great day!