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  • My name is Diana Gibbs, and I am a Wife, a Mum, and a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. I have been a Demonstrator for 14 years and I live in Arizona with Jeff my Hubby of 28 years, our 24 year old son Eric, our 5 year old Yorkie-Poo Toby, and our five chickens, Stella, Clara, Fiji, Mork and Mindy, RIP Gertie & Alice. I am a 2009 Stampin' Up! Artisan Award winner, I am one of the Top 100 Demonstrators for 2010, 2011 & 2012. I am having so much fun, I love my job!

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February 23, 2009

Thinking Outside of the Branch...

...okay another title that makes no sense...sometimes they come to me, sometimes...well...they don't!

Basically I just want you to look at your stamp sets a little differently, turn them around, upside down and sideways.  Like I told the girls at my workshop this week when I was using the Branch Out set, turning the tree on its side makes it a branch instead of a tree, and this is what I did here.

DSCN7115 copy Stamp Set: Branch Out, Owl Together Now

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Good Morning Sunshine DSP (yeah try not hearing that song in your head now...)

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Kiwi Kiss

Misc: Nestabilities, some fun Sandylion stickers (eek! stickers)

I wanted to do a quick card, and I had these stickers for a while now that I got from my friend Cindy and I was going to use them with the branches from Owl Together Now, and I thought I would try it with this set, and I think it turned out pretty good..and way fast too. I have more of them so I still want to make a card with the other branches, cause those other ones can be colored in.

DSCN7116 copy They are cute though huh?

I love their googly eyes, and that is what I have felt like today, I took cold pills when I went to bed last night and I swear all day I have been light headed and ditzy...more then usual.

So this card was perfect for me...ha!

I hope you think its cute and you get out your stamps and look at them differently.

Have a great Monday and thanks for stopping in!

Hugs, Di

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