Patterned Paper Play!!

Hello my Friends with Flair and fellow Unity Stamp Co. fans!!  I am going to make this post short and sweet and  with very minimal verbiage!!

I am sharing with you today the four cards that were created for the stamp class that I taught at Priceless Scrapbooks last weekend in Ocala, FL using Unity Stamps.  I am so happy that Tricia decided to start carrying Unity stamps and I can't wait to go there and teach another class!!  The ladies were a lot of fun!!

The stamp set we used  is Could I Be Any Cuter by Unity, and the DP was from the SunKissed line by Bo Bunny!!  Besides letting the ladies know how wonderful Unity stamps are, the point of my class was teach the them how to make their patterned paper work for them!!

Here is a closeup of the cards we created...

To start at the beginning of today's FWF Hop, please visit the Unity Blog.  

Don't forget to be on the lookout for that FWF blinkie that is hidden on someone's blog today!!  It is your chance to win a free prize from Unity!! Good Luck!!

Have a great day and may your bucket overflow with patterned paper that you enjoy playing with!!  Oh and OMG... My CHA trip is only three days away!!  Eeeekk!!!!:-)  So much to do... so little time!!  LOL!!

Fresh Idea Friends With Flair Friday all in One!!

Today's cards is doing double duty for me!!

It was my turn to post on the Ippity blog today for the Fresh Idea Friday, 

so I decided to share my idea with you here too!!

My Fresh Idea for you is to use parts of Store Bought cards that you have been given in the past to enhance your Hand Made cards!

Here is the card that I made using the laser cut out of the dragonfly from a store bought card...

Please visit the Ippity blog to see the Store Bought card and some additional views of the finished card.

The Ippity stamp sets used to make this card are the Where You Should Be set and the Just Wanted to Say set (Two more are still available on my sales blog at clearance prices!!  Check it out!!).  The DP is from My Mind's Eye!

So today is also the Friends with Flair Blog Hop so please be sure to 

start at the Unity Blog

to get the complete list of today's participants!  

Rumor has it there are TONS of prizes being given away today and there is a sale going on all weekend.  

All the details are on the Unity Blog!!

So head there now and enjoy the Friends With Flair Hop!!  

Have a great weekend and enjoy  the 4th of July celebrations!!

FWF Fleeting Moments

Hello Friends!

Rather, Hello my Friends with Flair!  LOL!!

I hope your week has been a fabulous one!!  Mine has been nice enough!  Quite busy at work until after Yesterday morning.  Now I just have today to get through and then I have the whole day off tomorrow!!  Woot woot!!  I hope to do some more yard work and then get together with my family for a cook out Saturday night.

   

So here's the deal... Approximately 50 of our closest Unity friends have signed up to participate in today's Hop.  It starts at the Unity Blog where you will find a list of all the participants with links to their blogs.  

One cool blog on the list will have the hidden flair blinkie! 

 Leave a comment on that blog for a chance to win 

25 random Unity stamps! 

Got it?  

The card I made for today's Hop is made from two of this week's challenges on SCS.  The first one was Wedndesday's Sketch challenge SC284 and the second one was yesterday's Ways to Use It challenge WT274 which was to use butterflies on our card.  I chose to use this sweet DP called Flower Patch from MM.  

The butterfly and sentiment are from Unity's Life is Fabulous Stampin' Store Kit that came out this past February.  SSK's are available from retailers only.  To find a Retailer near you visit the Unity website. The butterfly was colored with Copic Markers and the sentiment was stamped in SU's Wild Wasabi green ink.

Enjoy the rest of the Hop and have a wonderful weekend!!  Don't forget to sign up for Ippity's Hippity Hop for this coming Monday!  The sign up will be posted on Ippity's SCS Forum today!

May your bucket overflow with moments that you cherish in your life!

Friends With Flair Friday!!

Hello Friends!!

Welcome to my blog for today's Friend's With Flair post!  On Friday's Unity fans come together and share projects using Unity Stamps.  One blog even has a hidden Flair Blinkie on it.  One lucky person who leaves a comment on that blog will win a prize of random Unity Stamps!


As I told you in yesterday's post I have been working on some household projects so my time at the craft table has been limited!  I didn't get a chance to finish a new card for you today, but I do have some projects that I submitted to the February Dirty Dozen Gallery at SCS!

The theme for February's Gallery was Masculine!!  

You know... it's one of those themes that we all find so challenging!!  LOL!!

The cards I made were for the More is More challenge they give us.  They ask us to make a simple card and then to make the same one but stepped up a notch or two.

I decided to make an invitation to a Barbecue!!  I mean Grilling on the Grill doesn't get any more masculine does it?

I used the Unity stamp set called Retro BBQ but I let the designer paper from Flair Designs set the theme for me!  I kept this one very simple by just stamping the words and adding some brads.  I love the red, brown and Kraft colors together!

I n this stepped up version, I kept the layout the same but added a little extra paper on the bottom for the accents and then also stamped the BBQ Grill and colored it with Copics.  I popped it up a bit and placed it on top of the DP and the sentiment panel.  Of course this is my favorite version!!  

Which one do you like better?

I hope you have a great weekend and may your bucket overflow with summertime fun like BBQ's and pool parties!! See you on Monday for Ippity's next Hippity Hop!!

Growing In Unity... 100% Happy

Welcome back to my blog for my final day of 

Growing in Unity 

and this week's 

Friends With Flair post!

I have been so happy to play with my Unity stamps more than usual this week and I strongly encourage you to sign up in the Unity Friends Forum at SCS for a turn at Growing in Unity!!  It is a lot of fun!  I can't thank you all enough for all the love you have shared with me this week!!  You guys are awesome!!

To start at the beginning of the FWF Blog Hop be sure to start at the beginning ... you will find the complete list of blogs to hop on the Unity blog.  And don't forget to look for the FWF blinkie for a chance to win some free stamps!  

I decided to make another scrapbook layout for my final post this week!

I had some pictures of my daughter and my great niece that were taken recently and were just begging to be scrapped.  Since there were strawberries on my great nieces bathing suit, I knew immediately what papers and stamps to use!!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Unity: 100% Happiness Stampin' Store Kit August 2009, Distressed Dots
DP: My Mind's Eye: Quite Contrary
Stickers: October Afternoon
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Ink: Memento Black, Copic Markers
Brads: Basic Grey

I colored the strawberries and frame stamp with Copic markers and then stamped the 100% Happy stamp with Ruby Red ink from SU. To border the picture of my niece, I stamped the Distressed Dots Unity stamp underneath the picture on the left upper corner.

The journaling says...

Tiffany and her second cousin Ava Marie spend some time together bonding at a family gathering.  They are so "berry" cute together!

Looking at that sweet baby face makes me 100% Happy... that's for sure!!

Now, to make you 100% Happy, how about some BLOG CANDY??

Tomorrow I will draw one lucky winner to receive the BLOG CANDY below.  To qualify to win, leave a comment on all of my blog posts for my week of Growing in Unity and you can have up to five chances to win the BLOG CANDY!!  

Good Luck!!

Thank you so much for all your loving support and encouragement  this week. It means so much to me to have so many crafting people that I can truly call my freinds!!  Have a wonderful weekend and may your bucket overflow with tons of Unity inspiration for the coming week!!

For more  blogs to hop to, visit the 

Unity Blog!!

Guess Whoooo Loves Unity!

Yahoo!! 

It is Friday and I am off call!! Woot Woot!!  

And to make it even better, it is Friends with Flair Friday!!  

I am definitely celebrating!!

Can it get any better than this??  I don't think so!!!

You know that I love my Ippity, but if you know me at all, then you know that my first, true stamp love affair was with Unity.  I LOVE my Unity stamps and cherish every chance I get to play with them!! To see more creations using Unity stamps today, please go to the Unity Blog for the complete list of hoppers participating in today's Hop.

Don't forget to keep your eyes open for the FWF Blinkie... 

you will have a chance to win 25 random Unity Stamps!

I have a fun card to share with you today that uses the adorable stamps from the Super Sweet and Stuck on You Stampin' Store Kit (not available on the Unity website) and some adorable October Afternoon paper.

My inspiration for this card came from looking through the blog of a talented designer named Peet Roeven.  Two of my friends (Eva and Vianna) suggested I look at her talent this week.  And they were right... it was very inspirational to see her creations.  I love the way that she uses a lot of layering in her cards and also combines many frames on her projects!

 

To create the layered frame you see here, I stamped the gingham frame twice.  Once with SU's Taken with Teal and once in Old Olive.  Then I cut out around both the inside and outside of each frame leaving them hollow.  I placed the teal frame on top of the green one and turned them so that they were staggered.  I glued them so that they would stay in place.  Next, I turned the combined frame over and traced around the outline onto a cream colored cardstock that I had stamped in SU's More Mustard ink with the background image from the April 2010 Together We Bloom KOM.  Then I cut that base out and attached it underneath the frame with pop dots!  I stamped my sentiment inside the frame using SU's Chocolate Chip ink.

I colored the owl with my copics and then removed some of the color using a clear colorless blender.  The "branch" is actually a flourish from a Fancy Pants chipboard collection.  I colored it with a brown Copic marker and added a coordinating bow to it.  The cute flowers added to the bottom are stickers from an OA collection. I added brads to the centers of each of the flowers!

Don't forget that the Sneak Peeks of the New Ippity Stamps will begin on Sunday, May 9th!  

Mark Your Calendars!!

Thanks for visiting my blog today and I appreciate your comments!!  Please be sure to see the rest of the blogs on the hop today!  I know you won't be disappointed!

Fresh Idea Friends With Flair Friday!!

Did you see that title??  

Look at that alliteration!! That's a lot of "F"s there!!  LOL!!

Today I have combined my Fresh Idea post on the {ippity} Blog with my Friends with Flair post for the Unity hop today!  I hope you don't mind seeing a little more {ippity} today!! I know that I never get tired of seeing it!! ;-)

If you are like me you like to save a few dollars.  I am a sucker for the dollar bins at the large discount stores and craft stores and I am always picking up items that I think I can alter.  I love to make homemade gifts that look expensive but that don't really cost anything more than my time and love!!

I picked up a three pack of canvas frames that were 5" x 5" and had children's open line drawings on them.  The canvas was white originally, but with a little bit of acrylic paint I could cover the white and the drawings so that I had a clean slate to make my project with.

I found some great DP from Graphic 45 that I thought made a bold statement that goes perfectly with the verse I chose to use from Devoted.

I love this verse...

The Lord is my strength and my shield...my heart trusts in him and I am helped.  Psalm 28:7

So I stamped that verse from the Devoted set and added below it a border using one of the single fluer de lis stamps from the Regal Greetings set.  

The final touches were to add a ribbon around the frame and add acrylic baubles (dew drops) to accent the fleur de lis. 

To hang the picture I just added a black ribbon with a bow on top that I attached to both top corners from behind.  Excuse the glare on this shot but my wall that I hung it on has just a little sheen to it!  It was really hard to get  a great shot!!

Be sure to keep your eyes out for the hidden FLAIR BLINKIE on one of the hop blogs!

And to find the whole FWF blog list, just head over to the 

Unity blog  

And don't forget to visit the Unity Forum on SCS 

today too as the Unity 2nd Year Anniversary celebrations continue!!

By the way... 

I chose a winner 

from the comments on my blog post here yesterday.  

The lucky winner of the Because of You {ippity} stamp set is announced 

in my Fresh Idea post on the {ippity} blog post today!!

Click HERE to see who the lucky winner is!!

Have a great Friday and may your bucket overflow with the protection of the Lord from his strength and shield!

Friday Friends With Flair!!

Thank God It's Friday!!

I don't know about you, but it has been one of those weeks for me!!  I've been feeling like a salmon swimming upstream!!  Feeling like I am working really hard, but not sure I am getting where I am trying to get!!

Today is the special day that Unity Stamp Co. fans get to share our Unity creations with others!!  Be sure to head over to the Unity blog for the complete list of today's participants and hop from blog to blog and be ready to be inspired!!

Be sure to keep your eyes out for that hidden 

Flair blinkie for the chance to win 25 random Unity stamps!!

The card I have to share with you today is my CAS challenge card for this week's CAS challenge at SCS's.   The challenge this week is to be inspired by fellow DT member Alanna's card shown HERE!

And here is what I did with it...

Pairing Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl DP with Unity's spool of thread from the Super Sweet & Stuck on You Stampin' Store Kit, I created this thank you card.  The sentiment is actually slightly curved in the kit, but I was able to straighten it out on my acrylic block.

I stamped the image three times and colored the spools with Copic Markers and then wrapped each of the spools in coordinating colors of thread that matched the DP.

I stamped the image again three times so I could then color three of the hearts with red Copics.  Then I slipped them underneath a few of the pieces of thread on each spool.  I added paper piecing to the outer edge of the Kraft paper.

I have one other card that I shared earlier this week that I  hope you got to see...

This card was created for an Earth Day challenge that I hosted for the Dirty Dozen/ Dirty Dozen Alumni.  To read more about the details about this card, please visit my blog post from earlier this week 

HERE!

One last thing...

We hope that you will be joining the {ippity} chicks 

for the VSBN Weekend this weekend 

The fun begins on Friday at 4pm EST.  Eva, Lisa and I will all be hosting challenges this weekend with the help of Heather, Maria and Eryn!  Please come by and check out the challenges... it will give you guys a great chance to scrapbook with your Unity and Ippity scrapbooking stamps!!

Have a wonderful weekend and may your bucket overflow with plenty of time to play with paper  and ink!

It's a Flair Filled Friday!!

Happy Friday and welcome to my blog!!

Today is the day that Unity peeps all over the world sign up to share their creations made using Unity stamps with each other!  It's Friends with Flair Friday!  It is a Unity Fan blog hop of sorts.  To sign up to participate in the blog look for the sign up thread on the Unity Forum at SCS that is posted on Wednesdays by Jimmi at 10am.  

Be sure to look for the FWF blinkie that is visible on one of the blogs!  

The lucky commenter from that blog will win 25 random Unity stamps!!  Good luck!

The opening of the new Dirty Gallery yesterday marked the end of my term as one of the Dirty Dozen!  I will forever be one of the alumni and for that I am grateful, but it was a very bittersweet day for me. I enjoyed the time I got to spend on the Dirt Pile but think it went by way too fast.  However, it is always exciting to welcome in new Dirty Girls and I am so thankful that Lisa was one of the Dirty Girls replacing me. :-)

Today I have a project to share with you that I made for one of my Dirty Dozen assignments.  It was from the October Gallery called Treats All Around.  The focus on the Gallery was treats and all things round.  

I decided to create a round mini album that contained drinks recipes for each month of the year!  The majority of the stamps that I used on this project are from Unity so I thought it was a good project to share with you here.  If you are a Fan Club Member at SCS you may have seen this in the DD Gallery before.  Sorry if this is a repeat for you!

Click on the pictures to see a larger view of them!

Cover: Round of Drinks

MFT: Cheers; Unity: Circle stamp (Just Circles)

January: Happy New Year Cocktail

Circle: Unity (Just Circles); Happy New Year: Studio G; Champagne Flute: MFT (Cheers); January: Inkadinkadoo.
February: Red Hot Lover

Calendar: Unity (September 09 KOM); Winged Heart and sentiment: Unity (August 09 KOM); Circle: Technique Tuesday; Hurricane Glass: MFT (Cheers); February: Inkadinkadoo.

March: Irish Coffee

Lucky: Unity (100% Happiness); Coffee Mug: Sweet N Sassy Stamps (Warm Up); March: Inkadinkadoo.

April: Easter Bunny Cocktail

Hat: Unity (April 09 KOM); Glass: Whimsie Doodles (Have a Seat digi); Circle: Technique Tuesday; Calendar: Unity (September 09 KOM).

May: Top Shelf Margarita

Margarita Glass: MFT (Cheers), May: Inkadinkadoo.

Wish I had the Margarita Madness Unity stamp kit when I made this page!
June: Malibu Summer Splash

Sun and Summertime: Unity (Beach Days and Sun Rays); Glass: Whimsie Doodles (Have a Seat digi); June: Inkadinkadoo.

July: 4th of July Shooter

Calendar: Unity (Oct 09 Wonderful You Scrapbooking Kit); Stars: Unity (Stylin' Stars); July: Inkadinkadoo.
August: Long Island Iced Tea

Tea Pitcher: Whimsie Doodles (Have a Seat digi); Floral Circle stamp: The Stamps of Life (Back 2 Basics Sept 2009); August: Inkadinkadoo

September: Autumn Harvest

Mug and Apple: Unity (Hodge Podge of Happiness); September: Inkadinkadoo.
October:Spooky Screwdriver

Spooky Scene: Unity (Unlucky 13); Glass: MFT (Cheers, altered by masking); October: Inkadinkadoo.

November: Thanksgiving Cocktail

Calendar: Unity (Oct 09 Wonderful You Scrapbooking kit); Giving Thanks: Unity (Simple Blessings); Glass: Whimsie Doodles (Have a Seat digi); November: Inkadinkadoo
December: White Christmas

Calendar: Unity (Sept KOM); Glass: MFT (Cheers, altered by masking).

This was so much fun to create!! When my sister saw it she totally fell in love with it and asked for it to be given to her!! So this is one of the special gifts I gave her for Christmas this past year!!  

Hope you liked it!!  And thanks for taking a look!

To start or continue on the blog hop, 

head over to the Unity blog for the list of all participants!

Have a wonderful weekend and may your bucket overflow with with some time to rest, relax and recuperate for the coming week!  

Man's Best Friend With Flair!!

Man's Best Friend with Flair!

Ha ha!! How do you like that blog title??  Can you guess that my FWF project for today is going to include our dog?  Well if you did, you are absolutely right!!

I used this week's Simple Scrapping Sketch Challenge  (USCSSC03) at Unity this week that was given to us by Renee!  It is an awesome sketch and it was perfect for one of the layouts that I needed to make for Tasha's first year album!!  

If you are a Fan Club Member at SCS you can view the album cover that I made for our dog!  It was one of my last submissions as a Dirty Girl.  Click HERE if you want to see it!

Here is Renee's sketch...

I altered the sketch for my personal use because instead of a one page layout, I needed a two paged 8 x 8 layout.  So I stretched the layout width wise and added an extra panel.  I also flipped the circle embellishment to the left side.

The following stamps were used to make this layout

• Bitty Backgrounds (circles) were used to create the background that anchored the three pictures and also provided the background behind the doghouse.
• I Ruff You:  I cut away one of the paws from the strip of paws and stamped it along the rust border and under the title
• Le Chic Vintage scrapbooking Kit (SBC-100)

The DP I used for this layout is from the DCWV Pet Stack.  The colors worked perfectly with the colors of my puppy and her toys.  I enjoyed curving the lines instead of keeping them straight like the sketch.

I created the title by handwriting TASHA and then using rub-ons for TOYS.  The journaling states...

"We were so excited to get Tasha and couldn't help spoiling her with a lot of new toys.  She is so cute when she plays with her toys...BUT... She doesn't share very well!!"

So there are up to 50 blogs for you to visit today and one of them is hiding the flair blinkie that will get someone a chance to win 25 random stamps from Unity.  To begin the blog at the beginning, you want to stop by the Unity Blog to start at the top of the list!!  Enjoy your hopping!!

Have a great Friday and may your bucket overflow with friends of all kinds... furry or otherwise!!  :-)

Have a Rockin Friday!!

Hello Unity Friends!

Welcome to my blog today!!  It's Friends With Flair Friday and in typical fashion I have a Unity project to share with you! but before we get to that, did you guys have a blast with us celebrating the come back of Unity's Hip Hop?  It was so wonderful!! I enjoyed it and look forward to many more!!

I tried to get my layout done using this week's sketch, but I ended up at work last night until late and wasn't able to finish it. I do however have a card to share with you!!

For this card I used the jukebox from Unity's March 2010 KOM called Rockin it Unity Style.  I love this kit!! In fact I love all their kits!! LOL!!  Have you joined the Kit of the Month Club yet?  The bargain is amazing!!  April kit is just being released... so be sure to join in!!

I colored the image in with Copic markers in colors that coordinated with the Cosmo Cricket Paper from the Lil Man line.  The sentiment was created on my computer using Word so it would be just right for the guy we were giving this card to in honor of his 40th birthday!  I love the retro feel that both the paper and the image give to this card!! Plus he is an avid lover of rock music, so he thought it was great!!

Click HERE

 to go to the Unity Blog for the list of today's FWF particpants.  

Be sure to be on the lookout for the hidden FWF Blinkie 

and a chance at winning some free stamps!!

Have a Rockin Friday and may your bucket overflow with your favorite tunes that put you in a good mood!!