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!

Birds, Rainbows and Friends with Flair

Happy Friday Everyone!!

How cool is it that my weeks get to start with an  

{ippity} blog hop and end with a Unity blog hop? 

Isn't that great??  

So it's Friday which means it's time for the weekly Friends With Flair blog hop where Unity peeps use Unity Stamps to inspire each other!  It's a great day!!  For the complete list of the blogs participating in the blog hop, head over to the Unity blog to get the list!  And don't forget to look for the "Flair Blinkie" for a chance to win a prize!!

I have a couple of cards to share with you today  and both of them use stamps from  

Unity's February 2010 KOM.

My first card was made for last week's FWF Challenge FWF13 where we were inspired by Lisa's Card HERE!  And it was also inspired by yesterday's Ways to Use it Challenge WT259 on SCS called For the Love of Lace.  Where we were to use lace on our card...

 The sentiment I chose is from {ippity's) Just Wanted to Say set.  The DP is from Basic Grey's Nook & Pantry line.  The flower is Prima and the button is from Clear and Simple stamps.

The adorable chipboard bird is a freebie I received while at CHA.  It is laser cut and is made by ScrapFX.  The lace is from JoAnn's.

My next card follows this week's SCS Sketch Challenge SC269.  Here is a picture of the sketch...

 For my card I stayed true to the sketch and used papers from the MME line called Quite Contrary.  Some of these papers can be obtained by getting the paper pack sold for {ippity}  To get this paper pack for free, all you have to do is purchase a complete set of the Winter Release Stamp sets from me and I will throw that in at no additional charge!  :-)

I colored the rainbow and clouds in using Copic markers.

The sunshine ribbon is from the Dollar Spot at Target.  I couldn't resist it and felt it went perfectly with the stamps I chose to use on this card!  I love the touch of yellow it adds!

If you are interested in buying any {ippity} stamps, please visit my sales blog for great pricing!  I have every of the Winter Release sets in stock and even some of the Fall ones too!

There's {ippity} in My Bucket

Enjoy the rest of the FWF Hop and may your bucket overflow with pretty rainbows and sweet birdies!!

Happy Friday Friends!!

My Friends with Flair that is!! 

Today is a great day because we get to visit the many blogs of the very talented Unity fans as they share their creations with us.  To start from the beginning, just visit the Unity blog for the list of today's participants!!

So, remember how a couple of days ago I told you that I gave myself a personal challenge to work my way through all the SCS Sketch Challenges skteches?  Well today I have another one for you!

The sketch for my card today is Sketch Challenge #2 (SC02)!  It also uses this week's Color Challenge (CC252) from SCS (Certainly Celery, Taken With Teal or Bermuda Bay and Hunter Green) and yesterday's Ways To Use It challenge (WT252)  which was to use something NEW on your card. 

My card uses a stamp each from Unity and {ippity} and it was super easy to make.  In fact I was also trying to sneak in today's SCS challenge which was to make a card in 15 minutes, but it actually took me about 20 to complete this!! The focal point is the awesome sticker letters by Colorbok that I found on clearance at Big Lots recently for a buck.  This is the NEW thing on my card!

The Unity stamp used is the cute sketchy flower from the August "08 KOM.  I thought the style of that went perfectly with my DP from SEI.  The {ippity} sentiment stamp, Birthday Wishes is from the Just Wanted to Say kit that you can purchase by visiting my {ippity} sales blog HERE.  The cost of the set is only $13.50 (plus shipping.)

I am trying really hard to increase my stash of Birthday cards at the beginning of the year so I can always have some ready to send out at a moments notice.  This one will find a home soon I am sure!! 

Did you check out all the great benefits for becoming a Unity KOM Club Member?  It is amazing!! Only something that Unity would do!! Be sure to check it out!! If I could only buy one stamp set a month, it would definitely be the Unity KOM!!  I LOVE them all!!  (Hehe... and I have them all!!   LOL!) I just can't help myself!!

Have a wonderful Friday and enjoy the FWF Hop!!  May your bucket overflow with lots of cards to give to your loved ones celebrating birthdays!!

I Need a Vacation Still!!

Scroll down to the previous post to see who won the Unity Flair Blinkie Contest!!

Remember yesterday how I told you that in one day I had made two vacation cards? Well I wanted to share with you the second card I made. I must be getting really antsy for the vacation I do have planned coming up in October! For the first part of the week while I am off I am going to go nowhere! Then for a long weekend, my family and many of our friends are going to camping!! I can't wait for my vacation! It is going to be fun!!

This card incorporates two of the recent SCS challenges. One is the sketch challenge SC244 from the this week. And the other one is WT234 which was called Sand It. We were supposed to sand our card in some way or use sand on it! I took the opportunity to put some of these adorable beach images from Whimsie Doodles to good use. Shown here are images from the Beach Borders set, the sentiment from the Beach Sentiments set and the sun and clouds (which were used as a mask as I sponged the sky from the Sunny Day collection. To see all of the digistamps available at the WD store, click HERE!

The sand is from MuddPuddles.net and comes with the glue already mixed in! It also comes in tons of colors. The color used here is malibu sand.

I printed out the shovel, bucket, ball and shells twice and popped the second images on top of the first to add depth and make them look like they were submerged in the sand. The images were colored using my Copics. I just love the texture of this sand product and think it is perfect for beachy cards and layouts.

So look at this card and tell me that you don't want to go to Maui or Malibu on a vacation!!!

Have a great weekend and I will be back to post more as time allows. I am working on something kind of exciting that I will share with you soon!!

May your bucket overflow with warm rays from the sun and sand between your toes!!

The Last Hip Hop Hangover

If you are a Unity stamp fan like I am then you know that yesterday was the last Hip Hop blog hop for Unity. But don't worry! They aren't going anywhere, they are just changing things up a bit! So if there aren't any more HH's then there can't be any more Hangovers after today's. So enjoy my last contribution towards the last Hip Hop Hangover!

Even though I am curious to see what is in store for us with Unity, I know that it will be good! So I am celebrating the upcoming changes and calling today a Happy Day!!

Here is my happy card in celebration of things to come...

I am so excited to be using this dragonfly stamp from Unity's August KOM because I am on the Whimsie Doodles Design Team with the very talented artist who drew this. Her name is Kelli Caslow and she makes some really awesome cards too! Please check out her blog and send her some love if you like her dragonfly! I hope to see more stamps of hers in our Unity kits in the future!

The colors for this card come from a color challenge at the Florida Group at Stamp TV. I just got it done in time!

I have a couple of other Unity cards to share with you today too! I was able to complete both of the Hip Hop challenges on the forum yesterday. In fact the one you see below won the da da da Doodle contest where we had to use some doodling on our card. I was awarded the Hullabaloo stamp as my prize! Woohoo!!

This card uses the adorable old fashioned phone from the Everyday Adorable set. I paperpieced the four handsets and placed them in each of the corners and framed my card with doodles phone cords. The DP is from We R Memory Keepers. The phone was colored using my Copic markers.

The last card I want to show you combines FOUR challenges in one!! I have been behind making my challenge cards this week at SCS so I decided to get all caught up today!!

The first challenge for the next card is CC233 to use Red, Kraft and Chocolate Chip.

The second challenge was SC243 which was this week's sketch challenge.

The third challenge was WT233 which was to use Vintage ephemera on our card.

And the last challenge was the Hip Hop challenge Ta ta ta Texture. We were supposed to add some type of texture to our card.

See what you think!! I like what I ended up with!

The stamps I used were from the 100% Happiness in-store kit. The red dotted DP is from K & Co. and the Vintage label is from Flair Designs. The texture was added with my Swiss Dots embossing folder and my Cuttlebug!

If you are interested in getting the next in-store kit I hope you will go to the Paper Maniac to get yours! My good friend Stephanie Muzzulin is on their DT!

Hope you are enjoying the last HHH and are getting inspired by the talented fans of Unity Stamp Co. May your bucket overflow with good changes for you in the future!

Hip Hop Hangover!!

OK I am finally off and survived this week (barely!) I was able to throw together a challenge card for the first time this week. So to make it count I combined three challenges into one!! LOL!

This card was made for one of the Hip Hop Challenges on the Unity Forum yesterday called Bits and Pieces where we were to use scraps of paper that we had laying around. Since I had pieces of Baja Breeze and Ruby Red Stampin Up papers I decided to also make the card for this week's Color challenge at SCS CC223. And to top it off I also combined the Way To Use it challenge WT223 at SCS yesterday which was to use "texting" on our card.

This is what I came up with!!

Translation: What's Up??

The Hot Air Balloon stamp is from Unity's Love in the Air set. The sentiment was computer generated and printed out onto my Baja Breeze cardstock. I added copics around the clouds for depth and did some sponging with my SU Soft Sky ink and also added the machine stitching!

I am afraid that this is all I have for you today! I have sooooo much to try and get done today before we go out of town in the morning to visit Tom's dad for Father's Day!

Go to the Unity Blog and you can follow along with the all the other Hangover posts today! Enjoy the rest of your Friday and may your bucket overflow with plenty of time in each day to what is on your to-do list!!

Hip Hop Hangover!!

Happy Friday!! It is Hip Hop Hangover day. It's the day after Unity's Hip Hop where they were honoring Dad's. If you didn't get a chance to hop through the blogs, you should start at Unity's blog post HERE and give it a try.




I have had a good bit of time this week to play at my craft table making cards. Many of them are Unity, and I haven't even shared them all with you here yet! Well today I am going to share two of them and soon I will share some of the other ones with you.




Here is the first card that I made using Unity stamps...



The Fine Print: DP: We R Memory Keepers (Grandmas Kitchen); Stamps: Unity (Camper, Aug 08 KOM, Sentiment, Nov 08 KOM); Ink: Amuse (Black) VersaMagic (Jumbo Java); Markers: Copics; Twill tape: Unknown; Buttons: SEI; Border Punch: Martha Stewart. Machine Stitching. Nestabilities.

I made the flower accent following Thursday's Way To Use it challenge WT222, which was to use crinkled cardstockout. Using my Nesties, I cut three different sized circles and then crumpled them, distressed the edges and inked them up. I layered them on top of each other and topped it off with a coordinating button.

Here is the second Unity card I made this week...

This card was made using the leftovers of my "You're one in a Melon" card that I posted earlier this week. It also was made following a sketch from Kisa's gallery for this week's Featured Stamper challenge FS122.

The Fine Print: DP: DCWV (Green), Pink Polka Dots, unknown; Stamps: Unity: Flower (May 09 KOM), Sentiment: SU (Crazy For Cupcakes); Brads: Unknown; Ink: Amuse (Black); Pencils: Prismacolors with Gamsol; Pens: Sakura (Black Glaze), Signo (White opaque uniball); Buttons: varied, Ribbon: Michael's. Nestabilities.

Puppy Update...


I feel like a mother in waiting while we are trying to be patient to find out whether or not we can adopt "Tasha." The shelter is having a meeting tonight to determine who is approved for adoption. The lady in charge says she is giving her vote to us!


With any luck we will get to meet Tasha by Saturday and hopefully take her home with us! We are so excited about it! I hope it all works out just fine!



Have a great day and may our bucket overflow with fun times for the weekend ahead!