Berry Adorable

Ok - almost at my creative limit today lol! This is for the fourth Unity challenge over at SCS. I was thinking that the four paper requirement would be tough until I found some K & Co, paper in my stash.  When  I saw the berries on the first sheet I came across, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I am keeping this short and sweet (just like the big ol' berry on the card)  Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Unity
Paper: K & Co., Coredinations
Ink: Ancient Page, Colorbox, Distress Ink
Ribbon, Blingy crystals

Thanks for looking!

Dance to the Beat

Wow - is it Thursday already?  Boy is time flying this week.  Well, I am up to the third challenge of Unity's Anniversary week on SCS and we were tasked with using our first Unity.  Luckily for me it hasn't been so long ago that I have forgotten which stamps I got first ;-).  I chose this particular stamp since I have not had a chance to ink it up yet and it was feeling a bit neglected!  I decided to use PDCC's color challenge and CPS's sketch to help with my inspiration.  I love to go out and find all the great challenges that are out there, I find that it really helps to focus my creativity (well, once I can tear myself away from looking at all the great blogs and sites that are out there!)  Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Unity

Paper: DCWV

Ribbon, stickles, smooch spritz

For the Birds

Here is my card that I did for Unity's Anniversary Challenge over at SCS. They have been doing tons of fun games and giveaways and if you haven't yet - go take a look!  Anyway - todays challenge is for the birds - literally!  There has to be a bird or tree incorporated somewhere in card - so I broke out one of my new {ippity} stamps - Music of My Heart (for sale here)  I followed the sketch over at the Sketch Girl blog.  I used my cuttlebug to emboss the french script on cream parchment, tore it off center and used Ranger Walnut Stain Distress Ink to distress the emossing and edges.  I cut out the bird I stamped with the distress ink and accented with gold lame smooch ink.  Using my Spellbinders Fancy tags I stamped the thank you sentiment (hopefully unity will forgive me - i left off an extra "many" that just didn't fit -lol) I used my smooch around the edge of the label, added a couple flowers topped off with a crystal brad and it is done.  Thank you for looking!

Stamps: {ippty} Music of mt Heart

Paper: Bazzill, DCWV

Ink: Ranger Distress Ink

Spellbinders Fancy Tags, Smooch

Sew Amazing

This is for the Unity Anniversary Challenge on SCS - They are celebrating two years, how exciting!  I am a relative newbie to Unity - I didn't find them till last December and I fell in love hard! :-)  They have some great stamps!  Anyway - I decided to combine this with the PDC color challenge - the colors actually coordinate a bit better in real life - some things just don't translate well, lol. It is also for the stamptacular sunday challenge of "sew" special.  Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Ancient Page, Prismacolor Pencils

Paper: DCWV, AC Cardstock

Ribbon, Buttons

Courage

Well - I finally got my {ippity} stamps and couldn't wait to ink them up, so I decided to use them for the Verve challenge over on SCS.  I used the Where you Should Be set (which you can buy here).  I used the second Living Room picture that was our twist (I loved the colors - reminded me of Dylan's Candy Bar in NYC)  so it ended up being very pink and girly - love it!  The shimmer seen in the photo is Smooch Spritz -my first time really playing with it even though I have had it a while.  I paper pieced the leaves on the branch stamp and used the coordinating papers to layer.  Thanks for looking!

Stamps:  {ippity}

Paper: DCWV, AC Cardstock

Ink: Ancient Page, Smooch Spritz

MS Punch

Love you more

I am soooo excited - finally got my {ippity} stamps and couldn't wait to use them. I decided to make my first project  the {ippiy} challenge (scallops) on SCS and a challenge I came across in my blog travels. You can find it here, it is deceptively simple with only one layer.  Easy challenge - right?  Not exactly - after working with layers for so long, you don't realize the thought pattern you get trapped in. Any way - it was a great excuse to ink up my {ippity} for the first time.  I used the Scallops from Sweet Thoughts of Spring and the sentiment and tree from Stragiht from the Heart both of which can be purchased here.  All is stamped in Chocolate Ancient page ink on parchment card stock I got from Staples.  The heart in the tree is accented with red marker and then with Smooch ink to give  it a bit of shimmer.  Rounded the two corners and it was done!  Simple, easy and way easier to fit in a card! :-)  Thanks for looking!

Crabby Hello

Verve Stamps is having a new release coming this Friday (Can't wait to see them - the sneak peeks are too tempting!) and they have a new challenge just for the release over at SCS.  The First of five is a color challenge of Orange, Aqua, and Green.  I cheated a little by darkening the aqua to more of a turquoise.  A couple new toys were the focus - a brand new EK Sucess border punch and a new Inkadinkado $ stamp.  I thought I would follow the unspoken beach theme with the little crab - so adorable.  I paper pieced his shell, colored him with pencils and a little crystal effects for his eyes.  I also snuck over to the CPS site to find a sketch to follow and thought this weeks sketch went well with the colors and stamp.  Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Inkadinkado

Ink: Ancient Page

Paper: Coredinations, DCWV

Ribbon, EK Sucess Border Punch