It's been a while....

Well...it's been a while but I finally got crafty again after a little break and boy, did it feel good to get back into the thick of it again! I think I needed some major recharging after the holidays!

I did this card with one of my Christmas gifts - I love Boyd's Bears - and to see them in rubber - heaven!  The sketch is from CPS and I used the color scheme from Color Throwdown - I thought it was the perfect colors for Bailey and her Bees! I used colored pencils for the entire image with a little bit of crystal effects for the honey (even though it does not show on the picture)

Thanks for looking - and there will be more to follow later!

Stamps: Boyds Bears by Uptown Rubber Stamps, Studio G
Ink: Ancient Page, Prismacolor Pencils
Paper: Coredinations, DCWV
Bee Stickers by K & Co., Buttons from stash, Cornor Rounder, Crystal effects

Happy Holidays

Just wanted to share a couple cards I managed to get done this weekend. The first is for CPS and Picture Perfect Creations -I loved being able to find a way to use "non-holiday" colors for a holiday card!

The next is for SCS Viva la Verve Friday Challenge. I Love to do this challenge every month - always some great sketchess and inspiration to be had!



Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Holidays

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Distress Ink, Smooch

Paper: Basic Grey Wassail, Kraft from Michaels

Ribbon, BG Sizzlet by Sizzix, MS Glitter, Spellbinders

Santa

Stamps: Making Memories

Ink: Distress Ink

Paper: My Minds Eye, Coredinations

Ribbon, Spellbinders (Buckle, Ovals), MS Glitter, Distress Rock Candy

Hello

Another quick post - This time for The Play Date Cafe and Card Patterns. The color challenge from PDC was a challenge - to say the least! I tried a couple different ways of combining the colors that I did not like at all - so I figured you can never go wrong with simple! 

Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Distress Ink

Paper: Coredinations

Ric Rac, Quickutz EB Folder,

Metal Photo Corners from Hobby Lobby

FWF - Denim flower and Dream

Hello to you and TGIF!!!!

I have a couple of cards for todays FWF - thanks for stopping in today.

First up is a card I did for Basic Grey Challenges (use fabric). I am sooo in love with my tattered florals Sizzix die by Tim Holtz - it can cut through anything beautifully.  For the flower I used an old pair of jeans I hadn't gotten around to getting rid of -now I am glad I didn't! (See, procrastinating does pay off!)  I layred it with a piece of cork to break up the denim and roughed up the edges of the faric a little bit.  I topped it all off with a little birdie stamp from the Aug KOM stamped on paper from the Junebug collection.

This next one is for a couple different challenges - Color Throwdown(Kraft, Saffron, and Choc.Chip), CPS, and Cards Magazine.  The center sentiment is also from the Aug KOM.  It is hard to tel but there is a Kraft color base hiding underneath it all :-)!

That is all for me today.  For a complete list of all FWF hoppers check out the Unity blog.  Keep your eyes peeled for the FWF blinkie and you could win some Unity rubber!

Thanks for stopping by!

Bird w/Denim Flower

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Ancient Page

Paper: Basic Grey, AC Cardstock, Coredinations

Tim Hotlz Sizzix Die, cork, button

Dream, Believe, Live

Stamps: Unity, CHF

Ink: Distress Ink

Paper: Coredinations, Kraft from Michaels, Staples Cardstock

Ribbon

FWF - Moments

Happy Friday - weekend is here! (almost)

Friday means it is Friends with Flair day! For a complete list of everyone participating please check here. 

Todays card was made using the Jan '10 KOM and I tought the sentiment was soo perfect.  (If you are looking for past kits - I got mine here.)  I also decided to play around with the scrunchy ribbon I have been seeing everywhere :-)  It was easier to do than expected but I don't know how the staying power is going to be - I think my ribbon was too heavy - it is popping off a little in places. 

The sketch is from CPS and the colors from ColourQ

Don't forget to go check around to find the blinkie - you could win some Unity goodness!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Distress Ink

Paper: AC Cardstock, Bazzill

Ribbon

Rock my World and Back to School

This is my second post for today - For my H{ippity} Hop post please scroll down.

Since I was up early in the morning this weekend I was able to play a bit more than normal. So I played with a few sketches and challenges.  Stamptacular's challenge this week was something for the boys - for some reason I always think rock music when I think of boys.  Don't ask me why - I know rock music isn't only for boys - heck I like rock music! But anyway - I dug out this way cool jukebox from an old Unity KOM cause I thought it looked boy-ish.  I colored it up using my prisma colored pencils and smooch (to give it that old time plastic light look) stickled bubbles around it for more color and heat embossed the sentiment with Zing glitter EB powder.  It all makes for a very sparkly card - so maybe it is more Disco than Rock  - lol!   I laid it out using the sketch from CPS added the brads at the bottom and done! This is also for OCC's Embossing challenge. Fun, fun, fun to do!

I also played along with All things Unity back to school challenge, and CAS-tastic's Case a DT Member (which was Deb - find here gorgeous creation here.)  This one was quick and easy using a schoolhouse from Unity and numbers from "Life's Little Moments" by {ippity}. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Rock my World

Stamps: Unity

Paper: Cordinations, Staples

Ink: Ancient Page

Smooch, Stickles, Brads from TPS, Cuttlebug EB Folder

Back to School

Stamps: Unity, ippity

Paper: Kraft from Michaels

Ink: Ancient Page

Colored Pencils, Smooch, Ribbon, hemp twine,

Spelbinders, MS scoring board

FWF - Love Ewe

Hello all and happy Friday! Thank you for joining along with the Friends with Flair hop make sure you stop in at all the lovely blogs - you can find a complete list over at the Unity site.  Not only can you win some rubber goodness by finding the blinkie (not here - sorry!) but if you head on over to the Play Date Cafe - Unity is sponsoring this week!  Of course it helps that PDC has a really cool color combo too!  I paired the PDC challenge with the sketch from CPS.  Hope everyone enjoys their weekend! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Ancient Page

Paper: DCWV, Coredinations

Spellbinderd, Half Pearls, EK Sucess Border punch

FWF - GIU - Natural

Happy Friday Everyone - TGIF! Well - it has been such a fun week sharing my love of Unity with you guys!  I will definitely have to do this again!  Today I decided to play along with a couple different challenges.  The Play Date Cafe and CPS.  PDC has the pretty colors of Purple, Lilac, and Lime - very striking colors.  They center paper came about as I was talking to my Grandmother and she was telling a cool new technique she just saw done over a Paper Wishes (if you go to the webisode it is about 15min in.).  Take a shallow dish of water and touch the tip of your smooch color in several spots with as many colors as you would like.  After I did that I took a knitting needle and swirled all the colors around to make it look marbleized. I thought it matched the very psychedelic look of the mushrooms. So Thanks to Grandma for a new technique!

Don't forget to keep your eye out for the blinkie to win some Unity goodness. And if you leave some love on every days posts you have a chance to win some Unity Rubber right here!

Thank you so much for everyone who has followed along this week!

Stamps: Unity

Paper: Coredinations, HP Photo Paper

Ink: Ancient Page, Stazon

Ribbon, CB EB Folder, Smooch 

When Life hands you Lemons.......

When I saw the challenge over at the Play Date Cafe of yellow and peach I knew the perfect stamp I had to use. I have been itching to ink up these from the March Store Kit from Unity Stamp Co.   Now, I was not thrilled with this color combo - kinda washed out and girly for me - but it came together a little easier for me since I came across the perfect paper(as I was searching for a different card of course!)  I used the sketch from CPS for additional inspiration. I colored the lemonade pitcher with copics, the lemons with Smooch and coverd it all with crystal effcts to make look like glass, and a little glitter on the lemon in the sentiment.  All in all I am happy how it turned out - hope you enjoy!  Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Ancinet Page, Colorbox

Paper: Coredinations, K & Co.

Ribbon, Glitter, Smooch, Copics, EK Success Border Punch

Spellbinders, Crystal Effects, Black EB Powder

{FWF} Fabulous!

Hello All, and thanks for playing along with Unity's Friends with flair!  My card today uses both Unity and {ippity}. I love this little retro flower stamp that came with the April '10 KOM and decided to pair it with the "fabulous" sentiment from {ippity}'s 'Where You Should Be' set.  I decided to use the colors from the Play Date Cafe (I may even have to use this color story again - LOVE these colors together!) and the sketch from CPS. 

Hopefully you are following along with all the other FWF bloggers - the full list can be found on Unity's blog.  Don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for the special blinkie - it isn't here so keep on looking!  Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Unity, {ippity}

Paper: Coredinations, Gemstones

Ink: Ancient page, SU Marker

CB Emboss folder, brads from The Paper Studio, crystals 

P.S. - I also have a mystery set that was found at a garage sale that I am trying to identify over in this post - so any help would be much appreciated!

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