FWF - Nature

Good Morning all and happy Friday to everyone!  Friday means it is time for Friends with Flair!

Today I am sharing a cute little card I did for Embellish Magazine challenge and the Basic Grey Challenges Design Team Challenge (Oh how cool would that be!)  I used my July KOM from Unity(of course!) I love these little apples/pumpkins and can't wait until it is time to go picking!  Keeping true to the embellish color challenge I used a variety of papers from Basic Grey's Origins' collection.

Don't forget to keep your eye out for the blinkie on one lucky lady's blog - leave her some love and you could win Unity goodness! For a complete list of hoppers check out the Unity blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Colorbox

Paper: Basic Grey, Kraft from Michaels

Ribbon from BG

One of a kind

Hello all! Well - I have gotten in some crafty time this weekend and put this together for the Get Sketchy challenge, Embellish challenge and the Cards Magazine challenge. The handmade flowers were easy-peasy to do - I punched out about 6 pieces of lighter weight paper  with a scalloped hole punch, punched a hole in the center and inserted a brad. After the brad was in, I scrunched up each layer - Easy and cute.  I came across a couple tutorials showing this technique one day as I was surfing the blogs and don't remember where I had saw them.

I also wanted to share this card done for the Verve Anni-verve-sary Release Week Challenges. Go check out the SCS forum, Julee has posted 5 sketches to play along with for a chance to win some Verve-y goodness.  I used Maureen's Wild Card Color Challange as my colors - I have been wanting to play along with some of the color combos.  I figured this would be the perfect time seeing as she is the Guest Diva for August!

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One of a Kind

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Ancient Page

Paper: Coredinations, Kraft from Michaels

Song in my Heart

Stamps: Verve

Ink: Distress ink, Colorbox

Paper: Basic Grey, Bazzill

Spellbinders, BG Ribbon, EK Success Border Punch

No Caged Birds

Well I got my mojo going and got a card for the Embellish Challenge done. It's kinda been rolling around in my mind for the last week, so I finally got it finished.

I used Unity's Brave Girl set - Love this image and sentiment.  I didn't know if I loved this set when I saw it but I have to say it is very versitile and I have used waaay more then I expected to!  

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Stamps: Unity

Paper: Basic Grey, Bazzill, Coredinations

Ink: Ancient Page, Distress ink

Ribbon, Basic Grey Chipboard heart, Pearl pin

Embellish Magazine – Invitation and Unity

Hello and thank you for joining me on my second day of  my Growing in Unity week!  So far it has been a blast – Unity is easily one of my favorite Stamp companies – they have some of the freshest and unique sentiments and images!  Well – if you head over to the Embellish Magazine blog you will find that they are hosting a challenge over there.  I did my take on this challenge – Unity is putting a Soirees and Such stamp set up for grabs and boy could I use it!   Here is my take on the challenge of Red, Green and Gold/Kraft(Thank goodness for Kraft!) It also goes with the CAS-tastic challenge of Kraft.
I used a couple different KOM’s for the image and sentiment .  It is a little hard to tell from this picture, but the cups and coffee pot are paper pieced, and a little bit of Stickles to the table and chairs to add a little color and shimmer to the image.
Thanks for stopping by!  Don’t forget that everyone who leaves a comment will have a chance to win some Unity Rubber – how cool is that!  Everyone who comments on every days post will be eligible.

Stamps: Unity
Ink: Adirondack Ink
Paper: K & Co. , Kraft from Michaels
Spellbinders, Queen & Co Half Pearls,
Stickles, Ribbon

{hippity} Hop - Baby Girl

Hello! I didn't think I was going to be able to get this card done by today - I was so not in the zone!  But I pulled through and here it is. I used a couple challenges to help spark the mojo - Embellish magazine's color challenge (with the requirement of something baby, mom to be, etc.) and seeing that Stamptacular Sunday Challenge had almost the same requirement -it was easy to use my {ippity} set "A Little Buggy" to add the bug requirement.  I Love this buggy set from {ippity} - who knew bugs could be so darn cute!

I hope everyone has a happy Monday - and don't forget to check everyone's {hippty} hop cards.  For a full list of bloggers - check out ippity's site.  Thanks for looking!

Stamps: {ippity}, not sure where the "Baby Girl" Stamp came from

Ink: Ancient Page, Colorbox

Paper: Bazzill, K & Co.

Half Pearls, Crystals

Butterfly Verve Challenge

Hi All! Just got the card for the Verve Challenge over on SCS done. Cute sketch again from Amber - our inspiration was to come from our own craft rooms.  I decided to use some new paper that I got from the Buffalo Creating Keepsakes convention.  Boy was that fun! There was some great stuff - I could've spent about ten times more than I did!  I also used the challenge from Embellish Magazine which was to use the colors green, black and kraft, with a butterfly.  I dug out a stamp that I had gotten from the dollar store(Shhhh...don't tell!) that I colored in with colored pencils.  The flowers are die cut from a Tim Holtz Sizzix die from felt and paper, threw some brads in the middle and call it a day! All in all it came together faster than I expected when I first saw the sketch over at Verve - I have to say - the sketch kinda scared me!  Thaks for looking!

Stamps: $ Store
Paper: SEI, Kraft from Michaels
Ink: Ancient Page
Spellbinders, T.H. Sizzix Die, felt, ribbon, brads

Beauty of Life

Good Morning - Happy Sunday!  I did this card for the Embellish Magazine Color Challenge and I totally cased this card by Mariana - what a beautiful card Mariana did!  The images are form Unity's May Store KOM - what great images are in that kit! I kept it nice and soft by stmping in Versamark and applying chalks to give it a little watercolor effect. The sentiment is up on foam tape to give dimension to the card.

Stamps: Unity

Ink: Ancient Page, Versamark

Paper: Coredinations

CB Emboss Folder, Pebbles Chalk, Cornor Rounder

Thanks for looking!