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

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

{Hippity} Hop - A Good Book

Hello my fellow {hippity} hoppers! I hope everyone had a good weekend and are prepared for the upcoming week!

Today I have a very simple card I did for two challenges Simplicity's  One Layer Wednesday and Bling it up for CAS-tastic Challenges.

I so love the look of simple when I see what everyone else does - but I find it so hard to do myself.  I always feel that since I am making the card that every cool thing I have ever learned/done has to be presented on one card.  It almost seems like cheating to stamp simply and leave it - know what I mean!?!? I used Smooch on the butterfly from Book's a Flutter to give him a little shimmer, a little blingy thing behind him and that is the sum total of what I did to this card.  Lots of fun - easy and fast! 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to go visit all of my other fellow hoppers - for a full list go here.

Stamps: {ippity}

Paper: Kraft from Michaels

Ink: Ancient Page, Smooch

Bling from Michaels

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} Journey

Hi All!  Boy how time flies by when everything is off by a day! I kept thinking I had an extra day to do this - but I got it done anyway :-)  I was flipping through my stamps and felt that this was a great sentiment - especially for the upcoming summer - just a little reminder to slow down and enjoy everything that is around us.  I used the ColorQ color challenge, which also put me in mind of a hot summer day.  The DP colors washed out a bit in the photo, what vibrant colors they are! I used my smooches on the toadstools to give a little shimmer and color, and embossed the sentiment to add a little dimension.

Follow along with all the Unity peeps and keep your eyes out for that darn blinkie - it could mean some Unity goodness coming your way! For a complete list of bloogers go over to the Unity site.

Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Unity Jan. KOM

Ink: Versamark

Paper: AC CArdstock, Coredinations

Smooch, EB Powder from Ranger, Copics, Ribbon

{FWF} Happy Life - May 28

Happy Friday - This will be short and sweet like the card since I have 'bout a zillion things to do before leaving for a couple days to spend in NYC (Yeah!!) Sorry for the bad picture - I couldn't wait for the natural light :-)  This is for the color challenge over at Color Q. 

I you are looking for the blinkie - sorry not here :-) 
For a list of all those participating go to the Unity blog.

Thanks for looking and I hope everyone has a safe and happy Memorial Weekend.

Stamps: Unity
Ink: Ancient Page, Smooch
Paper: K & Co., Kraft from Michaels
Ribbon, Spellbinders, Circle punches, hole punches

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

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