FWF & organizing....still

Hi everyone! It's FRIDAY again!

I was all set to make a card for FWF until I realized I'm watching my great niece today. She'll be here till some time tomorrow. That is if the snow doesn't cancel everything. Anyway, she loves to paint birdhouses but I forgot to get one. So, I did the next best thing. I made her a bunch of coloring pages using my Unity stamps. I stamped them all with StazOn so she can watercolor them if she wants.

When she's done coloring the images I'll add a cover and back in the color of her choice and put the pages onto rings.I think she'll have fun with this.

This second photo is what I've been working on for weeks now. The boxes are full pictures that I'm trying to get together and sort through. Most of them are done. The book with the pictures of my niece is another organizing project. I collected all the school & portrait pics I could find of each of my family members. I inherited lots of pics from my Mom. They are all put together in this binder. I mounted them all on white card-stock and put them in page protectors. No patterned paper, embellies. Nothing but photos. I might eventually add some patterned papers. It would use up LOTS of scraps. But it's ok for now. The other open album and the closed one are the school books for my kids. I thought my son's was almost done until I found more pics in those boxes. 

Don't forget to check out the Unity blog for the FWF, new releases, and a SALE!

Sue's January challenge

I finally got time to make cards for Sue's Cricut and Crafts January challenge. The theme for this challenge is trees.

I hope you decide to play along!

Stamps: Inkadinkado, Stampendous

Ink: ColorBox

FWF

Another week has just flown by! I'm not feeling very creative lately. Most every thing I tried making hit the circular file. This card I did without thinking. I love the Donna Downey stamps because they work no matter what. 

All you need is a stamp and a sentiment and call it done. 

That's it for me today. It's almost dinner time. And I might take a look at Unity's garage sale......

Have a great week!

FWF

Hi everyone!

 I haven't done much creating lately. I'm trying to ORGANIZE. It's a work in progress ;) I tried entering FWF last week but Mr. Linky was hiding from me. If you'd like to see the canvas I made, look here. So here's this week's entry.

For this weeks card I used the Dec 12 KOM. I love the stamps in this kit! Sorry for the photo. I can't seem to get it any clearer. Maybe because I stamped it on photo paper. 

Anyway....Have you checked out the Unity Angie's Birthday sale yet? 

40% off!

And I LOVE the new AngieGirl stamps!! They're all FABULOUS!

Andi & Lizzie I think are my favorites. 

Well DD is up and I'm sure she'll want to go shopping since she doesn't have to work.

Happy Birthday Angela!!


FYI: Sue's Cricut and Crafts has started the Christmas challenges. The theme for January is trees so get out your stamps and play. The rules are a little different but there are still prizes to be won. Check it out:  Sue's Cricut and Crafts
You can use any company's products so get those Unity trees inked up :)

an Inspired FWF

Hi everyone! Hope you all have a fantastic holiday. Mine was nice but I'm glad that it's over. I already took down my decorations. Now I can get back to crafting. 

While hopping along on FWF I came across Gwen's blog..Windchimes and Lilacs. Go look :) She made these beautiful canvases with a pattern for a girl that she found from this blog.. I waned to try it but not on a 12x12. Soooo, I shrunk the pattern and made it fit on a 5x7 canvas.

I really enjoyed making this even though it's not as well done as Gwen's. I used a few Unity stamps on the background. The words were done with foam alpha stamps that I've had forever. 

Have an awesome week :)

Congrats to Karen (Karey2005)!! She won for commenting on my blog last week.

The last FWF of 2012

Hi everyone! I hope Santa treated you well. He brought me a bunch of Unity and I finally got time to ink one up. 

I made this CAS card to send to my sister. She's been in town all week but headed back today. I want to mail it tomorrow so she'll get it on Monday.

 

I'm sure you know that there's a great sale at Unity this weekend. 

Have a great week 

and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Merry Christmas FWF

I needed a couple tags for gifts. These two came together pretty quick.

I think they turned out well. The one on the left is covered in washi tape. On the right was done by making an embossing folder into a stamp using a gelato.

It's going to be a busy day today. Out for last minute shopping then home for more baking. I still have a few more cookies to make and fudge too.

Since this is my last post before Christmas I wanted to wish everyone a 

Very Merry Christmas

Little gift card bags

I have been wanting to make something using a Tim Holtz technique. The one where he uses ink and water on the craft mat. I finally made something today....mainly because i needed a couple little bags. The color in the photo are a little washed out. I tried getting a better photo.

All products used are by Ranger. I used peeled paint distress ink and heirloom gold perfect pearls mixed together to make the paper. The rosette is edged in gold using an acrylic paint dabber.

The technique was a lot of fun to do. I'm sure I'll be doing more of this technique.

Thanks for looking.

Stamped wrapping paper

I usually don't make my own wrapping paper but I decided to give it a try. Especially since Ranger is having a challenge.

I don't have many Ranger products besides Stickles but I like how this turned out. My daughter liked it too. I'm glad because it's for her ;) 

All I did was takes a sheet of copy paper and misted it with Perfect Pearls Mist in Perfect Pearl. Once it dried I stamped the Unity snowflake stamps using Broken China distressed ink and a silver Dabber. The ribbon, beads, and snowflakes are from my Christmas stash. I even added some silver Stickles to the snowflakes. 

I might have to try another gift wrap project with the peeled paint ink and gold Stickles, Dabber, and Mist.  I sometimes make mini trees so I have lots of gold ornaments to add too.

Merry Christmas mini

I decided to make a couple mini canvases today. I'm not sure how I'm going to use them though. Maybe as ornaments? Hang one on the wall? Gift tag? 

Here's a closer look. There's tiny gold dots all over the paper just to give it a little texture and shine.

Paper: Basic Grey Aspen frost

Stamps: Unity Bitty Backgrounds & Christmas Eve Chowder

Paint: Faber Castell Cherry Red Gelato, Ranger Gold Paint Dauber

Greenery, ornaments, bow: from my stash.

FWF

Hi Everyone! Happy Friday!

I managed to squeeze out a little time today to make a card. It has been a busy, family filled November! I loved every minute of it. I can't believe tomorrow is December 1st. I barely have any shopping done. How about you? 

My little great niece is wanting some attention so have a fun week!

FWF ATC

Happy Friday!

I was playing with my watercolor pencils this week and made this ATC.

After I painted the flower I came across this stamp that I received in a grab bag a long time ago.

So, are you shopping this weekend at Unity? 50% off all stamps except the subscription ones. Plus there are freebies too! I just placed my order.

Have a great week everyone! And

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

November Challenge

My entry for Sue's Cricut and Crafts November challenge. 

For this challenge we had to use ribbon. I hope you'll join me for this one. it's the last one for this year. And, there's a prize.

Here's the link: Sue's Cricut and Crafts

U.S.A.

I had so much fun making the mini love canvas that I decided to make another one. Since we just had the elections and Veteran's Day I wanted to make a patriotic mini. 

I first primed the canvas with gesso.

 I then added the blueberry gelato all around the sides of the canvas and spread the color with a wet paintbrush.

 I did the stripes on the top the same way using the red cherry gelato. As you can see it doesn't take much of the gelatos to get a lot of color.  When the gelatos dried it was time to embellish.

For the USA I textured the chipboard letters by tapping on the gesso. They were then colored using the gelatos and put on with foam squares. The Mrs. Grossman flag stickers and ribbon I found in my "collection". I punched out some tiny stars from paper that I ran through my Xyron to add around the sides.

Here is the finished canvas. Since I have two more canvases what should I do next? Maybe St. Patrick's Day since I have the green set of Gelatos. :)

I am in LOVE

For a long time I have been seeing projects and videos using these things called Gelatos by Faber-Castell. I loved what I was seeing but I couldn't find them at any of my local stores. This past week when I went craft shopping I found something amazing. GELATOS at Joann's!! They had all the color packs....and a coupon. I am now the owner of three color packs and the black/white pack. 

I couldn't wait to use them so here is my first project. 

I bought a pack of little canvases from Michael's a while ago and finally broke them out. I primed the canvas with gesso then spread the light pink gelato with my fingers in the middle and used a wet brush with the red gelato. (They're so much fun). Next I stamped the script and music notes (7Gypsies/Hampton Art) and toned it down with more pink. On the chipboard letters I tapped on the gesso to give them texture then smeared them with the red gelato. I added some Maya road embellishments and a Ben Franklin quote around the sides.

I'm entering this in the Design Memory Craft thankful challenge. Love is definitely something I'm thankful for :)

FWF and the final Chick Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!

It's been a busy week for me because my sister Pam is in town again. I love it when she's here. I just wish she would move back instead of visiting. Her grandchildren love to create things and you can see their creations here. She is coming over tonight and tomorrow. My other sister, Kim (I have 4 of them) is coming over tomorrow too. Along with her daughter and and her kids. I'm going to have a FULL house. I LOVE it!

Anyway, Chick Challenges with Ippity is having their final challenge. It's been so much fun entering the challenges and I'm sad that they are ending. Here is my entry:

I used my watercolor crayons and some Stickles. I love the watercolor crayons because I can color the image then add the water. Much neater and I can stay in the lines :)

Have a FABULOUS week!

A new technique

Ranger and Dreamweaver Stencils showed a technique that I wanted to try. Although I don't have any Dreamweaver stencils, I do have a few jars of Ranger embossing powder and some regular stencils. I used my Xyron to add adhesive to a piece of card stock. Then I soaped the back of the stencil with Ivory soap and put it down on the card stock...soap side down. The next step is to add the evergreen embossing powder. I then lifted the stencil and poured the seafoam white powder on top of everything. The final step is heat embossing it all. Here is my finished card. Since I used an ivy stencil I wanted to keep it simple and masculine.

The Happy Birthday is a Unity Stamp.

November Challenge

Sue's Cricut and Crafts posted the November challenge. The last one for 2012.  This month is challenge is RIBBON.

"Use ribbon in any/all creative ways you can think of for your Christmas cards!"

You have until midnight CST Nov. 20th to link your cards. This one will be fun as I have lots of ribbon.

Since I was the only entry last month I won. Sue sent me a really cute Stampin' Up stamp set and some Stickles.

All the stamps are small and perfect for gift tags.

These are just a few of them. The set has 24 stamps and I made 3 of each. 

Thanks to Sue's challenges I have plenty of cards and gift tags. :)

I hope you find time to play along this month. Here's the link again: Sue's Cricut and Crafts

Family crafting

My sister from Florida is in town again watching her grandchildren while their parents are away. She brought the kids over to visit. They love coming to my house because I have crafting stuff and video games :) The youngest (3 years old), Karyna, wanted to paint. Out came the watercolor crayons and canvas.

Hers is on the left and her brother ((almost 11 and a twin), Gaheris,  did the one on the right. The other twin, Corben, wanted to paint a birdhouse.

The colors should give you an idea of where we're from ;)

When I was showing the kids how to use the watercolor crayons I made this ATC.

I had brought out the Ranger Perfect pearls mists and sprayed the card. I really like the effect. I'm really happy with the demo ATC :)

I need to go to the craft store soon for more birdhouses and canvas. Maybe I'll pick up some boxes too.

FWF

Happy Friday! I hope everyone survived Frankenstorm! The weather people thought we would get lots of rain and high winds.....we didn't.  Schools were cancelled on Tuesday and Trick or Treating will be on Saturday. I am sooo thankful that we were spared. My heart goes out to all those that lost so much. 

I made a card and a couple ATCs this week. 

Card

stamps: Unity Oct. KOM

paper: DCWV

ATC #1

stamps: Unity Oct. KOM

paper: DCWV

watercolor crayons

ATC#2

stamps: Unity/Christy Tomlinson script background, MLS Vintage Doily Shop

watercolor pencils

Unity's sale this week is a great time to stock up on some Itty Bittys. Buy one get one for a buck. Happy shopping!