FWF

Happy Friday!!

I hope everyone had a good week.

 

I stepped outside my comfort zone with today's card. I'm not one for mixing patterns unless it's all in the same color and from the same brand. The pumpkins were made using a punch for the large one and Coluzzle for the smaller one. The stamp is from the Ippity set Music of my Heart.

Have a great week! I'll be waiting for Frankenstorm to hit early next week. It's so hard to believe that this week was in the upper 70s and next week we'll be lucky to see 50.

FWF

Happy Friday!!

Today's card is really quick. I only used one stamp :)

It's for my father-in-law so I wanted to keep it simple.  He'll be 85 on Monday.

Unity is have a great sale this weekend....spend $50 get $20 off.

And, there's one more day for Sue's Cricut & Crafts challenge. I'm the only player.....again. Unless you play too!

Have a FABULOUS week!!

October Challenge

Happy Friday!

At Sue's Cricut and Crafts the new challenge is up. The theme for this month is to use Christmas lights. It could be in any form as long as the cards have lights. 

The paper is from DCWV and I added a coating of glitter paint to give it some sparkle. The stamp is a Unity Itty Bitty.

The challenge is to make 6 cards using any products as long as you follow the monthly theme. No Cricut required. :)

I hope someone else will join the challenge this month. I've won several times because I'm the only player. There is a prize for the entry with the highest number of votes.Come play! I'll vote for you. Here's the link: Sue's Cricut and Crafts October Challenge
 

Unity WCMD bonus

My entries for the WCMD challenges

Unity Challenge

Unity Kit of the Month Challenge

WCMD & Unity

My challenge entries

1) Shaped card

2) Texture...use at least 2 different textures

3) Embossing

4) Sketch

5) Fall themed

6) Stamp a Border with a non border stamp

7) Coloring

8) Color-cream, brown, olive, pumpkin

Friends with Flair

Happy Friday!

For this weeks card I used the Santa from Naughty or Nice that I got in a FWF grab bag. I love this image! The Merry Christmas comes from Christmas Eve Chowder. The paper and ribbon are from Making Memories.

I'm entering this card into 3 challenges.

Unity-Pennants and Banners

Ippity- Christmas 

Chick Challenges with Ippity #46- Sketch.

There are new Phyllis Harris stamps at Unity and they're on SALE.

Thankful it's FALL

Another Friday, another Friends with Flair. Hope everyone had a good week. 

I'm trying to use the crafting things that I buy. Usually I buy things then put them away, never to be seen again. The paper and fiber are the oldest from my stash. 

I'm going to have a busy day today....Babysitting my almost 1 great niece this afternoon then I have my great twin nephews and a niece to watch overnight. I'm off to get a few birdhouses to give them something to do tomorrow. 

Unity is having a sale....40% off almost everything. Check it out...Unity and the FWF  on the Unity blog.

Halloween house

I like decorating the $1.00 birdhouses that Michael's and JoAnn's sell. I have quite a few of them. Here is my most recent one. I made it for the Unity challenge to use banners or pennants and the Crafty Steals third Thursday challenge to 1) use at least one of the colors; black, purple, orange and 2) use buttons, brads, or eyelets.

I started out by painting the house purple and orange. Since the purple showed pink on the edges I added black ink on all the edges. There's Making Memories green fiber around the top, under the roof, and at the base. I stamped the banner using Unity's Life Documented Banner set. The bow is also Making Memories. The bottom is wrapped in black tulle. I added orange and green Making Memories snaps (they look like a brad but set like an eyelet) to finish it off.

Thanks for looking.

It's Friday

Another week has flown by. Since my daughter got her license I have more time for crafting. And that makes me happy. This week I made 24 invitations for my great neice's 1st birthday.

My niece wanted a black cat in a pumpkin. I found this stamp set online. I used watercolor crayons to color it. It's hard to tell but two of the party words are also colored in.

These two cards are for Ippity challenges. The first one is for the Ippity blog. I have been wanting to try the 'sunset' look on a card for a while now and finally did it. This one is for Chick Challenges.

Have a wonderful week!

Invite
Stamps: Unity KOM, Inkadinkado cat/friend
Color: Reeves water soluble wax pastels

Thanks
Stamp: Unity Sentiments O'Simple
Paper: DCWV
Ink: Studio G
leaf punch, circle punch

Sunset
Stamp: Unity Growing in Unity
Paper: DCWV
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
Ribbon: Offray

Challenges

Happy Friday! Hope everyone had a good week. Mine was ok. I got the results of a few biopsies. Only one was a slight problem. I have actinic keratosis on my forehead (caused by sun damage) and it required a cryogenic treatment. Now I look like I'm recovering from a gunshot wound :)

These two cards are for a couple challenges.

BoBunny sketch challenge

 

Authentique sketch challenge

 

I entered both into the Ippity challenge to use stitching.

BoBunny card

Paper: Country Garden Collection 6x6

Stamp: Unity

 

Authentique card

Paper: Celebrate 6x6

Stamp: Unity

**If you want a Christmas challenge...check out my previous post.

September Christmas Challenge

Sue's Cricut & Crafts challenge for September is up. This month is shaped cards. 

I used the Stampin Up Bells & Boughs set and Stickles that I won from last month's challenge. I really love this set. The images are just gorgeous!

It would be great if you could play along!

triple layer circle

Happy Friday! Quick post today. I have to go shopping :)

I used the Jan kit of the month and my Coluzzle (remember those?) The current KOTM challenge has circles so I decided to try 3 layer stamping on a circle. I might have to do this again. 

Have a great WEEK!

FWF & Journal fun

I haven't played in my art journal much. I did the first one a while ago. The second one I did today. I have no idea what I'm doing when I make these pages but that's the whole point, right? No rules.

The first page is for me to write my wishes on which I will do....eventually. The second one started out with daisy and rose printed papers. I added paint and now those papers are gone. Oh well. I think I like the end result.I hope you like them but it's really ok if you don't. If you do journal pages maybe you can give me some tips on making better pages.

There's more to see at the Unity blog. And, of course, there's a sale.

Have a GREAT week!

FWF & Challenges

Happy Friday Everyone!

This weeks card was for the Crafty Steals challenge. I really enjoyed the sketch. I'm trying to enter more challenges. It gives me a much needed push :) 

This was for the most recent  challenge at Sue's Cricut and Crafts. I posted about it here. The challenges start on the 5th of the month and the winner is chosen by votes. You can read about it it here...Christmas Challenges. I was the only entry for August :(

Well that's it for me today. Have a great week!!

FWF

Happy Friday everyone! It's not too happy for me because my sister is heading back to Florida after being here for the past few months. :(

Anyway....here's my FWF card for this week. 

 

I used the Marah Johnson Marah Freedom stamp. I had been wanting it for so long and finally bought it. The sentiment is from the Ippity kit called All Things are Possible.

I have been looking for a good metallic ink. I've tried a couple and the ink will either not dry (even after heat setting) or the metallic part will just rub off. Anyone have a recommendation for a good metallic ink? Thanks!.

Inkadinkado

Inkadinkado has a new stamping tool. 

It's called Stamping Gear. Here is the Deluxe kit.

"To use, mount a stamp onto the Stamping Gear clear paddle, then stamp the image around your choice of the circle and oval cogs and wheels"

 

I found it at my local JoAnn's. I've been playing with it all day.

The two cards here were stamped inside the round gear.

 

There are other stamp sets that you can buy as well. The design possibilities are endless. I've found that any unmounted stamp, like Unity, will work as well.

These are really fun to stamp with. I do have a couple suggestions for them though. One is to make a long bar to stamp images in a straight line. The other is to make more smaller images.

August Christmas Challenge

Time again for the challenge at 

Sue's Cricut and Crafts.

This month's challenge is to try a new technique. And make 6 of them. I decided to make a gate fold card since I never made one. There were a few on the web that had two blocks, one attached to either side, instead of the usual single image.So, of course, I had to do that too.

I also tried to make a little scene by adding snow and snowflakes with Stickles.

I now have 24 Christmas cards done!!!

Stamps: Unity Co-Brand Jillibean Soup Christmas Eve Chowder

Ink: Clearsnap ColorBox

Coloring: Sharpies

Ranger: Icicles Stickles

Paper: DCWV

FWF

Another Friday....Another Friends with Flair. 

I hope everyone had a good week. 

For this weeks cards i decided to use Itty Bittys. My sister gave me the first one. The boy and girl are just too cute. The second card is an Ippity Itty bitty. It's just plain FUN. 

One randomly awarded to one of the peeps who participates

in the blog hop by using Linky Tools

One will be given away to a random commenter on one of the participating blogs

This weekends Unity sale is on the NEW Phyllis Harris and 150 Itty Bittys!

Card 1

Stamps: Unity Clever Handmade You are Cute & Frames in the House

Paper: My Mind's Eye

Card 2

Stamps: Ippity: Sucks to Get Old Itty Bitty

FWF

It's Friday and that means Friends with Flair!

I made the background for this card a while ago. It's stamped with the piece of foam that came with some Tim Holtz embossing folders. I couldn't figure out what to make with it....until now. Unity has all the Susan K. Weckesser stamps on sale right now. I decided to use one of the sets to make this card. The set I used is called Create Your Day. 

 

Unity is also have a Little Wish sale. Angela asked her customers what was on their wish lists and made a sale featuring some of the wishes.

Have a WONDERFUL week!!

Inspired

 Every time I saw an all white card I wanted to try it. Lydia Fiedler from Splitcoast has a lot of them on Pinterest for the Dare to Get Dirty challenges. Time to give it a try. I pulled out everything I thought I might use and this is the end result. The larger flowers were made using the discards from the Spellbinders. Hope you like it.

Embossing folder: Darice

Spellbinders:Blossom Tags and Accents

Daisy punch: Marvy

Bling: Studio G, Recollections

Stamp: Unity Kit of the Month

Ribbon: Offray

Embossing powder: Martha Stewart sterling