FWF - Be WHO you are

Isn't that a great sentiment!  It is from the January KOM which is super awesome!!  The flower is from Everyday Adorable and I hadn't used it yet {gasp}!  Anyone else order faster than they can stamp sometimes?  I know that will be the case after CHA too - wow there are some great kits being released!! OK back to the card.  I colored in my flowers with twinkling H2O's and it really shimmers in real life :)  I used some Basic Grey platinum pearls which matched so pretty with this Basic Grey Sugar Rush paper.  The yellow is DCWV.  The card base is Core'dinations with the purple in the center of the card.  I love that paper because you can have the black on the outside and the lighter shade on the inside for stamping and writing.  I used my spellbinders die to cut and then just traced with a precision pen for a different touch.  Probably too much going on with this card but it is growing on me.  Have a great weekend!

H{Ippity} Hop Holiday

Well actually I am at work today.  We are closed but I am here while they put together our new office furniture. I should be finished with all the work I have to do today by 11:00 or so and then will have the rest of the day to hop.  I sure am glad a lot of the Ippity friends signed up today!!  The two cards I am sharing today are ones that I will be teaching next Saturday for our women's retreat at church.  I had to have designs that were simple enough to teach 35 beginners!!  I wanted something that would keep everyone busy even while they are waiting to share the stamps (since I don't have one for each). And something that they would all be able to send easily (nothing lumpy that will cost extra at the post office).  So here is what I came up with - I was inspired by Michelle Stancil's beautiful card for this first one.  I used some A2Z paper I already had and my beautiful Devoted set.  The second card you will probably recognize because I was asking for advise on it.  I ended up just adding another strip of the dark gray which I already embossed (and I will have my embosser there so they see how it works.)  Then all they will have to do is just sand it a bit, do the stamping and glue it all together.  I think the purple and gray will work for a valentine for a man and the pink of course is more girly.  Thanks so much for all the advice.  Have a great week!

FWF - NEW

Don't you just LOVE NEW!!! Last night after work I headed over to Kohls (I had my 30% off coupon in hand which I am only lucky enough to get every once in a great while) and wow all I needed were new pillows but I found some great bargains - the receipt says I saved $529.75!! How fun is that!!  Then when I got home my NEW Sugar Rush paper and some fun new bling was in the mail!!  Makes for a fun day!!  Anyway I cut right into that sugar rush (I also got a MM 6 x 6 paper pad and I used that to stamp the image on)  This little birdie from Spring Unity is the absolute cutest isn't it?!!  I was "feeling" this message which is from simply said and I also added a couple of little branches from Birdie Inspiration which may be a little too much sometimes I just get carried away!! And if you would have seen the back of my car after the Kohl's adventure you would totally know that I am not exaggerating! Have a great weekend especially those of you enjoying a long weekend!! I will be working for comp time that I will get to enjoy this summer :)

Paper Maniac Challenge

Paper Maniac (which is a great online store that carries my favorites including UNITY!!) is starting challenges!!  This week's challenge was a sketch and I LOVE sketches so I wanted to play along.  This was my first attempt... I couldn't find my oval coluzzle so I decided to just go with a circle - I stamped this adorable image from last months Unity Store Kit - then I remembered I had gotten this fabulous wood grain stamp from Paper Maniac (ooooh these are both on sale right now too - check it out!!) I hadn't used it yet so I got it ready - then I decided I still needed some other type of printed paper and found this fun BoBunny print and well the finished card now looks nothing like the sketch!  But I really like the card so I wanted to post it anyway!! LOL

So for my second attempt I was determined to stay a little closer to the sketch!! Still no oval and I flipped the sketch on it's side but I thought the spellbinders label die was at least a little closer.  I used another gorgeous stamp from the December store kit and I also used this Amber Road paper.  My thinking when I choose this paper was that it might look a little more masculine (LOL - I really can't do masculine!!) The stamping on the corners is all the same heart just stamped off the edges and then I cut out some little flowers from the same printed paper that I used to stamp the heart on.  I added a few little pearls to the centers of the flowers and to accent the side of the heart.  I think this one may actually qualify as an entry :) 

Sketchy Thursday

I found this fun site while I was H{ippity} hopping and HAD to try out the sketch! Heidi is one of the "friends" I met on the Unity forum and she designed this sketch. I love it!! This card is for my sister's birthday. I love these cute little owls from the new set Lollipop Tree You and Me the treasure sentiment is also new from Unity Treasure to Me.  The papers are My Minds Eye.  I am so happy to see the sun today - when I took my picture there was so much sun coming through the window that the pink of the base card almost looks like it is glowing!!  I am not going to complain.  I will definitely be checking out these sketches again. Thanks for looking.

H{Ippity} hop

okay all my Ippity friends - I need some help!!  I am working on putting together a couple of notecards to teach for our women's retreat.  I don't think I like this one. So what could I do differently?  I think I'm just not happy with this paper (which I used because I have enough of it for all 35 women who are signed up)? not sure... what do you think?

Get Sketchy Card Challenge

I have some fun new Unity stamps and a great sketch from Get Sketchy. You can see it here. I had a lot of fun with it and some BoBunny paper which is also the sponsor for this challenge.

FWF = Freezing Winter Friends?

What is it about winter that just makes you want to curl up with a blanket and movie? I wanted to make another card tonight but just couldn't bring myself to get out of the recliner!  This card is similar to the one I made for the Ippity Challenge - these My Minds Eye papers just felt so perfect for collage!  The ribbon is from May Arts and the flower is Fancy Pants.  I used some little Kaiser pearls - have you seen the sneak peeks for the prima say it in pearls with the little roses? Adorable. I love this beautiful December KOM background stamp and the Ippity stamps are so versitile!!  I should have some new stamps this weekend (and hopefully some time for stamping!) so check back next week for more Unity inspiration!!  Have a stampy great weekend! LOL {ok that was a little lame}

h{Ippity} hopping into 2010

So sorry for the horrible picture - I am going to try to replace this before anyone sees it!!  Aren't Monday's more fun with Ippity?!  I am heading back to work today after a nice long holiday.  I am happy to have spent some great time with family and some productive time cleaning my basement!

For this card I used my favorite devoted set along with some fun paper from BoBunny Love Bandit!  The adorable tree image from the December Unity Store kit is so perfect with this paper!  The little squirrel (rub-on) holding the nut with the heart on it reminded me of this scripture LOL!! I googled this verse and found some great commentaries on what this verse is all about!  My goal for 2010 (as it has been for many years) is to try harder to seek God's will for my life each and every day!!  I had some victories in 2009 but I also know that I have fallen way short of where I should be a lot of the time.

For all my Ippity customers - have you checked out the Ippity challenge here?  This week the challenge was to try something new.  This card is something new for me (new paper and making the scene with the trees, grass, etc. is something new for me.)  Each Monday there is a new challenge and Prize!! It's fun so give it a try!
Have a great week!

Addicted to LOVE {Unity Love}

Happy New Year!! Hope nobody got up too early - I am posting later than normal! I had to wait for the sun to come up to get a picture.  I finished this page last night after enjoying a great movie with my hubby!  This is a 2 page layout of some great pictures we took after my daughter's best friend's wedding.  Mindi was a beautiful bride!! I wasn't really ready for all of this but as I look at this picture of my daughter's boyfriend looking at her I know that I might as well get ready because it may be happening sooner than later!  And I might be okay with that in 2112 :) 

For the layout I used BoBunny papers, my Cricut Lyrical Letters and Caligraphy cartridges and lots of Unity/Ippity stamps!! Can you see the Ippity Love background?  It is very subtle because I used a pink ink that matched very closely with the background paper inside the blue heart!!  I can't seem to stop using that stamp it is on everything I do lately!!  Please click on the photos to see them better.

My second project is a fun little card that I made using a bunch of old tags I found in the bottom of a box as I was cleaning and purging in the basement!!  The blue cardstock was at least 11 years old!!  It was from an old Provo Craft Nature's Palette pack - anyone remember those?  They were colored on the outside and white on the inside perfect for cards! I even found the brackets sizzix die that I got free at CHA no telling how long ago and at the time didn't have a way to use it but it worked perfectly in my cuttlebug!!  The ribbon was also scraps! I hope to do lots more cards like this and use up the scraps I have accumulated on my scrapbook table!  I'm finished with the basement and the scrapbook room is next!! Sorry for getting so wordy today!! Enjoy the Hop.  I'm sure Angela has the list at the Unity Blog by now.