Merry Friends with Flair Day!!

Thanks for stopping by on this Unity FWF Friday! We are getting so close to Christmas!!!

I'm glad I could be part of the hop again. We are very thankful to be done with harvest and fieldwork just in time before the cold weather and a SNOWSTORM hit here in southwest MN.

My first card for you today is a Christmas card I have made for my parents this year. Our family has decided that since my parents have everything they need that we would support a charity in their honor. Since my dad LOVES trees of all kinds and has been planting trees all his life, I decided to buy some fruit trees through Samaritan's Purse's gift catalog. The trees will not only give a needy family food to eat, but produce to sell, shade to sit in, and will help stop erosion. Check it out, they have everything from chickens to life-saving mosquito nets.

ANYWAY, to go along with the fruit tree theme, I used Unity's partridge in a pear tree stamp from the June KOM. I embossed the partridge and paper-pieced the pears, added some jewels and rick rack and scored three lines along the side. (Paper is Hobby Lobby & the Paper Studio)

I like the way it turned out and I'm sure my parents will, too!!

You can also check out the challenge over at Moxie Fab World to create a Christmas card with a "critter" on it!! Lots of adorable creatures to see over there!

My second card this week is a combination of Unity's ladybug stamps. A friend needed some encouragement while hospitalized so this is what I made for her:

Have a great hop and don't forget to watch for that blinkie that Unity

asks someone to include on their FWF blog!

Paper: MME check her out
Stamps: Unity June KOM, Little Buggers, & Sending My Love
Ink: ColorBox black, Martha Stewart markers tangerine, Crayola red pencil
Accessories: Basic Grey ribbon, Such Sweet Teirney button, Offray ribbon
Tools: Martha Stewart lace doily edge punch