HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Just want to wish everyone

a great, blessed year in 2012!!

DD1 and I were able to put up

some wall words, etc. in her

office yesterday. 
 I cut the words on my Silhouette.

The whole arrangement

measures about 4' x 5'.

She knew what she wanted,

I just had to cut out the

Scripture verse!

This should dress up her office

quite nicely!

Last FWF for 2011!!

Can you believe we are looking at the

end of 2011?  Seems like the year

just began!  I am eager to see

what 2012 holds.

Today is another Friends With Flair

day from Unity.  Check out the list of

all who are playing along HERE.

Prizes to be won!!

I have to post these two cards together

because the second one wouldn't have

happened without the first one!

Generations; Thanks For All Things, masked

Distressed Dots VersaMarked

OA Farmhouse dp, TH tissue tape
I love how the doily stamp matches the paper!!

I was dying the ribbon for this card

with Distress Ink Stormy Sky ink pad.

I decided to "swipe" some cs

through the DI left on the plastic

I had pearl misted the ribbon on.

I accidently dropped the ribbon

on top of the cs after I had it

all swirled with ink.  All I could

do to salvage the process
 was keep laying my ribbon

randomly across the paper. 

That is how I got the middle
 panel for this card.

With Sympathy

I love serendipity!!

Here's wishing you a wonderful,

blessed 2012!

Ippity Thank You Challenge

I made these fun little cards

today for the ippity challenge

which you can see HERE.

I used the word &

 flowers from the

Thanks for All Things set

& the frame from the

Season of Joy set.

I am having fun playing

with my new Spellbinders

and Distress Inks!

Merry Christmas FWF

Here we are just two days before

Christmas!!  I want to wish everyone

a blessed holiday season. 

Remember the true reason

we celebrate is that Jesus, the

Holy Son of God came to this

earth as a baby to live, die

and live again to pay for our sins.

This all makes it possible for us to

be in a right relationship with God!!

I, for one, am glad and grateful

for salvation!!

Now on to the Unity FWF Hop.

I have two projects to share today.

This one is an envelope I

designed for a gift certificate.

It works for the

Unity Gift Wrapping Challenge.

The tag has two Unity stamps on it.

Christmas Bough &

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes

This is for the KOTM Sketch Challenge.

I used three stamps from 

the June '11 All Smiles set.

The paper is my new

October Afternoon's Farmhouse...love it!

I VersaMarked and clear embossed

the number panel on my MS cs

then used the "ALWAYS" stamp for

my sentiment background.

Merry Christmas and have

a great weekend with those you love!!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Welcome to a December FWF

celebrating this wonderful season

of the year!  Check out everyone

linking up today over at

Unity's BLOG.

My first two cards both

use stamps from

ippity's Season of Joy.
Ippity has a Free For All challenge on
right now, check it out HERE! 

I love these glittery papers,

 they didn't need much to

make them into happy cards!

My last card uses a sentiment

from Christmas Bough.

I dry embossed and then sanded

the green cardstock.

That is all from me this week.

I need to stop making

Christmas cards and get on to

some others.

Have a great weekend!!

FWF for December 9th

Welcome to the Unity FWF Hop

You can find all the details on

the Unity Blog HERE.

I had to stop making

Christmas cards and make

a couple birthdays for two dear bils!

I used a thinned-Gesso wash on some

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman papers.

Misted them with Perfect Pearls.

Stamps on both cards are from

To the Moon & Back KOTM

& Generations

Ok, going to post one Christmas card.

You can probably guess I

got a ribbon banner die set

in the mail this week!

The sentiment is from

Christmas Bough.

That's it from me this week.  Have

fun getting ready for Christmas!!

Dec. 2 FWF

Welcome to Unity's

Friends With Flair Friday.

You can find out who is playing

along at the Unity blog HERE.

I cased this first card from one I

 saw on Kristina Werner's BLOG.

She was using the Seasonal

Distress Ink Iced Spruce and

I love the tone on tone effect.

The sentiment is from Ippity's

Season of Joy set.

The wreath was cut on my Silhouette

and I added Glossy Accents to the

 Festive Berries DI berries. 

The rest of the wreath

is covered with Tulip glitter glue.

Maraschino twine.

I had to get some gifts in the

mail today so quickly made these

tags to match the pattern of the

wrapping paper.

The background stamp

is from a KOTM,

small things Matter Most.

The sentiment and ornament

are from Christmas Bough.

I used DIs: Antique Linen,

Peeled Paint, Festive Berries.

Archival Galaxy Gold

The red cord is from Ikea.

Hope you are enjoying

these days leading up to

Christmas when we celebrate

the best gift the earth

ever saw...Jesus Christ!!

Unity's Let It Snow Challenge

I've had most of these parts

laying on my table for awhile now.

Today I pulled them together.

Embossed a Silhouette snowflake with

ZING gold ep, topped with

a Paper Studio pearl and

turned it all into this card

for Unity's monthly challenge.

You can check out

LET IT SNOW HERE.

I stamped Unity's Bright & Merry Winter Wishes

snowflake with Archival Galaxy Gold

onto the dk. green HL cs.

The ribbon is from my stash as is

the red metallic floss.

The scalloped circle is cut

from some pp, don't know the name.

I used the journal block from Unity's

FAITH set (Vintage Photo DI)

and the sentiment from Season of Joy

(Festive Berries DI).

Thanksgiving FWF-Unity Hop

Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone!!

Finding time to hop along with everyone

today?  You can find the list of everyone

playing along today over at UNITY'S BLOG.

I heat embossed the train onto

watercolor paper and then I used

DIs, Stormy Sky & Chipped Sapphire,

 misted with Perfect Pearls.

I used Echo Park papers &

stickers and Unity's co-branded

stamp set Boys Will Be Boys.
Brads are k i memories Heirloom.

I added gel pen stitching around the

sentiment and three colors of

baker's twine, maraschino, pea pod,

and lemondrop.

Here is a Christmas card that

uses the same distress ink technique.

I used the stamp from IOD's

Night Divine Collection.

The snowflake was cut on my Silhouette

and heat embossed with silver Ranger ep.

And my fil happened to celebrate

his birthday on Thursday so I made

him this card:

The journal block and verse

are both from the Faith set.

I like to use this journal block

on the inside of my cards,

it makes a nice faint background

for any sentiment.

Hope you are having

a great holiday weekend

giving thanks with family

and/or friends!!

Folded Trees

On Day 2 of Holiday Card Boot Camp

we were taught how to fold these

adorable little trees from a half-circle.

I used Basic Grey's Wassail paper

and used ink to paper to color

the back side with two shades

of green Distress Inks.

Because I used Basic Grey papers,

I am entering this into the

Stop & Scrap Challenge that

you can see HERE at

La Vikingas Scrap.

The green paper is embossed with

my evergreen folder, added some DI

to that, too, and the angel

is a Unity stamp dressed up

with some Stickles.

HCBC Day 8 Distress Inks & Resist Embossing

Here is another card I made

from the Holiday Card Boot Camp.

I wanted to try resist embossing

with Distress Inks.

I got my new Distress Inks

in the mail yesterday and

I love these shades of blue:

 Chipped Sapphire and Stormy Sky.

After embossing the
Aged Sheet Music from CHF
 onto the watercolor paper I applied
Chipped Sapphire and Stormy Sky 
with an inking tool and then misted it with
Perfect Pearls.  LOVE the shine!!

It is just so hard to get a
good photo of the shine.....

I learned to use DI to
edge white paper in
order to have a perfect match.
I edged both matts with Stormy Sky.

I cut the snowflake on my Silhouette,
 coated it with VersaMark,

 embossed it with silver e.p.

and added some rhinestones.
The trim is from the Paper Studio.

The stamp is from Iron Orchid Designs

Night Divine Collection by

Unity Stamp Company.

HCBC Day 10-Card 2

Here is another "reproducible" card:

HL cs, BG Wassail dp, BB kraft

Sizzix BG Evergreen embossing folder

Nina Brackett's Lord of the Seasons tree stamp

Cornish Heritage Farms sentiment

Kaisercraft pearls I got in my order from

Simon Says Stamp.

studio  G glitter glue

silver Stickles

Holiday Card Boot Camp-Day 10

The theme for Day 10 at

Holiday Card Boot Camp

was reproducible cards.

I used my new embossing

folder on my cards.

It's fun, what can I say!

I made my card horizontal

and I think this sketch would

work better the other way.

The snowflake was cut

on my Silhouette.

Ippity Dots & PrintWorks sentiment

HL cs and s.e.i. pp

The little heart is from a

k i Memories 

Heirloom collection.

FWF Fun With Friends!!

I spent the week creating

cards for the

Holiday Card Boot Camp

classes.  What fun to

learn a bunch of new techniques!

Of course I used my Unity stamps

so I'm happy to share some of

these cards with you today

for FWF.

Check out the Unity Blog

for the list of everyone playing

along!

These two both use the itty bitty

Find the Joy.

I love this image, I used

it on all my cards last year.

My second card uses images from

the Faith set &

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes

This gift card holder below

uses the tree from

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes

Thanks for stopping by

and have a great weekend.

Sounds like we might get

some SNOW here in MN!

Holiday Card Boot Camp-Day 9

The challenge at Boot Camp

today was to make

gift card holders.

HCBC Day 5-Card 3

I got my Perfect Pearls and

mini mister in the mail today.

So I finally finished this card

for Day 5 and I'm happy

with how it turned out.

The whole front is shimmery,

hard to photogragh!

The sentiment is computer generated.

The star and Rejoice were cut on my Silhouette.

DI include Evergreen Bough,

Iced Spruce & Crushed Olive.

I am also using Glossy Accents

for attaching these embellishments

and I really, really like how it works!

HCBC Day 7-Card 1

I love the white on

kraft card Jennifer

showed us on Day 7.

I usually don't have much

success with white inks

so I used VersaMark and

ZING white embossing powder

on my Clear Dollar

snowflake stamps.

 I went with this tall sentiment.

I used two Distress Inks, Crushed Olive

& Evergreen, on white

cardstock to make paper for the

holly leaves. Stamped ippity Dots

with ColorBox olive pastel on top.

Copics on the tree with Stickle

star and red ornaments.

Colored some clear jewels

with Copics and glued

them all down with Glossy Accents.

HCBC Day 6 Card 3

I had a couple days of

real life stuff going on

so didn't get any

 Holiday Card Boot Camp

 cards made yesterday.

I used a sketch from

Day 6.

I cut lots of the pieces

on my Silhouette.

Glitter glue, Stickles,

Distress Inks

Petaloo Flower colored with Copics

Paper Studio pearls colored with Copics

Day 6 Card 2

I like the sketch from

the previous post

so made a second card

with just a bit more

color and details.

Used Unity's itty bitty Find the Joy again.

Added a text box from the

Unity Faith set and the

sentiment from {ippity}'s

Season of Joy.

Some BG Wassail paper

and cappuccino twine.

Holiday Card Boot Camp-Day 6

We have 3 awesome

sketches to inspire us

on Day 6 of the

Holiday Card Boot Camp!

 

Pretty CAS, just VersaMarked

the background, added the

Unity itty bitty "Find the Joy",

white gel pen around the edges

and tied the ribbon.

Boot Camp-Day 5-Card 2

I wanted to use a holiday theme

on my second card

but don't have a holiday

embossing folder for

my Big Shot yet.

I used a Fiskars texture

plate and embossed it by hand.

The snowflake is popped up.

s.e.i. letters & glitter strip

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes snowflake

Card Camp-Day 5

So last night I worked on

my Day 5 cards for

Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011.

I used two Distress Inks

on my first card.

Crushed Olive & Antique Linen

I don't have my new

distress inks,

perfect pearls or
embossing folders yet.

I will defiinitely

try this technique again

when I get my new supplies!

I do like the colors,

rather non-traditional!

The inside simply says

"Christmas" in the

same red letters.

November 11-Veteran's Day-FWF

First of all a huge

THANK YOU

to all those who are veterans

and who are currently

serving our country!!

May you be blessed

on this Veteran's Day.

Today is another
Friends With Flair day
sponsored by Unity Stamp Co.
Check out the details HERE
and see who is playing along!

Here are a couple Christmas cards.

This one is inspired by Kristina Werner's

Day 25 Holiday Card Series.

It may be one of my

favorite Christmas cards!

The snowmen are from

Unity's KOM To the Moon & Back
Distressed Dots stamped with VersaMark
make up the bottom part of the card.
SU rub on snowflakes and sentiment.

I've been taking part in the

Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011

that started on Monday and goes

through the 21st.  You

can sign up any time, the info

is accessible forever!!

I'll share a couple cards I've made.

This one uses the branch stamp

from the {ippity} set Fall For You.

My photo card uses a sentiment from

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes

and the tree from {ippity}'s

Kissmas & Mistletoe set.

This picture is my dad and my grandson

from last Christmas!

And....I finally broke down

and bought a Big Shot

at my nearest big LSS,

R Scrapbook,

in Sioux Falls, SD.

I also bought this

stamp/embossing folder combo.

LOVE IT!!

Okay, I might have a new

favorite!

The sentiment is from

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes.

The link for that set is above.

So there you go,

lots of fun taking

Have a great Veteran's Day

and weekend!!

Card Camp-Day 4

One of the cards
presented to us today at

Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011

was made on acetate.

I had an overhead transparency

in my file so thought I'd give it

a try.  I did find out I could

emboss on the rough side

but when I tried it on the

smooth side, I melted it

with my heat tool!

I used Cornish Heritage Farms

Aged Sheet Music

VersaMark &

Stampabilities white ink

ZING white embossing powder

Paper from my stash

Sentiment stamp didn't have a name on it.

Holiday Card Boot Camp-Day 3-Card 3

Yeah, I just couldn't stop.  If I

hadn't had to go away this evening

I think I would have had a roomful

of holly embossed cards!!

I had this image colored

for the CDAC Progressive Challenge

so thought it would go great

on a holly themed card.

I think this is DCWV cs,

Sizzix embossing folder,

the image is by Daisy Doodles 

colored with Copics,

maraschino twine,

postage stamp cut on my Silhouette,

jillibean soup journaling sprout.

Check out the

Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011!!

Holiday Card Boot Camp-Day 3-Card 2

This card is about the same as the one

in the earlier post only I

did not use any ink on the folder.

I added a tag instead, topped with

the ribbon, pearl and jingle bell!

The stamp is from Unity's

Bright & Merry Winter Wishes set.

I added Ruby Slippers Stickles

for the holly berries.

The tag is stamped with

the Aged Sheet Music that

I used inside my previous card.

I used Antique Linen

Distress Ink on the tag.

You can still sign up for

the Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011.

Lots of fun, but horribly

enabling!! :)

Holiday Card Boot Camp-Day 3

The tutorial for Day 3

of the Holiday Card Boot Camp

was how to stamp and emboss

on a card.  I fell in love with

the look of this and gave in

to the urge I've been having

for some time now to get

an embossing machine.

I grabbed a purple

Big Shot from my LSS and

they also had the very

same holly stamp and

embossing folder on hand.

I couldn't resist!!

So here is my copycat

card for day 3.

I used ColorBox olive pastel

to stamp the ivy and then

used Antique Linen Distress Ink

on the folder to get some

color on the lower

parts of the embossing. 

These cards are literally the

first two pieces of paper I have

run through my Big Shot!

The star was left over from Monday's

inspiration so I popped it onto the

window, backed it with some

acetate and lightly stamped

Cornish Heritage Farms

Aged Sheet Music inside the card

with Distress Ink, Antique Linen.