Grad Cards

Here are the grad cards that I made this year.

I used my Silhouette to cut out this guy

(and some girls), the stars are punched out.

The letters are tiny alpha & 

vintage typewriter stickers.

Grandson's 1st Birthday

I love the Echo Park Boys Will Be Boys line!

I used my Unity co-branded stamps

on the inside of the card.

Couldn't resist using some twine.

I finally ordered some of every color

from The Twinery. 

LOVE the stuff!

Back to Card Making!

Wow, talk about a crazy busy week! 

My sister, nephew and 2 bils were here

 for about a week to help move my parents

 from their acreage into a retirement condo. 

They are 81 & 78 so this isn't the
 first time they've "retired"! 

 Anyway, it is great to be back to having
a few spare minutes to create! 

 I made this card for a CAS challenge

 to use heat embossing over at
Simply Scrapping Crafts. 

 I'm also entering it into

 All Things Unity's Stamps Never Used
Challenge #31. 

These 3 stamps were all in the 100 random stamps

 that I won a couple weeks ago from Unity. 

Jillibean Soup-Spotted Owl Soup by Unity

Oh, Happy Day by Unity

4/11 KOM the best is yet to be by Unity

Thanks for stopping by!

Chevron Challenge & Mixed Media Fun for FWF

Moxie Fab World has a challenge

 to use a chevron...

the Chevron Chic Challenge. 

 I had this chevron in my Silhouette library. 

I confess it was a freebie and I

didn't think I'd ever use it.

AND....

my parents had all their slides put on DVDs

so I have access to TONS of old slides!

My DH said, "why don't you

use them on cards?" 

 I thought

it went great with this sentiment,

which was an unused stamp for me. 

I don't know what set it is from

because I just got it with the 100

stamps that I won from the

Tweet Challenge!!!!!

(Thanks so much Unity!)

That makes this card work for the

All Things Unity Challenge #31:

Stamps Never Used.

MS pewter cs, Amy Butler dp, MME black paper

Unity stamp

the Paper Studio flower, s.e.i. brad

EK Jolee's boutique silver flowers

Here is my Mixed Media project.

These are our grand daughters a year ago.

This is a 4 x 6 canvas and this was

F.U.N.!!!

Because there are a lot of details

I'm not going to list them here.

You can check them out in my SCS gallery .
Stamps:
Bella Fiori, It's A Good Day,
ippity Fall For You,
Pocket Full of...KOM

  I think their little brother should

have a canvas all his own.

I have an idea for his birthday

coming up on June 4......

Have a great time looking through

all the UNITY FWF posts

and have a great weekend!!

FWF Finally!

Welcome to another Unity FWF Friday!

I made these cards for the

embossing challenge over at

My Unity Place HERE. 

I cut the onesie out with my Silhouette

and stamped it with the love journal strip

 from ippity's Because of You set.

I got new stamps in the mail this week-

 itty bitty It's a Good Day. 

LOVE this one!

It looks just like the tricycle

I had as a very little kid!

This will make a great birthday

card for a little boy:

I did all tone on tone on this one.

Archival Cobalt brushed on, then stamped on.

Same with the ColorBox canary & red.

I stamped the tricycle & sentiment with

Stampabilities white and then

embossed with ZING white.

The star is from Stitched Greetings.

Dots for Sure are {ippity}.

BB kraft & Ranger clear e.p.

Check out all the details for
this FWF at Unity's BLOG.
Thanks for stopping by &
have a super weekend!!

All Things Unity Trifecta Challenge

This sweet little card is for the

ATU challenge  to use

3 kinds of embellishments on a

3 x 3 card that is either a

birthday or anniversary card. 

 I stretched the birthday theme a bit...

to Happy Birth Day!!

My three embellishments are

the Paper Studio gemstone dotting the "i",

the silver Stickles on the moon and

the ribbon (from my stash).

I used stamps from

Unity's Happy Everything

and ippity's Fall For You.

The cs is BB kraft,

paper is the Paper Studio's

Baby Farm Animals

Ink is ColorBox cyan &

Ranger clear embossing powder.

Happy Mother's Day!!

I've had a great day, got to scrap & stamp this afternoon.  Here is my entry for Unity's Recipe Page.  You can check out the details on the Unity blog HERE.   The prize for this challenge is $200 worth of Unity stamps! I used one of my favorite holiday recipes: Holiday Party Mix so went with a Christmas themed page.

Here is a picture of the recipe card outside of the pocket.

The directions are on the back side.

And a little bit of the popped up elements: the tree,

the pocket and the picture of the goodies.

I zig-zagged around the edges of the

 center panel and the pocket.

The little holly sprigs are all paper-pieced and the

ones on the kraft were heat-embossed

before I cut them out.

The berries are colored with Copic R89.

Paper: BB kraft; BG Wassail

Stamps: Ippity Season of Joy & Kissmas & Mistletoe

Ink: Ranger Cranberry, Memento tuxedo black,

Ranger clear embossing powder

Ribbon: Holiday Time

Copic: R89

Happy May FWF!

My daffodils are BLOOMING,

SPRING is finally here in MN!
We've been planting corn all week.

After that little news flash, 
it is time for FWF!! 

 Check out the UNITY BLOG for all the details

and the blogs of everyone playing along.

I made this card for a monochromatic,

CAS challenge over at SSC a couple
weeks ago and forgot to share it here!

My favorite uncle passed away

the day before Easter

so I made this for my aunt and her family.

I used Unity's With Sympathy set.

The ribbon is a handle from an Ann Taylor Loft bag.

The "pp" is packaging from something I bought

at Office Max!

I stamped the sentiment with Memories black

and embossed it with Ranger clear e.p.

I made the bow with my homemade

cardboard "bow-easy".

My second card(s) for today are a lot happier
than that first card!  What is more
fun than baby cards?!

My dd saw a card
somewhere with a similar image
and sentiment as these cards.
After I made them, 
 they just seemed too plain.

 I saw a tutorial
link on Emily's blog for
Make it Monday #12 Line Frame 101
and thought it was just the thing
for these simple cards.

So what do you think...
one line or two?

I personally like the double line frame better.

MS swan cs, ColorBox olive pastel ink
Ranger clear embossing powder
Little Me stamps by Unity

Thanks for stopping by! 

Have a great, warm and

sunny weekend!!

Mother's Day Cards Are Ready

I stayed up late last night to get

 my second mom's (mil) card done. 

 I used a digi stamp from

Crafters Digital Art Center's
Freebie Digi Challenge. 

Wow, that's a mouthful! 

 It was designed by Nana Vic whose

 store you should check out! 

Nana Vic's Digitals.

The ribbon is from my stash

so this card is also good for the

Clear It Out

Tuesday Challenge

I printed the stamp out onto Cryogen paper

 and colored it with Copics.

(R89, R85, R83, R81, Y11, Y00, Y000,

YR21, YG67, YG63, YG13)

Cardstock is MS Jonquil & Wausau rose

MS doily edge punch

One Card, 2 Challenges

Wow, someone told me

Mother's Day is next Sunday,

guess I've been asleep or something! 

I made this card today for my MIL
and it fits 2 challenges:

 the new Unity KOTM sketch
challenge which is HERE. 

The challenge requires

that I use a Unity Kit of the Month. 

I went back to my very first

set, April 2009's fresh beginnings. 

The second challenge this fits is the

 All Things Unity Challenge # 30, HERE.

For this one, I had to use texture of some kind.

I used a couple pieces of Amy Butler paper

that come covered with glitter.

I also embossed the black butterflies and

the sides of the pink panel.

Gift Tag to go inside, used masking technique:

The butterfly was cut with my Silhouette. 

The ribbon is from JoAnn's and the

cs is from HL, MS and Wausau Paper.

The button is from my stash and I

used a MS edge punch for the scallops.