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.

HCBC-Day 2-Card 2

I used the basic sketch

from the photo card

to make this bright and cheery,

non-traditionally colored card.

I used some scraps I got in a RAK.

Holiday Card BootCamp-Day 2

Today our challenge was to

make a photo card.

I chose this picture of my dad

holding my grandson from

Christmas last year. 

I hope to send out some

cards with our 30th anniversary

picture on them but I don't

have them printed yet!

So for now here is my

photo card:

Unity Bright & Merry Winter Wishes sentiment

{ippity} Kissmas & Mistletoe tree stamp

BB kraft & Basic Grey Wassail papers

Distress Ink Vintage Photo & Ranger Cranberry

ZING & Ranger clear embossing powder

White paint pen, yarn from stash

HCBC-Day 1-Card 2

Here is my second card for

Day 1 of Bootcamp:

The stamp is from {ippity}'s Fall For You

Distress Ink Vintage Photo

Ruby Stickles

green MS markers

Sharpie silver marker

Star cut on Silhouette out

of paper from my stash.

I'm Going to Bootcamp!

Holiday Card Bootcamp 2011, that is!

You can find out about it HERE

and you can sign up anytime. 

It runs from today through

the 21st of November.

And here is my first card:

I used Unity's Distressed Dots stamped

with VersaMark.  The cs is MS and

I covered the left half with thinned Gesso.

The ornament was cut on my Silhouette

and I used PaperStudio Holographic

Glitter Irisdescent sticky paper behind it.

The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms

and the snowflakes are Clear Dollar.

I used a paint marker for the dashes

Distress Ink Vintage Photo

maraschino twine

Round #6 at CDAC

We are on the final round

of the Progressive Challenge

at Crafter's Digital Art Center.

This card uses the candles image

from Daisy Doodles and a sentiment

from Unity Stamp Company.

The holly stamp on the

background of the lower part

of the card is from {ippity}.

My second card uses an image

from Designed 2 Delight.

Thanks for stopping by!!

November 4th FWF

Happy November, everyone!!

The holidays will soon be here,

aren't you excited? 

I've been making Christmas

cards and having so much fun!

I used the mittens for the

background..don't know which

set they are from as I traded

 for them on My Unity Place.

The sentiment is from the

{ippity} set Season of Joy.

ColorBox red & Archival cobalt ink 

Peapod twine

I just got this paper at my LSS

yesterday but she was selling

them as individual sheets and

didn't have them labeled.

Anyone know who makes it?

It is super cute and sparkly!!

Here is another {ippity} card.

I got my inspiration from

Kristina Werner's

Holiday Card Series Day 24.

Stamps from Season of Joy

& Kissmas & Mistletoe

That's all from me this week.

You can check out all

the links on Unity's blog

right HERE.