Pennants & Banners Challenge

Made this card for the current

Unity Challenge to use pennants

and/or banners on a project.

This is for my bil's birthday:

I used 2 Itty Bittys:

Balloons To You &

Life Documented Banner

Archival Cobalt Ink

Sticky-Back Canvas

09.28.12 FWF

Quick little post, been

helping DH with the corn

and soybean harvest....

going on 3 weeks and not

much time to create.

Check out the Unity blog

for all the wonderful creativity

of Unity addicts!!
This card is for the Ippity/Unity
Fall Challenge.

I modified a Spellbinders die to fit

the area I had, covered the seam with

my faux chevron paper.  (Cut 2 strips of 

striped paper perpendicular and

 match stripes together.)

The leaf is stamped on

Sticky-Back Canvas and distressed

with greens and yellows.

Orchard Harvest leaf

and Simple Blessings sentiment.

I originally made this next card for

the KOTM Challenge...yep, did it again...

used a stamp that wasn't from a KOTM!

Bird from Ippity's Sing a New Song

There you go.  Have a

great, fall weekend!!

Anni Card for SSIC

My parents will celebrate their

61st Anniversary on the 27th

so I took some time today to

make this card for them.

I am entering this into the

Stampin' Sisters In Christ

 Challenge #158 to use something

handmade on your card.

I made my own background paper.

I used VersaMark to first stamp

Vintage Sheet Music and then

the honeycomb pattern I

found on a kitchen hotpad.

I also made the bird image

by stamping on sticky-back canvas

and then distressing it with

Scattered Straw DI.

09.21.12 FWF

Friday's are my favorite!

I love seeing all the inspiration,

Unity is just one big, happy family!

You can check it out for

yourself over at the

Unity blog HERE.

I made this card for the monthly

Unity Challenge which is to use

a banner or pennants.

I found a couple kitchen items lately that work great for card

making.  I bought an oven liner for about $5 to use as a craft sheet.

I had paint on it yesterday and it didn't soak through, so that's cool.

I also spotted this silicone hotpad with a honeycomb pattern at

WalMart the other day.  I put VersaMark on it and pressed

the card onto it. Love how it turned out.

Paper is Simple Stories
Two Unity stamps:
Jesus is the Reason
All Seasons

My second card uses
stuff I've had laying on my
table for awhile. 

Distressed Dots

Simple Blessings

Orchard Harvest

Crackle Paint on a packaging thing

that looked like a huge button to me.

Scalloped circle cut from coffee cuff.

Have a blessed weekend!!

09.14.12 FWF

Welcome to Unity's FWF Friday!

You can check out all the details HERE

on the fabulous Unity blog.

Ink and paint on my fingers this

morning....oh, what fun!

I made this mixed media tag

for a challenge at

Crafting By Designs.

Lots of fun over there,

go check it out some time!

This was my first attempt to use

Crackle Paint.  I also used DI, acrylic paint,

and Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls.

Stamps are from

Harvest of Memories

and Bitty Backgrounds. 

I used a paint dauber and a

piece of orange bag mesh.

That's it from me this week.

Been way too busy with company,

canning garden produce, and

helping hubby combine corn.

Have a blessed weekend!

Winner of My 50th Bday Giveaway

Well, after yesterday,
 I'm officially over the hill! 
I guess that means

it is all downhill from here!

Tiger cake from DD

Starbucks in my cup

Ah!  Embracing the future...

God is good!

So it is time to reveal

the random winner of

my giveaway.

I counted up my posts

since I announced the

giveaway and came up with

12.  I entered that into random.org

and it picked #8.  On the 8th post,

there were 3 commenters and

random.org picked #1:

Julie Odil August 31, 2012 10:05 AM
This is a simple, beautiful card. Well done.

Congrats, Julie!  And thanks

to everyone who left comments!

50th Birthday Celebration

Please scroll down for the
FWF & WAW posts!!

I'm going to share the joy

of turning 50 with you!

Comment on as many of my posts as

you like between now and midnight

September 8th.  I will pick a comment

to receive some fun supplies:

Unity stamps

 Simple Stories 6 x 6 paper pad
Various die cuts & embossed designs
Misc Halloween & other goodies

09.07.12 FWF

Posting at the last minute for FWF

tonight....had a very busy week!

I used the Unity KOM Sept. Sketch Challenge

for my inspiration.

To the Moon and Back KOM

Chipboard heart Crackle painted, DI'd

& Perfect Pearled!

Check out Unity's Blog HERE

for more Unity projects.

Have a blessed weekend!

Word Art Wednesday

This card is being entered into the

Word Art Wednesday challenge #44

The theme this week is

"We love because He

first loved us."

I John 4:19

My card has a different

verse on it but ends with,

"His faithful love endures forever."

No better promise than that!!

 

I heat embossed the gold clocks on the

background then added the sentiment

stamped on vellum backed with

embossed/painted foil.

The chipboard bird was painted

with Crackle Paint, sponged with

Black Soot DI and then misted

with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls.

Thanks for stopping by

and God bless!