FWF & Julie's Blogoversary Hop

Today is a double fun day...
WELCOME to Unity's FWF &
 to Julie's Hop,
"Celebrating Friendship"!

We've become
fast friends through this great
online community of Unity
cardmakers! I was tickled pink when
she asked if I would help her
celebrate her blogoversary!!
Love her Phyllis Harris creations
with Golden Retrievers & her heart
of gold towards her care center
clients.  She even keeps
encouraging DH & I since FIL
fell and broke his hip a month ago!
Now THAT'S a friendship
worth celebrating!!

 Be sure to leave
comments as Unity has 2 prizes
to give away and Julie is also doing
random drawings for prizes!!
I've posted a bunch of pictures
to do this double day justice
so off you go to scroll through them!

A Day For Daisies image, Itty Bitty

Balloons to You sentiment,

Copics, DCWV cs

Bugaboo image, Rockin' it Unity Style KOTM sentiment,

 Copics, Cryogen white cs

Here is a project I cut

on my Silhouette for my

4 year old niece's birthday.

I didn't tape the sides as I had

to mail it flat.  I put the greeting on

the inside and her mom can remove

the liner from the adhesive and

stick it together for her.

(Forgot to take the pic before

I signed the card!)

Prima flowers, Itty Bitty Balloons to You,

Paper Studio paper & brad,

Studio g glitter glue & Ranger Stickles.

Can you stand one more
Silhouette project?

I made their sister one earlier so now

they each have one. 3-8 x 10 canvases

Cut the vinyl, stick it down, spray paint, peel it off!

And here is that card for the
Unity sketch challenge I promised
2 weeks ago and totally forgot
 to use last week!  

Maggie Girl sentiment, Enjoy this Day Itty Bitty
& Direction of Happy Itty Bitty

Now you can go to Unity's BLOG
for more inspiration
OR....
you can hop on to Maria's
RIA CREATIONS to continue
on Julie's Blogoversary Hop!!
If you want to start at the
beginning of Julie's Hop go
to her blog here:
MUDDY PAWS & INKY FINGERS

Thanks for stopping by!!

Crafting By Designs Patriotic Blog Hop & FWF

Welcome to a

Patriotic Blog Hop from
Crafting By Designs
and this is also my post for
 Unity's FWF Friday.
Click HERE for Unity details.

You can find out about the 1st
Anniversary celebration details
 and the Blog Hop

 at Crafting By Designs

and should have come from
Margaret's Cats and Cards.
I am the last stop on the Hop.

  The challenge for this Hop is
to use the colors of my flag.

Stamps are from Sending My Love set

Here is the birthday gift

I made for our 6-year old

granddaughter:

I saw this project on the

Silhouette blog and fell

in love with the idea!!

I designed and cut Ellie's name

out on my Silhouette,

divided it into 3 sections

and stuck each one onto

an 8" x 10" canvas.

(I bought them in a 3-pack

at WalMart for a few dollars.)

I used red spray paint and

after it dried Ellie helped me

peel the letters off, leaving the

her name in white.

This was a fun, easy project!

Thanks for stopping by

& have a blessed weekend!

Linking up with Flashback Friday's

22.0-First project using a die cut.

September 19, 2010 was the date

of my post with this card.  I had just

purchased my Silhouette and cut out

this frame and duck to use for

a sketch challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a blessed weekend!

Flashback Friday 20.0

Looking back at projects I made

way back when is always fun!!

Flashback Friday's 20th

Challenge is to find your

first black & white card.

I found three projects
that feature black & white.
The last one was the only
one I could think of at first
but I found 2 older ones.

Looks like my first

black & white card was from

December 13, 2009.

It was for 3 challenges

You can read about it HERE.

This one is from Jan. 1, 2010.

This one is from Oct. 28th, 2010.

Original post here

The challenge goes until

February 24th so be sure

to join in on the blog hop

and the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

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!

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 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!

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.

Dear Hubby's Birthday Card

The 24th is my dh's birthday...
and my dad's birthday. 

One will be 49, the other 81. 

 I have my card for dh finished as of today. 

Still trying to get inspired for my dad's!

DH is extremely mechanical. 

 He has been making and

fixing things since he was a kid. 

Now he not only farms

but restores antique tractors.

Like, early 1900s tractors.

He is a craftsman at what he does.

(Just had to brag on him!!)

I'm so proud of him!

The image is an Eric Dull freebie

Stampabilities sentiment

Lots of Copics

BB kraft; MME Happy Stripes

Crinkle cs

Silhouette cut hammer and wrench

Thankful for FWF!

Welcome to this (almost) Thanksgiving Friends With Flair!! Time sure flies when we are having fun, doesn't it??!! Check out Unity's blog for the list of everyone playing along today.
I am sharing a couple Christmas cards I made for the {ippity} challenges this week. Did you get to see the great new releases? Lots of amazing new stamps to long for! My first card is for the 3 stamps/3 layers challenge.  I used Stickles for "lights" & "garland" on the house.  If you look closely, you can see the little Christmas tree in the window of the house!

This second card is for the no red/green Christmas card challenge.  Isn't it great how the Silhouette snowflakes match this Paper Studio paper?!  I used lots of jewels and Stickles to make it shine.  For all the details on both cards you can stop by my SCS gallery HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful, grateful for blessings, Thanksgiving Day!

Happy to Share with FWF!!

Hello, fellow Unity blog hoppers!! I'm so happy to be less busy and able to take part in Friends With Flair again!! We were busy with harvest and then my dad was in the hospital for a couple days. Happy to say he is home and doing fine again.
My first card is for Rachel's "recipe" Unity Addicts Challenge. My initials dictated that I use black & white, ribbon and one layer. I tried the extra wax resist technique and just couldn't get it to work right so went with a "plain jane" card:

Paper Studio white cs, Unity's It's Your Day sentiment, Silhouette cake, Palette noir ink,

 and ribbon & black cs from my stash.

My second card was inspired by the chatting on SCS yesterday.  We were talking about Silhouettes and Cricuts and stamp-edged cutouts.  I decided to buy a set from Silhouette but when I clicked on it, it turned out to be free!  What fun and so I used it on my card today.

Stamps are Unity's Jesus is the Reason and Merry & Bright Winter Wishes. 

 I stamped the snowflakes on the kraft Paper Studio cs.  MS geranium cs & Paper Co. ivory cs. 

 The ink is all Memento rich cocoa, ribbon is Offray, coloring done with Copics.

That's all for this week, be sure to go to Angela's/Unity's Blog for the entire list of everyone playing along this week.  And don't forget to watch for the blinkie, who wouldn't want a chance at 25 Unity stamps???!!!!