A Sketch for FBW #137

If you're a frequent visitor, you know I just love sketches!

This week's FBW challenge is a sketch from Carly at Sketches by Carly. You can see it on theFBW blog! When participating, please remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel. To see more wonderful creations with the sketch, please visit my fellow DT members, links on the left sidebar!

Here is my take~

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Becoming Butterfly ~ Unity Stamp Company

Paper: Linen Closet by DCWV

Ink: Colorbox Chestnut Roan

Other: Big Scalloped Ovals Large, Kaisercraft pearls, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, mini pop dots

PTT #24

Happy Tuesday!

Today's Party Time Tuesdays challenge is to create a birthday card and include one or more balloons on it (plus the required birthday wording on your card front!).

Now when I envisioned my card, I really thought I'd be using birthday balloons....but in my messy room, the Unity Love in the Air set was the first one that I came across with a balloon in it....even more perfect is I found this American Crafts City Park paper. Love how this turned out!

To see the rest of the design team samples and to enter your creation, please click HERE!

Get Well with something that flies!

Today's PaperCutz Challenge is to make a get well card and to use something hand stamped, digital stamped or Cricut cut image of something that flies! I thought this was a super fun challenge!

Here is my take on the challenge~ I had to pull out my favorite bird set, Birds of a Feather from Unity Stamp Co., I think this is the only image in the set that I hadn't used yet.

To play along and see what the rest of the design team created, please click HERE!

Card Details:

Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Co., All Year Greetings ~ Fiskars

Paper: Image stamped on TE Choice Snow White cardstock, Basic Grey Pyrus

Ink: Memento

Copics: E25, E29, Y35, YR16

Other: Pyrus buttons, Nestabilities Labels 4, PTI button twine

TFL!!

For the Birds

That's the challenge this week over at the Order of the Opus Gluei!

I decided to make 2 different cards using the Birds of a Feather set by Unity Stamp Company, it's one of my favorite go-to sets for birds. I incorporated textures for the Corrosive Challenge this week too. I always forget to use my cuttlebug folders, I managed to use 3 different ones making these cards.

The first card is for the sketch at I {heart} to Stamp - it's been forever since I played along there!


And this card is for the sketch challenge at Card Patterns, I flipped it to accommodate my image.


Card #1 Supplies
Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Company
Paper: Basic Grey Two Scoops
Ink: Memento
Copics: Y11, R21, G21, YR65
Other: Marvy scallop punches, cuttlebug folders, blossom spica pen, recollections pearls

Card #2 Supplies
Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Company
Paper: Basic Grey Eva
Ink: Memento
Copics: Y32, YR16, YG03, RV11, RV13, RV14
Other: Marvy scallop punches, cuttlebug folders, blossom & lilac spica pens, Kaiser pearls

TFL! Off to work on the to-do list a bit more.

Flutter By Wednesday #96

Good morning! It's a snowy Wednesday here in my part of New England.

It's Flutter By Wednesday #96 and our challenge this week is to use the theme of Love, however you perceive it, just be sure to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creations. We are sooooo very happy to see so many participants entering our challenge. Keep up the great work!!

I found the coolest stamp to use on my card this week :) It's from the Unity set Be "Owl" Mine.


Here is a side view of the card, I stamped cut two butterflies out and layered them for some dimension.


I just love how this card turned out...bright, happy and full of butterfly love!

I used a sketch from Get Sketchy -


If you'd like to play along, please link your card to the Flutter By Wednesdays blog and while you are there, check out the awesome cards by our guest designers. I'm sure the other flutterbys have some amazing creations as well, so check out their links in my left sidebar and on the Flutter By blog.

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Be "Owl" Mine ~ Unity
Paper: Sugar Rush ~ Basic Grey
Ink: Memento
Copics: R81
Other: Martha Stewart butterfly punches, Kaisercraft rhinestones, stardust pen, misc. ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

O is for ...

Owl, of course!

I made this card last weekend for a Letter O swap. The adorable owl is from Unity Stamp Company.

I found this paper is one of my many DCWV stacks...think it was the Whimsy Stack, I knew it was perfect for this owl when I saw it!

The layout is from SCS -


Card Supplies:
Stamps: Be "Owl" Mine ~ Unity Stamp Company
Paper: DCWV, PTI Lemon Tart, Paper Company
Ink: Memento
Copics: B14, YR68, E57
Accessories: prima flowers, brads ~ Making Memories

Thanks for stopping by!

Tiny Trinity

I made this card tonight for a 'T' swap using SC242.

Finally used my Unity Stamp set, Tiny Trinity. I originally wanted to try masking the trees to create a tiny forest but time got away from me and I needed to make something a bit simpler. I decided to try and give it a masculine feel and I think (hope??) I accomplished that. I used Basic Grey Mellow for the dp which has autumn colors and qualifies for the 'Colours of Autumn' challenge on the Forever Friends challenge blog. ETA: Whoops...can't use it for the challenge since its not an FF image, didn't see that. Oh well!

Happy World Card Making Day!!

It's World Card Making Day!!

It never fails and I'm usually busy when this day rolls around...but this year I made sure I'd have some time to play! Splitcoast has a bunch of different companies hosting challenges throughout today, so far I've only gotten one card done but have plans for at least 2 more! It's hard trying to create when everything is in boxes!

The first challenge of the day was from Unity Stamps, use a quote as a focal point on your card. I thought it would be sooo easy! Ha!! I couldn't find any quote stamps and since my printer is still at my mom's, well I just had to keep digging until I found a stamp to use.

Here is WMCD09A!

The quote is from Unity (you don't have to use Unity stamps to enter, but it was the first one I found!) and the paper is from an Autumn Leaves stack called Pretty Poppies. To jazz it up a bit, I inked the edges of the outside in black and the quote in SU Old Olive. I used copics R89, YR68 and YG25 to color the quote in. Topped it off with a prima flower and brad and voila, a card! I think it took me longer to find all the supplies than it did to put it together.

For the layout, I used ESS52.

Back later with more creations!!

Sky's the Limit!

TGIF!!!

I created this card a few weeks ago for a Sky's the Limit swap. Anytime I think of birds, I automatically head to my Unity Kit - Birds of a Feather. I still have a few more stamps in that kit to get inky. This stamp is my favorite of the bunch. I used Unscripted Sketches #8 for the layout.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Co.
Paper: GP, Paper Company, DCWV
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento
Copics: Y35, Y21, YG06, YR16, RV13, RV14, RV34
Accessories: Labels Three ~ Nestabilities, prima flowers, ribbon & brad (stash)

Thanks for visiting!

Flutter By Wednesday #57

Its Flutter By Wednesday again! So happy to have you stop by and visit.

Today's card is my last on the Flutter By Team. I am stepping down for a few months to take care of some upcoming life changes. I hope to still try the challenges when I have some free time.

Today's challenge is to use a quote or sentiment with a butterfly or fairy. I thought I'd pull out my Becoming Butterfly Unity stamp for this week's card. I used a sketch from the 365 cards blog that you can see here. ETA - My card made it into the Top Trio on 365 cards!

Please welcome two new team members - Lelia & Christine and also stop by and see Nicola, our featured member this week! If you want to play along, please link your card to Danni's blog and if you upload to SCS or PCP, use keyword FBW.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Becoming Butterfly ~ Unity Stamp Co.
Paper: Fleuriste ~ Cosmo Cricket, Georgia Pacific
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, Copic R89
Accessories: edge distresser ~ Heidi Swapp, threading water punch ~ Fiskars, Classic Butterfly punch ~ Martha Stewart

Thanks for fluttering by!

Thanks a bunch!

I created this card a few weeks ago and kept forgetting to post it! I used SC221 to create it. I had to rotate the sketch so that I could fit my image. This neat flower is from the Unity March Kit of the Month. I really love this funky paper, its from this year's DCWV Spring stack.

The Recipe:
Stamps: March Kit of the Month ~ Unity Stamp Co.
Paper: DCWV, GP
Ink: Tuxedo Black, Ladybug ~ Memento, Copics ~ Y35, YG25, YR68, R17
Accessories: prima flowers, Sakura stardust pen, Diamond Stickles

Thanks for looking!

Mojo Monday #82

I created this card for a Woodlands Creature swap. I really love this deer from the February Unity Kit of the Month. It was the perfect size image for the Mojo Monday sketch.


I really had a good time creating the grass for the deer to stand in. I used Copic markers G99 - Olive, YG67 - Moss, and YG95 - Pale Olive.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Deer ~ Unity Stamp Company, Friend ~ CTMH Say It In Style
Paper: GP, DCWV, PTI Ripe Avocado & Dark Chocolate
Ink: Rich Cocoa~ Memento, Copics (G99, YG67, YG95)
Accessories: EK Success ~ Scalloped Scallop Border Punch, Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch

I hope you all had a lovely weekend! Have a happy scrappy week and thanks for visiting my blog!

Shine On

When I saw the Unity stamp set 'Shine On' featured on the PaperCrafts blog awhile ago, I just had to have it. Its so darn cute!

Here is a card that I created for a sketch challenge on one of my groups last month.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Shine On ~ Unity Stamp Company
Paper: DCWV, Paper Company, GP
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento
Accessories: Zig writer, Lemon Copic Spica pen, Mega, Giga & Extra Giga Oval Scallop Punches ~ Marvy

And here is an ATC that I created with the scraps.


Thanks for looking!

Things That Fly

I had some time to play tonight and I created this card for a Things That Fly swap. I used Taylor's Cupcake Sketch #63 as a starting point. I love this sketch and can see using it again. I flipped the sketch to accommodate my image.

This is another bird from the Birds of a Feather set. I used one of the other birds in THIS post. There has been a lot of talk about Flower Soft on many groups lately. I finally decided to give mine a try. I really love how it looks with this card. The Sweet Pea mixture was just right for my card!

The Recipe:
Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Company
Paper: DCWV Spring Stack '09, GP
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, Copics ~ B01, YG25, YR68
Accessories: Sweet Pea Flower Soft, Prima flowers, brad ~ MM, Giga & Extra Giga Oval Scallop Punches ~ Marvy

Thanks for looking!

Unity World Record Inspirational Blog Hop!

If you didn't join me from Christine's blog, please start the Unity Inspirational Blog Hop at http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com.

I had fun making this card using the March Unity Kit of the Month. I gave the rainbow a sky by using a sponge dauber and I wanted to give the cloud some dimension so I added one of my favorite products - Stickles!

The Recipe:
Stamps: "Simple Life" March KOTM ~ Unity Stamp Co
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Momento, Bashful Blue ~ Stampin Up
Paper: Fashion District ~ Me & My Big Ideas, Georgia Pacific
Accessories: sponge dauber, Frosted Lace stickles, Marvy Oval Scallop Giga & Xtra Giga punches, ticket corner rounder ~ SU, copic spica pens

My favorite quote is "Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist". Although I sometimes wonder if therapy really would be cheaper LOL!

I hope you are enjoying the Unity Blog Hop, the next stop on your hop is Robyn at http://herebygrace.typepad.com.

Flutter By Wednesday #50!!

It's a big Flutter By Wednesday. We are celebrating Danni's 50th week of hosting Flutter by Wednesdays. There is lots going on so be sure to read the whole post and stop by our Flutter By team members listed on my left sidebar.

First, let me tell you about the card. This week we are using a sketch by Maria Bell. You can find her blog HERE.


I am still wishing for warmer weather here. 30's and low 40's isn't spring weather to me LOL! The paper is from last year's DCWV Spring Stack, its bright and fun, just like the weather should be. The image is Becoming Butterfly by Unity Stamp Company. I just love this saying!

Be sure to check out our Featured Team Member Heather this week! You can see her blog HERE. We also have a fabulous guest designer, Catherine St. Clair. Stop by Danni's blog to see her creation and her blog can be seen HERE.

To celebrate 50 weeks of Flutter Bys, Danni is offering up this blog candy when you participate by linking a card to her blog, or uploading it to PCP or SCS using the keyword FBW.

If you have a minute, please visit Ami and Kimmie's blogs, this is their last week as a Flutter By team member. We'll miss your creations, ladies!

The Recipe:
Stamp: Becoming Butterfly ~ Unity Stamp Company
Paper: GP, DCWV, Paper Company
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, copics (RV34, spica lemon, spica clear)
Accessories: corner ticket punch ~ SU, classic butterfly punch ~ Martha Stewart, scalloped scallop border punch ~ EK Success, ribbon ~ stash

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you get the chance to play along with us this week!

Yummalicious!

I created this card for a monochromatic swap, not one of my strong suits in scrapping, but I think I did okay!

The paper is from an old Spring Stack by DCWV. The row of cupcakes is a stamp by Unity Stamp Company called One, Two, Three, Four Thousand cupcakes. I masked the last one off since it didn't fit on the panel for the card I was making. I used the clear spica pen on the cupcakes, but it doesn't show in the picture. I used Friday's sketch from Prairie Paper & Ink, Amy always does a great job with her sketches!


The Recipe:
Stamps: Unity Stamp Company
Paper: GP, DCWV
Accessories: ribbon ~ Michaels, clear spica pen
Ink: Tuxedo Black, copics (see picture)

TFL!

TECC59

This adorable card was created for a pink/yellow swap and I thought Taylored Expressions Cupcake sketch for this week was perfect to showcase my image and this yummy new dp from Basic Grey.

The main image is from the Unity kit - Birds of a Feather. I'm not usually into birds, but when I saw these cuties, I thought they would be fun to work with. I was right! The sentiment is from one of my many Studio G sets.

I also got to play with two new punches - the scalloped photo corners and the scalloped scallop border punch from EK Success. I really love these punches! They punch with ease and since they are flatter than most punches, they store quite easily. In place of the circle, I cut a cylinder from my Cricut, just to give it a slightly different look. I did change the card to a standard size, just for easier mailing purposes.

The Recipe~
Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Company, sentiment ~ Studio G Series 16
Paper: GP, Basic Grey Porcelain
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, copics ~ R20 & YG25
Accessories: Cricut, scalloped photo corner punch ~ EK Success, scalloped scallop border punch ~ EK Success

TFL and have a great day!

I'm on the Flutter By Team!

I've been waiting to spill the beans LOL!

I have been asked to join Danni's Flutter By Wednesday Team. Every Wednesday we post a card using a butterfly and sometimes there's a twist involved. This week, no twist. For my first Wednesday, I challenged myself - no sketches or challenges! Well was that ever a challenge LOL!

I am so pleased with how this card turned out.


Close up of sparkle (its so much better IRL!):

I used Memento Angel Pink to sponge the background and a clear spica pen to glitter up the butterfly image. The stamps are from the Unity Stamp February KOTM.

Please be sure to check out this week's featured stamper Michelle, the rest of the Flutter By team and to welcome Jodi to the team too. The links are on the left sidebar! And if you'd like to play along be sure to link to Danni's blog and if you upload to SCS or PCP use the keyword FBW47.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Unity February KOTM
Paper: DCWV, GP
Ink: Tuxedo Black, Angel Pink ~ Memento, copic robin's egg blue
Accessories: sponge dauber, Marvy mega scallop oval punch, prima flowers, clear spica pen

Happy Flutter By Day!

Mojo Monday #75

I made a lot of cards this weekend and I have to say this card is one of my favorites!

I created it for a few swaps. One was D is for...and instead of the typical dog or daisy that I would usually do, I used the deer from the Unity February KOTM. I just love this kit! Lots of variety to create with. I used a sponge dauber to give the deer some grass to stand on. The sketch is Mojo Monday #75, lots of layers! It was great fun putting together.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Unity Stamp Company ~ Feb KOTM & grab bag
Paper: GP, DCWV, PaperTrey Ink ~ Dark Chocolate, Kraft, Ripe Avocado
Ink: Rich Cocoa, Bamboo Leaves ~ Memento
Accessories: flowers & buttons ~ MM Paperie Mocha, sponge dauber, threading water punch ~ Fiskars

Thanks for looking!