Unity Friends with Flair Friday!

It is Friends with Flair Friday at Unity Stamp Co! See the Unity blog for a complete list of today's Friends with Flair.

For my Unity FWF project I altered some playing cards into ornaments after I saw an article in Somerset's Holidays & Celebrations issue, by Candyce Martens. I changed it up a bit, by adding mulberry paper, distress paint and glimmer mist. I then stamped over them with Versafine Onyx ink and Unity stamps! For the large butterfly, I embossed with gold EP.


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Supplies:
Unity Stamp Co: April KOTM, August KOTM, Butterfly Beauty
Deck of playing cards
Crop-a-dile
Mullberry paper
Distress Crackle Paint: Dusty Concord
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: Coffee Shop, Snow Angel, Juneberry Wine
Martha Stewart punches: heart, butterfly
Ranger EP: Queen's Gold

The Bachelor Bro Challenge results were announced today! Be sure to check out the blog and see all the amazing projects!! Congrats to Nancy McKinney for winning! Lucky girl gets a fabulous Unity prize package worth $750!!

Here's my entry....

Supplies:
Unity Stamps:Frame this Alpha, Bevy of Butterflies, Stylin' Stars, Stars of Worn, Oaky Doke Tree, Shurbery Tree, Shade Tree, "Remember Happiness" KOTM
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist:Tattered Leather, Blue Skies, Twilight
DP: My Mind's Eye, Prima
Ice Stickles: Coffee
Chipboard: Maya Road
Crop-a-dile



My box of exclusive {ippity} stamps will be delivered today!! If you haven't already heard the exciting news, Unity launched it's sister company called {ippity}!

Don't forget, there's a special Friends with Flair blinkie hidden on one of today's participating blogs...find the blinkie and leave a comment and you could win 25 FREE Unity stamps!!

Thanks for visiting!

Back to the Unity main blog list here.

Or, next blog: the wonderful Jodi

Whimsical Wednesday at Diedrich Dare!

I am the featured Daredevil for week #11 over at the Diedrich Dare blog! And, what a great week, because this week's Whimsical Wednesday dare is an EASEL CARD! Madelynn was so inspired by her mom, Jess's amazing easel creations, she decided to issue this challenge! I am so excited, because I've been wanting to make one!

I have posted a diagram for the easel card over at the Diedrich Dare blog. And below is a photo tutorial to simplify it. Keep in mind, it can be any size. Or, altered in any way....just so long as it's an "easel". There are also some great tutorials if you do a search on SCS.

If you play along, be sure to post it to Mr. Linky at the Diedrich Dare Blog or with keyword DDSC11 over at Splitcoaststampers.com


Supplies:
The Greeting Farm- Summer Fairy Digi [to be released Nov. 19th]
Copic Markers
Stickles
DP: MME
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders

Be sure to check out the rest of the Daredevil crew!

Jessica Diedrich
Sandra MacLean
Rebecca Ednie
Lisa Hjulberg
Kim Ross
Jacquie Peifer
Heather Schlatter
Debbie Lee
Darla Wilson
Cassie Larson

They really are simple. Remember, you can make them any dimension. Just be sure your front panel width is the same width as the panel you are attaching. The brad should be near the middle of your front panel. You could move it slightly closer like I did, to make the card more upright. You can fiddle with the dimensions, too. My card is actually 5x5 with scores at 2.5".

I hope these photos will help. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. That little black dot is for your brad.

You only need 2 pieces. Your large panel only needs two score lines at 2" apart.

Fold your large panel at the score lines, like you would a letter.


Then AFTER you've completed your card piece, attach it to the panel like so....and you're done!


The Fairies are coming to digi at The Greeting Farm!!
Get your fairies on Thursday, November 19th!
See some more fairy samples at the Greeting Farm blog here.

And, for a lot of winged inspiration, be sure to check out Flutter by Wednesday challenge #84 Over at Danni's blog!

I cannot tell you how much fun I've had creating with this Fairy line. You all are going to fall in love with them!


I printed the digi [The Greeting Farm: Spring Fairy] on Kraft cardstock, then shaded with some tinted graphite pencils (a regular pencil would work, too), distressed the edges with walnut stain, sprayed with glimmer mist, and used Ice Stickles for the wings. I used more of that fabulous Japanese washi masking tape. This was a fast and easy card to make!

Unity Friends with Flair Friday!

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It is Friends with Flair Friday at Unity Stamp Co! See the Unity blog for a complete list of today's Friends with Flair.

I am still loving my Unity Bingo stamp. For the background, I embossed some Bazzill textured cardstock in pale robin's egg and sprayed with Tattered Angels glimmer mist. I then rubbed the raised embossed areas with Peony and Brilliance in Lightning Black. It is a gorgeous black with metallic gold. Love that ink!!

Easy tag making! Just add 'To/From:' on the back. These hearts were punched from the new K&Co paper Viola Vita. I love this new line! It reminds me of Anthropologie! I want to wallpaper my house with it!! The punches are Marvy. Keeping the sizes straight..giga..extra jumbo..jumbo...gives me a headache, so I just refer to them by color. The large scallop is the purple size, the regular heart is the pink size, and the smaller heart is the blue size.

Supplies:
Unity Stamps: Game of Chance Bingo, Confession: I {luv} Unity
Ink: Brilliance-Lightning Black, Colorbox-Peony
Tattered Angels glimmer mist: Blue Skies, Lime Twist, Mimosa
Ice Stickles: Coffee
DP: K&Co Viola Vita, Prima
Marvy punches

30% off ALL WEEKEND at Unity
for full details see: http://www.unitystampco.com/

Yes! I will have the exclusive {ippity} stamps soon! If you haven't already heard the exciting news, Unity launched it's sister company called {ippity} last week! It's a wonderful NEW stamp line sold only by independent {ippity} sellers. These stamps will not be found on the store shelf or at online retailers, nor will they be for sale at the Unity site. You can only purchase them from an {ippity} seller, or become an {ippity} seller yourself. To find out how you can become an {ippity} seller, click here.

Don't forget, there's a special Friends with Flair blinkie hidden on one of today's participating blogs...find the blinkie and leave a comment and you could win 25 FREE Unity stamps!!

Thanks for visiting!! Have fun blinkie hunting!

Back to the Unity main blog list here.

Or, next blog: the wonderful Julie

And, be sure to check out the SALE:
30% off ALL WEEKEND at Unity
for full details see: http://www.unitystampco.com/

Twilight Sketch Challenge!!

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A few cards I made with my new Limited Edition Wild Sprout digis (no longer available as of midnight!) from The Greeting Farm! Hurry these wonderful images will be taken off the site at midnight!!!

My first card is based off the Twilight Tuesday Inspirtation Challenge sketch TTSC14!! I really love this one!! Lots of great challenges over at TTIC, so be sure to check them out!

For Edward, I used Copic Markers and then sprayed the entire image with Tattered Angels glimmer mist in Snow Angel.

Supplies:
The Greeting Farm: Edward limited edition digi
Copic Markers: E40, E42, Y0000, Y21, W00, W3, W6, W9, B34, B60, B97
DP: Sassafras

The next card I colored as quickly as possible to get it up tonight! I love this Ebony limited edition digi!! That fun tape is more of the amazing and addictive Japanese (washi) masking tape!! Love that stuff. Everytime I post it, I get lots of questions, so I'm going to try to get a post up soon with lots of uses for this fun tape and links for shopping!

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Supplies:
The Greeting Farm: Ebony limited edition digi
Copic markers: BG10, BG72, BG78, G000, B00, V12, V15, RV10, E11, E17, E18, E29, E50
Spica glitter pen: Clear (hair), Mint (outline of image)
Cuttlebug embossing folder: Swiss Dots
Flowers: Prima
EK scallop circle punches

One of my prizes from the TTIC blog hop arrived! It's a gorgeous Twilight Album by Julie at Stars Fall Designs!! Don't you just love that name! The flower and that New Moon pic are exquisite!! THANKS Julie!!
Check out her Etsy site here, and her blog here!

Album by: Stars Fall Designs

New Mermaids and New TGF limited Digis!

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This is for the Customer Color Challenge over at the Sweet Pea Stamps DT blog.

This is a brand new image by ©ching-chou kuik just released this week at Sweet Pea Stamps. These images are stunning! Very detailed and fun to color!

I kept it simple, because, well, I am horrible at color challenges! Telling me to use a few colors is like telling me I have to answer my survey with one word...and we all know how well that went. ;o)

So, the card itself goes with the color challenge, however the image has just a tad few more colors. Here are the challenge colors.

Supplies:
Stamps:
ching-chou kuik's Bamboo Serenade
Kodomo Suiboku sumi fish
Copic Markers: RV10, RV42, R14, R22, R35, R37, V12, BV02, BV04, BV13, BV17, BV23, G21, G85, Y00, Y21, E11, E17, E29, E31, E35, E40, E57, E50, W-3
Spica glitter pen: Clear, Lilac, Pink

Don't forget to get your VERY limited edition digis at The Greeting Farm today!
They will be taken down at midnight Sunday!

[ETA: POOF...they are gone!! Good news: Marie may turn a few into rubber! Stay tuned]


I WILL BE BACK LATER TODAY WITH SOME TWILIGHT TUESDAY CREATIONS!!

Unity Friends with Flair and BIG NEWS!!

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So much news to share today!!

First, I am SO thrilled to be a finalist in the Unity Bachelor Bro Challenge!! I am one of the lucky 7 finalists that get to compete for an amazing Unity prize package!! HOW EXCITING IS THAT?!?!? My entry is a few posts down, or click here. Many thanks to Unity for hosting such amazing challenges, and of course, big thanks to the Unity bachelor himself, Mr. Ryan BROman!

If you haven't joined the party over at the Unity forum at SCS yet, be sure to stop by, because it is one FUN group!! Unity always has something amazing going on, including their latest endeavor....

Intrigued by the new blinkie?? Unity launched it's sister company called {ippity} yesterday! It's a wonderful NEW stamp line sold only by independent {ippity} sellers. These stamps will not be found on the store shelf or at online retailers, nor will they be for sale at the Unity site. How can you get your {ippity} stamps? You can either purchase them from an {ippity} seller, or become an {ippity} seller yourself. To see a temporary list of sellers, click here. To find out how you can become an {ippity} seller, click here.

Now, it's time for Friends with Flair Friday at Unity Stamp Co.! See the Unity blog for a complete list of today's Friends with Flair.

It should come as no suprise that I love making backgrounds! For these I used the Bevy of Butterflies and Le Chic Vintage kits. I inked up the butterflies with two shades of ink. I traced around each butterfly with my Sakura gelly roll in Silver Star. It's super glittery. The script background is from Le Chic Vintage, which was the September scrapbook kit of the month. October and November are still available at Unity. September is available at Paper Maniac.

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Supplies:
Unity Stamps: Bevy of Butterflies, Everday Adorable ['smile'], Le Chic Vintage
DP: MME
Ink: Memento-Desert Sand, Rich Cocoa, Angel Pink, Summer Sky, Versamagic-Perfect Plumeria
Sakura gelly roll pen: Silver Star
Marvy and EK punches
Prima bling

Don't forget, there's a special Friends with Flair blinkie hidden on one of today's participating blogs...find the blinkie and leave a comment and you could win 25 FREE Unity stamps!!

Thanks for visiting!! Have fun blinkie hunting!

Back to the Unity main blog list here.

Or, next blog: the wonderful Nina!

BIG SALE THRU THE WEEKEND....

It's Whimsical Wednesday! And Flutter-y, too!

It is Whimsical Wedneday again at the Diedrich Dare blog!! Week 9's challenge is another wonderful sketch created by Jessica's amazing daughter, Madelynn! Hope to see you all play along! Love the submissions from last week's challenge!!

Be sure to check out the rest of the Daredevil team:

Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Kim Ross
Lisa Hjulberg
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra MacLean


My friend, Heather introduced me to the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog. Lots of fluttery fairy and butterfly inspiration. This week's challenge is another open week. Just create a card with a butterfly or a fairy on it and submit your link to Danni's site here.


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Supplies:
The Greeting Farm: Flutter Anya
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Brilliance ink: Platinum Planet, Opalescent Crimson
Sakura Gelly Roll: Clear Star
Copic markers: E50, E40, E11, W-3, RV10, RV13, RV17, R35, V12, B00
Stickles
DP: Sassafras {Whale of a Tale}