Friends with Flair - Thinking of You

It's Friends with Flair at Unity and I really love to see everyone else's projects.  I needed a sympathy card, but decided to use thinking about you instead.  Choosing the images from February's KOM knowing the person was a master gardener.

I used the basket, ivy and flowers, then fussy cut them out.  Even though I used brown ink for the basket and  olive for the ivy, I still colored them with my color pencils to give them more depth.  The sentiment is also from the KOM.

I had my whole inside figured out using the KOM to realize there is a stamp missing.....  ummm.  I went to the website and their KOM  is a little different from mine, it omits the missing stamp.  So I left it blank for now. ( the stamp said "May the memory of your LOVED one")

thanks for looking and reading :o)  have a great weekend !!

Link your projects to LOVE TO SCRAP Challenge Blog - Challenge #1 - Anything Goes up to two projects can be submitted

stamps used: Unity February 2013 KOM - let love grow

paper used: Brazzill

die-cut used: MFT Fishtail Flags Layer Stax

embellishment: Ribbon Carousel ribbon

Design Team Call For Sister Act Card Challenge

A brand new card challenge blog called Sister Act Card Challenge is looking for a design team.  To enter you must choose your 3 favorite cards and post them in a blog post, then link it up to their blog.  This should be easy to do, NOT!!   It's hard to choose when everyone has different taste and your not sure what they are looking for, or maybe there are more than 3 you really like.  So, here are the cards I picked as my all-time favorites: (I'm sure if I was ask to do this tomorrow, there would be different cards on this post)

I hope you like these choices.  Good-luck to all the other talented young ladies out there :o)

Tuesday Teapotters - Cactus Flowers

The traveling Teapotters are going to Wisconsin this week to send Jean some loving.  Ms Jean has colon cancer and went through chemo, but they found a tumor on her ovary that's too cancerous.  The challenge, Ms Jean was a hairdresser and loves cacti flowers (just flowers in general), so we are to bring hairdressers, cactus, cacti flowers or flowers.  Here's the inspirational teapots:

I didn't have any hairdresser stuff or cacti in my stamping stuff, but flowers I did.  Here's my card:

Using Unity Andi Girl - cares for what she loves image because there are lots of flowers in this image.  More flowers were brought in by the design paper.  I thought the tangy orange paper was like the desert. Some netted ribbon on the bottom for texture, brads on top and viola.  

thank for looking and reading :o)

don't forgot LOVE TO SCRAP!! Challenge Blog started Monday with a Anything Goes challenge.  Link up your projects

stamps used: Unity Andi Girl - care for what she loves

paper used: SU designer paper, MFT Berrylicious, MFT Tangy Orange

embellishments: Ribbon Carousel netted ribbon, liquid pearls, making memories brads

Love To Scrap 1st Challenge

Today starts our very new blog challenge at Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog.  I'm very excited to be on this new blog challenge and love the new design team I'm working with.  Our first challenge is an easy one Anything Goes, so I should see lots of you crafty gals participating in this one.

This challenge is sponsor by 

and the winner will receive 7 free digis.  So, what are you waiting for?  Time to enter your project.  The bonus, we are picking the winner plus 3 top choices, not a machine.

My baby brother (who is 29) is finally getting married in a couple of weeks.  He has done things backwards, but gotta love him anyway.  This is the card I decided to make for his wedding. 

I used the Bugaboo digi image Stella & Gus Marriage-Marriage Secret.  The wedding colors are plum and gray.  I colored the images with watercolor pencils and regular pencils. I even put a little blue in Stella's hair.  Funny thing is, this could be my hubby and I giving them advice.... lol.

A ribbon wrapped around the corner and a gray triple bow with a hat pin was added to the top that ribbon.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

i hope to see many of you in the gallery!!  Good-luck to you!!

stamps used: Bugaboo Stella & Gus Marriage-Marriage Secret

paper used: SU grey, Brazzil Plum, white

embellishments: Ribbon Carousel Ribbon, Petaloo Beaded hat pin

Friends with Flair - Maggie Girl

Another Friday, another month !!!  It's March already !!!  How did that happen?  The years just seem to fly by the older I get.  At least it's Friday and Friends with Flair at Unity.  Remember there are prizes to be given away.

Here's my Unity project this week:

My son needed a birthday card for a gal pal.  He is also making her a lava cake to eat at the bowling alley.  He is sweet :o)  I decided to finally use my Maggie Girl - Its Your Birthday image.  Not only did I use Maggie Girl, but two other Unity stamps.  Did a little dry embossing for the background, but I feel like it is missing something.  uuugghh!!

(i thought i would update with the finished inside)

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I got to share some news.  I'm on a brand new design team and our challenges start Monday, March 4th.  I'm very ecstatic about this new challenge in my life!! It's a bi-weekly challenge blog.  We have sponsors and prizes, please check it out. Love To Scrap!

stamps used: Maggie Girl - Its Your Birthday, Unity Bitty Backgrounds, Unity with her own wings

paper used:  MFT Cotton Candy, MFT Blu Raspberry, MFT Card Sampler, Anitque Paperie Colorbok

die-cut used: MFT Fishtail Stax, MFT Banner Stax

Entering this card in a couple of challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Challenge 30 Birthday

MFT #112 - It's Your Birthday

Finally got to the MFT Weekly Sketch Challenge.  Busy weekend and one kid with the flu, I really hope the rest of us don't get it.  What a week that will be.  Here's the sketch:

Here's my take on the sketch:

I inked the Its Your Birthday stamp for the first time.  This is a cute little stamp set from MFT.  I wanted this card to be bright and happy, so I used some bright colors.  Hope you have a good weekend.

Linking this card up to:
Creative Card Crew - challenge 30 - birthday

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: MFT Its Your Birthday

paper used: MFT cardstock sample , The Paper Studio Girl Multi Stripes

die-cut used: MFT Upsy Daisy

embellishment:  I got the metal b-day hat from Michaels

Friday Flair with Unity - Love you Most

It's Friday and Friends with Flair at Unity. Show Unity some love of their stamps and you can win a grab bag of goodies.

My husband and I are always saying I Love you Most, I love you mostest, I love you mostestlyerestess (it's not a word, but our way of trying to top the other one).  Then it's I love you tops, I love you infinite.  You get the picture, I hope you're not throwing up with all that lovely dovey stuff.  This itty bitty from Unity was perfect for us and I had to make this card for my hubby.

Very simple card.  As you can tell lots of sponging for the background.  Of course I used my watercolor pencils and regular color pencils to color in the tree.  It's nice to make someone's day with a simple little card.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: Unity Love you Most (ittybitty)

paper used:  SU red, K & Company DP Lovely, White

die-cut used: MFT Heart Stax

Tuesday Teapotters - Paris and Roses

This week the Teapotters are traveling to TX to bring some joy to Denise.  Denise had a hip replacement 10 years ago and it got infected.  Doctors tried to replace it, but with no luck and they had to amputate her leg at the hip.  Part of the challenge is going to Paris to collect rose petals to make rose jelly.  Denise like roses, tulips and cats.  Here's the teapot:

Here's my card:

As you can see I went with the Eiffel Tower for Paris and some Rose Jelly filled with love.  Very simple card, but got the challenge done.  My roses are the background paper.  I didn't have pink or red roses, but the blue was pretty so I went with it.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used:  Untiy KOM Dec 2011, Unity KOM Dec 2012 

paper used:  base was a freebie, Antique Paperie Colorbok

embellishments: Really Reasonable Ribbon, Recollections  Adhesive Rhinestones

Friends with Flair - Valentines

My sixteen year old son asked me to make some postcards for his gal pals for valentine.  Not cards, because he didn't want to write inside them.  I basically made card fronts for him.  Unity has some really cute stamps for love and friendship.  Since it's Friday I have to post Friends with Flair at Unity.  You can win a grab bag and someone will win just for posting a comment on other friends cards.  I always look forward to Fridays!

For this card I used 4 Unity stamps.  The most obvious stamp is Unity You Deserve Happy (my son thought it should read "you deserve to be happy").  This stamp is a Stamp of the Week stamp.  The other images used are Unity 4 Art by Art Graffiti Art (stamped in gray) and two unknowns from a couple of grab bags I have won (the flourish and the fancy heart stamped in the medium red heart).   

I used a pocket die-cut so the it look like she had a pocket full of hearts.  A little bling and a woven scroll ribbon was added to make it girlie.  Plus a couple of mini heart brads to look like pocket studs.

Here's the second front.  This image is from Stampin' Up Sealed With A Kiss.  The xoxo is also part of the stamp set.

This is the last card where I used MFT My Favorite Sentiments for the image.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

fyi:

There is a brand new blog looking for some talented design team members.  I think there are some talented people in the Friends with Flair circle.  

http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

Tuesday Teapotters - Angus Cow Love

Another great Tuesday Teapotters!!  This week we are going to AL to visit Sara. Diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years ago, she had a mastectomy, chemo and radiation treatments.  Being watched carefully, they recently found tumor in her mastectomy spot and it has spread to all the bones in her upper body. Sending her cow happiness, because she loves Angus Cows!
Here's the inspiration teapot:

Here's my cow card.

The cow image is a digital image from Digital Delights - Charlie the Cow, isn't he cute.  I used tangy orange colors for my card.  Charlie was colored with my handy dandy color pencils.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: Digital Delights - Charlie the Cow

die-cuts: MFT Fresh Cut Grass, MFT Postage Stamp Stax, MFT Heart Stax, MFT Flower Trio and Leaf Trio, Martha Stewart Kiss Me punch

paper used: MFT Tangy Orange, SU design paper, scraps