Challenges.....

life's all about challenges, some good some not so good but i personally LOVE scrap related challenges because they give me a starting point and push me to maybe try something I wouldn't normally or just get me going after a lul in mojo so here are a couple layouts I created for Scrapshotz challenges, Summer Sketchathon and in your Community.

Wrap it Up (ATU35)

managed to fit in some scrapping and cardmaking between mini "staycations" , work and the rainy days we've had sure make it easy to stay inside and create!!

here is my entry for challenge ATU35 at All Things Unity!!  found this great colorful jute at the $ store and had to pick up a couple colors!!

Summer Fun with Unity

I can hardly wait for my June KOM to come in the mail, being delayed from the postal strike and then shortly after should be the July KOM so I'll have lots of  new images to play with over the summer!!! yay....and here is one of my fave images from a previous kit, the cute sun!!!  for the summer fun CHallenge!!!

Lets fly Away

I'd like to fly away from home right now with all the rain we've been having it doesn't feel like summer at all but what's one to do but complain..........and be creative inside :)  the All things Unity challenge to use Unity butterflies is great fun since there are so many to choose from....... here are two entries

Friends with Flair

a couple more cards made with the fantastic April Unity KOM!!! love the stamps in this.

All things UNITY

in honor national scrapbook day there has been lots of unity fun going on and I had a fun day creating layouts and cards for the various challenges.  One with Flower soft for the  All Things unity challenge to "felt it up"....and a wonderful delicate stamp from the April Unity KOM, and a little 3" square Trifecta card for todays special challenge, 3", 3 embellies and Birthday........also using stamps from the April KOM. 

More UNITY love........Friends with Flaire

the April KOM arrived in my mail a few days ago and I'm having such fun playing with it.....so glad I signed up again....and with all the new happenings at My Unity Place and all Things Unity there are some great challenges and tonnes of inspiration.  So here are a few cards I've created for the Embossing Challenge (both wet and dry!)  and the sketch Challenge....  and FWFF.  Happy National scrapbook day, be sure to hope over to My Unity Place and join in the Crop Celebration tomorrow.

Tweeet Tweet

Spring means birds and I'm enjoying all the ones in my yard again and of course the great bird stamps unity has so was easy to find ideas for the Unity Monthly Tweet Tweet challenge......here are 2 cards I made for it....so far. 

All things UNITY!!

It feels so good to be creative again, seems the winter dulldrums are slowly disappearing along with the mounds of snow outside........there are a bunch of Junco birds that are loving my feeder and hanging out on the deck and they're so fun to watch.......I'm enjoying the challenges at All Things Unity and here are two cards i created today for the sketch challenge just posted... I can hardly wait to start getting my Unity Kits again starting this month!!

Friends with Flair

I love my Unity/Ippity stamps........i spent several hours last week reorganizing and sorting them, putting like images and themes together in the stampendous thin containers and i LOVE how easy it is to find a stamp.......and to discover some that i've had for ages and never used once so its like getting a whole bunch of new Unity rubber!!  and so here are a few cards  I did this week, the last one was for the unity monthly challenge combining the color combo and sketch, the second last card for the all things unity button challenge.  I hope in your neck of the woods the weather is better than mine (its been snowing for 2 days and we have a couple inches of fresh white stuff......i'm not impressed) but its a good excuse to stay warm inside and play with stamps and paper.

Creative weekend

even though i had to work fri/sat i managed to get a few challenges done for the Scrapshotz online crop and won a prize, and I did this card for the Ippity blog sketch/color challenge for March and combined it with a layer it up challenge at scrapshotz!! 

Just maybe...

Its been so long since I've attended a real life crop or an online one for that matter and so I hope to be able to play a little bit along with the ladies at Scrapshotz for their Oscar Crop this weekend......

come check it out!! play along.....lots of fun challenges and games!
http://forum.scrapshotz.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=33562

Still Alive!

How very very sad...........not one post since october........its not like i haven't been creative at all but for some reason it seems i've neglected my blog.....and I'm going to blame it on my Ipod and new Iphone!!  its just so very handy to check my email and fb and things with the fabulous little portable devices that i really don't sit at the computer much, which means less message board time and apparently NO  blog time.  but i do have a few things to share.....I've done a fair bit of quilting as well this winter (and am in love with my new Pfaff sewing machine) so perhaps this blog will contain more than paper crafts from now on.   I love both crafts equally so why not!!