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!!

Oh me oh My!!!!

Has it really been over 4 months since I've updated my blog and shared some creations with you?  sheesh!  I guess it was a crazy summer with holidays and my daughters august graduation (yep, august grad, don't ask why ugh!)  and then a fabulous trip to Norway to see my brother, and a weekend at a quilt/scrap convention......time just flies when you're having fun and trying to keep head above water.  So with fall stuff starting and routines set in place I know I'll have more scrappy time (have to if I'm going to start my monthly card classes in Nov) and hopefully post more often.  Here are a few things I did a while back....

I have been having some creative fun playing and learning to color with copics so there will def. be more to come with those~!!!

Please forgive me....

my poor poor neglected blog........I've been absent for too long.......where have the past 2 months gone...no idea.......busy with this and that and whatever else but sheesh, i have been doing some crafting, teaching card classes in my home and they have been quite succesful.....but haven't taken the time to update here regularly.  I'll try and improve I promise.  here is a small selection of the past couple months.

my BUGZ has arrived...

at long last, after deciding it was time and the price was reasonable, i decided to buy a Cricut Expression machine...........well after weeks of dealing with a bad ebay seller and finally getting my money back and waiting for my new purchase to arrive it came...... and it was well worth the wait.  I am having so much fun trying it out and creating with "bugz" and i look forward to increased creativity once i get the technical things figured with software etc.  I think the possibilities are endless.  My card class students will love the cuts they get to use tomorrow I' m sure. 

here are just a few of the things thus far....

stamps for sale

i have 4 of the Ippity first release sets still for sale,
Adorable Alpha
Lifes Little Moments
straight from the heart
Simply Home - contact me for a deal on combined purchases!!!!  i need to clear these out.

I also have these sets for sale: $10 each set plus shipping.  some are very lightly used with some staining but that won't effect their results. 

Ippity monday morning....

Here's a creation or three from my recent card making frenzy...... looking forward to my card class on friday.... kits are made and ready for the ladies..

Cool

Check it out!!! A new blog site, Hands On Photography and they are having a contest.  I look forward to the tips and techniques Sue will share with us, need to learn more about my camera. 

Happy New Year !!!

I wanted to start off the new year with a new perpetual calendar and loved the cookie sheet ones i'd seen around so gave it a go and here is my finished product.......using magnet backing for easy changing around......themey bits for the month pieces.......and a place for a recent photo to be displayed.  And a layout with our christmas card picture for 09.  Enjoy and Happy 2010.

my 12 Tags of Christmas

Once again Tim Holtz was sharing fabulous techniques and ideas in his annual 12 tags of Christmas and I had a blast getting creative and inky with all his cool products and stuff from my stash that seems somewhat neglected. so here are my interpretations of Tim's Tags............and who knows, perhaps i'll even win the grande prize - that would be so awesome.

Happy Christmas Preparations............and please share what you think i could do with these little works of art now to display or showcase them.