Chick Challenge #9

Hi friends!  Hope you're having a lovely weekend.  It's been a long weekend here as we had a friend who was quite ill but he seems to be on the mend now-- so definitely hoping all continues to move forward in a positive healthy direction for him and he can be released from the hospital soon.  I did find some time to do a little bit of stamping today and decided to try out Challenge #9 at Chick Challenges with Ippity.  I must admit I love me some Ippity stamps! well and I love me some Unity stamps too :)  Hope you enjoy my take on the sketch challenge. I even made my own background paper! 

The Deets

Paper: SU Whisper White, Crumb Cake and Old Olive

Ink: OO and CC

Stamps: Ippity: All Things are Possible and Thankful for All Things

Ribbon:  SU! Old Olive

Die Cut: Elegant Edges Cricut Cart

Friends Uplift The Soul!

I can't believe it's only Tuesday...ugh all day I kept thinking it was Wednesday...but alas it's Tuesday.  I found some time tonight to enter one of my favorite challenges.  I simple had to join my friends over at  Ippity Chick Challenge.  This week's sketch challenge was super challenging for me... I kept looking at it but was never able to get a card put together.  I hope you like what I ended up creating!

The Deets:

Paper: solid SU!, DSP DCWV

Twine:The Twinery

Stamp: Ippity by Unity Time for....friends and wine

Coloring: Copics

FCCB Challenge!

Happy Monday friends!  It's time for another challenge over at FCCB this week :)  yay!  This week's challenge is "Present Time."  So make a gift, or some gift wrap or packaging or feel free to use a gift cut!  I can't wait to see what you all create! 

The deets!

Paper: Recollections stack (oy I apparently was so into my crafting I cut my paper wrong!  Sideways trees aren't the norm :)

Cricut: Tags, Bags, Boxes and More and Create a Critter

Twine: The Twinery

Linked up to:

Cricut Creative Cutter Room

Little Scrap Pieces Winter Holiday Challenge

Lots and lots of gold!

Happy Sunday friends!  I hope this post finds you well.  Today I found some time to be working on some card sets for my mom to give as Christmas gifts.  I had been checking out the talent over at SCS and decided that I was going to case a card from mommy fink.  This is her card:

I really liked the layout/sketch that she used so that is what I decided to case for my card.  I must say I am in love with this fabulous DCWV stack-- DCWV Fresh Floral  I typically shy away from the non cardstock stacks but I was really drawn to this one...and I am happy to admit that I have been using this paper like crazy! 

The Deets:

Summer Sun SU! cardstock

DSP: DCWV

Twine: The Twinery

Punch: SU!

Sentiment: Unity



Herringbone Frosty!

Yay some of my goodies arrived from my friends at Unity-- they had a rockin' good sale so I simply had to pick some stamps up!  I had to have this roly poly little snowman...he's so cute!  I colored a bunch of them and was deciding what to use them for.  I was hanging out on SCS and found these great instructions for this "herringbone" technique.  It's a little fussy but SUPER easy to do--just takes a bit of time and patience... good thing I have time this weekend because I certainly never have patience :)  It needs a little something...but I haven't figured out just what so in he shall stay like this until I figure it out! 

I will also be linking this card up over with all of the other lovely and talented crafters who are creating for the challenge over at Unity-- "Let it Snow"

 is the theme!  Check it out!

Friday!! Whooooo hoooo!!

It's finally Friday... but I must say this week went by super fast!  I am soooo far behind on quite a few things it's almost maddening!  I am hoping I can catch up this weekend.  I've spent far too much time on pinterest that's for sure...and well my bestie spends too much time on there as well...so tonight I made laundry detergent.  Yep...you heard me :) 
I did also take some time tonight to make a couple of cards-- one I will be posting here is from my newest Ippity by Unity set...ummmm hello it's super cute.  My wonderful friend Jen sent it to me for my birthday-- super sweet huh!  And thanks all to her I am now fully aware of what Unity is and how super great it is... before I met her I didn't own one single Unity stamp...ummm well I can assure you all that that has changed!  I of course had to join my own fabulous friends at Unity for Friday's Friends with Flair!  I hope you take some time to peek at all the other awesome cards!

On a sad note...well not too terribly sad... I had planned to add this card to my OWH box...but I got a little carried away in my crafting and added glitter :( boooo glitter is a HUGE OWH no-no!  So I will simply have to create another one sans the glitter.  Okay enough rambling!

The Deets:

Stamps: Ippity by Unity: My True Joy

Paper: Solids SU, DSP DCWV

Ribbon: retired SU!

Flower colored with copics--the leaves blended nicely!

A whole week...

Yikes!  I can't believe it's been a whole week since I have posted!  That's way tooo long to have gone without crafting!  But I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I have started worked on some gift sets to give for the Holidays and these cards are the first in a series of randomness that I am working-- I am thinking 5 cards per set...so these will be the sympathy cards for each set.  What do you think?  Sorry the picture is crummy!  But you get the idea :)