A few projects to share ~ Unity Friends with Flair

And the winner is.......#31 Jules!
Jules! said...
I found the blinkie!!!! Beautiful creations BTW....!!!!
June 18, 2010 10:37 PM

Email Jimmi to let her kow you have won the 25 random stamps!! Congrats!!



Hello everyone. Today my baby is 8 weeks old ~ but she won't be 2 months old for another 5 days. Weird how that works, isn't it? We are taking her in for her vaccinations today. I hope I don't cry!!! Time has definitely flown by since the end of April. I haven't had a lot of time to craft, but try to do some things each week. I have a few things to share with you today.

First, I made a Father's Day card for my brother. He has a 2 year old daughter and she is growing so fast, learning so much, saying new words every day. I wanted to remind him that all these little things are actually big things. I used the birds from the kit Savor the Journey (January '10) and the sentiment from {go ahead wish}(September '09).



Second, I made a simple card for a friend that just says hi with a cute little caterpillar crawling along. I did some make and take cards the other day at our LSS and was reminded of this technique to punch out a shape and put a message behind it. I love this effect. The caterpillar and the sentiment are from the kit Little Buggers.



My third project is a sticky note holder for my desk. I plan to make a few more of these and give one to each of the teachers in my department at school as a welcome back to school gift in the fall. I figure I have several months to get 5 more made. There are two inserts which can be used and one is stored behind the other in the 4 X 6 plactic frame. I used Jillibean Soup papers (White Bean - pepper to taste and Sliced Bacon ~ what interesting names!). The sentiment "enjoy your day" on the sticky notes came from the May '09 kit another sweet day. The other sentiments are from the ippity set Life's Little Moments and {...wherever you go} (October '09). The butterfly was taken from a stamp from Together We Bloom (April '10).





If you'd like to see another example of a sticky note holder, please see my previous post.

That's all for my projects. Have a great Friday, a great weekend, and visit the other great crafters. You can find them all here at the Unity blog. I am off to Wisconsin Dells for the night and tomorrow. It is a family tradition. When we were kids we would spend a week there with my parents. This weekend all of us kids will be there with our kids and my parents, but none of us are able to spend the whole week anymore. Leave a comment please and I will post a winner here and at SCS on Saturday when I get back because........ I have the blinkie :)







Take care!

A project to share - a thank you gift to my longterm substitute

Here are some pictures of a desk set I made for my longterm subtitute. She taught my students for the last 6 weeks of the school year so I could spend time with my new baby. Spanish longterm subs are not easy to find around here - so I really appreciate all she did. I made a post it note holder with a reversible message/design as well as two pens to match. I also attached a small thank you note which matched. The sentiments are from Papertrey ink. The paper is DeLovely by Cosmo Cricket and Grade School Glitter Apples by DCWV. Have a lovely Thursday!

Unity FWF ~ 6/4/10

June already? Wow! Hard to believe! Today is my son's last day of Kindergarten and I will be going to help with their end of the year picnic. Should be fun. I have lots of pictures to show the projects I made this week for two of my graduates. I took a class for these wallet picture albums at my LSS. They are so cute and the size of a checkbook. I used the DeLovely paper by Cosmo Cricket and a variety of Unity stamps with inspirational sayings. I can't wait to make more of these.

Stop by the Unity blog to see more great projects! Have a great weekend!

I'm late! I'm late! For a very important FWF!

Finally, here is my post for Unity's FWF! If you are here, you probably didn't even know it was late, but it was. I have a few things to share today. My baby is 5 weeks old today - wow how time flies. Last time I shared a page I made about her. I made that page into a 2 page layout including her great big brother. I added one little embellishment of ribbon and brad to her page and tied the two in together. I used the Playing card alphabet, "Cute" stamp from Garden Variety, heart stamp and Capture the moments.... from Life's Little Moments(ippity). I love how the layout turned out and will be entering it into my LSS's monthly layout contest. Wish me luck!








My second project (in progress) consists of many thank you cards I have to get out for all of the baby gifts we have received in the past few weeks. I love the CAS style I used with a simple thanks and an image that represents baby or life with baby. Hope you like them.











Have a great Memorial Day weekend.I am off to some graduation parties, a soccer game, and Breakfast on the Farm this weekend. Hopefully I will get my graduation wallet books done to share with you next week! Until next time, I hope you have wonderful things happen in your lives and that you enjoy all the special people in your lives!



See more great projects today at the Unity blog!

Unity FWF 5/14

Here are the three cards I made for the Ippity challenges Thursday. Did you see all the great new sets? I have to decide which ones I want. :) Have a great Friday! See more great creations at the Unity blog. Enjoy!

Simon Says Stamp Challenge and Blog Hop

The challenge at Simon Says Stamp this week is a birthday or celebration card. The card I made uses Unity stamps and can be used for a birthday (that is what I would use it for) or other celebration such as wedding, Mother's Day, etc. I use a sketch from Paper Crafts Connection. It is a Go to Sketch challenge and was on their homepage. Have a great Mother's Day and a great week!

Cosmo Cricket's Sketch and Unity FWF!!

I love the sketch that Cosmo Cricket had on their blog for a challenge to win some new great paper DeLovely. It is bright, it is exciting, it is lovely. I can't wait to have it! I will have to order some when I order some Material Girl and Garden Variety. I decided to make my first page about Amelia. She will be 2 weeks old tomorrow. Late at night is the only time I have to get some scrapbooking/cardmaking done as I am napping with her or feeding her or just watching her most of the day. She is such a great baby. On this page I used a variety of papers including Cosmo Cricket's Jolly By Golly Sweater Weather.

I wasn't sure how long it would be before I could participate again in Unity's FWF. Only 2 weeks, not bad - actually only one week off. I love Unity stamps and love creating with them. On this page I used Playing Cards Alphabet, Moonbeam and Heartstrings (ippity) and Our Life, Our Stories.



Just received some of my new sets including the Cosmo Cricket sets, Heart Times,and Merry, Merry, Merry. Can't wait to use them all. I did manage to do Maren's challenge too and here is the card I made. I used the flower pot stamp from Garden Variety and I used the sentiment from It's Your Day.



Another challenge I did this week was the Love at First Sight challenge. I used the May 09 Kit of the Month to make the card Home is Where Your Heart Is.




To see some great work by some great people check out this link to Unity's blog. I love perusing the pages and getting great ideas. Find the blinkie and leave a comment to win 25 stamps. Have a great weekend!