A Little New Year's Advice -- for Pinque Peacock and Friends With Flair

Happy New Year, my scrappy friends! I hope you are all recovered from the big holiday and are having a little down time to "catch up' on things.  I am actually enjoying a couple days off, so I'm hiding in my craft room!

Since the year is so new, I thought I would start it out with some words of wisdom for all my blog readers with this card, using a Pinque Peacock large layered garden beauty.

That's Charlotte, a Unity Stamp Company Fashionista.  And her words of advice are from a Unity sentiment set, "I am Woman".  Isn't she fine? And the Pinque Peacock embellishment just makes the card.  Oh my.

So, sisters, as we start the new year, let's do it.  Let's keep our heels, heads, and standards high.  Or at least our heads and our standards.  I can't seem to do the heels anymore ;)  

I did it! 52 Weeks of FWF!

Last January, I made the new year's resolution to link up to Unity's Friends With Flair each week.  Well, 52 weeks later, I'm proud to say, I did it!

I have a few cards to share with you this week.  A couple were on my blog earlier this week, but haven't seen much traffic and they have great Unity stamps, so I'm showing them again, and I made a card today for the Unity "Be Inspired" Challenge.  I'll show you my challenge card first.

I used the card sketch, turned it sideways, and took a little artistic license with it to come up with this:

 

 

I used papers that I got for 99 cents from Unity Stamp Company.  The stamp is a Unity/Stephanie Ackerman co-brand called "Small Things/Great Love".  It is my New Year's advice to you, and a great motto to live by every day of the year! There's also some UmWow Studio chipboard that I embossed with Creative Inspirations Paint Deliquesce Fine Black embossing powder on this card. There's a little paper piecing on the heart.

 

Next, an anniversary card I made a couple weeks ago for my husband:

 

 

On the inside I wrote, "through snow or sleet, our love is complete."  How sappy is that? This card uses the Unity Itty Bitty stamp, Rain or Shine. There's some 3 Girl JAM crinkle ribbon and a 3 Girl JAM Real Life Flair button on this card, too.

 

And, a couple of New Year's cards for you. I made this one for this week's Cutting Café post, but it uses a Unity Fashionista, so I'm sharing it again here:

 

 

This is Anastasia, and she is ready for a party! 

The wine glass cutting file can be found HERE.  It is from The Cutting Café.

 



 

The sentiment is from the Unity Sassy Pants set.

 

I have one more card to leave you with.  No Unity Stamps here, but it's a great card to send you off with:

 

I used more UmWow chipboard, embossed with Creative Inspirations Paint Deliquesce Super Sparkle Gold.  The card is a cutting file from the Silhouette Online Store.  I painted some Gold Creative Inspirations Paint behind the sentiment.

My New Year's resolution for 2014?  I want to get more involved in the Unity FB Show & Tell Group.  I've been missing the fun! And, my more serious New Year's resolution?  I'd like to see if I can go all year without buying any new scrapbook paper.  I HAVE to use up my stash!  This'll be a tough one!!!

 

Happy New Year, everyone!

 



Friends with Flair!

It's a celebration this week for Friends With Flair!  I'm writing this and scheduling it ahead of time because I'll be on a scrapbook retreat Thursday-Sunday (July 18-21).  I've never done anything like this before.  I've gone on an evening crop at the LSS, but never an overnight, much less a 4 day one.  AND, I've only met these ladies online.  I know them by names like LBAB and JeepMama and Clayton528.  Do they sound trustworthy to YOU?  If I don't post next Friday, someone please send a search party!

OK, where was I? Oh, yeah, it's a celebration!  Yesterday was my BFF's birthday.  I made her two cards.  I wanted one to be super fun, and one to be pretty and serious.  You get to see the fun one this week and the serious one next week.

I love the fashionista images.  They are so fun to color.  I went with one of them for my card:

 



 

This is Roxanne, and she is really strutting her stuff.  I thought she would be perfect for a fun 40-something birthday card.  Inside, I wrote, "did we ever look like that?"  And of course, "Happy Birthday".

Here's a close up of her, with some of the bling I added to make her "shine like a diamond!"

 

I colored her with Copic markers, used some BoBunny papers, a Unity sentiment, and Close To My Heart bling. There she is.  What do you think?  Will my BFF like it?

I'm giving away some blog candy.  I'm hopping with the All That Stickles design team on Sunday, 7-21.  It is my final hop with the team, as I'm moving on to other things.  In honor of the fun I've had on the team, I'm giving away some Stickles (of course), buttons, brads, ribbon, and other goodies.  To be eligible for the blog candy, please follow my blog and leave a comment on this post.  To increase your chances of winning, you can comment again on tomorrow's post for Joy's Life stamps, and hop with the All That Stickles team on Sunday and comment on my post (7-21).  Good luck!

 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge -- anything goes

Great Impressions -- anything goes

Oozak -- anything goes with texture

D.L. Art Thankful Thursday -- Anything Goes

Pin & Tack -- anything goes

MarkerPop -- anything goes