One card, three uses

I'm using this card, along with several others, for a 'guy' birthday card exchange I'm participating in.  I'm trying not to bling it up too much!  I'm also entering it in two Ippity challenges -- a chick challenge, and the Ippity challenge.  The rules for the Ippity challenge are to stamp on designer paper.  The chick challenge uses this sketch:

And, here's my take on the sketch:

I stamped the sentiment, "Happy Birthday" on the inside of the card.

Here's a slight variation of the card, using the same stamps inside and out:

The stamps are from Unity's April Kit of the Month.  Paper is Authentique. I used Memento ink.  Buttons are from my stash.  I used the same Memento ink and a waterbrush on his tail.

I love Friday! It's Friends With Flair day!

My card this week was sent to a good friend.  His mother died and I made it in sympathy of his loss.  There are 2 Unity stamp sets used (clouds and sentiment).  The rainbow and sun are a Close To My Heart stamp set.  The paper is October Afternoon.  Let me know your thoughts on it.  I love your comments!

I hope everyone enjoys their Memorial Day weekend!  And check out the sales on the Unity website!

Stripes and bikes

I made this card for the Unity Challenge this month (stripes) and for the newest Ippity Chick Challenge.  It uses this sketch:

I followed the sketch very closely, and made this card:

I'm sending it to a friend who loves to bike.



How Do You Build A Love House?

It's Friday!  And time for another Friends with Flair blog hop.  Enjoy all the great creativity and join in the fun.  It has been a particularly exciting week for me.  I got my new Harley late Saturday afternoon.  I've been looking for the "perfect" bike for several years now, and Harley just came out with this bike, the Slim, this spring.  I ordered it mid-March, and it arrived at the local dealership in time for me to ride last weekend.  Shaun and I took a short ride together (each on our own bikes) on Saturday, then rode for several hours on Sunday afternoon.  Woohoo!  It's so fun.  That was the first exciting thing that happened.  Then, Wednesday morning, I woke to an email informing me I made it on my first design team!  And for a great company!  CropChocolate.com sells scrapbook supplies at great prices, has a super community of talented scrappers, a great message board, and contests.  Check it out if you are not familiar with the company.

Now, on to my card.  I accompany the children's choir at church.  The director, and good friend, taught the children a Ken Medema song this spring called, "Love House".  Some of the words are, "How do you build a love house?  How do you make it strong?  It takes working and sharing and playing and praying to make a love house last."   At our final concert of the school year, I made this card for the director with the message inside:  "I made you a love house.  It takes paper, and ink, and adhesive and friendship to make this love house last."  Needless to say, Dolly loved the card.  I hope you like it, too.

Blue and Brown plus Ippity Chick Challenges

This is a celebratory card for me.  I recently tried out for my first design team, and found out this morning that I made it!  I'm now a proud, but nervous, design team member of CropChocolate.com.  They are a great site -- super prices, contests, a great community, and tons of good ideas.  They sell many deals throughout the day. 

This Unity stamp seemed perfect for today.  I rushed home from work, inked it up, and came up with this creation.  The challenge on CC this week is to use mostly blue and brown, so I tried to do that.  The Ippity Chick Challenge sketch looks like this:

And this is what I created:

I hope you enjoy it.  The sentiment certainly holds true for me today.  Dreams that I dared to dream came true in an email this morning.!

Unity Friends With Flair -- following directions is hard to do!

Another Friday!  Woohoo!  And this weekend may prove particularly exciting for me.  I've been saving for 3 years to buy myself a new Harley.  It's my midlife crisis, lol.  I got a call from the dealership today that the bike is in, but some part needed to install the saddlebags isn't in yet.  I'm hoping to get everything in order tomorrow so I can go pick it up on Saturday, ride it without the bags until the part comes in, then bring the bike back to get the bags put on.  So, if all goes well, I'll bring home my dream bike very, very soon.

Sorry for digressing there.  Now, on to Friends with Flair.... there is so much talent every week with these Unity peeps.  I'm amazed every single Friday.  I created this card for an accordion card challenge, and I also wanted to use it for the Ippity Challenge -- no pink, no purple, no flowers, no bling.  Well, the first one I made I put bling on without thinking about it.  The second one I made used a flower punch.  See?  following directions is very hard for me!  This is what I came up with in the end:

I'll enter this care in the Ippity challenge -- no flowers or bling, so I think it will qualify.

I like this card with the compass, but I accidentally "blinged it up" a bit, emphasizing the compass points.  Darn!

Here it is, with the accordion opened up.

And, here's my favorite version of the card.  But, there are flowers on the belly band, so I'm not gonna submit it.  Oh, I never learn!





Unity Challenges, and "Something New" challenge

I had several packages of scrapping goodness arrive today -- just in time to play with on National Scrapbook Day!  I used some new papers from Echo Park on this card, a new Bazzill cardstock, and a new Ippity stamp set called, "Faith Blooms".  I really like it!

This is the sketch I used from the Unity Kit of the Month challenge:

And here's what I did with the sketch.  I followed it very closely:

The oval shape is cut with a Spellbinders die.  The ribbon just arrived today from the Really Reasonable Ribbon club.