Unity FWF Friday & a TE Sketch

Hello & happy Friends With Flair Friday brought to us by Unity!!!

I hope you are enjoying the fabulous eye candy the Unity peeps always come up with. If you have just happened upon my blog today you will want to go to the Unity Blog to check out the list of all the participants today. One of the blogs will have a blinkie, if you find it be sure to leave a comment there so you have a chance to win 25 Unity Stamps.

My biggest problem with Unity stamps is deciding which ones to use!!! That always takes up most of my time. Today after I chose the stamps, I decided to use a Taylored Expressions Sketch. It is her Sketch Challenge #115 below.





I wanted to make a card that is more simple than my normal cards, and I think I Might have done that here. All papers and embellies here are from the Taylored Expressions Basic Grey Kioshi kit she had for spring (LOVE IT!!!). The flower and stem stamp are from Unity's Crazy for Daisies set. The live simply sentiment is from the Unity March 2009 Kit Simple Life (it is one of my favorites...but aren't they ALL!!!).




I have a Brave Girls/Unity Inspiration Journal I am making for myself and HOPE to show you some of it today, so stop back later if you have a chance. I really appreciate your visit and hope you have an awesome weekend!!!

{BIG HUGZ} & hope to see you soon!!!
Jodi

IT'S Friday, Time for Friends With Flair!!

Hi & Happy Friday!!!

Today I have a very quick and simple card to share. I pulled out my amazing Unity quote stamps and picked this blossom quote I haven't used in a while. I knew I wanted to use my Kraft card base & keep it very simple.....here is what came to mind.


I really love this quote. I pulled out some Basic Grey Chipboard flowers, a tiny brad & some DCWV glitter paper to punch a border. That was it. A very fast card for me.

I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend filled with lots of fun!!!!
THANKS for your visit!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

BRAVE GIRLS Friday with FLAIR!!!!

Hello Unity Friends With Flair,
so glad to be here again this week with you!!

I am so happy that I got to ink up this AMAZING BRAVE GIRLS set by Unity to share today!! This is such a fabulous stamp set, there are so many things I have rolling around in my head that I want to do with it.....the #1 being a BRAVE GIRL inspiration journal. I have come to a point in my life where there is no possibility that things can possibly get any worse. I am at a constant right now....things aren't getting better, I'm surviving , I am protecting my soul (one of the sentiments in the set) and this stamp set made me realize I am a BRAVE GIRL!!! It is very odd that a stamp set can teach you something about yourself, but this one has and I am very grateful for that. THANK YOU Unity and Brave Girls!!!!

Today I only had time for a card to share.......



I pulled out some of my old Basic Grey papers & buttons, then used the "background" be brave stamp to make one of the patterned papers. Then I combined the birds and come fly with me for the main image. All of the flowers were cut out of the Dp & the large one was paired with 3 coordinating buttons. I used a large spellbinders tag die, a fiskars border punch and all of the edges were distressed with ink. I hope my project did the set some justice.

If you just happened upon my blog you will want to go over to the Unity blog for the list of blogs with fabulous Unity eye candy. One of them will have a blinkie to find, then leave a comment there and you could win some Unity stamps (25)!!!

Hope you have a fabulous weekend & thanks for visiting!!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

Unity Friends With Flair

Hello!!
I can't even tell you how happy I am to be back with my Unity Friends with Flair!!! I have been busy with other things for a while, but Fridays just aren't the same without all of that Unity goodness & eye candy.

If you have just happened upon my blog today you will want to go the the Unity Blog to get the entire list of participants. Someone along this trail of eye candy will have a special blinkie that could help you win 25 random Unity stamps, just be sure to leave a comment on the blog where you find the blinkie...simple. You may also want to check out the incredible new release stamps in the Unity Store. My VERY Favorite is their collage set in collaboration with BRAVEGIRLS....it is a MUST SEE and absolutely perfect for me right now with some of the hurdles I've had to deal with.!!!



I can't wait to see some of the amazing projects the Unity crew and Friends come up with to show off this set.

For my card today I pulled out a beautiful stamp from the August 2009 Kit, following my heart. I love this amazing tree and paired with paper and embellies from the Dear Lizzy line by American Crafts. The only thing not from that line are the small flower brads by Making Memories.



Hope you like....

THANK YOU for your visit today!!!
I will be back tomorrow with a Challenge and a Blog Hop so try to come visit if you can.
Hope you have yourself a GREAT weekend!!!
{HUGZ}
-Jodi

Friday Full Of Flair

Hi,
I am still LOVING this Basic Grey Origins, I just can't get enough!!! Last week I pulled out one of my Unity wood mounted stamps to work with and that really started something. I've been looking at all of them with plans to come. Their large thin wood mounted stamps are actually the entire reason I was drawn to Unity in the first place, along with their unique handles that go along with them. I saw some new wood mounted stamps for sale so if you have never used Unity's you should really try them, they are very different than any other wood mount you will find and you don't have to buy their handles, but they do work better with them. This stamp is Scrappy Flower(I think??...I will check).



I paper pieced the leaves and flower. For the flower I added an extra layer underneath to add a little more dimension and for a little bit of the patterned paper flower look I like so much right now. All papers are Basic Grey Origins except for 2 coordinating pieces of prism cardstock.

If you just happened upon my blog today you should head over to the Unity Blog Here to see a list of all of their participants. One person will have a blinkie on their blog, and if you leave a comment there, you have a chance to win 25 random Unity stamps.

They are saying our nice, nice weather here will be over and we will get cold and maybe some more snow this weekend. I hope you are in a nice and sunny place and have a GREAT weekend. As for me, this is my favorite weekend of the year. The 1st weekend of the big NCAA college basketball tournament. I LOVE to see the under dogs beat the big guys(which has already happened 3 or 4 times yesterday)....except,of course, if it is my team. That's what I'll be doing, so the weather doesn't really matter anyway!!!
See you soon!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
paper-Basic Grey Origins
cardstock-prism
stamp-Unity
border punch-Fiskars
ink-versafine

Unity Friday Flair with a Sketch

Hello and Happy Friday!!!
I'm so glad you came to visit today. If you just happened upon my blog you should go to the Unity Blog to see the list of participants for Friends with Flair. One of those blogs has a special blinkie, and if you leave a comment there you could win 25 random Unity stamps.

I have a card to share based on Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge( MTSC64) using a classic, wood mounted Unity tree. I never used to use sketches for my cards but lately I've really liked using them.



I am still loving this Basic Grey Origins paper and thought it would be great with this stamp. I was reading my latest PaperCrafts Magazine yesterday and saw so many cards with buttons that I decided to pull out my stash. I colored one of the clear buttons with a yellow copic marker and left the other 3 clear. Then I stamped the tree on 3 different patterned papers to put behind those buttons.



Hope you like it. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!! Mine will be spent watching lots of March Madness College Basketball....I'm a huge fan and have it on already. I will hopefully sneak some crafting in while I watch.
THANKS for the visit, {HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
patterned paper- Basic Grey Origins
cardstock-coordinating cardstock pack from DIE CUTS R US
stamp-Unity
ink-versafine
clear buttons-Autumn Leaves
colored buttons-craft supply
pearls-kaisercraft
die tags-spellbinders
border punch-fiskars
color medium-chocolate atyou spica marker(used for outlining)

Unity Stamps and Basic Grey, LOVE this combo!!!

Hello & happy Friday!!
Welcome to another Friday full of Unity and LOTS of FLAIR!!! Unity Stamps are so awesome that I think they bring out the flair or mojo or whatever you would like to call it, in a lot of us. On Fridays we get to share our love for Unity by posting projects using their stamps. I LOVE getting to see what everyone comes up with, how we can all make something completely different out of the same stamps.

If you just happened upon my blog today you might want to go to the Unity Blog here
to see the list of everyone with projects to share. The blog is also looking VERY cute with elements from the March kit of the month. There will be one blog with a hidden blinkie, and if you find it, be sure to leave a comment....you could win 25 random Unity stamps!!!


The beautiful sunshine and melting snow the past few days inspired me to use this cute, cute stamp set along with these Basic Grey papers, they all seem to sing "have a happy day" without actually saying it.

I'm SO VERY GLAD you stopped bye today, hope to see you again soon!!!
Have a HAPPY weekend!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
stamp-Unity Stamp Co Could I Be Any Cuter?
all papers and chipboard-Basic Grey Urban Praire
ink-Memento
border punch-Martha Stewart
2 tag dies-Spellbinders

Friday Friends With FLAIR with some Artful Inkables

Hello and welcome to my Friends with flair contribution on this last Friday of February 2010, where does the time go???!!! If you just happened upon my blog today or are new to Friends With Flair Friday you should start by checking out the Unity blog here. There you will find a list of todays blogs with beautiful eye candy and it will tell you how you could win 25 Unity random stamps. If you find the special blinkie on someones blog be sure to leave a comment and you will have a chance to win.

My 1st card uses the tree stamp from Unity's Welcome Little Sprout set. I paper pieced the tree and also made it longer so it would fit right with the little scene I wanted to make. To do that I just stamped the trunk a few extra times, then cut it out, trimmed some of the pieces and glued them together. The reading girl and the sentiment stamp are from the Think Big set by Artful INKables and I created this card for their Think Ink Challenge#14 Naughty or Nice.... this card is nice.

Papers are Making Memories Garden Party line, the girl is colored with Copics and the small tag for the sentiment is from Spellbinders.




My 2nd card uses stamps from Unity's new Feb KOTM {Nothing but Blue Skies}. I LOVE this kit!!! It has SO MANY GREAT sentiments, I know I will find many uses for them for a very long time!!

Here the cardstock is Bazzill, Bling is from CTMH and the image is colored with my Copics. The Dp is Basic Grey's June Bug line, border punch is Martha Stewart and dies are Spellbinders.



THANK YOU for coming to see my creations, these two were lots of fun to make. I really appreciate your kind comments and I apologize if I do not make it around to your blogs every week. Today it may not be so easy because my daughter is off from school and I don't like to spend our time on the computer. Hopefully I will be able to get around to everyone over the weekend at least...we'll see. I am always amazed at the inspiration I get from all of the AMAZING projects you all come up with!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
{{BIG HUGZ}}
-Jodi

Happy Friday Full of Friends with Flair!!!

Hi to my fellow Unity Addicts full of Flair and to anyone else that is just stopping by. If you did not get a chance to check out the Unity blog yesterday, you REALLY should head on over there to check out the new look. Angela also made a few additions to the new blog and they are AWESOME!! You can get there by clicking here.

Next, I need to send out a BIG THANK YOU to Jen from Jen's Cup of Creations. I was lucky enough to win her Blogaversary Blog candy and the package she sent me was AMAZING!!!! Jen is an {ippity} chick and she included the {ippity} SET Just Wanted To Say.....in the blog candy. If you would like to check out her blog or her {ippity} stamps for sale, click on the link above. THANK YOU Jen, it will be so much fun creating with all of the goodies!!

I hope you have had a GREAT week and that you have been able to get some fun stamping time in. I am a very excited stamper this week because yesterday I found out I won the Artful INKables think INK Challenge. So, I won some of their stamps, YEAH!!! Winning stamps is always great, I have 3 of their sets that I LOVE, can't wait to get more!!

My card I have to share with you today is definitely related to my mood this week, but I didn't really realize it until it was done. Do you ever do that?? I picked the paper and stamps, put everything together and went WOW!! That's how I've felt this week. Here it is....




I have been REALLY wanting spring to come along, just like always at this time of the year, but this week has been bad. That explains the papers and all of the butterflies. I have also had some things happen that have reminded how important my family really is to me, they (especially my mom) have helped me through some very tough times and are always there for me. That explains the sentiment. Another wonderful family thing has been watching my cousin play on the USA Olympic Hockey team this week. My brother was in 3 summer Olympics and I was lucky enough to go to 2 of them. It is such an AMAZING thing, there is nothing like the Olympics. I LOVE seeing all of the different countries coming together peacefully. OK, sorry for my rambling today when there are so many fabulous stampers to visit. Here is the recipe for my card, THANK YOU SO MUCH for visiting today....hope to see you again soon!!!

Making Memories- papers, ribbon and butterfly shaped paper from journaling notebook- all Flower Patch Line
Unity Stamps- circle sentiment from Birdie Inspiration, 3 butterflies from Bevy of Butterflies
Martha Stewart- border punch
Quickutz-scalloped circle die
Versafine black ink and Memento Summer Sky ink

{{HUGZ}}
-Jodi

Another Unity Friday Full of Flair!!!

Welcome to my friends with Flair and other fellow stampers, Thanks so much for visiting today. I have one card to share with you today that has some beautiful Unity stamps on it. I also used the sketch from this weeks Taylored Expressions sketch Challenge.


To create my card I used Taylored Expressions January Key Ingredients for all of my papers. Included in that kit are the Basic Grey Nook & Pantry Dp. The sentiment and image stamps used are from Unity's The Artist In You set by Donna Downey. Here is how it turned out.


I took this image at night with my Ott Light and just couldn't get a great picture. I usually have the problem of my sparkle not showing but here I have the opposite. I heat embossed the image by stamping first with Versamark Dazzle in Champagne, Then I used Chocolate Sparkle embossing powder by Sparkle & Sprinkle. As you can tell it has LOTS of sparkle....which I love, but it does look much better in person. I also used spellbinders dies for the large rectangles, and a quickutz die for the scalloped circle. On the bottom of the striped paper I used a Martha Stewart border punch.
If you haven't been to the Unity blog yet you should start there to see the list of all of the friends with flair, click here to get there.
One of the blogs will have a special blinkie and if you leave a comment there you could win 25 random Unity stamps, so be sure to visit all of the participants.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you liked my creation. I will be back tomorrow as a part of the Stamping Bella LOVE ME DO blog hop. It should be lots of fun so be sure to stop back again.
Have an awesome weekend!!!
{{HUGZ}}
-Jodi

Fluttering By with Unity Friends with FLAIR!!!

Welcome and HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Hello to my Unity Friends and also to any new friends from Flutter By Wednesday, this is my 1st project for their wonderful challenge blog. I used an image and sentiment from Unity's January KOTM ...savor the journey. There are so many wonderful stamps in this kit it's hard to pick what to use. So, I actually picked my papers 1st, which I usually don't do, and went from there. Then, I realized these papers had some beautiful butterflies, and I have been wanting to join in at Flutter By Wednesday. Here is what I came up with.


I have been feeling just a little bit slow lately, so I had to use this sentiment, I love it with the snail and mushrooms!!!

Supplies used
Making Memories Flower Patch Line - papers, ribbon, journal page, butterfly
Martha Stewart - border punch
Prima - flowers
Stickles
Unity - stamps and ink
Copics - color for image
Spellbinders- die cuts
buttons and pearls from craft supply

Thank you for coming to see my creation today, I hope you have a GREAT and RELAXING weekend!!!
{HUGS}
-Jodi

1.29.10 Unity Friends With Flair

Hello an Happy Friday!!! Welcome all the friends with stampin FLAIR brought to you By Unity Stamp Co. I have 2 cards to share today. Both of my cards use the very popular My Mind's Eye Be Loved paper line along with coordinating cardstock from Prism.

My 1st card is from a sketch I found on Splitcoast Stampers. I used stamps from 2 different Unity sets. The flower and flower pot are from the Treasure To Me set and the sentiment is from Best Wishes & Blooms. I LOVE these sets, there are so many different options with them and even more when you mix & match!!!
The 2nd card has 2 stamps from different sets also. The floral image is from the Dec KOTM Delightful Moments and the sentiment is from Spring Unity. Here I used some Spellbinders dies, a Martha Stewart border punch and some stickles to add just a little sparkle.



THANK YOU for stopping by today, don't forget to go to all the blogs listed on the Unity blog so that you can find a special blinkie on one of them and possibly win 25 Unity stamps. Hope you have an awesome weekend!!
-Jodi

Unity Friends With Flair Friday

Hello and happy Friday to all of my Unity friends out there or anyone else just stopping in!!!
Today I have 2 cards to share with you, made with some of my newer stamps that needed some attention. The first card uses 3 stamps from the Unity December KOTM delightful moments. Isn't that hot air balloon GREAT!!!!??? The papers are all from CTMH, I colored parts of the balloon with Copics, the pearls are Kaisercraft and cutting dies are Spellbinders.


For my second card I used Cardstock, Dp, ribbon and coordinating Copics from Taylored Expressions Valentine Key Ingredients. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this Be Loved paper from My Mind's Eye....as many of you do too....because I have been seeing it all over the place. I have 2 Unity stamps here, the flowers are from Best Wishes & Blooms and the Joy definition is from Treasure To Me. I also used a Fiskars border punch, Spellbinders dies and flower bling from CTMH that I colored with my Copics.

IF you would like to check out more info about Unity stamps and their incredible KOTM's just click on my Unity addict blinkie over on the right side. I promise you will never be disappointed with them, I have loved everything Unity since Aug 2008. That blinkie will also get you to their blog with the list of amazingly talented stampers to visit for more Unity eye candy!!! Have a great weekend and I will be posting again soon with some exciting news!!!

-Jodi C.

More leftovers and Friends with FLAIR!!!

I decided to make another project with my Christmas/Holiday leftovers for the DIE CUTS R US leftovers challenge. I found enough of Jillibean Soup's Grandmas Christmas Soup collection to make this card. I paired it with the paper pieced Unity tree and sentiment from the Unity Dec KOTM {delightful moments} to create this 1st card. It seems to be a bit busy for me, probably because I was trying to use up the paper. All cutting dies are Spellbinders, which I love to play around with.




My 2nd card uses stamps from the Spring Unity set. The image is colored with Copics, cardstock is Prism, cutting dies are spellbinders and embossing folder is from Cuttlebug.

THANKS for visiting on this wonderful Friday and have a GREAT weekend!!!
-Jodi

Relax....Friends With Flair!!

Happy Unity Friends with Flair Friday and thanks for visiting. Today I have one card to share with you and it uses Unity's Comfy Cozy ...I LOVE this set!!! First I was going to color the chair but then decided I wanted to make a little scene by paper piecing with Basic Grey's June Bug line.All papers, stickers and die cuts are Basic Grey, all stamps Unity and the cutting dies are from Quickutz.

Hope you have a GREAT weekend {& get to do some fun crafting/stamping} and THANKS for coming to visit!!!
-Jodi

A Frigid Unity Friends with Flair Friday

Hello to all of you friends of Unity with flair!!!! It was below zero here yesterday and it took me 1 1/2 hours to dig my car out of the 17+ inches of snow. To all of you visiting from a warm climate...I am very jealous today!!! It is beautiful though when you are inside and nice and warm.

If you haven't checked in with Unity yet they are having a great sale this weekend, 25 % off all stamps and a free single for every $10.00 you spend. Time to stock up on those stamps you've had on your wish list!! To check it out you can click on my Unity Addict blinkie to the right.

Today I have 2 cards to share with you. When I saw this Merry Christmas die cut from the My Mind's Eye colorful Christmas collection I immediately thought of this mitten stamp from the December 2008 kit of the month, little reminders. I just love this stamp and these colorful papers.
It is hard to show the sparkly glitter in the picture, you can see through the glitter much better in person

For my 2nd card I used Making Memories wedding collection with a Unity stamp I consider to be a "Unity classic", Feel the Joy.
So if this is your 1st friends with flair, as you are looking at all of the wonderful creations, you need to look for the blinkie and leave a comment on that site for a chance to win 25 Unity stamps.



And, yes you have found the blinkie here this week. So, leave a comment here, and you will have a chance to win 25 random stamps from Unity. On Saturday I will tell you who is the lucky winner!!! Good Luck!!!

-Jodi

UNITY Friends with FLAIR!!!!

Welcome Unity Friends with Flair and Happy Friday!!! SORRY for this horrible picture but it has been such a bad morning I don't even know where to begin...I'm actually lucky I even got my card onto the computer the way things have been going.!! I actually really like my pink sparkly snowman card and I'm sad I can't get a better picture right now....oh well, maybe(hopefully) later.

Here is a much better photo


I made this card with the beautiful snowman from the Unity November store kit {Believe in fairytales}. The dp, sheer flower, button and ribbon are from the pink Christmas card kit I got from dream designs by iralamija ( I love her designs and her store). I stamped and embossed the snowman but wasn't happy with it yet so then I covered the more solid areas with Pixie Dust Shimmerz Blingz. The tag with border is from Quickutz, the scalloped oval and snowflakes are from spellbinders, embossing folder is cuttlebug, glitter is Martha Stewart and bling is from CTMH.
Thanks so much for stopping by today!! I always really appreciate your comments and encouragement!!
-Jodi

Unity Stamp Co and Their incredible friends with Flair

Hello and Happy Friday to all!! Thanks for stopping by today to see my creation. Once again, I used some beautiful images from the incredible Unity November Store Kit. This card gave me more practice with my Copic Club from Paper Maniac "homework".
So the image is colored with Copics and outlined with the beautiful sparkly atyou Spica Pitch black marker (doesn't show the sparkle too well here). All papers are from Close To My Heart's Discovery collection, the die cuts are from spellbinders and my new fav border punch is Martha Stewart.

Being that today is FINALLY the day for NEW MOON....10:30 am here, I wanted to share this picture of my daughter and her new Jacob poster (she liked Taylor before he was cast as Jacob) that she got for her birthday. I have a feeling all of us fans are going to be VERY HAPPY as we walk out of the movie....Have fun all you Twihards!!!

Happy Unity Friends with Flair Friday

Hello to all of you friends with flair. Today I made two cards using the Unity November Store kit {Believe in fairytales} that I got from Paper Maniac (I have one of their blinkies to the right if you would like to check out their great store). I LOVE this kit and the reg Unity kit for this month, they are both amazing. Angela also has a great sale going on with 30% off and a new INCREDIBLE set from Donna Downey...check those out with the Unity blinkie to the right.

My first card uses some vintage looking papers from a digital kit called written and printed by Kim De Smet. My sparkling snowman card also uses papers from a digital kit..designing with digital rhonda winter kit.

Thanks so much for stopping by on your way through this inspirational blog hop, I can't wait to see what everyone else has created!! Have a great weekend!! Jodi

Friends With Flair by Unity

Hello, welcome and TGIF!!
Today is another wonderful Friday full of Unity eye candy from their friends with flair!! I want to take the time to say how much I LOVE checking out all of your creations on Fridays as they are always full of inspiration. Thank you to those of you that stop by to visit my little space here and it's so nice to read your comments!!

I made two cards this week with leftovers from a card kit I got from Create My Keepsake last year. Unfortunately they are no longer in business, I LOVED their kits. My first card uses the flower stamp from Unity's hodge podge of happiness set and my second card uses their serenity tree.

IF you haven't stopped by Unity yet you REALLY should to check out a GREAT sale Angela has this weekend!! You can click on any of my Unity blinkies to the right to get there. You should also check out their design team blogs from yesterday, their creations are always AMAZING!!!

This weekend we will be celebrating both my birthday (it was a biggie on wed) and my daughters 9th which is Tuesday. My mom is coming to visit and SHOP for an upcoming trip to New York City to visit my brother for Thanksgiving. Anyone who has been there OR lives close let me know if there is something we shouldn't miss. We already have reservations at American Girl for lunch one day, I may be just as or more excited for that than my daughter!!

THANKS for coming to visit me today and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.