Unity Friday Friends with Flair

Hello Friends with Flair.  Happy 4th.  No red, white and blue in my card today, sorry.  I used that color scheme in yesterday's post.  Today I am using the Itty Bitty set that was free with purchase a while back.  I colored a watercolor background and then stamped image in Ranger archival ink.  I even stamped the sentiment and punched it out with the SU window punch.  I then added a bit more color to the actual butterfly for an added punch.  I attached the dp at an angle with a scallop border strip and I backed the image with a scallop circle to make it pop more.  Clean and simple card with a lot of impact.  Have a safe weekend and thanks for stopping by.

Unity Friends with Flair

 Happy Valentine's Day to all.  Wish you much love and happiness.  I pulled out my very first Unity set to use this week.  I purchased this set in a Stamp store after I had been to CHA and fell in love with the Unity line.  This set is called City of Love.  I made a couple one layer, clean and simple cards.  I used black, white and red.  I love this color combo.  I colored the hearts with red metallic gel pen.  Thanks for stopping by.  What was the first Unity set that you purchased?  Have you made a card with it recently?

Unity-Friends with Flair

Treasure to Me, Unity

Hello Everyone!  It is Friday. It is time to play with Friends with Flair.  I used Unity's Treasure to me set.  I love this girl-y image, which I partially paper pieced and partially colored with my Copic markkers.  I am not a match-y-match-y kind of girl, I usually don't match my shoes and purse with the accessories I am wearing.  Now don't get me wrong, I know not to wear brown shoes with black pants and all that.  I just don't have a pair of shoes and purse for every outfit, but I thought it would be fun to create that with this image.  I used dp from MME blush pack.  I recently picked it up on sale at Michael's and love it.  It is full of double sided girly papers.  I used my Martha Stewart lace border punch and a strip of dp that I cut into a banner, added a bit of pink ribbon, tied into a bow and voila!  I hope you have a great Friday and let me know what you think.  Do you have shoes and purses that match all (or many) of your outfits or do you have a pair of black, brown and neutral (white, cream) that you make go with every outfit, like I do.  Thank you for stopping by today and if you left me a comment then double thanks.  I love hearing from all of you out there. 

Unity Friends with Flair

 Hello Everyone TGIF and Friends with Flair.  I made a cute little card for someone off at college.  I thought Loads of Love was a cute set for a college student, since they are now having to think about laundry on a regular basis.  Probably not as much as I have to think about it (daily), but still maybe more than when they were at home.
I just did a CAS card using Spellbinders and Copic markers and cut  a piece of patterned paper and cut the tails with square punch, added a small bow and voila!  Sweet and Simple.  Let me know what you think.

Unity-Friends with Flair

Hello Friends with Flair, I made this creation with stamps from Treasure to me, Unity.  I found these resin vases at Michael's on clearance and wanted to try a card with them, so here is what I came up with.  I don't think I would be able to send it in the actual mail without special envelope and additional postage, but it sure did turn out cute.  I cut the background piece with Labels 22, Spellbinders and inked with distress ink.  I stamped a couple of floral images right on paper and then cut out a few and pop dotted for more dimension.  Have a great week end and thanks for looking.

Unity-Friends with Flair

Hello Friends with Flair.  Today I used Shine On, by Unity.  I just loved this stamp set with all the cute lamps and sentiments.

Stamps: Shine On, Unity
Ink: rich cocoa, Memento; antique linen,
vintage photo, Distress ink
Paper: Crafty, DCWV
Embellishments: ribbon, My Minds Eye, metallic pens, Sakura
Tools: Spellbinders, Sew Ribbon; Fiskars border punch

Have any of you seen this new tool?  It is Sew Ribbon by We R Memories.  I have been interested in the Sew tool, but it is always out at my store, so I looked at this.  I wasn't sure how it would work.  I have bought tools in the past that were so difficult to use that I find myself forgetting about them.  This ladies is not one of those tools.  This one is the scallop Sew Ribbon.  The template is double sided and your paper fits between the layers and held my strong magnets.  The cutting tool fits in the grooves, push down and voila, you have cut the paper.  Repeat until you get to the end and remove template. They provide you with plastic ribbon threaders, attach to end of ribbon and start threading through the slots and you have a nice ribbon scallop.  Easy peasy!  This is a tool I will keep using.  I can use ribbon on a card without all bulk. Win, win.

Have a good weekend.

Unity- Friends with Flair

Hello and happy Friday everyone.  It is time for FWF.  I made this sweet card for a friend for her birthday. I used Unity, Sew Cute set for the image. I colored pieces of the image with Copic markers.

Stamps:  Sew Cute, Unity; sentimet, unknown
Ink: tuxedo black and tangelo, Memento
Paper: Spring moss, PTI; orange, DCWV;  white, GP
Tools:  Spellbinder dies, embossing folder, Sizzix

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Unity- Friends with Flair

It is Friday and time for Unity- Friends with Flair.  I needed a treat bag for some teachers as a little Easter gift and I saw this little bag made with SU! top note die (Chic n scratch, Angie Kennedy Juda).  I do not own that die so I used Spellbinders Labels eight (the second largest die in this set).  I cut two pieces of white cardstock for each bag.  I used Feel the Joy, Itty Bitty by Unity.  I stamped in Versa mark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I then inked the panel with tumbled glass and vintage photo, Distress Inks.  I used Spellbinder classic oval (smallest for most, second smallest for one with larger hole). I attached to small lunch sacks which I purchased in bulk from Sam's Club (about 500 sacks for roughly $ 6.00)  I use them for all kinds of craft projects.

Front of gift bag. 
Stamps: Feel the Joy, Unity
Inks:  Versa mark; tumbled glass, vintage photo, Distress ink
brown ribbon purchased at holidays from Sam's Club
(problem with ribbon ends fraying)

Back of bag.
I dry embossed with Sizzix Basic Gray branches folder and inked with
tumbled glass and vintage photo.
I forgot to take a photo of back and had already taken down my
portable light studio, look at difference in lighting.  Love my photo
studio in a box.  DH purchased it for me for Christmas.

All four boxes.  Each with their own handmade character.  One has
a larger oval handle (thought it was too big, could see the treats
so I went down to the smallest oval size).  One of the ovals slighly off
center (shifted in Big Shot).  One ribbon cut with notched ends (ribbon frayed too much).

Overall I liked the end result of these little gift bags and would try it again.  I think the teachers will love them and of course the chocolate within them.  Have a great weekend and thanks for looking.

Unity Friends With Flair

 It is Friday and it is Unity- Friends with Flair.  Unity has had some fantastic sales of late and I have taken advantage of a few of them.  This stamp set Quiet Essence was part of my most recent purchase.  I just loved this set for that lovely diamond background, the gorgeous flowers and the sentiments.  Today I made two CAS cards with two of the flowers in this set and two different sentiments. I stamped the flowers with tuxedo black, Memento ink and colored with Copic markers.  I added some gold glitter highlights to each using Sakura stardust pens. I decided to fussy cut out the images and pop dot them off the background (stamped in bamboo shoots, Memento).

I love this sentiment "the quieter you become the more you can hear".  Sometimes we just need to stop and be still, not get so worked up and convincing ourselves that we can't do something, but get quiet and hear, you will hear, if you allow yourself to.  Sometimes we need to get quiet so we can observe what is going on around us, the feelings of others, we don't need to fill all the space with noise.  Take time and become quiet and see what you can "hear".

For this card, I colored the diamonds on the edge of the background with the gold glitter pen.  Up close it gives a very nice shine.  I love the saying "a smile is the beginning of peace" , think about the last time you say someone with a genuine smile, the one on their face and in their eyes, how did it make you feel?  It melts away everything else, didn't it?  I am so happy you stopped by today.  Please leave me a comment, I love to hear from you.  Have a great weekend and smile.

Unity- Friends with Flair

It is Friday and time to play with Unity- Friends with Flair.  Tonight I wanted to try a new card fold.  I love it, but boy was it hard to photograph.  I am not sure what it is called, but as you scroll down through the photos you can see that the center panel swings out and you can place the sentiment on the backside.

I used Sing a New Song, Unity.  It contains six stamps, of which I used five for this card.

Card front, flat.
I embossed bird image with black embossing powder
and colored parts with Copic markers.  I stamped scallop
in buckaroo blue, SU!  I added black liquid pearls for some
dimension and shine.

Inside of card, open flat.
I stamped the sentiment in tuxedo black and the reeds in
rich cocoa, Memento.  I stamped music notes in tuxedo black off
to the side (hidden under panel when card is closed).

Front of card, standing open

Inside of card, standing open


I hope you liked my card.  Please let me know what you think.  I enjoy hearing from you all and have a wonderful weekend.