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

 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.