Friends w/Flair

Happy Friday! Hope you are having a good day so far! I am at a scrapbook retreat and I am truly enjoying myself! It's nice to get away for a few days to girl talk and of course knock out a several pages/projects!!!

I made this card for this week's Friend's w/Flair! Hope you enjoy!

Materials Uses:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Lily Bee Design
Ribbon: American Crafts
Stamps: Unity

Unity's Friend's w/Flair and CPS and The Kraft Journal

This week at the Kraft Journal, the theme is "Welcome Summer"! And I have a fun Unity stamp with an ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream to use for this week's Friend's w/Flair! Looks yummy to me!

I took this week's sketch at CPS and created this fun card!

Here is the sketch that I used!

Hope you enjoy! Tonight is date night and I am really looking forward to seeing Bad Teacher... My husband and I are both teachers, so I think this will be fun for us!

Materials Used:
Kraft Cardstock:: Recollections
Patterned Paper: Lily Bee Designs
Stamps: Unity's Mix Up of Cuteness
Toothpick: from my kitchen! he he!
Ink: Memento

Enjoy!
Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #50, Sassy Lil' Card Sketches and Friends w/ Flair

Happy Friday to you! We made it to another weekend! Time to relax.

I want to welcome any new people stopping in from Unity's Friends w/Flair, and I wanted to introduce you to Papercraft Star! I just love this challenge blog! They offer great prizes, participants and followers vote on the submitted projects, and one of my favorite things about the blog is that you get the challenges ahead of time! I just think that is fabulous! So, stop by and follow and check out this week's challenge and the upcoming challenges! I am sure you won't be disappointed!

This week, the challenge is to use the word star and come up with an element for your project for each of the letters in the word star! This could be tricky, but if you are uber creative you won't have a problem!

S-Stripes

T-Twine

A-Adhesive

R-Red Cherry

Here is the card I created using Unity's Mix Up of Cuteness kit! Check out all the great stamps that come in this kit!

And of course, I used a sketch. I followed Sassy Lil' Card Sketches for the June 7th sketch! I love banners so this is perfect!

Materials Used: 
Patterned Paper: October Afternoon
Cardstock: Bazill
Ink: tim Holtz
Stamps: Unity
Twine: American Crafts

Hope you stop by all sites I have linked up!
Enjoy and happy Friday!
Catherine

Unity's Friends w/Flair featuring "Hugs and Kitties"

Happy Friday to you! Hope you have a wonderful day and weekend! I am glad it is friday and time to relax with friends and family! If you know me, you know that we have two little kitties... well, they are grown... lol! One is "grown" more than the other, lol! They always do some of the sweetest and sometimes strangest things! I was vacuuming yesterday, which is rare, and Tiger Lily flipped out. She went to hide on the chairs at the dinning room table and sort of fell asleep there. So, I knew I had to grab my camera! And here is her sweet self just resting...

Very innocent, but if you know Tiger, she far from it! :D
Last week, Unity had that fabulous sale and I got my stamps in the mail this week! I was so excited to get an adorable cat collection at a fantastic price!

Here is the card that I made with the "Hugs and Kitties" kit!

Here is a close up of that cute lil' kitty!

Materials Used:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Echo Park
Ink: Tim Holtz "Distress Ink"
Ribbon: Michael's
Stamps: Unity

Enjoy!
Catherine

Fruit Themed Unity Challenge

Over at the Unity challenge, the theme is fruit! I only have one Unity stamp with fruit and it's three adorable apples! So, I made a card for another teacher at work to thank her for all the hard work she does!

I didn't base it off a sketch, but I was able to use some Echo Park "Little Boy" collection. It's perfect for school projects also with the great primary colors! And I used my EK Success notebook paper punch! It's a simple card... Nothing fancy about it, but those little apples were calling my name! :D

 Have a wonderful Wednesday! I only have two more days with my students and then SUMMER!
Enjoy,
Catherine

The Kraft Journal and Unity Stamps

This week at The Kraft Journal the theme is "Clean and Simple" which I absolutely love! It would probably be one of my favorite types of scrapping, especially cards! I used a really cute butterfly stamp from Unity's "Could I Be Any Cuter" collection, and cut out the wings which I stamped on yellow and pink cardstock. I then drew the lines to show the butterfly's flight path! And the sentiment is also Unity from their "Stitched Greetings" collection!

Here is the inside of the card:

Enjoy!

Get Sketchy #83

Hey Everyone, 

Hope you are having a good week! I am glad to be home and off until Monday!  We can celebrate this weekend and remember the true reason for Easter. I am so glad I can share time with my family and friends! 

I made a few cards this week and I just wanted to share a couple with you. 

The first one is from Get Sketchy. Great sketch... I had it originally going the same direction as the sketch, but silly me... I stamped the sentiment upside down... oops... Anyways... Here is the sketch!

Here is my card, using Echo Park's "A Walk in the Park" and Unity's "Could I Be Any Cuter?".

Have a wonderful evening!

Catherine

Get Sketchy Card Sketch and Fancy Pants and Unity

Good Evening,
just wanted to share a quick card with you from Get Sketchy! We are so busy and it has been an extremely long week. Yesterday, several teachers were laid off the school where I teach... and so, the students have been "protesting" and its been a little hectic to say the least...

Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants
Stamps: Unity
Ink: Staz On

Get Sketchy #78

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Hope your week is going well so far! Mine is going pretty good. No complaints... I wanted to get this card entered at Get Sketchy before Friday and after my run/jog I thought it would be a good time!

Using some of My Mind's Eye Stella and Rose collection... mini-paper pad of course... Perfect for cards and small layouts!

Here is the sketch...

Here is my card. Really simple, I think... But I love the colors! 

Materials Used: 

Patterned Paper/banner sticker: My Mind's Eye

Buttons: Bo Bunny

Cardstock: Bazzill

"hello" Sentiment: Unity

Twine: American Crafts

Unity Hip Hop Sketch Challenge #48

I wanted to play along with the Unity Hip Hop sketch challenge this week and definitely cause it was the last one, bummer... I just started really enjoying Unity all they have to offer! Their stamps are so beautiful and I love using them!

Here is the sketch!

 Here is my take on the sketch!

Hope you are having a wonderful week so far! We are going to head to the movie theater to see Just Go With It!

P.S. Did you notice how clear my photo is? Probably not, but I just wanted to share with you that I got my birthday present early! I am such a lucky girl! I received a Nikon D3100 as an early birthday gift and I absolutely love it!

Materials Used:
Patterned Paper/Die Cut/Border: Crate Paper
Cardstock: Bazzill
Ribbon: American Crafts
Pearls: Kaisercraft

Happy Monday!

Hope you are having a wonderful Monday. My day is going pretty good! I was able to finally take some pictures with good natural lighting! So, I am working on submitting a few cards for the first time... I am quite intimidated but I am going to try my best!

I decided to play along with the Unity Hip Hop sketch challenge this week, seeing as I am new paper and new Unity stamps that I purchased during their Super Bowl sale they had going on! I couldn't resist, I am in love with UNITY!

Here is the sketch!

Here is my card!

Materials Used

Patterned Paper: American Crafts

Kraft Cardstock

Stamp: Unity

Stickers: American Crafts

Ribbon: American Crafts

Enjoy! Have a wonderful week!

Catherine