~ 365 Cards: Day 302 ~

Today's challenge is to pick a challenge from April. I picked Day 33 entitled 'Boy Oh Boy' whereby I had to create a masculine card with a touch of pink! Here's my card:

Stamped image from Unity (yeah, I broke into a new stamp set & used it!) 

Is it masculine enough? Oh well.... TTFN!

~ Get Sketchy: Sketch 56 ~

I was in a mood to create a card and looked around and found this sketch from Get Sketchy: 

Here's my card: 

Patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket Togetherness. Stamped images from Unity's July 10 KOTM set.

Here's the inside of the card. The sentiment is from Elzbells while the journaling box is from the same set as above.

This card came in handy for a friend's 50th birthday although I doubt very much she would want a mega '50' on the card! TTFN!

~ Happy Father's Day & Mojo Monday 143 ~

Happy Father's Day to my dad and my boys' dad! It's a brilliant day today, the sun was out but we merely chilled out at home after a fantastic evening last nite. We attended my SIL's wedding party and didn't come back till late so it was good to be able to get up late this morning. 

I made a Father's Day card using a sketch from Mojo Monday:

Here's my card: 

As close to the sketch I can get! Patterned paper by Basic Grey Ambrosia collection. Stamped images from Unity Feb10 KOTM set.  Those 'dad' sentiments came in handy!

TTFN!

~ Unity's Friends With Flair & CardPatterns Sketch 68 ~

Friday has come by rather quickly again. Last weekend, I sorted out my Unity stamp sets and now they are nicely displayed on laminated sheets which makes for easy use. It's far easier to use them now than before when they were in their original packaging. 

I've been creating 'thank you' cards as the school term is slowly drawing to a close and these cards will be given to my boys' teachers. I made use of a CardPatterns Sketch: 

Here's my card: 

The retro flowers are from April 2010 KOTM set. Patterned paper from Basic Grey Kioshi collection.

My boys recently went to a scout camp and I made them a label for their bags. 

Stamped images from May 2010 KOTM set. It was enclosed in a laminated sheet. Pretty simple to create and effective.

Stamped images on the left are from May 2010 Moments in Bloom set and the 'happy' is from May 2010 KOTM set. In both tags, the back was stamped with a large butterfly from May 2010 KOTM set and our address was printed over it. 

I'll be making more tags as we are off for our summer hols next month and I'm always looking for labels for our luggage! Have a great weekend! I've got a wedding party to attend and looking forward to it! TTFN!

~ Caardvarks: DRS Designs June Challenge ~

This month's challenge is to "create a *new* card using stamps and wet and/or dry embossing". Here's my card: 

Patterned paper by Basic Grey Granola. Went for dry embossing using a Cuttlebug star embossing folder. Stamped images from Unity's May 2010 KOTM set. 

TTFN!

~ Sketchy Thursdays: 6.10 Challenge ~

Here's the sketch for this week's challenge:

Here's my LO: 

LO created using June's Studio Calico kit. Stamped images from Unity. Date stamp from Banana Frog's Delouisville set. Photo of my boys busking in Birmingham Town Centre to raise fund for Christian Aid. They played for an hour and did receive generous donations during the time they played. There were a fair number of fiver notes being given!

TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 107 ~

Here at 365 Cards, the DT members are fortunate to be sponsored by SRM Stickers and they supplied us with tons of stickers to play with! 

Today's challenge is a toughie! We had to choose from last June's challenges and I chose one where we had to use an argyle pattern and create a card for a special man in my life. However, Pam had to add a twist to it and her twist was to make the argyle pattern a piece of "fabric" on the card! Now looking at my stamps, I realised I don't exactly have a male image so I had to think hard and this was what I came up with: 

An air balloon! I'm sure it's made from some form of fabric material! Patterned paper by Basic Grey Granola. All sentiments from SRM Stickers. Stamped images from Unity.

Here's the inside of the card. 

I've got a couple of birthdays coming up so this card will come in handy! TTFN!

~ Unity's Friends With Flair ~

It's Friday again. Time to hop on the blogs of Unity fans (Check Unity's blog for more info). My May KOTM arrived rather late and I only got a chance to play this week. Top on my list was the roller skates image and I made this: 

Patterned papers by Basic Grey Granola (luv that range... so suitable for male cards). I need to make more 'mal-ish' cards as they are rather short in supply.

Gonna be busy later as my eldest is off to camp today until Sunday while the wee one will be attending an all day camp on Saturday. The hubs is away on a weekend golfing trip while moi will enjoy some time alone to myself on Sat! Not often I'm left alone but I do cherish it ..... mmmm what shall I do... scrap, shop ..... All I know I will enjoy a bit of peace! :) Have a great weekend! TTFN!

~ Sketchy Thursdays: 6.03 Challenge ~

After a haitus from scrapping, I finally caved in and made a LO based on this sketch:

Absolutely adore this sketch... guess all the messy bits attracted me! LOL! Anyway, here's my LO: 

Made use of Studio Calico May kit although some bits came from other kits too. Luv this photo of my boys, taken using the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. Lots of stamping too, using Unity's Brave Girl stamp set. 

Hopefully this will mark the start of more LOs to come... been incredibly busy lately and that leaves me with little time for crafting. TTFN!

~ Unity's Friends With Flair ~

Got myself another Christmas stamp set (can't have too many of them eh) and played with it when it came and create a few Xmas cards. This stamp set is called Merry Merry Merry and comes with some adorable images. 

Here are my cards. Had fun playing with the images:

Some of the cards above were based on sketches from various card blogs and also Hippity Hop sketches too. They come in handy when I need to create tons of Xmas cards to meet my quota for the month. 

My SIL gets married today so I'm out the whole day. Today also marks the end of the one week break as well. It has been great being at home with my boys although the days did pass rather quickly. Anyway, thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend ahead! TTFN!

~ Caardvarks: May Challenge Tiffany Doodles ~

Played with Caardvark sketches when making my Xmas cards. They had two sketches on offer:

Here's my card: 

Patterned paper by Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses. Stamped images from Unity's Merry Merry Merry. 

Here's the other sketch: 

Here's the card: 

Paper: BG Eskimo Kisses

Stamp: Unity's Merry Merry Merry

TTFN!

~ Christmas Cards All Year Round: May's challenge ~

This month's challenge is to use flowers, along with ribbon and button! Well, here are my 5 cards, based on a Christmas theme: 

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Picked a pack of Tutti Frutti papers from the local stationery. Used them for kids' class and had some left over so channelled them for cards. Have to say, luv the colours on them. You will probably see the same poinsettia on all the cards as I picked up a bunch last Christmas and have lots around. They have come in handy for this challenge. Stamp set is Unity's Cheer & Joy

Patterned papers are Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses (I'm fast depleting my supply of papers as I've used loads). Stamp set is Unity's Merry Merry Merry. Card is based on a sketch at Caardvark.

Cute deer but I found it hard to use the paper and decided to highlight the deer for this card. Sentiment from Unity's Bright & Merry Winter Wishes. Card is based on a sketch from Unity's Hip Hop #9

Stamp set is from Unity's Merry Merry Merry. Card is based on a sketch from Caardvark.

Stamped set is Unity's Glorious Angel. Card is based on a sketch from Unity's Hip Hop #9.

Some of these cards were made for other challenges (which can be seen in my blog posts). Had fun doing them and I'm so glad that I'm keeping to my quota each month! Roll on June...TTFN!

~ Unity's Friends With Flair ~

So pleased that Friday has come again.... and this Friday is especially special as it's the start of half term! Yay! A week of break. Looking forward to not having to rush about in the morning. Although scary to think that the next term will be the last in the school term. It's like a year has gone past so quickly. 

Had some time to craft last weekend and created a commissioned canvas using May's store kit. I told myself I had to stop getting so many stamp sets as I'm running out of space to store them not to mention lack of time to play but the May set was just too unique to pass on...

Background misted using Tim Holtz stencil and glimmer mists. Then the flora stamps were used at the bottom of the canvas. Patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket. Went overboard with the flowers as I don't get much chance to use them (I've got boys and there is only so much flowers you can put on them).

The stamped florals

Luv the large circular journaling block... gonna be very useful!

Also created a card based on this sketch: 

Here's my card: 

Patterned paper by October Afternoon

The inside of the card. The zig zag border was punched out from an EK Success punch.

Thanks for dropping by. Thankful for a quiet weekend and hoping to be able to squeeze some crafting time. Whatever you do, have a great weekend... TTFN!

~ Unity's Friends With Flair ~

It's Unity's day today and I played with April's store kit:

One of my fav images. Patterned paper by Basic Grey Sugar Rush and the background is stamped using {ippity} Because of You set. I created this card for 365 Cards. 

Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend! TTFN!

~ Growing In Unity: Day 5 & Friends with Flair ~

It's a Unity day today. Last day of my Growing in Unity week, one which I had a blast, playing with Unity stamps. It's also Friends with Flair day today as well. And it's gonna be another maniac day for me too, with dental appointment and violin rehearsal thrown in! I guess that's what being a mom is.... your kids' schedules takes over your life!

Thankfully, found some time last nite to scrap and with a new stamp kit, Brave Girl. A box chocked full of new stamps was delivered yesterday, much to my delight! Here's my first LO: 

Made use of Scarlet Lime April's kit for this LO. The base is Basic Grey Basic White paper (boy do I hug the Basic ranges). LO based on a sketch at Butterfly Craft. I used quite a fair bit of stamp images from Brave Girl... gonna be one of my fav scrapbooking sets!

LO created using a Studio Calico May kit (which incidentally arrived this week). This is based on a sketch by Sketchy Thursdays (I rely on sketches a lot these days as I've got limited time for crafting and dun wanna be fluffing about). Although the kit is entitled Brave Girl, I found them equally versatile for use on male LOs too. 

The photos used on the LO were taken on my iPhone using a Hipstamatic app. Now if you have an iPhone, you need this app! It makes your photos look rather 'vintagy'. What I love about it is the ability to change lens, films and flashes to create a certain look in the photo. Or simply shake the phone to get a random look. It makes taking photo so much fun! 

Thanks for dropping by. And if fancy winning a Unity single stamp set of your choice, drop me a comment. The winner will be drawn this weekend! It's gonna be a fun weekend as my boys will be basking (playing their violins) in Birmingham town centre on Saturday for charity. They are helping out Christian Aid and I'm praying for sunshine! Whatever you are doing, hope you have a good weekend! TTFN!

~ Butterfly Crafts: May Visual Challenge ~

Found some time to scrapbook and used this sketch at Butterfly Crafts.

Here's my LO: 

SB kit: Scarlet Lime April 10 

Stamp: Unity's Brave Girl scrapbooking set

TTFN!

~ CardPatterns: Sketch 63 ~

Here's the sketch:

Here's my card: 

Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket Material Girl

Stamps: Unity April's store kit

TTFN!

~ Caardvarks: May Challenge Tiffany Doodles ~

Here's the sketches for Caardvark:

Here's my card: 

Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket Material Girl

Stamp: Unity's April2010's store kit

TTFN!