Congrats on your new home!

With the real estate market being as sluggish as it is I haven't had much need for 'new home' cards lately, but they are still fun to make. Mostly because I dream of moving out of our way-too-small-house!

This card was inspired by the CAS on Sunday "welcome home" challenge & the colours of the current Unity "be inspired" challenge:

Supplies: Unity stamps; Fancy Pants paper; Bic Markers; Corner Chomper; brown rhinestones from Dollarama

A single layer card! Whoa. 

Here's the challenge graphic for Unity:

I had a super productive crafty week - all that singing along to loud music had me in a fabulous mood & feeling creative. I made more than 40 cards! I won't subject you to them all but there will be a flurry of posts in the next couple of days :)

xoxo,

Jessi

Unity Sketch #7

With school starting, the university town of Sackville will shortly be filling up with first-time and returning students. This time of year I like to make cards that can be used to remind people that they're missed :)

The sketch from Unity with its butterflies prompted me to pull out some previously uninked Unity stamps, and some inks that I haven't used in a while either - my Kaleidacolor pads. Ignore the pink/blue edges - the card refused to stand out on a white background so I tucked the nearest coloured papers behind it.

Supplies: Kaleidacolor inks (Fiesta and Celebration); Unity stamps; scrap rainbow stripe stickers; rhinestones from Dollarama

I cut apart the triple butterfly stamp from this itty bitty set  and inked them up with the different strips in the rainbow pads, overlapping just a little bit. The sentiment stamp is one that I scored for free a while back in one of Unity's awesome weekend sales. 

Here's the challenge graphic - I love those colours too, so I may have another card up my sleeve.

That's it for the moment. I have an afternoon of lawn mowing & lawn lounging ahead of me :) Perhaps some more of that vanilla vodka in my Coke Zero too ;)

xoxo,

Jessi

Unity Sketch .05!

So I bought this lovely stamp set from Unity a few weeks ago, and the sentiment is just so perfect. There are simply some times that people are expected to "get over" what happened, and that's not the way it works. Sorrow is on its own timetable.

This month's card sketch at the Unity {be inspired} Challenge was perfect for its first inking.

Supplies: Unity stamps; papers from Making Memories; Memento Gray Flannel ink; classic small circle Nesties; pearl strips from Dollarama; Corner Chomper

Here's the sketch:

You have until July 17th to enter - and there are 2 other challenges as part of it, so you should head over & check it out if you haven't already. 

xoxo,

Jessi

Friends with Flair!

Keeping up with Unity on Facebook is pretty much an invitation to shop every weekend...eek! I just placed my second order in less than a month - those itty bittys jump right into the cart.

So, when I saw this edition of the {be inspired} challenge, that card sketch jumped right out at me because I'd just bought this nifty graduation stamp and I knew it would be perfect. I mean look, the sketch is covered with grad stuff!

When I got going, I decided to give the oh-so-hot chalkboard technique a go as well. I think I was a little too uniform in my ink sponging, but whatever, It was my first try, and I still lurve it:

Supplies: Colorbox White Frost pigment ink; Stampendous white EP; UNITY diploma cap & gown stamp; We R Memory Keepers washi tape; Wplus9 banner die; brads from stash

To help the chalkboard frame stand out a little more, I matted it with another piece of black cardstock. To make the flag, I carefully lined up thin washi tape on white cardstock so the pattern matched, and then die cut it. The graduated brads came about because it was too nekkid. And now I've used up those first three grey/white shades out of my neverending mini brad stash.

Annnnnnd, since it's been a long time since I played along with Friends with Flair, I saved this for today so I can pop in over there too {waves hello!}

xoxo,

Jessi