AMYRFTS3- Thinking of Pixies!

Happy almost Monday everyone! I am enjoying not having to get up early on Monday for the remainder of the summer.. sorry to all of you without the break! We had a great 4th of July. It was Sam's birthday. We had 2 cookouts, one with my parents (ribs and cheesecake!!) and one with my friend Jen and her DH (yummy hamburgers, etc.) We kept Nate up and went to see the fireworks which were HORRIBLE! We waited for 1.5 hrs... and got a 10 min. show!! I was not happy. Nate just started paying attention when they ended!

Today was a very blah day. It rained all day and all of us napped at some point. I did find time to complete Amy R and Tammy Fielder's sketch challenge (Tammy is a Guest Designer). This also doubles as a card for a color challenge from my RL Friends' card swap.

Thinking of Pixies

Supplies

• Stamp- CC Designs Swiss Pixie; sentiment from Unity
• CS- PTI Whisper White, CTMH Cranberry
• DP- CTMH
• Ink- Palette Noir
• Coloring Medium- Copics
• Accessories- Primas, So Saffron Ribbon, CTMH ribbon, white brads, coluzzle

I had to use my other swiss pixie for this card. They're so gorgeous!! I am excited to see all the new releases tomorrow at All That Scraps!!

Unity KOTM Guest Designer Challenge

My second post for today!

Unity has monthly challenges for their Kit of the Month Guest Designer. This is my first time trying it but I enjoyed it. This was a sketch challenge.

Tea for Two

I went for a vintage/mod look and think I achieved it! All paper and embellies are from the Sassafras Jungle Bungle collection which I won from the Moxie Fab blog! This is a very fun line!
Images are from the Unity June KOTM. Which brings me to my next card...

Cherry Lemonade

I just received my order of Basic Grey Lemonade and June Bug papers from All that Scraps (super quick shipping!!). The colors in this particular sheet, cherry cobbler, match SU former in color purely pomegranate and the new SU in color rich razzleberry. I used my blossom nestabilities. I really want to use more of this paper line!

Wish me luck!

Hip Hop Hangover with Unity Stamps!

I am sure many of you have seen the Hip Hop and Hip Hop Hangover threads on Unity or even participate in them yourself. It's basically just Unity Stamps way of having a weekly party! So here is my creation for this weeks Hip Hop Hangover! This also fits the SCS Unity Addicts Challenge for 7/2. We had to use yellow somewhere on this card! I wish the picture was better but click on it to enlarge. I used a lot of detail!

Supplies

• CS- SU Whisper White and Pretty in Pink
• DSP- SU Tea Party
• Stamps- Unity June KOTM; Branch from Bevy of Butterflies
• Ink- Palette Noir, SU Certainly Celery
• Other- Primas, Brads, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug, Cropadile

I hope you enjoy this creation and continue Hip Hopping through the other Addicts Blogs! I will have another post of some other Unity Creations Tonight! Happy Friday!

Amy R Friday Sketch- 4- Sweet Swiss Pixie

Hi all-

I know I promised to be back more regularly but I ended up having severe muscle spasms that have never completely went away so I haven't created much. However, I wanted to share what I did get done this weekend! These are the cutest images I've seen in awhile! CC Designs released these in June- the Swiss Pixies. I love them!

Supplies

• Stamps- CC Designs Swiss Pixies
• Ink- Palette Noir
• Coloring Medium- Copics
• CS- PTI, SU Whisper White and Pumpkin Pie
• DSP- Sweet Always
• Other- SU Ribbon, primas, nestabilities
  
  Here is another I created for the Unity Addicts Challenge to use Red, White and Blue. This uses images from the Unity Kit of the Month- April. If you haven't checked Unity Stamps out yet, you're really missing out!

Supplies

• Stamps- Unity Stamp Co.
• Paper- SU Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Pacific Point
• Ink- SU, Palette Noir
• Accessories- Nestabilities, cb embossing folders, buttons

Hope everyone has a fab 4th of July!

CC Designs Sugarplums and DT Challenge- stickles

This was from the DT Challenge a couple of weeks ago- better late than never, huh?

I love this little boy and am so excited that I will have another image of Trevor here soon! I used stickles on his swim suit and on the sand and ocean, per the DT challenge. I used some twine and buttons to make it a little more beach-y. Sentiment is from the coordinating set, Amy R's Beach Sentiments. Paper is CTMH. I added a lil sun under his eyes and on his shoulders :)

I love this image of Emma!! And the sentiment.. too perfect. Paper is from Basic Grey. The panel with the sentiment was made by using a stamp from an SU lvl 1 set dashing dots and summer sun ink. I used the reverse of the dots cuttlebug folder to look more like polka dots :)

Enjoy- I know I love these images a whole lot!!

Long time no post- Amy R's Saturday Sketch

Hey all-

It's been over a month since I posted!! We've been super busy with dr appts, testing, work, and some illness in between. I had a killer bout of viral bronchitis followed by a scare from an insect bite that looked like Lyme's Disease. I'm still on antibiotics for that but the rash/bite has gotten a lot better!

Anyway, without further adieu, here is my return to Amy R's Sketch Challenge!

This is for this week's challenge and features CC Designs' Sugarplums Beachies and Beach Sentiments from Amy R. Paper used is SU Tea Party and ribbon is from the SAB Bundle. I love these Beach images and sentiments. I ordered the beachies II set and should have them soon.. I can't wait for the new release tomorrow to buy some of THOSE goodies!

This cutie is from last week's sketch. I ordered a few Kettos during the free shipping sale at Stamping Bella. I used pacific point ink to sponge and line the paper. Sentiment is from Unity Apr. KOTM. I adore their stamps- sigh, another company to kill my budget :) Paper is Magnolia from MME. Ribbon is by MS.

I have a lot more cards to share that I have made throughout the month. I will have another post on Wednesday so ENJOY!! Happy almost summer!

Quick posts and swap cards

I am still super exhausted.. I wish I could figure it out! In the mean time, here are the last 2 cards from the swap I do with my 2 local stampin friends. Ignore any bad grammar, spelling, as I am nodding off currently :)

Supplies

• Stamps- Unity KOTM April; Sentiment from CTMH
• Ink- Palette Burnt Umber
• CS- Kraft, su kiwi kiss and baja breeze
• DP- Basic Grey Mellow
• Coloring Medium- Copics
• Other- Epoxy chipboard

Supplies

• CS- Whisper White; Bazill Chocolate
• DP- AC Play collection
• Stamps- Images from SU Forest Friends; Sentiments from SU Goody Goody Gumdrops
• Other- Primas, twine, button brad, SU Top Note die

If you have any other questions, just leave a comment. Have a great weekend! We will be taking Nate to a local farm where he will receive horse riding therapy next Fall. Should be interesting :)