ODBD challenge - sentiment cards

Our Daily Bread Designs has partnered with OWH! This is month 2, and the challenge for December is to create a card with a sentiment as the focal point.

LOVE this challenge. Sentiments are my thing... if you've hung around here for any length of time, you know I am NOT a colorer. Of any sort. LOL

I dug into my Unity stamps for this fabulous sentiment, which I think works well as a love or Valentine card. What woman doesn't wish to be classy and fabulous??

(Stamps: Unity Undeniably You set; Nesties labels 10, K&Co paper, random bits)

Now go make a card and link it up so ODBD will sponsor
some shipping costs! Go go go! :)

Jen

Unity Friends with Flair 4/1 edition, AKA Jen tries something new

I have a confession.

I've been afraid of my sewing machine. Yes, it's true. I've had it for.... five years now, I think. I am far from a great seamstress, but I can do a straight hem or even a zig zag stitch with few problems. Heck, I even made a dust cover for my Cuttlebug (tutorial here).

However, I've never stitched on a card. Why? I think I feared I might break the machine, which is rather ridiculous. It cost less than $100 and I've definately gotten my money's worth out of it by now (hello, curtains in the foyer, bathroom, kid's rooms, master bedroom as well as countless fixed hems and handmade blankets and toys).

On Splitcoaststampers (which has a great Unity forum!!) I have a 'secret sister' and we've challenged each other to step out of our comfort zones and try something new, so I did. Be gentle:

Paper: K&Company DP; solids from the scrap bin
Momento Ink in Rich Cocoa, BIC mark-its
Unity's KOM - Simple Life

Discoveries:
A) Stitching on a card is WAY easy
B) I'm totally going to stitch lots of cards from now on
C) I didn't break the machine. Go figure.

And then for fun, I have one more card. I wasn't going to sign up for FWF this week - it's been a crazy, emotional week - but I had a really CAS card in mind. This is again from the KOM Simple Life - I have been using these stamps so often the past couple of weeks - but I hadn't used these great birds yet, and then I found this ribbon and it all fell together.

CS: not sure
Offray ribbon
SU ruby red ink
Unity's KOM - Simple Life
SU ribbon slot punch

Thanks for looking! If you want to make sure you've seen all the FWF blogs (and try to find the blinkie!!!) make sure to visit the Unity blog.  And from there you can easily get your fix at the Unity store! :)

Jen

OWH MWT, or *coughcoughcoughBIRTHDAYcoughcoughcough*

We are having a snow day here in central Wisconsin, which is good. I guess. This is the noise in my house at any given moment: *coughhackcoughcoughwaaaaaaaI'mboredIdon'tfeelgoodcoughcoughcough* And we have snow and freezing rain enough to last for next winter... yes, I woke up to sleet against the windows yesterday at 4 am. It snowed. And rained. And snowed, and rained some more, and it's still going. I took the eldest to the grocery store with me a bit ago as we were nearly out of food and we were the well-est enough to go, and now we're all wiped. But we have food!

Oh yeah, and it's my birthday! Happy birthday to me. 32 and a house full of sickies, BUT I do have a new toy!

It's mid-week throwdown time over at the Stars & Stamps blog today. The challenge is to make cards for kids. I like making kids cards, but lately I've been trying to find cards that would appeal more to the older kids - like 'tweens and teens. Its' a challenge, because you don't want to make it too juvenile, but still keep it kid-like. Here's what I have:

For the record, this was one of my first attempts at flocking. Must flock some more animals for practice! I tried using a glue pen, but it seemed to not give great coverage. I think I'll try a different adhesive next time.

Card recipe:
Stampendous fun flock in white
Papers: SU solids, K&Company DP
Lace scallop punch: Martha Stewart
Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder
Stamp set: Unity's Love Ewe
Random ribbon snippet, pop dots dimensionals

And now for the FUN stuff: my new toy!!!

Peppermint Cricut! I love it! This was my first time ordering from Oh My Crafts and I couldn't recommend them enough - though it was delayed in shipping, the customer service was excellent! It came with FOUR cartridges and I ordered three more. With all the sickies, I've not had much time to play, but I can't wait until we're all feeling better so I can use it.

Thanks for looking! Head over to the blog and play along, and don't forget - my blog candy drawing goes all the way until the end of March, so scroll down and enter to win those pretty flourishes!

Jen