Growing In Unity Day #4

Hello, friends:}

It's my week of Growing in Unity!! Be sure to stop by each day {April 17-23} and leave some love for your chance to win several prizes!! Become a follower for an extra entry!! Gotta love prizes!! 

Today I am featured over on the Unity blog--ACK! It's so exciting! I love love love Unity!! Be sure to stop by HERE to read my little blurb--but visit there after you read my post:} 

One thing I like to do when creating cards is get inspiration from scrapbook layouts or pages. I was inspired by a page awhile back...and made this card from my memory. I love the three paper rectangles with the stitched fourth rectangle. I also love love love these papers [Cosmo Cricket]. I also LOOOOOOVE my Unity and Ippity stamps that I used! I used Unity's Little Boy {airplane}, Garden Variety {tag}, and Happily Ever After {sentiment}. I also used Ippity's banner {Love In Return}. I just love mixing my stamp sets! I ended up donating this card to Operation Write Home. 

I also made this fun little wedding favor gift for the Paper Crafts April 2011 Gallery  challenge {wedding projects}. I love the soft colors of the flowers that will grow from these seeds! I made my pocket with kraft paper (using pinking shears on the top) and then I stamped my journal image {Unity} with heather ink {A*Muse Studio}. After it dried, it looked a bit too pale, so I glazed it with my Sakura pen. Then I cut out a window to see the flowers and added a transparency behind the window (which you can't really see--sorry!). I also used my Unity Love Grows stamp set for the sentiment. Added a bit of rhinestone...and it's done:) I am actually giving this to our friends this weekend--they will be celebrating their anniversary! Perfect;) 

And I couldn't let another Limelight challenge go by and not play along!! It's been awhile since I had time--the deadline was extended because Mandy had a baby!! CONGRATS:) I used this sketch to make a get well card for a "deer" friend who had surgery yesterday. I love that little deer {Unity's Believe In Miracles}!! And that bird--yep, I used it on my homemade brad HERE. It's from Unity's August 2010 KOTM, and it makes it perfect for the Unity monthly challenge {birds}. LOVE!! I also used Unity's Heart Times and Small Things Matter Most for the sentiment. LOVE:)

That's it for me today. THANKS so much for stopping by and leaving some love! Your comments make me smile--and they enter you in this week's giveaways! I've got a couple of prize packages, as well as a Unity stamp set, to give away! If you haven't stopped by HERE or HERE or HERE--do so and leave some love for your chance to win!! 

THANKS again for stopping by! LOVE visiting with you:} LOVE Unity!! Be blessed!

Awards:}

Hello, friends:}

I apologize for not being on since SUNDAY!! Been kind of lazy lately! But I'm back in the studio!! While I was resting and hanging out with Trav...I saw two blog awards that I received as well as this win over at i{heart}art!! Tiff picked me as one of the top 3 for her Sketchy Sunday 001 winners! I entered this card. Love that Unity stamp set [Heart Times]! 

Thank you thank you thank you, Hannah from Sparkly Pink Star for this Stylish Blogger Award. Hannah has so many beautiful cards on her blog--and a video! I need to learn how to make those! FAB! Check her blog out HERE! For this award, I have to share 8 things about me::


1. I LOVE the color green
2. I LOVE the DT teams that I am on {Play Date Cafe, EtsyInspired, All Things Unity}
3. We recently got iPhones--and we can now TEXT! Long story--I'll share later why we didn't have it for four years!
4. I love love love The Office--I enjoy shows and books that connect events and shows together. 
5. I don't like movies--if I do watch one...it's got to be a chick flick. No action-I can't take it! Sorry Trav!
6. I am a neat freak--I cannot leave things out on my desk for more than the duration of the creation. I get antsy and can't get in the mood for crafting. It makes for lots of trips to the drawers and shelves holding my supplies--but I have to have a clean desk:)
7. I LOVE to sing--that's what I do if I'm not skyping while I craft. 
8. Favorite saying or response right now-- "Is that necessary?" I say this to Trav all the time (in reference to lots of things). I can't think of an example right now--but it is funny when I say it;)


And...I just noticed that Hannah gave me two other awards--WOW! I'm honored! THANK YOU! 

This next award was given to me by my wonderful friend, Virginia. She is soooo inspiring! Check out her fabby creations HERE. To accept this award, I have to do a couple of things:::


1. Thank the person who gave it. THANK YOU so much, Virginia! It has been super wonderful getting to know you on the EIC team, and talking with you on the phone! I cannot wait until the end of this month!! ACK! I can't wait to meet you! Thanks for always inspiring me! YOU ROCK!
2. Copy and place award on blog.
3. List three things which you love about yourself. 

• I love that I live for Christ--trying to give and share what I have with everyone. 
• I love that my posts always have fun colorful words (linked). Makes it kind of whimsical--and who doesn't love color!
• I love my eyes--they are the most beautiful blue! 

4. Post a picture that you love. I'm going to share two photos--they are my fav! I love this photo of Trav and I wearing our matching NERD shoes. I'll share that story sometime soon:)

And here is a clever pic that I wish I had thought of--Angie {My Scraptastic World} and I were skyping. Her husband took a pic of us! How CLEVER! LOVE it!

5. Pass this award along to 5 people (no particular order): 

• Emily Leiphart--oh my! She is so talented!
• Lisa H.--she is the SWEETEST! Always leaving wonderful comments and supporting me!
• Mandy---I love love love LIMELIGHT! And Mandy! 
• Lynn Miller--Talented in more ways than one! She is super amazing--and a great teammate:)
• Angie B.--I've loved getting to know her over the past couple of months! More talent!! 

**NOTE:: I wish I could have given to everyone--so feel free to pick these awards up and place them on your blog! I just love all of my friends and followers;)

WOW! That was a long post! Thanks again everyone! I really enjoy sharing with you and I'm honored and blessed to receive these awards! Lots of love to all! 

Limelight Sketch

Hello, friends!!


It has been a crazy two weeks here at my house!! I have several orders...and I'm finally getting on track after my migraines! PRAISE God:} So I apologize for not posting more pics. I've got some more creations in store for you--so no worries!!

Today I would like to share with you a card that I made using the Limelight #59 challenge sketch. SO FUN! I have missed playing with Mandy and the Limelight team! Great friends!! I love love love this card--unfortunately I need to use it for a friend and her family. They just lost their father/grandpa the other day. I am hoping that the memories of 'Pop' will bring smiles and laughter. We will see him again in Heaven one day!! HOOORAY:} For my card--I used Unity's butterfly from my August 2009 KOTM. I also used the sentiment from Unity's Butterfly Beauty [one of my favorite sets!]. Pretty simple--but I just love these fall colors together! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope that you will come back tomorrow to see my All Things Unity challenge card. I also hope that you will play along with our challenge! It's a monochromatic theme! FUN! Thanks again for stopping by! Love when we visit--be blessed:}