city of love...

so i stepped out of my comfort zone a little and signed up for a swap that i really had no idea how to do.  i guess there is a kind of stamps called stampscapes and you create little scenes with them.  well, i didn't exactly have any, so i asked lori (the hostess of the swap) if i could just make a little scene.  i think you are supposed to use a brayer and different colors of ink to blend the background together, so i played around with that, too.  here's what came out of my little experiement.  it was kinda fun, although i'm not great with the brayer.  i'm having a hard time with it being only one layer, but i'll live with it!!

city of love
stamps:  unity
cardstock: glossy white
ink: onyx black, broken china distress, soft sky, baja breeze, blue bayou
tools: brayer

plus it's friday, so that means friends with flair!  remember you have a chance to win a bag of nifty stamps from unity so go check out the blog and play along (i remembered the link this week)!!

and if you are ruby, remember to see this post! 

and while i'm at it, check the new peek of {ippity} that is coming here...and go play in the {ippity} challenge here!

ok, i'm done.

just kidding...i decided to add this to the all things unity challenge #40 (thanks stampincathy!) which you have to make a one layer card.  you can play along too...visit the atu blog!

ok...now i'm done!

looking good...

some things just make me smile.  this is one of them.  kirsty is hosting an atc swap and the theme was mustaches.  i have been stumped on what to make.  then i was organizing my stamps (don't get excited...only did one little section!) and saw this cute chick.  then i had an epiphany.  this is the result.  the other thing making me smile to day is that it is friday!!  finally!!!  it's been an exceedingly long week.  glad it's over! but also it's friends with flair.  go visit unity and see what the other fwf peeps made.

looking good 
stamps: unity
cardstock: walnut cream, cosmo cricket pp
ink: island indigo, cherry cobbler
tools:  punch, prismacolor markers

loads of heart...

do you ever feel like sometimes life just gets so  complicated and bogged down?  things just get so crazy and you forget the simple things.  that's why i love this card.  it's plain jane.  to the point.  {love}.  sometimes you gotta make it simple.

loads of heart 
stamps: ippity
cardstock: white
ink: pink pirouette, island indigo, cherry cobbler

do you know about the all things unity challenge blog?  every week there is a new challenge.  this week, the theme is 'anything goes'.

only rule is you must use unity or {ippity} stamps.  go check it out.  and if you don't have any {ippity} stamps, i can help you out with that.  the set loads of love has 5 uber cute stamps in it is only SIX bucks!!  seriously...how can  you not get it?  just take a look-see over at my {ippity} blog.