chirp...

chirp chirp.  that's what i heard while i was making these. plus it's friends with flair!  they have friends.  can you stand how cute this little set of birds singing the day away is?  i love it!  and of course, it's unity.  my latest crack-like substance.  speaking of which, a new kit of the month should be arriving shortly.  woot woot!  back to the atcs...this is for a swap i hosted titled "bird on a wire".  cause i can't get enough of birds or owls.  {heart} them.  don't forget to check out the other fwf posts today for your chance to win some unity goodness!!  start here!  chirp chirp!

chirp 
stamps: unity
cardstock: pebbles pp
ink:  baja breeze
embellishments:  prismacolor markers
tools:  nesties

thanks...

made simple card for this weeks h{ippity} hop.  i needed to make some thank you cards that a lady ordered and i figured i'd kill two birds with one stone!  make her cards and use {ippity} to do the hop!  so h{ippity} hop on to the other blogs and see what they made.  i must have taken this picture from a funny angle and not realized it.  the card looks huge!  don't forget to check out the monthly special on my {ippity}blog and then you could h{ippity} hop with us!  happy monday!  

thanks
stamps: ippity
cardstock: pebbles pp
ink: early espresso
embellishments:  die cut flowers

little things...

this weekend has been one like i've never experienced before. emotions are a funny thing. they are so exhausting but you don't really realize it until later. they kind of sneak up on you. it's also been nice to spend a lot of time with my family. on saturday, i spent most of the afternoon with my mom. we made a whole ton of thank you cards for various things related to my grandma. i totally case'd a card from the {ippity} blog because they were both adorable and simple. easy to mass produce. i wasn't going to do the h{ippity} hop this week because i didn't know if i'd have time. then, i had an idea. we wanted to make some special cards for the nurses that took such amazing care of my grandma. i saw this sentiment and i knew it would be perfect for that reason. so this is the card for those amazing people and for my h{ippity} hop. be sure to visit the rest of the creations on the hop...start back at the {ippity} blog.


little things
stamps: ippity
cardstock: timber, bark-pebbbles; stampin up pp
ink: burnt umber, haystack
embellishments: hemp twine

shapes & sizes...

some of my favorite stamp designs are by maryse carrier. here stamps are getting harder to find, but i have a lot of them. i decided to host an atc swap using her stamps.


shapes & sizes
stamps: maryse carrier, stamping bella
cardstock: melon mambo, pink passion, pebbles pp
ink: melon mambo, onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor & bic markers

presents and trees...

here are the finished projects i mentioned in my previous post about the glitter. sans the glitter. i went for no glitter on one and embossing powder on the other. something that is much easier to control than glitter. i also decided to try something new. i'm an edge inker. i hate having uninked edges. almost all my stuff is inked. so i tried embossing the edges of this atc. i love how it worked out. i used versamark to ink the edge just like regular ink, then ran it through some embossing powder and viola! embossed edges! and who knew a window stamp could work for a present?


presents
stamps: memory box
cardstock: going gray-su; candy apple-bazzill; pebbles pp
ink: versamark
embellishments: silver embossing powder, silver elastic cord



i used paper piecing on the tree, too. much cuter than the glitter i tried! i had origianlly tried to do something similar, using a glue pad and stamped the image and added glitter. each section of the tree a different color. but the glitter didn't stick all over. and it look horrid. i did add a speck of stickles to the this set, after i took the picture. i tried it on one of the stars on the trees, then decided i liked it!


o christmas tree
stamps: hero arts, hampton art stamps
cardstock: wild wasabi-su; hot fudge-my favorite things; su, pebbles, imaginisce patterned paper
ink: certainly celery, onyx black
embellishments: stickles