"Just call me Cinderella all day" she said

It's Friday, the Holiday weekend is here and it's Friends with Flair, oh the excitement!
My daughter LOVES Disney princesses!  Recently she has become obsessed with dressing up as the princesses as well.  It is pretty cute although we get some weird looks at the park and grocery store sometimes.
Here is my layout documenting this sweet moment in time (and yes, she really did insist that we call her Cinderella all day)!

Supplies used:
The papers and gold stickers came in a Disney kit I found at Joann's.
Unity stamps used: He, She, You Said, May 2012 KOM and Absolutely Priceless
Copic markers
Wishing you all a happy and safe Memorial Weekend and a heartfelt thanks to all of the wonderful veterans and their families who have served and honored our country.

Born to Fly

Another Friday, another Friends with Flair!  Happy Friday Unity peeps!
I was inspired to make these cards last month when I saw the technique and link in Two Peas gallery but of course I forgot to bookmark it and now can't find my original inspiration.  :(
I used watercolor paper and stamped the trio of butterflies from Unity's Love Never Fails in black ink and then stamped the single butterfly from the kit in watermark ink and heat embossed it with clear powder.  I colored the top of the card with watercolor crayons and then sprayed with water and used the heat gun to push the water down the paper for a drippy effect. 

The sentiments are from the Dream Big Itty Bitty and Life Becoming (born to fly).  I used the leftover watercolor paper to make the sentiment banners and added some bling underneath.
Happy Friday all!

A little birdie told me...

It's Friday and Friends with Flair!!!  I missed last week for the first time in a long time, what can I say but sometimes life gets hectic.
Today I have a card to share that I made for my daughter this week.  She will be 3 next month and she's such a little girl all of a sudden!  Last month she painted a beautiful bird feeder and had so much fun watching the birds eating out of it until a giant mutant squirrel came along and demolished it after only having it up for a week or so.  :(  We got her another feeder but it's not the same as the one she painted herself and even the birds don't seem to like it as much.  We had to get a squirrel proof one so maybe that has something to do with it.  I made her this card to cheer her up.

I made this with the Unity color challenge in mind using greens, pinks and off white.  The inspiration for the design came from a cover card from the March/April issue of Paper Crafts designed by Kalyn Kepner.
Supplies used:  Kraft cardstock.  Unity stamps (One of a Kind and My Dear), My Minds Eye Howdy Doody PP, Spellbinders Die, EK Success border punch, Copic markers.

Happy, happy, happy birthday

I've been so sick with an allergy/sinus/cold infection that I haven't gotten one project done at all this week.  :(  Good news is that it's finally clearing up and it doesn't look like I've passed it on to the kids (a first)!
A Friends with Flair and nothing to share...time to look back through projects I've forgotten to link up.
This was a card I'd submitted a few months back and it didn't get picked and then I just completely forgot to blog it.

It uses 3 different Unity stamp sets - Echo Writer, Sweet & Sour Soup (happy & birthday) and Love in Return (banner).  I inked the happy up with 5 different distress inks and stamped it multiple times to make the background.  The PP is My Mind's Eye.  I distressed the edges and folded up one corner to show the dot theme that I used for color inspiration.  One of the happys is popped up for dimension.  This isn't the best photo of it but I've already given the card away so no detail shots.
Wishing you all a wonderful and crafty weekend!

Friends with Flair Mojo

Happy Friday y'all!
I've been busy crafting this week but my mojo was on vacation for the first half of the week.  When I have both time and a compulsion to craft but no mojo where do I turn:  usually to past FWF posts and my latest Paper Crafts mag! 
Here are a couple of cards I made this week while trying to get my mojo back.  Usually I will use a card as a jumping off point and when I'm done only I can tell where the original inspiration came from.  Sometimes when the mojo is really gone it looks much more like a scraplift.  Eventually after a few near scraplifts the mojo will make it's way back home. :) 

I got the inspiration for this card from the May/June 2012 issue of Paper Crafts, designed by the talented Sarah Jay.  I made it my own by switching up the papers and using some fabulous Unity stamps in place of die cut flowers and embossing the cardstock.
Supplies used:  Unity Stamps{Fabulous Girl Itty Bitty, You Did It Itty Bitty, Better With Love}, Silhouette was cut from A Child's Year (Cricut), Crate Paper, Copics, Cuttlebug embossing folder.

This next card is also inspired by a design from Michelle Woerner in the May/June issue of Paper Crafts. 

Supplies:  Unity Stamp{Thoughts of the Heart}, Tim Holtz die cut flower, Spellbinders Scalloped circle, PP, Authentique and My Mind's Eye.  I am entering this one in the March Unity Challenge: Doors and Windows.

This last card is something that took on a life of it's own when my mojo started coming back!

Supplies used: Unity stamps{sentiment from March 2012 KOM, star from We Treasure You}, paper is American Crafts, Cuttlebug embossing folder and stars die cut from Cricut's A Child's Year.

I do have more cards to share, some inspired from the talented ladies who link up with Friends With Flair every Friday but I ran out of time on this post since the little one just woke up from a nap.  I look forward to Fridays every week because of the talented Unity and Ippity chicks and friends of Unity who post amazingly talented projects using their Unity stash of stamps.  It is such a great community and so much fun to browse through the pretty projects and leave some love in the form of comments and a chance to win great prizes from the generous peeps at Unity!

Beauty

Here is my 2nd attempt at the Unity Kit of the Month Sketch Challenge.  See post below for my first attempt where I forgot to use KOM!  Sketches for me are always a jumping off point and I almost always flip or skew them in some way.  This one is just flipped upside down.

Here is my card made using the sketch and some fantastic Unity stamps!

I used Marvy brush markers to color in this great image from the June 2011 KOM.  When I had it finished I still thought it was missing something at the top and after playing around with a few different things I finally decided on this floral border stamp from the January 2011 KOM inked in a dark grey.  Patterned Paper is from My Mind's Eye. 
Here are a couple of close ups:

I just LOVE my Unity kit of the months, they are so versatile and always have the perfect stamps for so many occasions and the funnest images!

What's Up?

I created this card for the Unity KOM Sketch challenge and then forgot to use Kit of the Month stamps on it, Oopsie!  Oh well, guess I'll try again tonight and use the right stamps this time!

Supplies used:  Echo Park Happy Days PP, Unity stamps: Neopolitan Bisque Soup (phone, word bubble & what's up), Nov 2011 SMAK (old fashion phone dial)