Butterfly Birthday

It has been a busy summer full of fun with the kids, so not much time to stamp and share anything on here, but in the past few weeks I have finally had a little time to get crafty and here are some stuff I have been working on.

First a card made with the Papillon Potpourri set

 

I love how this turned out, the colors and butterflies make me think of summer days, and I LOVE summer and having the kids home every day.

 

In addition to making cards, I have been working on some Christmas gifts, here is a little cutting board I made yesterday

 

 

This was pretty quick and I think it will make a cute gift with a bottle of wine for a friend who started her new job today.

 

That is all for today, hope everyone has a great week!

 

 

 





Growing in Unity Winner

WINNER!

 

I had so much fun last week being the GIU, and it is finally time to announce the winner. I used Random.org to pick the winner and the winner of two Itty Bitty stamps of their choice is:

 

Kris B

 

Congratulations Kris! Please contact me at evastrong@rocketmail.com and let me know which two Itty Bitty stamps you want.

 

Have a wonderful week!

Growing in Unity day 5 "Always & Forever"

Day 5 of GIU!

Today I made this card using one of my favorite color combos of black, white and red.  

 

I stamped the raised part of the embossing with the "She Script" background stamp, and I love how this turned out.

 

 The sentiment is from the "Generations" kit.

 

Thank you for stopping by all week, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win some stamps from Unity.

Saturday I will be choosing a random winner from all the comments this week.

 

 TTFN!

Growing in Unity day 4 "Be Brave"

Today I have yet another masculine card to share. It is rare that I make any masculine cards at all (I love big bows...), so this has been a real challenge for me.

 

The stars are from an Itty Bitty stamp and the sentiment is from an amazing kit called "Empowered Words".

 

I am sending this card in a care package to a deployed friend, so he can send it home to his son who is having a difficult time with his dad being gone for so long.

 

Don't forget to visit each day this week and leave a comment for your chance to win some stamps from Unity.

 

TTFN!

Growing in Unity day 3 "Missing You"

Today I made a card using some stamps that I have had for a very long time, but I never inked them until now.

 

 

I was trying to make this kind of masculine without a lot of embellishments, but could not resist adding a starfish charm.

 

 

The image stamps are from a kit called "Beach Cottage" and the sentiment is from an itty bitty set.

 

Thank you for stopping by, and don't forget to leave a comment each day this week for your chance to win some cute stamps from Unity.

 

 



Growing in Unity day Two "Baby"

Day two of GIU!

 

For today I made this cute baby card using the background stamp from the March 2011 KOM and the "baby" stamp from the April 2011 KOM.

 

 

I stamped the background first with brown ink, then I turned it upside down and stamped it again using pink ink on cream card stock.

 

 

I just added a big pink bow and some stick pins, and I think this is a cute card for a baby shower or a baby girl.

 

Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win some cute stamps from Unity.

 

 

 

 

 



GIU Day One "Hello"

Hello and welcome to day one of Growing in Unity

 

For today I have a card that I made with the "Embrace You" kit, and I am not sure what the name of the kit the sentiment is from.

 

 

 

The swirl was stamped and embossed, and I just added some punched butterflies and some gems for a bit of sparkle.

 

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment every day this week for a chance to win some cute stamps from Unity.



Gift Tags

Here are some super cute little gift tags and envelopes

 

 

These were pretty quick to make and I LOVE how they turned out.

 

All supplies are from Stampin' Up

Four Seasons stamp set (Hostess set)

Whisper White CS

Midnight Muse ink

Marina Mist ink

Marina Mist Taffeta Ribbon

2 1/2" Circle Punch

  

Thank you for stopping by!

Eva

 

 



Give Thanks

Happy Friday everyone!

Time for FWF again, and here is my card for this week.

 

For this one I used stamps from two different KOM kits, and I colored the sentiment stamp with markers, and added a few gems for a bit of sparkle.

 

Thank you for stopping by, and have a wonderful weekend!

Eva



Folded Christmas Tree

I made this for the TLC challenge on SCS this week.

 

These folded trees are so cute and surprisingly easy to make too, the tutorial for these on SCS is so easy to follow and it only takes a few minutes to make one of these.

 

The stamp is from a Stampin' Up set called Petite Pairs and the brown cs is also from Stampin' Up.

You can order these here.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Eva



So Many Thanks

Quick post with a card I made for FWF this week

 

The stamp is from a set called Happy Everything. I used an embossing folder that I inked on the inside with brown ink before embossing a piece of kraft paper.

Thank you for stopping by, and have a happy weekend!
Eva

CAS Christmas

Made this cute CAS card using a piece of newspaper and a Spellbinders die.

 

 

I inked the tree with Gumball green ink from SU and the sentiment stamp is from Unity.

For a little jingle I added the bell to the twine, and I really like how this turned out.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Eva



KOM Sketch Challenge

Here is a card I made for the Kit of the Month sketch challenge

 

I used the animal print stamp from the March 2011 "Just You" KOM, and the sentiment is from a SOTW.

 

I am going to hurry up and enter into the final WCMD drawing again since I actually managed to finish every challenge on the list, even the two "bonus" challenges.

 

Thank you for stopping by.

Eva



Friends With Flair and more WCMD cards

Hi and Happy Friday!

I finally managed to finish the last cards for the Unity WCMD challenge even though it seemed like time to stamp was scarce this week.

 

The first card is for the make a fall theme card challenge

 

 

The paper is from my stash, and the stamp is one of the Unity SOTW stamps.

 

 

 

I made this fun gift card holder, since I do need a few of these to give to some friends who has helped me out a lot this past week. Kids seemed to have endless activities and needed rides to all sorts of places, and I relied on friends to help with a lot of that since I have been a "single mom" for 2 weeks now, and it is not very practical to have to wake up the toddler to pick up his siblings late in the evening or during nap time. I cannot wait for my husband to come home in a week or so. Sometimes this army gig is a bit trying, right now I have not seen or heard from my husband for two weeks (yes I am whining), and I do miss him lots.

On a positive note, I did find a Margaritaville Frozen Concoction Maker on clearance and I cannot wait to have some friends over and try it out this weekend.

 

The second card is for the stamp a border challenge

 

 

I used stamps from the Too cute to Spook set, and just added some googly eyes to the spiders.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Eva



Blog Candy Winner & more Cards!

Finally a break from my mommy duties where I managed to stay awake and not fall asleep as soon as nap time rolled around.  First things first, using Random.org I picked the winner of the blog candy and the winner is:

 

  Jen

 

Jen, if you could please email me your address evastrong@rocketmail.com, then I will mail your package of goodies to you right away. 

 

I am still trying to finish the cards for the WCMD challenge and here are a few more cards

 

The first one is for the color challenge, use cream, brown, olive and orange

 

 

Supplies:

Unity "Autumn Grunge" stamps

SU paper

This next one is for the color your image challenge. I am not great with shading and light source and that sort of stuff, but I did manage to color this image.

 



 

Supplies:

Unity Itty Bitty stamp

Jillibean Soup paper

Copic E23, E35, E00, Y13, R14 markers

 

Thank you for stopping by.

Eva

More Unity WCMD Challenge cards

Today I managed to finish two more cards for the Unity WCMD challenge. I am hoping to get all of them done before October 20.

This one is for the sketch challenge, I used stamps from the August 2012 KOM, and paper from Echo park "Apothecary Emporium".  For the half circle I used some spellbinders and just cut them in half, and I embossed the orange half circle with the Swiss dot embossing folder.

 

The second card is for the embossing challenge, and this one looks really pretty in person, but it was not being a good model, so the pictures do not do it justice at all. And since the challenge called for embossing I decided to both dry emboss and heat emboss on the card.

 



I embossed the white panel with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, I rolled my brayer in Versamark ink and rolled it over the snowflakes, sprinkled with sparkly embossing powder and embossed it, so these have a really pretty sparkle to them that does not turn up in the picture.

 



 

I stamped the blue panel with snowflakes from the Snowflakes fall from Heaven set using Versamark and embossed them with a glittery iridescent white embossing powder (this does not show up well in the picture either). The word stamp is from a set called Christmas Eve Chowder.

I added some navy gems for some extra sparkle.

 

And don't forget that I am giving away the following blog candy, and you can still be a follower or become a follower and leave a comment on a post before Monday for your chance to win.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Eva

 



GIU Winner!

Hope that everyone is having a great weekend!

I am finally getting around to posting my projects for the Unity WCMD challenge and here are the two first ones.

 

For the first one we were supposed to make a shaped card and this was quite a challenge for me, guess that shaped cards is not my forte. I finally finished this cute pumpkin card, and I am somewhat satisfied with the result

 The stamp is from one of the SOTW sets and the pumpkin shape is a Spellbinders die, that I cut with the top edge right inside the cutting edge so it stayed connected at the top. The paper is from a huge pad of papers from DCWV and I have had it in my stash for ages.

 

The second challenge called for using at least two textures on your card. I dry embossed the background, heat embossed the image in silver and added a ribbon for at least three textures.

The stamp is from the Happy Everything kit and the ribbon is from a JoAnns clearance bin.

 

Usually I have a really hard time with pictures when the card is black or really dark, but today I was struggling to get a good picture of this all white card, they kept looking purple, finally I gave up and this is the best one I got.

 

And last but not least the winner of the two Itty Bitty stamps from Unity, I used random.org to find the winner and the winner is:

 

Paula-Scrap Addict

 

Paula, please contact Kelli at kelli@unitystampco.com and let her know that you are the GIU Itty Bitty winner so you can choose your two free stamps.

 

And don't forget that I am giving away the following blog candy, and you can still be a follower or become a follower and leave a comment on a post before Monday for your chance to win.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by, and have a wonderful weekend!

Eva 



GIU DAY FIVE

For today I made two cards using some of my Unity stamps that I have had for a long time, but had never used until this week.

For the first card I used a stamp from  the Love Life kit, and all the stamps in this kit are amazing.

 

 The pink paper is from Gina K, black from SU and kraft from PTI and so is the twine.

I took the pictures at night and I am still working on getting better with this camera of mine, so if the colors look a bit off that is the reason why.

 

This second card I made with the Christmas Bough kit and I have had this for a really long time and never used it. Then last week for FWF I saw a really pretty card made with this set, which inspired me to get it out and at least make one card with it. 

I embossed the bough in gold, and just added the red bow. Paper and ribbon is from PTI.



 

Leave a comment for your chance to win your choice of two awesome Itty Bitty stamps from Unity.

 

 

And in addition I am giving away some blog candy too. Just follow my blog and leave a comment on a post this week, and I will randomly draw a winner on Monday October 15.

 

Thank you for stopping by all week, and have a great weekend!

Eva



GIU DAY FOUR

Welcome to day four of GIU!

Today I have a Christmas card for you, using a stamp from the Snowflakes fall from Heaven kit.

 

 I made the background with a die from Spellbinders (fancy Lattice) and the paper is from Stampin' Up.

 

 

Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win your choice of two Itty Bitty stamps from Unity.

 

And in addition I am giving away some blog candy too, just follow my blog and leave a comment on a post this week, and I will randomly draw a winner on Monday October 15.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today and come back tomorrow!

Eva



GIU DAY THREE {Couture}

Day three of Growing in Unity!

If you are joining me for the first time today, welcome! Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy my creations this week.

Today the images are from two different kit of the month sets. The background stamp is from the Just You KOM, and the dress form and sentiment is from the Love in an Instant KOM.

 

I used Spellbinders Labels Twenty, and purple ribbon from IHP.

 

Please remember to leave a comment for your chance to win two Itty Bitty stamps of your choice from Unity.

 

In addition to the Itty Bitty stamps I will be giving away some blog candy too, it will include some stamps from Unity, spellbinders dies, paper, embellishments, washi tape and more. In order to be entered into the drawing for this, all you have to do is to be or become a follower of my blog and leave a comment of one of the posts this week, and I will randomly draw a winner on Monday October 15.

 

Thank you for stopping by, Eva