And rounding out 2010.....with a Blog Hop!!

Friends With Flair Blog Hop!!! SQUEEEE!!!
I've begun to acquire so many amazing Unity and Ippity Stamp sets that creating a card....just one card to share for today's blog hop was rather difficult!
Love that.
Seriously. It's like when you pack for vacation and you're not sure what you want to wear when so you overpack....but you're prepared for ANYTHING on vacation.  My stamp collection is like that.  However I can spend a VERY LONG time trying to decide what to wear/what to stamp.
C'est la vie--I'd rather have too much than not enough. This is how hoarders are made, right? HAHAHA :D

Here's my card this week:

Stamps used: Unity Birdie Duet; Ippity Bit of Burlap (spring 2010 collection)

Paper: Stampin' Up Crumb Cake; Basic Grey Basics Manilla and Curio Paper pads

Ink: Stampin' Up Early Espresso; Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye

Accessories: Martha Stewart Scoring Board; Stampin' Up ribbon; adhesive pearls.

Unity is having a sale right now through Jan. 3rd so be sure to check it out!

Be sure to check out all the other blogs on the hop!

Thanks for stopping by! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Happy New Year!!!!

xoxo

Dana

Time for Friends with Flair again! SQUEEEE!!

I am really loving my Unity Stamps....I'm loving the Kit Of the Month Club....in the last 2 months I've acquired so many Unity Stamps I wonder how I'll find the time to play with all of them!!! Last month I HAD to order this super cute set UNDENIABLE YOU set! I SQUEEE'd inside when I saw it! I love this sentiment...I do try to be classy...and I'm ALWAYS FABULOUS!!! hee hee :) Isn't that party dress on the dress form fab? I've been trying to use more embellishments on my cards...oh my to look back at my earlier creations when I thought just ribbon was the fo'shizzle (is that how that word is used? BWAHAHA I can just hear my 16 year old now "srsly mom? Fo'SHIZZLE? You're not even saying it right!)

I made this card for FRIENDS WITH FLAIR Friday!!! SQUEEEE!!!!

Check out all the crafty participants over at the Unity Stamp blog!

Supplies: Paper-Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze & Kiwi Kiss, Stampin' Up!; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Crumb Cake ink; Decorative paper, ribbon, paper flower, brad and stickies from Unity's "Welcome to the KOM" kit!

Thanks for stopping by!!

XOXO

Friends With Flair Blog Hop!!!

Sometimes it takes a friend to gently nudge...errrr PUSH you out of your comfort zone and today is one of those days. I vasilated between justatinybitof fear and SQUEEEEing to have agreed to participate in today's Friends With Flair Blog Hop sponsored by Unity Stamp Company ...my FIRST blog hop!!! SQUEEEEE!!!!

I have a plethora of Unity Stamps--which my stamp/foodie/SQUEEE buddy Lydia knows well when she tweeted me about today's blog hop and encouraged me to JUST DO IT.  I've been dying to get into my studio and create and I'd already decided I needed an excuse to do so because my children's extra-curricular activities are majorly messing with my ability to stamp!! Pfffth!

(Holy crap this was a long intro to just show my card! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!)

I used Unity Stamp's Hauntingly Sweet set and embossed with black embossing powder before coloring those lil' punkins and candy corn. The background is white cardstock dry embossed with the spiderweb embossing folder from Stampin' Up!, I then spritzed it with Tattered Angels sparkly spray then sponged some black ink to highlight the web a little better. The picture doesn't show them very well but there are 3 black rhinestones in the top left corner...had to add a little bling! Sooooo fun!!!! I might have used just a tad too much of that fun spritz. I freakin' love purple, can you tell?

There are over 50 of us participating in today's hop...so be sure to go to the Unity Stamp Blog to see all the entries for today!

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co. Hauntingly Sweet

Paper: Stampin' Up! and Tim Holtz designer papers

Ink: Versamark, Stampin' Up Basic Black (sponged on web)

Accessories: SU! Spider Web dry embossing folder, Tattered Angels spritz, Corner Chomper, distressing tool, black embossing powder, Copic markers, SU! 1/8" ribbon, SU! black rhinestone accents.