100% Happy Friends with Flair

 For today's Friends with Flair over on the Unity blog, 

I thought I would share a how-to on a watercolor background with multiple uses.

First, stamp the ferris wheel on watercolor paper.

 Ink up the clear handle with blue and green inks. 

Then spritz with water.

 Press into the pre-stamped watercolor paper.

 Let the watery ink run. 

You can either let dry naturally or dry with heat gun.

 I used the extra watery ink on the handle on a larger piece of watercolor paper,

then used it for a scrapbook layout.

 So, the inking on this one was done first, and then stamped over the top, once dry.

 Note that it will come out different every time, 

depending on the amount of ink and water, and type of paper too.

 So, I used one for a tag. Just glued it to a sheet of black and punched a hole and added ribbon.

 Second, I glued to a card front with background paper.

 With some doodled ink pen edges.

 And finally, added to an 8x8 scrapbook page of my husband and nephew.

Stamps: 100% Happy store set from Unity (both the ferris wheel and stars stamps)

Friday Friends with Flair- Feathers!

 I made this card for last month's Unity Sketch challenge, and then forgot to post it!! 

Oh, well, it works for today's Unity's Friends with Flair!

I used Feather Flight stamp , and the sentiment from All Smiles (Itty Bitty).

 And I made another with My Mind's Eye paper and stamped the Feather Flight feather again, and then stamped off a second time.

Friends with Flair

 This is for Unity's Friends with Flair. This is one of my favorite Unity sets: Insightful Meadow. 

It is stamped in navy blue ink, and sponged edges in a tea dye ink.

The patterned paper is MME.

Friday's Friends with Flair

This was created for my parents anniversary last month. Our little stamping group got together and had fun making cards, stamping, talking and eating. And I kept saying, "Mom don't look at this card, I love it so much, I will save it for your anniversary!" It was hard for her not to look at it, when I kept oohing and ahhing over it. LOL.

I used my fav new set from Unity, Feather Flight and some older paper from Cosmo Cricket, Earth Love. And the ink is my latest go-to ink, Memento, Potters Clay.

This is for Friends with Flair today, over on the Unity site.

Unity May/June Sketch Challenge 04 & MF Tuesday Trigger

 I was inspired by Moxie Fab's Tuesday Trigger colors for this card. I love the yellows and the apricot colors in the inspiration room.

 And I used the Sketch Challenge from Unity's May/June monthly challenge, and I used my new All Smiles stamp.  I used watercolor paper, and an aqua pen to apply the ink. My first try, I smeared the black ink. So I painted first, then dried, then stamped the image.

CTS #31 & CQC 192

I love the challenge of doing a single layer card, but I don't do them very often. This CAS(E) this sketch looked perfect for me to try it today.

I also used the color combo for the ColorQ challenge for this week.

I used my new Ippity stamp, Feather Flight, that I won on Unity's blog a few weeks ago. Woo Hoo! I love that feather! I stamped it in Memento's Teal Zeal, then spritzed it with water.

I like this single feather card the best. I tried it several ways with the feathers in multiples, but still came back to the single one as the favorite.

The Houndstooth is from Papertrey, the Weavy stitching is from Technique Tuesday, and the sentiment is from Stampin Up. The inks are Memento Teal Zeal, Amuse Slate gray, SU Certainly Celery & Soft Sky.

Friends With Flair in Green

 I am posting this for today's Unity's Friends With Flair, and the eP: eclectic Paperie Pick challenge: flowers. It looks similar to some I've made before. I just love that flower from Insightful Meadows. But I think this is the first time I've stamped it in green, it reminds me of Queen Anne's lace in this color.

Friends with Flair in Rhubarb

 I made this for Unity's Friends With Flair. I used a page out of the dictionary, and stamped Donna Downey's Insightful Meadows, in Memento Rhubarb ink(my fav). The Sentiment is from Papertrey.

 After I put the card together, I started reading some of the definitions. This one cracks me up! The sentiment is saying how "special you are" and to left underneath is the definition for windbag: a person who talks a lot but says little of any value.

Can I really send this to someone? LOL

Friends With Flair

 This is for Unity's Friday Friends With Flair. I am still in love with Donna Downey's Insightful Meadow set. I stamped the flower in PTI's Ocean Tides, and that is also the base card too.

The sentiment is a SU swap that I just found in my images folder. I used it earlier this week, and just had to use it again, I love it so much. The buttons and twine are also PTI.

CTS 6

 This is for the CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge #6. I switched sides for the flower/sentiment, I hope that is ok for the sketch. I have been seeing a lot of white on white without mats the past few weeks, so I thought I would try it out with this one.

 A couple years ago, I did quite a bit of image trades on splitcoaststampers.com. I had wanted this sentiment for a long time, and then I got it, and never used it. So I pulled this out of my super stash of images, and added one of my favorite Donna Downey stamps from Unity: Insightful Meadow. I stamped it in my new fav colors from PTI, Autumn Rose. The polka dot paper is MME: Stella & Rose.

Unity's Friends with Flair

 These are a few more of the Anniversary cards that I made for an order last week. I thought I would save them for today's Friends with Flair.  The pear is Unity's 100% Happy store set, and I did a bit of watercolor on it.

 The striped paper is SEI, and the sentiment and zigzag stitch are both A Muse stamps.

Unity June & Friends with Flair

 This is for Unity's June Challenge: a Summer Card, and this week's Friends with Flair.

This stamp was in a store kit, called 100% Happy, which I still don't know exactly what a store kit is, but it is a great set. This is my favorite stamp in the set. 

She looks like she is having such fun, flying the kite! I can tell! I would be!

I used an aquapen and Memento inks. I am pretty happy with the way the sky turned out.

The sentiment is A Muse.