Grateful for you and Fascinating Fridays

Hi there!

**For my Wilson Designs Design Team Post for Day Three click here**

It's finally Friday and I have a little card to share with you today! Friday also means Friends with Flair over on the Unity Blog, so that means a lot of crafty unity goodness and you could win a prize pack for checking it out and leaving them some love! You have all weekend to to hop and comment.

Here is my unity card I have created today!

I started with a basic gray card stock and added my patterned paper from my scrap pile, but it comes from Nikki Sivils. I added a heart doily and punched another heart to add on top. I inked up my solid butterfly image from Unity and fussy cut out adding a tiny heart to the center of both followed by the pearls. My hearts were left over  from the border I punched. See I told you I waste not! :-) I added some sweet pearls to the centers of my lacy heart border and finished off with a sentiment from Simple Blessings.

I created this card using the current colors at Colourq.

I wanted to also join in the monthly challenge for Unity: The challenge was to use hearts as long as they were not pink or red. Also I used all scraps on this card, so I am joining in with Di at Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge. 

And Now I would like to introduce you to my latest Fascinating Friday Feature over on Noor's Blog!

I am very happy to introduce you to our next talented artist Stella! Stella Schenkel hails from Groningen, Netherlands. She has such a sweet and shabby style and I just adore her. Please head over to the Paperie Designs Studio Blog to learn more about Stella and leave her some love on the Paperie Designs Studio and over on her blog. 

That's all for now! I will be back tonight for the Wilson Designs reveal.  So you will want to come back for that! I will be posting 9:00 pm EST!

~Tammy~

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Simple Blessings and Fascinating Fridays

Hi!

**Wahoo Friends with Flair Blog Hop Winner**

September has flown by and here we are at the last Friday 

of the month! I was able to create  a card to join up with 

the Friends with Flair on the Unity Blog and it also happens to 

qualify for their Monthly challenge they are running Falling Leaves.

I am also joining in with CR84FN for their color challenge.

Gasp, I just realized I must not be feeling well because

I completed this card without adding a button somewhere

on here. :-)

I started out with all scraps! Yay! Feels so good to

work from that pile. I had a Kraft card base

just waiting to be used, and some brown gingham 

paper perfect for this color challenge.

I diecut the doily from Vintage Book print, and I 

do mean vintage. This book is about to disintegrate,

I picked it up in the "last minute bargain pile" 

at a thrift shop in Hawaii. It's the pile about 

to go in the dumpster and you have about

one minute to grab it.  It's falling apart and,

the lady couldn't figure out why on 

earth I was so happy to have it. 

Next, I stamped and fussy cut two leaves from the 

Simple Blessings stamp set and stamped 

the other right onto the doily.  (The Simple Blessings set is on sale 

right now) I love this set!!!

I finished off by creating a panel for my sentiment and I added 

a strip of pattern paper to the bottom. Last, but not least, I 

added some ribbon and braided raffia! 

And Now....

I am happy to introduce our next Fascinating Friday Feature over on the Paperie Designs Blog is none

other than Ms. Amy Sheffer of Pickled Paper Designs. Please hop on over to Paperie Designs Blog

and learn a little more about Amy and her wonderful designs.  Please leave her some love 

and let her know you stopped by to read her feature.

If you made it to the end of this post, YOU ROCK!

Have a wonderful day!

~Tammy~

Back 2 School...and a new Fascinating Friday Feature!

Hey all!

I am here today with a card for the Unity Friends with Flair and the Unity Monthly Challenge-Back to School. Be sure to stop by and blog hop with all the Friends with Flair participants to for a chance to win some free Unity Stamps! :-)

Using the Smarty Pants set by Unity, I created a simple but fun little Back to School card, by stamping the Report Card on some blue graph pattern paper I had in my stash next stamping the Back 2 School distressed sentiment on the focal image. For a little more visual interested I added a punched apple and button.  Across the top, I stamped the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, TGIF stamp which I thought was so cute! I know I always counted the days till Friday when I was in school! :)

I added some fun little papers found in my scrap collection to my chocolate card base. I added a doily dyed in Riding Hood Red.  I then added a complementing striped Riding Hood Red twill ribbon finishing with a button and some twine. I am playing along with Jules Crafty Snippet Challenge since all items were found in my handy dandy scrap box! :-)

It's another Fantastic Fascinating Friday feature! I am super happy to share that the uber talented Mariana Grigsby will be our spotlight artist.  Mariana's creations are well known in the papercrafting industry please hop on over to Paperie Design's Studio to get to know a little more about her. Please leave some love to let her know you stopped by!

Don't forget to blog hop with us also with the Unity Friends with Flair. Who doesn't want to win free stamps just for leaving some love!

Have a great day~

~Tammy~