Simple card and swap stuff

I had a bit of extra time tonight, so I decided to ink up my March Unity kit and make a simple card:

I paper pieced the umbrella and colored in her jacket and skin with Prisma colored pencils and OMS. The paper is from DCWV Mi Casa stack and the rub-ons are Karen Foster.
This is a 4x4 page that I made for our monthly swap on our Yahoo group. April's theme is kite, so I sewed together a kite using scraps of upholstery fabric. The page itself is made from paper bags melted together.
This is also for a monthly swap in our Yahoo group. This month's Rolodex theme was circles.

Rolodex swap & Funky Swap

For our Yahoo group, we are doing an alphabet Rolodex swap February and March, and I chose 'b' and 'o' of course, so I did a bird and owl. I tried my free motion foot and am pleased with the result:


And in the same yahoo group we are doing a year of funky holiday's, and February is Crossword Puzzle Month. Here is my take on the theme:

I finished these all up throughout the day.

Here they are!

Here are 8 of the 9 pages we did for our swap:


Marissa and Lori:
Jane M., Me, Alice:

Aiyana, Mom, Jane W:
There was a 9th one made, however in respect to the artist they have asked to not have their work published on blogs....but let me reassure you that it is absolutely gorgeous! I can only imagine what next month's swap will bring!

Happy Mail Day!

I received some awesome happy mail the other day and I want to share these beauties to everyone, and hope that you'll take a peek at these ladies' Etsy shops and do some Christmas shopping!

Meg was one of my partners in the Swap, Shop and Blog exchange. I received a beautiful knitted rose pin and a set of pretty hair pins. She does amazing work...it's well crafted, very stylish and will definitely use these products weekly, if not daily. This is her amazing Etsy shop.



My other partner was Mavis. I received a beautiful handmade necklace and earring set and a gorgeous set of cocktail napkins. She has two etsy shops.....here and here. These colors are totally my style and I have a feeling that I'll be wearing the heck out of the beautiful jewelry!!!



I had such a good time in this swap, and look forward to doing another one again!!!

So our group this month did a charm swap, and here is what everyone did:



The picture doesn't do them justice. Everyone's came out great!!! This is a super talented group and I love hosting these swaps!

Unscripted Sketches #26

Happy Saturday!!! Here is today's sketch and sample:





I decided to use this sketch to come up with my altered rolodex that I do each month for a special Yahoo group I am in. It's a Halloween theme this month, so I had to dig out what little Halloween paper and embellishments I had. I'm happy with the way it turned out!

Come check us out at Unscripted Sketches this week, and see what all of the other great designers have come up with this week!

Did a little catching up...

Happy Friday! Hope everyone is having a good day!

I have had the last 2 days off from work, so I decided to catch up on some swaps that I joined through various Yahoo and Swap-Bot groups. One swap that I joined was a Halloween ATC Swap....these are the 3 I made:

I am not sure if you can see it in the pic, but I put some Pearl-Ex powder on the orange and black paint to give it some shimmer. That stuff is sooo messy, but gives the coolest effects!

I did a little bit of shopping at Michael's and Target today. Target is finally starting to carry Ink a Dink a Do stamps...I was happy to see that! Michael's also got a ton of acrylic stamps in. It seems like they are fading out of wood stamps and getting more acrylic in.

Tonight DH and I are going out to eat. We haven't been out to eat at a nice restaurant in so long, it will be nice to get out of the house...just the two of us.

Don't forget, tomorrow is Saturday and that means a new sketch at Unscripted Sketches. See you then!

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I made this little guy for a bird ATC swap I joined over at swap bot. We have 1 partner and only need to make one. I found the multi colored canvas at a thrift store....about 3 yards for 2 bucks. The green material was some clearance stuff at Walmart. I hand cut the bird. It'll be going in the mail this week.

Happy Sunday

I made this card for Natalie's challenge at Scrappin' Coast 2 Coast. We needed to make something with 'white space".




These are my Rolodex for the monthly swap on my yahoo group. The theme was colors, and mine was pink.


Hope everyone is having a good Sunday! Don't forget to check out the newest sketch over at Unscripted Sketches, as well as the month long crop over at Scrappin Coast 2 Coast.

I had a request from my best friend to create a birthday card and 2 Mother's Day cards. I worked on these this morning:







These are my altered crazy 8 cards for a funky card swap on my yahoo group, Penney-Jane Mixed Media:


And these two cuties are for my friend and her mom:

They are each filled with some buttons, gems, beads....just little things that I thought would look pretty!

Darrin and I are going to a D-Backs game tonight, and then to dinner. Have a great day, and don't forget to check out Unscripted Sketches and to enter in to win a stamp set below!

AND IT'S HERE!!!!!

Our first sketch is posted over at Unscripted Sketches!!!!!!!! Our first sketch was this beauty:


And here is my take:Head on over to Unscripted Sketches, check out what all of the other wonderful ladies have created, and get started!!!!!!

So you wanna know what I'm giving away? I have 2 stamp sets to give away!

The first one is a retired hostess set from Stampin' Up! titled Tags So Much:

The other is Itty Bitty Backgrounds by Stampin' Up also:
All you have to do is participate in our first ever sketch at Unscripted Sketches. Create something based off our first sketch, and in addition to participating on the Unscripted Sketches site, (instructions on how to participate there will be mentioned on the site) post a link back on this thread to your creation. The giveaway will go all week long and end on Friday 4/17 at 11:59pm. 2 random winners will be chosen on Monday 4/20 ( I am out of town that weekend).

I can't wait to see what you come up with. Good LUCK!