Faith, Hope & Crafts

 I am busy trying to get ready for my craft fair next week I made a couple of these tree cards to sell. They are pretty easy to make all you need is the Martha Stewart Branch Punch and some patience :) It took me a while to sort all the branches. I glued a section on the card then attached some branches then did it again until  the whole thing was done. I then trimmed around the branches to give it a clean tree shape. I am not sure how many branches I used but it was close to a whole sheet of 12 x 12 card stock :) ~ Supplies ~ Martha Stewart  - Branch Punch Unity Stamp Company - Christmas Teddy ( Merry Christmas Sentiment) Red Rhinestones Green DCWV Card Bazzill White Glitter Card Red Ribbon Memento Ink - Rhubarb Stalk Thanks for stopping by :) 

 When I first saw this stamp on the Unity website I just had to have it. This is such a lovely Christmas stamp and it is unlike anything else I have seen before. I love Unity for that that they have really great unique stamps. We often get lost in hustle and bustle this time of year but this is a such a great reminder of what Christmas is really is all about. This is a really easy card to make the hard part was choosing the colours :)  I stamped the sentiment and image on the same piece of card then coloured it. I mounted it on to some coordinating card and adhered it to the card base.  ~ Supplies ~  Unity Stamp Company - The Greatest Gift is Baby Jesus Memento Ink Black Tuxedo DCWV  Matstack - All Dressed Up Copic Markers Thanks for visiting :)

 I stopped into to Michaels Craft store after work today and got some good Black Friday deals :) I picked up this plastic bauble for 50c as I wanted to try making a Christmas tree decoration with it using my stamps.  It comes in 2 halves so all you need to do is insert you image and close it over and add some ribbon super easy :) It just so happened this little bear fit perfect into the ornament you can find here at Unity . I had already coloured lots of them earlier this week. So all did was draw around the bauble to get the size and cut it out a just a wee bit smaller so it would fit inside. It turned out better than I thought it would. So I am going to make a bunch more and personalize them with names of the people who will be receiving them for Christmas.                How cute does he look I am sure he will look great hanging from the Christmas Tree :)  Here is another one I made using the A friend loveth Stamp set from Unity. I stamped 2 large butterflies I cove

I have been working on lots of cards for my upcoming craft fair. I love this little bear I made him into a Birthday bear as well as the Christmas one that he came as :)  Why just have him around for Christmas when you can have him out all year long right?  You can find him here over at Unity Stamp Company .  The Birthday sentiment is also a unity stamp you can find that here . I used Darice embossing folders to create the backgrounds and the coloured card is from Bazzill. Thanks for visiting :)  

Happy Monday everyone :) I have been busy trying to clean out my crafting area and found a few of these mini Santa hats laying around. I was not sure what to do with them so I came up with this cute idea of a dog wearing a Santa hat :) The dog stamp is from one of my Unity stamps sets and it fit perfectly. I love all of the stamps from the Phyllis Harris collection at Unity if you don't own any you must get some they are amazing :)  The background was made from themed papers. I stamped and colored the dog using alcohol markers I fussy cut him out and adhered to the background. I glued the hat on and added some ribbon to make a collar. I stamped the sentiment in a deep red ink and placed it at the top to finish it off. ~Supplies~ Unity Stamp Company - Brandy & Emma Forever Friends Unity Stamp Company - Christmas Blessings DCWV - Snow Paper Paper Studio - White Glitter Card Spectrum Noir Markers Red Skinny Ribbon Rhinestones Mini Santa Hats Mement

I have been playing around with my stamps tonight making some Christmas cards I wanted to share this one with you. I really like this stamp I love the sentiment as it is one of my favourite Christmas songs :) I paper pieced the sleigh with green glitter card and coloured the rest with spectrum noir alcohol markers. I used some red glitter card to create a border and mounted it onto a card base. I stamped the sentiment at the bottom and added some small red glitter hearts that I punched from my heart punch.    ~ Supplies Used ~ Unity Stamp Company - Most Wonderful Time Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Red/Green Glitter Card by Paper Studio Spectrum Noir Markers Martha Stewart - Heart Confetti Punch  Thanks for visiting have a great weekend :)

 My new Unity stamps arrived yesterday woo hoo :) I was actually waiting on my angel Arianna Girl stamp but she has not yet appeared. So I decided to make something with the other stamps that came. I started off with the  The Most Wonderful Time of the Year stamp set that includes a sleigh I love sleighs :) But I could not get my sleigh coloured the way I wanted. After 4 tries and crumpled paper everywhere I gave up and decided to change direction. So I got one of the single sentiments out that I ordered Sending Christmas Blessings I love that sentiment it is also hard to find so I am glad Unity sells it :) I wanted the sentiment in a circle but my punch was too small so I used a candle to make the circle drew around it cut it out then put the sentiment in the middle. I wanted to make a wreath but I did not have any wreath type things to make it with. So I dug out my hydrangea punch and did the best I could. I used green glitter card to give it some sparkle. I added some red rhin

I am having a lot of fun with the tag challenge over at Unity. I was not really interested in tags until this week now I love making them :) I  needed to make my Thursday tag tonight since I am up so early for work I will not have a chance to make anything tomorrow. I decided on an Itty Bitty I have not yet used called a child is born. It is a really sweet Christmas stamp. I wanted to go with non traditional Christmas colours so I went with purple.    I stamped the tag with memento Tuxedo black ink then the sentiment. I then took a dauber and sponged the Grape Jelly all around the edge darker on the outside and then lighter in the middle.  I then went back over the whole tag with Rose Bud. I left the manger white but then decided it needed some colour. So I went with the really light Memento Angel Pink. I added 1 rhinestone on the star just to finish it off :)   Thanks for visiting  ~  Happy Christmas 3 months early  ;)