Etsy Inspired 38! :)

Hello all! :) It is time for another awesome Etsy Inspired Challenge! :) This weeks shop is called Bacon Square Farm. They have some of the cutest bird houses, signs, and other things in this shop! :) Make sure you go check it out!

The prize for this weeks challenge is going to be a Unity wood mounted slide! :) It will be a surprise! Want a chance at it?? Here is what you have to do:
Go to the Bacon Square Farm shop on Etsy, choose a piece that inspires you. Then make something! It can be anything! As long as you make it! :) Then, go and leave a comment on Ashley's blog letting her know you participated in the challenge! A random winner will win the stamp!

Here is my inspiration piece for my layout this week!



And here are the pictures of my layout! :)

Close up:


And as a surprise, I made a card as well this week! I loved the little houses, and couldn't decide how to incorporate them on a layout, so I made a card too! :)
Here is my inspiration piece for it!


And here is my card! :)


So that is all for this week! :) Now go check out the Bacon Square Farm shop and the rest of the DT:
Ashley
Kerry
Shannon
Jackie
Tonya
Tiffany
Lee
Emily
Heather
Joy
De
Dawn(Guest DT) Dawn you have done a great job this month! :)

ok, I am off to bed. It is 1:30 in the morning! yikes! :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Kristen

Vote for my Idol!

Hello ladies! I don't know how many of you know this, but my amazingly talented friend Shannon, is in the MFT Idol top 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She made the most incredible summer survival kit!



I would love for you all to take a quick moment to vote for her. All you have to do is log onto SCS, and send a pm to MFT Votes with Shannon's screen name Mrs. Mac.
You have until 10 pm ET tonight to get your vote in.

Shannon is a truly talented women, and deserves to win. She has come up with some of the most gorgeous projects I have ever seen during this competition!

Shannon you rock and are my Idol! :) {hugs}

Thanks so much ladies!

Kristen

Etsy Inspired 37

Hello!!!!! :) This weeks Etsy Shop is one of my favs. so far! :) It is so fun and makes me want to wash my hands all day long!
The shop is called sunbasilgarden. They make the COOLEST soaps EVER! I want one of each! :)
The prize for one of our awesome participants this week will be a surprise Unity stamp, courtesy of our very sweet DT member De! Thank you De!

Here is what you have to do to play along. Go to the sunbasilgarden shop, pick a piece as your inspiration. Then comes the fun part! Go and create something! It can be a cake, a card, a scrapbook layout, anything! :) And then when you are done, link up the picture of it to Ashley's blog and you will be entered for the chance to win! :) Easy!

So here is the picture of my inspiration piece!


And here is my layout! :)

(sorry for the horrible pic.. I will take a new one when I wake up!)



And a close up:


Now you may have noticed after all my layouts, that I am extremely girly. When it comes to clothes, I am not prissy.. but for some reason with my layouts.. I just can't help it! :) Sorry if they all look the same to you!

Supplies:
Unity Stamp Co- Feb KOM, worn music
DP is My Minds Eye- Bohemia
Cardstock- SU
lace and chipboard from my stash
colorbox chalk chesnut roan, su marker
black sharpie
paper studio pearls


Thanks for stopping by! :) Go check out the rest of the DT!

Ashley
Kerry
Shannon
Jackie
Tonya
Tiffany
Lee
Heather
Joy
De
Emily
Dawn- Guest DT


Kristen :)

KOM blog hop! :)

**Etsy Inspired Post below! :) **

Hello everyone! :) Thanks for stopping by! I am super excited about this KOM blog hop and I hope you are too! You should be stopping here from Bonnie's blog.

If you are just starting, please start the beginning of the KOM blog hop here at the Unity blog!
I will get to my mini album right away! :) I made this of my daughter, and put the pictures in order of what they were taken.

Click Images To Enlarge






The main images that were used come from the August KOM. The celebrate sentiment is from the April KOM. The cover uses just my type alpha stamps.

Other supplies used:
Making Memories-Chloe's Closet DP
Making Memories-Chloe's Closet Buttons
pop dots, glue dots, tombow mono multi adhesive
chipboard album


Thank you for stopping by my blog! :)

Now make sure you continue the hop with Sunghee at her blog!!!!

Etsy Inspired 36

Hello! :) Hope you are all having a good start to the weekend! This week we have an awesome shop with the CUTEST little onsies and such in it :) It is called DogBone Art! All of the images in it just make me smile :)

If you play along this week you could win one of these adorable plushies!


Don't they make you smile too? :) All you have to do is go to the Dog Bone Art shop, and pick an inspiration piece! Then make sure you go to Ashley's blog and link it up in her comment section!

Here is my inspiration piece! :)


And here is my layout! (sorry for the pic! It was taken at night)


The journaling reads "For your first birthday, I made you your own little birthday cake. It was so fun to watch you dig right in hands! You can tell by your expression in the picture that you loved it! :) "

So that is it for today! Make sure you check out the Dog Bone Art Shop!!!

Now go check out the rest of the DT on my side bar! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristen

Please vote!!!

Hello ladies! :) Today is the last day for voting on projects from the Unity Anniversary challenges! Ashley made it into the top 5 for her amazing cake!!!!!!! YAY Ashley! :) So if you could, please make sure to hop onto SCS and vote for her here!!!!!!! She really deserves to win! Thanks so much!!!!!

Kristen

Happy Mothers Day

Hello ladies!! :) I just want to say a big Happy Mothers Day!!!! I love each and everyone one of my online girls so much! And even if you aren't a mom, you deserve to be celebrated too!

Being a mom is the most incredible thing on mothers day, but being a women is just as important. We are all daughters and friends. We give each other a helping hand (and even a hug) when it is needed, and we are all motherly. So to everyone out there, Happy Mothers Day! :)

And a huge hug to my Unity girls ( you know who you are) I love you all so dearly and hope you have a fabulous day! {{{hugs}}} :)

I just want to share a quick pic of the beautiful daughter I am proud to be a mother to. Raine I love you with all my heart, around the world and back again, thousands and thousands of times.



And to my Mom, I love you. I am so grateful for everything you have ever done for me. You are a wonderful Mother and I love you! {{xoxo}}




Kristen

Etsy Inspired 35

Hello all!!! :) This weeks awesome shop is Bealoo. There are some INCREDIBLE prints!!! I wish I could get a ton of them for Raine!!! They have such a variety! :) They are having an awesome deal where you can buy 2 prints and get one free with the coupon code Bealoo Spring Special. Also, to the winner of the challenge, Ashley will be giving away so & so loves!!!!!
I was extremely inspired by this print:




And here is my layout of my sweet Raine at the playground:


And a close up:


The journaling on it reads " One of the best things about where we lived in NC was the park. There was gorgeous scenery, the beautiful walking path, and the big fun playground. Being there always made you happy".


Now make sure you go to check out the Bealoo shop and pick your inspirtion! Then link it back up to Ashley's blog! :)
Go check out the DT!
Ashley
Kerry
Shannon
Jackie
Tonya
Tiffany
Lee
Heather
Joy
Taylor
Dawn- Guest DT

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristen

Hip Hop Hangover and a layout

Hello! :-) I made a layout last night that I wanted to share. It was my entry for the Jimmi's challenge in the Unity forum. The anniversary challenge was to make a card, layout, or altered item with our first Unity stamp we ever received. Mine was Create Yourself. I won it from my first or second hip hop, and I was beyond thrilled!!! :-)

So here is the layout I made.


And the detail shot:


Sorry the first picture is so blurry. It was taken at night.
The journaling reads "Creating is my outlet. I love what I do. My friends inspire me, and I try to inspire them too."

Supplies:
Unity Stamp Co-Create Yourself, August KOM, Bar Tab No Regards
MME DP
SU Card Stock
lace
paper studio pearls
su chalks
versamark
palette noir ink



So thanks for stopping by! Make sure you stop by the Unity website to order your stamps! The home page tells you all about the great deals going on now through Sunday! :-)


Kristen

Limelight giveaway

Sweet Mandy at Limelight Paper Crafts is giving away primas on her blog! :) All you have to do is leave a comment with a random fact! Neat huh? So go here to her blog for your chance-------------------------------> limelight blog

New Sorority

I got this from Shannon's blog!!! :) (thank you Shannon for letting me copy from you!)

There's a new sorority in town.....Whimsical Ink Sorority that is!!!! Come scope it out and sign up to follow! There are already some sneak peaks there tonight and I'll be posting more in the morning. 5 new stamps will release on Wednesday!!!!

Text from the Whimsical Ink Sorority blog.....
So, you wanna become a sorority sister? Would you also like to win prizes? Then you're in the right place. We've got some special things happening this week. The Whimsical Ink Sorority was founded by Queen Kat Designs. We have elected a very awesome Chapter President Maigan Lynn to head up the art for the Sorority and we have a house filled with special sisters to take the art and turn it into cards, scrapbook pages and things!

Hurry....get over there and be one of the first sisters....

Unity KOM Guest DT challenge

So this past week was Unitys' birthday! :) Happy Birthday Unity!!! And there were some fabulous challenges that I participated in! (still a couple more to do).

But the best challenge was the KOM challenge. The challenge was to follow a sketch we were given by the incredibly sweet and talented Jennifer Buck. What does the winner get??? The best opportunity ever.. to be guest DT for Unity for a month. wow right???

So here is the layout that I made :)



And the close up shots



close up of the hidden tag


and a close up of the button side



I layered the blue dp onto chocolate card stock. Then I stamped worn music onto the ivory with colorbox chalk chesnut roan. I took another blue sheet, and stamped it with royal day background using versamark, and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then layed down my photo and lace. The beautiful memories circles were stamped on ivory with colorbox chalk chesnut roan, and then punched out and layered on chocolate. I stamped my journal box, and used my stamp-a-majig to put on the letters using just my type aplha set. I stamped out my dress form, and my shine sentiment, and then journaled. Then embellishments were added. :)

I wish everyone that participated good luck! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristen

Etsy Inspired 34

Hello everyone!!! :) Hope everyone is doing well this fine Saturday!!!

Today we have a super cute Etsy shop called Adopt-A-Critter!! These little critters are sooo adorable!! The winner will win a Sydocian of their choice! :-)

So this is my layout where I put all my inspiration!



My daughter Raine has always had super crazy hair, and with the fur of the critters, I figured it was a perfect match! :-)

The journaling reads "Ever since you a little baby, you have had crazy hair. It is super coarse in the back and nice and smooth out front. It has definitely given you character. And it makes Daddy and I smile"

So to play along, all you have to do is go to the Adopt-A-Critter shop, and find a piece for inspiration. Then make sure you link it up to Ashley's blog!

Now go check out the other DT members! :)

Ashley
Kerry
Shannon
Jackie
Tonya
Tiffany
Lee
Heather
Joy
Taylor


and please give a big welcome to our guest DT Dawn!!!! yay congrats Dawn! I can't wait to see our work for the month!

Thanks for stopping by!
Kristen