It's official! I only post for FWF now LOL

Hi Peeps!  I actually am here to post my 5 projects for Growing in Unity and these table announcements were in the download from the camera so I thought I would do a quick post!

One of my fave things about Unity is how often I turn to their stamps!  We were at the church garage sale [you should see my living room!  Polly Pocket EXPLOSION!] and Morgan's youth group leader said Hey Noelle!  I need something cute, some signs for the DZone table tomorrow at the Splash and Dash 5K.  I said no problem!  I came home and made these.

Please excuse the awful pics LOL  I took them to remind myself what I had already done for her for the next event.

 

This is the only one that has a Unity stamp, but seriously how cute is it?  I used Do Not Bend and it was on my desk I had not even put it away yet how perfect!  This weekend it is on sale as well for only $4.  It is an itty bitty but it is not small!  That sign is 11" wide and 7.5" tall.  As usual, it embosses beautifully.  The font is Hippie Chick by CuttleBug

This one has my all time favorite font Spicy Chicken!  I love it because my awesome husband Bryan went to the local scrap store one day before a weekend crop and bought it for me.  He said in his super heavy Texan drawl "HEY!  My wife is goin' croppin' with y'all this weekend and and I wanted to surprise her.  She really wants some new funky chicken thing.  Well she deserves it.  If I buy it can you set it wherever she is going to sit so she is surprised?"  After my girlfriends picked themselves up off the floor laughing their heads off knowing very well the new Spicy Chicken Quickutz font was my favorite of the new release LOL  I LOVE that man and all these years later it is still my favorite font and I use it every chance I get! 

 This one has a ton of QK fonts Vixon, Metro, Maddie and Blossom.

This one has the DZone logo and it makes me smile every time I look at it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and remember, grab some Unity and stamp it on anything it will always work perfectly!  There is something for every project you need!  <3 font="">



A super fun shopping haul!!



RUN!  Don't walk to your nearest Hobby Lobby!

 All Paper Studio is 50% off!  $2.99 for 3 rolls SCORE!!  There is not as much tape as a normal roll so don't ever buy it for full price!

 TONS of clearance, they are almost giving stuff away!

 The above die looks pretty fun I will make a card soon with it!

 $7.19 for Tim dies!  SCORE!!

 $5.99 for large punches.  I can't remember the last time I bought a punch.  Well except border punches.

 Fun brads!  50% off

 Webster's Pages beautiful trims for $2.51

 Flowers 50% off.  I am going to Glimmer Mist the white ones!

 I thought the borders would be darling on cards and each sheet will make about 18 cards I'm guessing!  The envelope seals are going on Morgan's thank you cards.  Those butterflies are so beautiful and I think they were $1.49 BEFORE the 50% off!

 Embossing folders half off!  The bottom one had a rectangle and it says celebrate.  I can't wait to swipe some ink over that!

The Tim folders are such a PERFECT size for Project Life!

 50% off!

50% off I love these wood stamps total eye candy!

 Fun bottle caps!  I have both of these in albums one for each girl and these will be so cute in them!!

 These I got at Archivers for 50% off!

 I LOVE LOVE LOVE dies with matching stamps.

These wood veneer chevrons make me happy just looking at them!

ALL of this awesome loot for under $230.!  I paid cash and still have $105. for another sale!  SCORE!! 

I love watching haul videos!  I have ZERO desire to learn how to use my flip and get a video on my blog LOL  I always mean to take pictures to share great deals and never get it done.  Wednesday I took the pics as I put things away and then decided not to blog about it because blogging just isn't my favorite think lately LOL  But then yesterday I told my all time favorite person, my sister to get her fine self to Hobby Lobby and call me as soon as she got home!  So while she told me everything she bought I emailed her all these pictures.  It was so fun I thought what the heck I will do a quick blog post!  :)

Seeing and talking about what we bought is almost as fun as shopping together!  So RUN to HL and let me know whaty you find!  I think after my PT appt. today I might go to my other HL and see what they have on clearance!

Happy Shopping!

Thanks for looking :)

Happy Friday PEEPS!! I LOVE FWF!!

OK, let's just face it!  I LOVE Unity with all my heart!

Friends With Flair is my favorite and seems to be the only reason I blog any more!  Come join us!  There are two prizes and so. much. inspiration!  Speaking of feeling inspired, did you hop with Unity yesterday?  I cannot get enough of the Unity girls work.  They are all amazing.  Yesterday when I saw Renee's layout I was blown right out of the water.  Go look, you won't be sorry.  When I try piling on stuff it looks like a giant pile of mess.  Renee has a A TON on her layout and all of it is fantastic and the colors are amazing!  Now back to the prizes!  Yesterday I won a FaceBook game!  A $20. shopping spree WHOOP!!!  WHOOP!!!  I happen to be a stellar Unity shopper!  I mean WAY above average!  I hate to toot my own horn but really we are all very good at something and shopping Unity is what I really excel in!  *snort* Bryan brags about me all the time!  LMAO

 

OK, back to FWF.  I might be ignoring my blog but I have a TON of cards to post.  I am stamping almost every night.  I just can't make time for the blog.  *gasp*

The cards below are REALLY hard for me to make.

Some of you may or may not know for my job I assign local numbers to people who are incarcerated so they do not have to pay the crazy long distance fees to talk to those that love them.

Well some of the people on the outside I am very close to and happy to make cards for them to send to their loved ones.  However there are RULES!  No stickers, no layers, nothing removable etc.

They have to be completely flat!  So that leaves stamping and embossing, two of my all time FAVE. things to do!  I also really love punches.  I used to have a tiny little addiction to them....  Unity is much lighter and way easier to store!  *snort*

The card above is Jillibean Soup's Spotted Owl Soup and the punched border is from a Martha punch. 

This one looks like there is black paper behind the Martha punched border like I would normally do but there isn't.

The jukebox is from Rockin’ it Unity Style {kom 3/10}

The other two are from Wherever You Go {kom 10/09}

The sentiment is from Bella Blvd.'s Sweet Celebration Birthday.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you all have a fantastic holiday weekend.  Don't forget to be thankful to all of those who keep/kept us safe.  <3 font="">

Happy Stamping!

 



For this Friends With Flair UNITY is FIVE!!!

Five YEARS of AMAZING stamps!

That makes me SO HAPPY!!

So many orders, so many dances on the front porch grabbing the boxes and envelopes!

*SWOON*

Bring on the next 5 years!  I can't wait to see all the amazing stamps they make and things they do!

I LOVE UNITY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEEPS!!!

 

 

Have you joined Layers of Life? 
OH MY WORD!  Go see you will not believe it!  $11.99!!

 

What about the new line?

{a bit about} from Unity?

I ordered them all!  I am so LUCKY!  My birthday is coming up and I got to buy my own gift! And the entire site is 50% off because that is how Unity rolls!

Did I mention how much I love them??  :)

 

OK, back to FWF I am  going to show you last months challenge which I finished about 35 minutes after the linky thing closed LOL  I made it for the card sketch and new I wouldn't make it for the layout but thought I might be close LOL

 

You can see the sketch HERE!  If you didn't already use it you might want to I LOVED it! 

The pattern paper is DCWV, super old I LOVE using up my stash!

The butterfly background is ...with her own wings.

The 3 strips of washi are Darice, MME and Target I think.

The Sisters is from Frame This Alpha and I think the s's are upside down!  *SNORT* I didn't even notice until right now!

I stamped the heart from the 12/12 SMAK kit Love Story clips

 

Happy National Scrapbooking Day a day early!  I have plans to stamp into the night and all afternoon and night tomorrow!  YIPPEE!!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Go link up your latest with this week's FWF post and you could win stamps!  SCORE!!

 

 



Another Unity {Be Inspired} Challenge!

Hi!  I guess I am now a once a month blogger HA!  WHEW life is busy and it seems my poor blog is always last on the list!  I made this card weeks ago!  The challenge ends on the 17th!  I only made it by TWO days!  Have you played yet?  Head on over to the Unity blog HERE to check it out!

 

It's no secret how much I love Unity stamps and the people.  But what I also love is how amazing the DT and fellow Unity fans are.  Be Inspired is a perfect name for these challenges because these girls ROCK.  You have to go see what everyone has made. 
You will want to leave work early, lets the kids have potato chips for dinner and just stamp all night long!  I promise!  There has been more than one morning I have to drag myself from my fantastic bed at 5:30 to go to workout because I stayed up WAY too late stamping!  I happily go because it was so worth it!  LOL

 

I made the card sketch again this month.  I will still make the layout sketch but I doubt it will be in time.  I am working on recipe albums for my coaches at Curves as a little thank you for helping me lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle.

I used Luck All Over for the background just like the sketch.  The LUCKY is from 100% Happy [it is retired and such a DARLING set, one of my favorites!] and the Thanks is from Thank You Words.  You will just have to take my word that Lucky Friend was stamped on the inside LOL  I KNEW I would forget to take a picture of the inside LOL  I embossed it and underlined lucky with Stickles I think.  I am really not able to remember anything anymore LOL 

That darling tag was a free gift from Unity!  Have you ordered lately?  They always throw in a free gift with your order, it is like Christmas!  The twine is from my stash and I have a TON of it HERE.  Let's have a 50% off sale!  All Twine is half off

Shipping charges will be exactly what the USPS charges me.  Email me if you need any noellereese at q.com

Thank so much for stopping by today.

 



Friends With Flair! I love Friday's!!

Hi Peeps!  It is 3:30 and I just jumped into my jammies and decided to join FWF and try to cut out of work a little early today.  I REALLY want to finish cataloging!  I have CD cases and DVD cases ordered and they are both on their way.  It is time to finish this up and get back to scrapping for a few months!  Then I start it all over with the Unity stamps!  HA!  This will not a quick process either!  Where do all these stamps keep coming from?  LOL

OK, back to FWF MONTHS ago I made a pack of cards for a girlfriend to use to write long letters on.

The first one I used Love Grows, this set is AWESOME!  I love every single stamp in it!  You can see it HERE!

 



 This one uses Painted Sentiments another excellent set!  You can see it HERE!

 

This one is from Live What You Love and you can see it HERE!

This one uses Love Never Fails, you can see it HERE and just know that butterfly stamps is so amazing you really can't live without it!!

These owl make me laugh every time I look at them!  I LOVE them!  Lollipop Tree You & Me can be seen HERE!

 I love Butterflies!  A LOT!  So Delight in Beauty is right up my ally.  You can see it HERE!

 Wishes & Kisses is so cute it makes a card this simple look great!  You can see it HERE!  You can't see it but on the shimmery heart I stamped The heart wants what it wants.  How great is that sentiment?

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I am off to go get inspired and then going to stamp like a maniac!

Have a great night!





Be Inspired

HI GUYS!!!! My blog is fixed!!!! I just tried to upload this card and look there is it! YIPPEE!!!!

Now let's see if it stays there LOL My last post was a Friends With Flair and most people got to see it then the picture just went away and people had to guess what the card looked like from my description LOL

Have you guys seen the new

Unity be inspired Challenge? It is FANTASTIC! There is a card sketch, a layout sketch AND a color inspiration picture. I loved it so much I made it my background picture on my desk top!

I am not going to try to put the sketches in this post and push my luck LOL You can see them if you click on the challenge. :)

I had a blast last night making this. It has been so long since I made a card. I have been cataloging my stamps and my friend Terry's stamps. So I still get to stamp every night but I sure have missed making cards and scrapbooking! I used so many Unity stamps on this there were stamps everywhere! That is my kinds mess! :) The cupcake is a this wood one called Have A Heart Cupcake.

The 3 hearts journaling block is from SMAK Love Story clips 12/12 I just cut it up after I embossed it. The banner is SMAK cre-ate 07/12 and I embossed it with my Swiss Dots CuttleBug folder. The thank you is from Ornate Artisan Stackers and the back ground is from KOM All Hearts and Love 01/13!

Well my blog just made the picture enormous and added spaces to make new paragraphs where they don't belong.  There is no telling what this is going to look like when I publish it LOL  I thought blogging was supposed to be fun??  HA!
Thanks so much for stopping by today!