Leap of Faith

A leap of faith! Today, Leap Day, is the perfect time to announce that I am honored to be an unruly columnist for this great new blogozine created by Sharon Briss. The name of my column is Musings of a 2amscrapper.

My reference to the leap of faith, is my venture into the world of writing.  I wanted to major in journalism. My high school guidance counselor suggested that rather than major in writing, I major in something to write about. So I majored in sociology, got a teaching certificate, and ended up spending most of my career coordinating social service programs tied to education. At this point in my life, I'm so excited finally to be writing and--to be writing about my new found passion, the paper arts. 

Having served on the design team at Gingersnap Creations since October 2010, I know Shar always produces a quality product. I'm so happy to be continuing with her as she launches her new site on April 1.  I have faith that this project will be a huge success. And I appreciate her faith in me to provide what she is seeking for her blogozine.  

In the meantime, there are a lot of calls out for contributors. I hope you'll click on the badge and see what Unruly PaperArts is all about.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Thanks to each and every one of you--all 52 -- who left a comment here during the Flying Unicorn Make It Work! blog hop this past weekend.   I appreciate all the new followers too!  You all have great style:

 (This is a little creation I made a while back. Details on this blog post.  But the little black dress never goes out of style.)

Without further ado, here is the winner of my blog hop candy provided by the Flying Unicorn:

1CardCreatorFeb 26, 2012 09:42 AM

Love your Hepburn piece it's so chic! What a great blog hop and with a fabulous prize too! Off to see the rest of that sneak peak!

Congrats Diane!   Please email Alda at cs@flyingunicornllc.com with your complete snail mail address. Please do this within the next 7 days!


The entire list of winners---including the grand prize winner-- is posted in the Flying Unicorn forum's Blog Hop Winners Circle

Make It Work! Blog Hop

Welcome to the Flying Unicorn Make it Work! Blog Hop. We’re so happy that you’ve joined us!  

 

The Hop officially starts at 9am eastern standard time at the Flying Unicorn blog, so if you didn’t start there, be sure to go there so that you don’t miss anything! Click on this link to get started. I’ll see you back here in a bit!  If you came to my blog from Frank’s blog, then you are on the right track. The hop ends at 6pm est on Sunday, Feb 26.

 

First I want to share with you this project that I did just for this blog hop. 

I elected to attend a private college (which for many years had been a women's college) during the late sixties, a period of time in which fashion once again was going through transition.  I started the school year by bringing a little black dress (required to be worn--along with gloves--to the college president's student reception) and ended the year in bell bottom jeans and sandals! 

We could say Coco Chanel introduced the little black dress in 1926.  Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent reinvented the dress in the 1950's.  And I was heavily influenced by Givenchy's version in the 1960's as worn by Audrey Hepburn.  Here is Ms. Hepburn in a classic pose, one of the images on the Hurray for Hollywood ephemera set from Gecko Galz.

Products used in my layout from the Flying Unicorn Store: Kaisercraft Chapter One paper collection and Authentique Diction. The jewel on the bow is a vintage earring from my collection.

 

I can’t wait for the March kit reveal. You are going to love it because it is the best ever!! Just to whet your appetite, here are a few sneaks from the Kit of the Month creative team member Frank Garcia.
Why am I showing you Frank's sneaks, especially since you just came from his blog? Because he's on the Kit of the Month Creative Team while I'm on the Product Creative Team.  And we can never get enough of Frank's great art!  

Can you hardly wait to see the entire kit? Wait until you see the Off The Page project--it's fabulous!
The March kit will reveal at midnight on March 3rd in the Flying Unicorn on-line store.

There is going to be so much fun in March during Haute Couture at the Unicorn Ritz!! Be sure to join us in the forums for some high fashion, Unicorn style all during the month of March! 

Back to the blog hop.........
   

Thanks for visiting me! Be sure to leave a comment (just one per person please) here on this post and become a follower (or let me know you are one already) so I can enter you in my random drawing for my RAK provided by the Flying Unicorn store. This is the fabulous Kissing Booth product line from Basic Grey.  You've seen it in my recent work.  

Check back here on Monday to see if you've won my prize!

Be sure to make it through the entire hop, following the instructions, because if you do, you just might win this fantastic grand prize from the Flying Unicorn:

Can you believe all of the yummy scrappy goodness in this grand prize?   Check back in the Forum on Monday to see who is the lucky winner of this grand prize.

Time to get hopping!  The next stop is Laura's blog.

In case you run across a glitch in cyberspace, here's the entire list. 

Make It Work! Flying Unicorn Blog Hop

• Flying Unicorn blog-Alda (she has a special surprise on her blog)
• Denise
• Frank
• Helene  (you are here)
• Laura
• Maggi
• Shona
• Tammy
• Tracey
• The Flying Unicorn Forum

High Tea

This is my latest layout using a beautiful Gecko Galz image (printed out 5"x7") from the Teatime2 ephemera set.  

Technique: misting paper using a doily as a stencil, then removing it; misting fabric flowers, cotton crochet trim, and chipboard alphas.

I'm entering this in these two challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge Week #102 High Tea

using this inspiration photo

(my turquoise is more on the blue than the green side)

:

So Artful Challenge #2:  kraft, red white and pink
using this inspiration photo:

Supplies:
Martha Stewart Gothic Arch punch
Starform Gold Outline Stickers
Maya Road flower
Recollections brad
Kaisercraft wood birdcage

from the Flying Unicorn on-line store:
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in the fabby color Red Nosed Reindeer
Pink Paislee (Mist)-a-bles-- chipboard alphas that have built in distress.
Basic Grey Kissing Booth,  Fancy Pants Designs Oct 31,  and Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Classic patterned papers;
Petaloo, Flora Doodles, ZVA Creative, and Flying Unicorn flowers; ZVA Creative pearl flourish
Note: this layout was the Today post at the Flying Unicorn forum on February 23.

Color Challenge

GC140: Two Colors Only is the Color Challenge today at Gingersnap Creations.  

Restraint is the name of the game today! We want you to only use two colors in your art for this challenge! They can be any two colors you want but  ONLY TWO COLORS !

Our sponsor this month is Rogue Redhead Designs LLC.  I used the RRD005 Beach Babes plate to create this card.

The minute I heard our design team challenge was the use of two colors only, I immediately knew I wanted to use this sailboat and sentiment on a brown kraft card.

Simple and Restained.  However, I really liked the way this turned out.  I made a few of these and gave them to my dh to use when he needed to write a note.  

Please visit the Gingersnap Creations blog for inspiration from more of the totally tonal Gingers and for all the challenge details. Link up your challenge entry by March 25.

Supplies:
RRD005 Beach Babes rubber stamp plate
Stampin' Up Water Color Pencils:  white and blue
Stampin' Up water blender pen
Archival Ink - Coffee
kraft note cards and envelopes

Flying Unicorn Working the Fashion Runway in a Blog Hop Feb 25-26

Join us for a very special "Make it Work" blog hop February 25th and 26th! The blog hop starts at the Flying Unicorn blog and ends in the Flying Unicorn forums. Each of our designers will be revealing a very fashionable project on their blog that they’ve designed just for the blog hop. You know how we like to give away fun “stuff”, so of course, there will be RAKs awarded randomly to one lucky visitor of each blog. 

If you visit each CT member’s blog, leave a comment, and become a follower, you will be entered in the grand prize drawing for a fabulous prize package assembled by Alda Stevens herself!

Our favorite part of the blog hop is that we’re going to preview the March kit with some sneak peeks on our creative teams’ blogs instead of in the forum. We’re also going to tell you something about the wonderful projects we have planned for March. Trust me; you are not going to want to miss this. We are all over the moon excited about our March plans that we’ve been working on for a couple months now. Don’t miss this blog hop because we’re going to be "working it!"

Five Cent Kisses

I drew double duty for the Today posts this week at the Flying Unicorn so I decided to make this Diagonal Double Pocket Card with two tags using our featured product this week, Basic Grey's Kissing Booth paper collection. 

Supplies used:

Flying Unicorn on-line store:

Basic Grey Kissing Booth collection:
Double Sided patterned papers:  Pucker Up, Sweet Nothings, Better Half, Heart Breaker
Element Stickers
Die Cut Shapes

Petaloo Flora Doodles Red/Lt.Pink Fabric Flower Layers
Petaloo Tiffany's Treasures Flower Charms Diamond White

Ranger Distress Ink
Tea Dye, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Fired Brick, Tattered Rose


My stash:
Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Altered Fairies, trims, pearls

Diagonal Double Pocket card

I hope your have time to scrap a lot today!