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Growing In Unity Blog Hop!!

5/30/2021

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Happy Sunday everyone!! Today is the Growing In Unity Blog Hop and I am so excited to be part of the hop! I was the GIU Girl one of the weeks in May and I am honored to be asked to join in the hop! So let's hop!
I have been itching to break out the Slimline Feather stamp by Angie Blom and this was the perfect occasion to play with it!! OMG - I love this stamp!!! It is so beautiful!
I wanted to make something colorful, so I thought rainbows! So the first thing I did was mount the feather stamp in my Misti and chose the colors from my Memento Dew Drop inks. These smaller ink pads were perfect for this project! I chose the colors Pear Tart, Bahama Blue, Teal Zeal, Grape Jelly, Love Letter, Tangelo and Dandelion. Starting with the Pear Tart ink pad, I added ink gradually changing the colors as I went down the feather. I then stamped the feather image onto a piece of 110lb white cardstock that was already cut out by a stitched slimline die from Pinkfresh. I then re-colored the feather stamp in the same ink order and inked the image again to get a nice bold color. I then took out some Copic markers and added some "dots" around the feather in the same color scheme. I used colors YG13, B04, BG18, V09, R29, YR07 and Y18 for the "dots". I then took a piece of 110lb white card stock, sized it a little bigger than the card panel that the feather was stamped on, and ink blended the same Memento colors I used for the feather with blending brushes. I then popped the feather card panel onto the ink blended base with foam tape. I then picked the sentiment from the Your Heart and My Heart stamp set from Unity and inked it with Pear Tart, Bahama Blue and Teal Zeal and popped it with foam tape. I then added some matte enamel dots I had in my stash to complete the look. After it was done, I glued it onto a black 110lb card base with Bearly Art glue. It came out so beautiful! 
If you don't have this stamp set yet, it is a MUST HAVE! Thank you for "hopping" by and I hope you have a great day!
Don't forget to comment for your chance to win one of (2) Unity Stamp grab bags!!
Happy Crafting Y'all!
        
1. Chandhini https://thecreativetwins.blogspot.com/
2. Sue https://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
3. Sammi https://www.littlestampededesigns.com/
4. Suzi https://suzannebakermckenzie.blogspot.com/
5. Kristina https://mamasanity.blogspot.com/
6. Sue https://suzyqstudio.wordpress.com/

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Kindness IG Hop!

5/28/2021

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Happy Friday everyone!! Today is the Kindness Instagram Hop and I am excited to be participating in this hop! This hop is sponsored by Bearly Art glue, which you all know I love Bearly Art glue! There are great prizes too!
For the hop, I decided to play with stamp set Friendship Blooms by Gina K Designs and Hero Arts, which I LOVE this stamp set! I was inspired by a shirt my best friend was wearing for the colors, which came out great! First I stamped the floral image with Hero Arts Intense Black ink, and cut it out with my Scan-N-Cut. I then colored it with Copic colors N7, N5, N3 and N0. I love the grayscale look! I then cut out leaves in black and gray using Simon Says Stamps Leaf Cluster and Leafy Branch dies. I edged the Cluster leaves with black to show some dimension. I then cut out a piece of white card stock with a slimline die from Gina Marie and then colored it with blending brushes using Pixie Dust and Royal Treatment inks from Catherine Pooler. I then picked out the sentiment from the Christopher's Sentiments dies from Brutus Monroe and cut the shadow portion out of vellum and the sentiment portion out of white 110lb cardstock. I then colored the sentiment with Pixie Dust ink. I then glued the sentiment onto the vellum using Bearly Art glue and then added some Glossy Accents from Ranger on the sentiment. While the Glossy Accents dried, I glued the leaves onto the purple card panel using Bearly Art glue, and then glued the flower image onto the leaves using Bearly Art glue. The parts of the flower image that hung over the leaves I used some foam tape to pop them up. I then glued the sentiment onto the leaves/floral image using Bearly Art glue. I then added some heart embellishments from Trinity Stamps using Bearly Art glue. After the card panel was complete, I glued it onto a black 110lb card base using Bearly Art glue. This turned out so great! I am so glad that my bestie's shirt gave me this inspiration!! 
I hope you will "hop" on over to my Instagram and hop the IG Hop! There are great prizes being given away and you will get to read about how crafters share kindness!! 
Happy Crafting Y'all!!
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Magnolia, Magnolia, Oh My!

5/26/2021

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Hey everyone! It is Wednesday, and only a couple of days away from a long weekend! I am going to Craft Camp on Friday and crafting all weekend long! I am also going to be part of a IG Hop for Bearly Art glue, so I hope that you will stop by on Friday to see what I I am up to! For today's card, I decided to play with the Magnolia Background stamp from Simon Says Stamp. I really love this stamp! 
First, I got out my circle dies from Elizabeth Crafts and cut out a circle that would fit a A2 card panel. I then took a white card panel that would fit a A2 card and stamped the Magnolia image using Hero Arts Intense Black ink. I then took my circle and stamped the image to where I could line it up on the card panel. I then colored the circle image with Copic colors Y15, Y13, Y11, Y00, YR24, E37, B01, B00, B000, G07, YG09, and YG01. I then lined up the circle to match the card panel image and popped it up with foam tape. I then stamped and cut the sentiment using Taylored Expressions Simple Strips and popped it with foam tape. I then popped the card panel onto a 110lb white card base using foam tape. I then added some yellow and black heart embellishments from Trinity Stamps. I really like how this came out. It's a more subtle card and looks soft. 
As I mentioned before, I am part of the Bearly Art glue IG hop on Friday, which starts at 10:00AM Pacific Time, so I hope you come see what it is all about! See you all then!!
​Happy Crafting Y'all!!
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Let's Talk Peonies!!

5/23/2021

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Well hello everyone! It has been a few days since I have posted and I wanted to check in with y'all to see how your weekend is going! It is Sunday early everying here in Northern Cali and I am getting ready to BBQ some burgers and corn on the cob! Yum!! But first, I wanted to share a card I made with Colorado Craft Company's stamp set Miss You Peony. This stamp set is AWESOME! I love this flower! So bold and beautiful!! I did not want to go traditional with the colors, so I went with blue this time and WOWZERS! 
First, I stamped the peony flower image with back Memento ink since I was going to color it with my Copic markers. I then cut it down to size to fit a A2 sized card base. I then colored the image using Copic colors B39, B45, B32, YG67, YG25 and YG01. I then lined up the sentiment from the same stamp set and used WOW embossing ink to stamp the sentiment and then heat embossed the sentiment using Simon Says Stamp ultra fine white embossing power. I then popped the sentiment onto the card panel using foam tape and then added some blue bling I had in my stash. I then popped the card panel onto a white 110lb card base using foam tape. This bold flower doesn't need anything else for it speaks for itself!! Love it!! I hope y'all are having a great weekend and I will see you later this week!!
Happy Crafting Y'all!! 
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Unity Stamp Co Challenge - Monochromatic

5/19/2021

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Hey everyone! It is Wednesday!! I have been trying to find time to make a card for the Unity Stamp Co.'s monthly challenge on the Unity {show & tell} Facebook page and finally decided on what to make. The theme this month is Monochromatic and I wanted to go with red because I don't work with red enough. Since I was not going to color with markers on this project, I decided to go with the Fear Not stamp set from Unity which was a great stamp to work with on this project.
First, I got out my inks I wanted to blend with, which are Cranberry Fizz, Rockin' Red and Samba from Catherine Pooler. Then I got out a piece of 110lb white cardstock and cut it down to the size I wanted for my card panel and cut another piece to the size I wanted to run down the middle of my card panel using Tim Holtz's Deckle Cutter. I then ink blended both pieces. I then stamped the rose image from the Fear Not stamp set in multiple directions using the Cranberry Fizz ink. I then cut out some leaves using the Tender Leaf die from Simon Says Stamp and colored them with the Cranberry Fizz ink. I then glued the leaves onto the card panel using Bearly Art glue and then popped the middle card panel onto the main card panel using foam tape. I then stamped the sentiment using a sentiment from the May 2020 Sentiment Kit "hello sweetheart bouquet" and popped that up with some foam tape. I then added some clear enamel dots from Gina Marie. It is a simple card to make, and ink blending is a beautiful technique! I hope you all have a great day and I will see you later this week!!
Happy Crafting Y'all! 
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WOW! Embossing Challenge

5/17/2021

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Hey everyone! Today I am sharing a card I made for the Wow! Embossing Challenge for the month of May. I LOVE Wow! embossing powders! I have so many of their colors and I love them! For today's card, I chose to work with the Spring Blooms Background stamp from Honey Bee Stamps. This stamp is GORGEOUS! 
First, using Wow! Embossing ink, I inked up the stamp and stamped the image using my Misti onto a piece of 110lb white cardstock. I then sprinkled Wow! Splash embossing powder and heat set it. It sparkles and looks awesome! I then set that aside and stamped a piece of 110lb Neenah Solar White cardstock using black Memento ink the same stamp image because I was going to color with my Copic markers. After I stamped it in black, I colored the image using Copic colors BG78, BG23, BG18, BG15, BG10, E59, E57, and E13. After I was done coloring, I cut the Copic colored image down to size so that it would fit in the middle of the embossed image, and then I aligned the Copic panel with the embossed image to match the scene. The look I wanted was that the image would flow from the Copic panel to the embossed image perfectly. Once the scene matched, I glued the Copic panel onto the embossed panel using Bearly Art glue. I then popped the card panel onto a 110lb black card base using foam tape. I then added the sentiment from Talyored Expressions Simple Strips by popping it with some foam tape and then added some enamel dots I had in my stash. I absolutely love how this turned out!  I hope you enjoy it and have a great week! 
​Happy Crafting Y'all!!
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A Birthday Card for my Bestie!!

5/16/2021

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Happy Sunday everyone! Today is one of my best friends birthday, so I wanted to share a card that I made for her. Her favorite color is purple and I decided to do a little watercoloring with my Karin and Altenew Watercolor Markers. Watercoloring is not my strongest suit, but I love challenging myself, so I jumped right in!
I decided to use Canson Cold Press paper for this card. It is a cheaper watercolor paper, but I was not sure how this would turn out, so I did not want to ruin my more more expensive watercolor paper. Archers watercolor paper is my favorite water color paper, but when I experiment, I use my Canson paper because of the price factor.
I absolutely love the Mum background stamp from The Ton, so I decided to give it a try. First, I treated my watercolor paper with my embossing buddy to elimante static, and then I stamped the image with Wow! Embossing ink and using my Misti, I stamped the mum image onto my Canson watercolor paper. I stamped it twice to make sure that I got a good stamped image. I then used Simon Says Stamp Ultra Fine White embossing power and heat set it. It is hard to see the white on white embossed image so you will need to look at it at a angle to see the stamped image. I then made sure that I had some water in my water dish, and started watercoloring using my Violet Blue Karin Marker and Midnight Voilet from Altenew Watercolor Marker. I first used the Karin Marker color and then came in with the Altenew Marker color. I added more layers on different petals of the mum to add a different dimension and color and used the water to help the color travel where I wanted it to go. Very time consuming, but so worth it! I let areas dry before adding more layers as well. After I got the result that I wanted, I then cut it down to 5.75x5.75 because I chose to do a 6x6 card this time so I could not lose most of the stamped image. It is a very large flower! I then got out my Happy Birthday die from Simon Says stamps and cut the shadow out in vellum and the sentiment out in black cardstock. I then cut the sentiment out in fun foam so I could pop up the sentiment. I glue the black cardstock sentiment onto the top of the vellum shadow using Bearly Art glue and then I glued the fun foam sentiment to the back of the vellum shadow using the front sentiment as my guide of where to glue it. Then I glued the sentiment onto the card panel. I then added some bling I had in my stash and then glued the card panel onto purple cardstock to mat the card panel, and then glued it onto a 110lb  black card base. It turned out so great! I can't wait to give it to my friend today!! 
I hope you all have a great Sunday and I will see you all later this week!
Happy Crafting Y'all!

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Perfume Bouquet -Get Well Soon

5/14/2021

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Hi everyone!! It's Friday - YAY! It has been quite the week at work this week, so I have really enjoyed my COPIC coloring! Coloring is so relaxing for me. A friend/co-worker asked for a Get Well card, so I went through my stamps to see what I had and I came across Perfume Bouquet from Colorado Craft Company which was perfect! Coloring this image was so much fun!
First, I stamped the floral image with Hero Arts Intense Black ink and cut it out with the coordinating die and then starting coloring with COPIC colors V17, V15, V09, V04, V01, V000, RV04, RV02, YG67, YG25, YG01, Y24, Y18, and Y15. I then cut out a piece of 110lb cardstock with the Nordic die from The Greetery for my card panel. I wanted to add something to the card panel so I got out the Leafy Forest stencil from Ink On 3 and used Royal Treatment ink from Catherine Pooler to add some color using a blending brush. I then cut some Elegant Eggplant cardstock from Stampin' Up to mat the card panel and then glued them together using Bearly Art glue. I then glued the card panel to the 110lb white card base. I then popped up the flower bouquet using foam tape on the card panel. Using the coordinating die set from Colorado Craft Company, I cut out the square for the middle of the perfume bottle and stamped the Get Well Soon sentiment using Hero Arts Intense Black ink and then popped it up with some foam tape. I finished the look with some Boiled Sugar Hearts bling from Trinity Stamps. I really love how this card came together! Purple is her favorite color, so that was the main request...must be purple! I hope you all enjoy it and have a great weekend! 
​Happy Crafting Y'all!!
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Rain or Shine!

5/12/2021

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Hey everyone!! For today's project, I wanted to play with the April's release from Catherine Pooler. I just love the bear in the Puddle Play stamp set! And that hedgehog! LOVE! I love the color combo of pink and brown, so that is the color palette of choice for this card.
First I decided I wanted to make a 5x7 card this time because the bear is a little tall and I wanted him to be under the clouds, so I went with a bigger card. I cut out some 110lb cardstock with my Tim Holtz Deckle trimmer and then found some brown cardstock and cut that with my Tim Holtz Decker trimmer to mat the white cardstock. Using It's a Girl ink from Catherine Pooler and the Cloud Edger stencil from Rabbit Hole Designs, I made some pink clouds. I then edged the card panel with some Party Dress ink to add some depth around the edges and corners. I then stamped some clouds from the April Showers stamp set with Party Dress ink and then heat embossed one cloud with Wow! embossing ink and Razzleberry powder. I then heat embossed some scattered rain drops on the card panel with Razzleberry powder using the rain drops from the Pitter Patterns stamp set. I then stamped the bear and hedgehog with Hero Arts Intense black ink and cut them out with the coordinating dies and then colored them with COPIC colors E59, E47, E44, E43, T6, T4, RV69, RV25, RV19, RV13. I then glued the card panel onto the brown cardstock mat using Bearly Art glue, and then glued the panel onto a 110lb white card base. I then popped the bear and hedgehog onto the card panel using foam tape, and then popped up the clouds. I then stamped the sentiment from Pitter Patterns stamp set onto a scratch piece of cardstock using Icing on the Cake ink from Catherine Pooler and popped it with foam tape. I then added some crystal pink and brown bling that I had in my stash. I love how it turned out! So cute!!!
I hope you all like it and I will see you all this weekend!
​Happy Crafting Y'all!

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Christmas in May? Yep!!

5/11/2021

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Hey everyone!! I am here today with a Christmas card! Yes, I said Christmas card! During the holiday season, Trinity Stamps came out with a awesome stencil called Tree Of Lights that I wanted so bad! Guess what? It sold out of course! Last month when I was on their website doing a little shopping, I noticed it was back in stock, so I snagged it up! I just love this layering stencil! So I decided to make a couple of Christmas cards, and it is never too early to start making Christmas cards!
First, I choose my colors which are All That Jazz and Daydream from Catherine Pooler for the teal card and Pixie Dust and Royal Treatment from Catherine Pooler for the purple tree. I used Hero Arts Intense Black ink for the black ink and I used silver and copper super fine embossing power from WOW! I first stenciled the lighter color, then I stenciled the darker color and then moved onto the black ink using a blender brush. I then got out a dauber and dabbed WOW Embossing ink for the last layer and heat embossed the metallic color. Even though I used my static pouch, a little dust showed up, but I actually like that since it adds some shimmer! I then repeated the embossing technique for the star and fussy cut the star and cut out the tree. I then got out the diagonal die from The Ton's Slimline Die Collection and cut out a piece of black cardstock, and then I found some purple and teal cardstock in my scraps to act as a mat. Using Bearly Art glue, I glued the black cardstock onto the colored cardstock and then glued it onto a 110lb white card base. I then popped the tree and star onto the card panel using foam tape and I choose the sentiment from Gina K's stamp set Sparkle and Shine and stamped it onto some metallic cardstock using Stazon ink. I then added some bling I had in my stash. It was a very easy process!! Again, there is some metallic dust on my trees from the embossing, but I actually like it, so I left it. 
Even though it did not come out perfect, the imperfection is just right! I know I will use this stencil a lot more! I can't wait to see what else I come up with between now and the holidays! Thanks for looking and see you all later this week!
Happy Crafting Y'all!

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