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[9.29.16] Unity Thursday

Unity Thursday 

Happy THURSDAY my friends.  It is time to hop with the Unity design team.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.  This hop is always full of amazing things to see and of course, Unity is famous for amazing deals.

I have a few projects to share from this month.  A little bit of everything.

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I’m starting with this one because I just think it is so pretty.  This set of cards features the lovely August 2016 Sentiment kit I Consider You Special.  I love how easy it is to make the sentiment the feature of the card.  This simple design is perfect for mass producing some cards for different occasions.  They are super flat and easy to mail.  But if you wanted to get a little wild, the simple design lends itself to a little sprucing up with more layers and embellishments.  The doily and sentiment were stamps on vellum, die cut out, layered over a paper doily and then tied all together with some string.  So super easy.

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I have a quick video showing how this card was put together.

Isn’t this just adorable?  I love this happy little mug from One Little Latte.  I am partial to coffee, but it could easily be full of tea or cocoa in my house too.  It is absolutely PERFECT to decorate a gift card holder.

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I have a quick video showing how this gift card was put together.

Last, I have this set of man friendly cards using For the Guys.  When it comes to making a card for a guy, I always go simple.  I like simple stamps, simple layers and simple embellishments.  This stamp set is perfect for that design and such a variety of images and sentiments for lots of occasions.  Birthday, thank you, promotion, retirement, just because… this set can be used in all sorts of combinations to fit your need.

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[7.28.2016] Unity Thursday

Another month has almost passed by… amazing how quickly its flying by.  The Unity design team has gathered together to share what we have been creating for the month of July.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.

I have quite a few creations to share with you today.  I’ve been playing with some of the amazing releases from this month.

dahlhouse designs | 7.2016 owls dahlhouse designs | 7.2016 owls 2dahlhouse designs | 7.2016 foxes dahlhouse designs | 7.2016 foxes 2First, I have this set of cards from the Going Wild set paired with the sentiments from So Glad You Were Born.  I absolutely adore the owl and fox in this set.  And when paired with a simple little card design, I had a set of cards in no time.  The coloring took the longest and I did that while watching tv.  I couldn’t decide if I like the grey or kraft better, so used both.  Easy solution.

dahlhouse designs | 7.2016 unicornsSwitching gears, here we have a bright and girlie set of birthday cards.  Again, I paired the So Glad You Were Born sentiment kit with Unicorns & Rainbows.  The background was made with blending some Distress Inks onto cardstock and sprinkled with a bit of water and Unicorn White Spray ink (fitting, yes?).  Again, I colored these cute little unicorns while watching TV which helped immensely at assembly time.

dahlhouse designs | 7.2016 best friendsTotally changing the subject, now we have a little bit of toilet paper humor.  Did you know Unity added some bonus sentiments  for Just Stinkin’ Cute.  I thought this sentiment was just too darn perfect!!!  So cute and funny.

dahlhouse designs | 6.2016 best fishes1And last, I never showed the card I made my dad for Father’s day.  I was pretty happy with how it turned out.  It isn’t easy coming up with something new, so I was thrilled with the new masculine stamps from Unity.  I paired the Happy Father’s Day from All About Dad with the brand new Best Fishes.  Inside, I stamped the sentiment from You are a Classic – “I’ll always remember the things you taught me. But more importantly how much you love me”.

That is all from me today… thanks for hanging in till the end and there is more to see.

 

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[5.26.16] Unity Thursday

Time for some more THURSDAY fun with the Unity design team.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.  There’s always fun stuff going on.

I have LOTS to share from this month’s creative adventures… let’s get rollin’.

dahlhouse designs | 5.2016 mother IMG_5960First, I have this Mother’s Day card made for my mother.  I’m using the Mama’s & Grandma’s sentiment kit from April.  I love that this kit has SO many different verses and saying that you’ll be using this kit over and over again.

I pulled out an oldie but a goodie paper pad True Love by Basic Grey.  It has all my favorite colors… rose, pink, mint and teal.  I’m going to be really sad when this paper is all gone.  I stamped the lovely flower and then colored with Copic markers.  It didn’t take long, this floral design is very forgiving and doesn’t require attention to detail.  I layered everything up and tied it off with a pretty bow.

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This pineapple from the stamp of the week Summer Citrus just makes me SMILE!  We recently came back from a trip to Maui, Hawaii and this little pineapple kept my island happiness alive and well.  He is super cool with is sunglasses.  I colored the stamp with Copics again, added some glossy accents to the sunglasses and added a sentiment from the So Glad You Were Born sentiment kit.  I had LOTS of birthdays in April/May and this one went off to my brother-in-law in Florida.  Fitting, yes?dahlhouse designs | 5.2016 magical fairytale 1

dahlhouse designs | 5.2016 magical fairytale

Let the wedding season begin!  A dear friend of the family, married his beautiful bride over the weekend.  It was a lovely outdoor wedding, followed by a fun night of laughing, eating and dancing in a barn.  Good times my friends, it is what life and love is all about.

I brought out two of my favorite Unity sets to create this watercolored card.  The flowers are from Big Summertime Bouquet and the sayings from Love is a Magical Thing.  I used my MISTI to position all the flowers in a frame around the sentiment on watercolor paper and then painted away.  After it dried, I added some black ink spatters, just because I love the look. Since there is so much going on with all the watercolored flowers, I decided to keep this card super simple with just a black scalloped mat.  I also created a little gift holder for the inside of the card and decorated it with some more stamps from the set.

We have finally reached the end of my projects.  Don’t forget about the hoppin’ prize.

 

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[4.28.16] Unity Thursday

Time for some more THURSDAY fun with the Unity design team.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.  I’m sharing some of my favorite cards from April today.

 

 

I went crazy with the Copics this month.  I had a coloring sesh.  True story, I was just about done coloring the owl’s little heart when my dog walked by and her tail hit my paper.  It caused my paper to move and a lovely red line across his belly. UGH!  I about cried (ok, maybe I didn’t cry, but I did curse, a lot!).  I spent a LONG time coloring him and just couldn’t do it again.  So, I took a deep breath and went on with finishing the background and flower.  Maybe I can fix it.  I decided it wouldn’t hurt to try and fix his belly and maybe I can “push” that red line into the paper and cover it up with some more brown.  I used a lot of the lightest brown to push the red down, let it dry in between and as soon as it “disappeared”, I recolored his belly again.  Can you believe that it worked?  I couldn’t.  He belly was actually around the color of his eyes before I started the cover up, so it did take a bit of working but it was fixable.  I almost tossed it away!  I hope if you find yourself in the same situation, you give it a shot before you toss.

The other two were colored without a hitch.  I don’t think I could have handled another mishap, even though I still remained on the couch in the danger zone to finish my coloring.  Ha.

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[4.3.16] Assemble This! Sketch No. 3

Happy April friends… time to play with a new Assemble This Sketch.  It’s a pretty one and I’ll hope it will spark lots of inspiration.

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Lots of options again.  Something circular in the center… layered or not layered.  Up to you.  Then something on half of the card in the background.  I’m thinking either patterned paper, a background stamp or dry embossing.  These are just a few things that popped into my head.  Shall we see what happened?

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I decided to go for the gold with this sketch.  I’ve had this DCWV paper pad forever and I’m bound and determined to make some cards with it.  I created the split background with two different patterned papers and then layered my sentiment over the paper doily.  So easy peasy.

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Ready to see my gold embossing in action.  Here is the Assemble This! video, you can also watch it on YouTube HERE as well. I’m keeping them short and sweet and under 2 minutes.  No jibber jabber, just creativity in action.  Hope you enjoy.

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Add your link below…  I’d love for you to share with me if you use the sketch and if you want to visit each other too. That would be fun.  I’ll close the link up at the end of the month so we can get prepared for a new one next month.

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Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’ll be inspired to Assemble This Sketch too!

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