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October 13, 2015

[10.13.2015] Unity Tuesday

Happy TUESDAY friends, lots of hopping fun with the Unity design team today. If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.

Dreams Take You

I’m sharing a card using this week’s Stamp of the Week. Isn’t it lovely?

I played around with watercolor drips this week. Biggest tip, it would probably work better with a brush and cup of water. The water brush I used didn’t have enough juice. I keep thinking, I need more water, I need more water. But it did work in the end, just required more applications of water and ink to get the ink to run.

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I also have an Assemble This! video to share my process. It is a quicky, only around a minute long.

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Here are all the girls hopping today… just click on the next pretty girl in line.

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August 11, 2015

[8.11.15] Happy Hour with Unity

Unity Happy Hour

Whoa, that is right, TUESDAY. We are changing things up around here. First, we are moving the weekly Thursday hops to TUESDAY at 7pm central time. And, we are doing some chatting on Facebook tonight as well to kick off the fun. Come join us at 7pm central in the EVENT page for some prizes & chatting!!! Whoo hoo. We have a HUGE release of new stamps for this fun change and all the deets are at the Unity blog.

There are a TON of amazing new stamps being released this week. OH so many, I had a hard time picking which ones to play with. I have three cards to share with you today.

There are a bunch of really cute dollar stamps out this week and these little hedgehogs just needed to be a card. I foiled them with gold and green. They are so pretty in real life, but again, my camera has failed me. If anyone has tips on how to capture the foil affect, I would really appreciate it.

I’m foiling again, but this time in silver and teal. I started to think this would make for one amazing wedding card. So, I stuck with the elegant theme, added the vellum and strip background with some rhinestones and ink splatters.

Last up is this vintage rooster. I’m not usually into the vintage/country style, but this little rooster begs to be in a country yard. I didn’t have the perfect patterned paper to stamp him on, so I created my own antiqued background. Turned out pretty perfect.

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I have an Assemble This! video sharing how I created the antique background for your viewing pleasure.

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Here are all the girls hopping today… just click on the next pretty girl in line.

July 23, 2015

[7.23.2015] Unity Thursday

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 a few cards to share today, let’s start with one using the current kit of the month – Halo Dirty.

Ink smooshing is BRILLIANT. You can still get that watercolor look without watercolors or Distress inks. I used regular ink pads and some water to create the background for my dress form label tag. Super easy and I love that you can use supplies you probably already own using the ink smooching technique.

I have an Assemble This! video so you can see the tag was created with ink smooshing.

I have some SOTW cards to share with you as well. This time, I’m using Distress inks and a water brush for watercoloring.

That is all from me today.

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Here are all the girls hopping today… just click on the next pretty girl in line.

29 Again? card

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Perfect Day and Friends cards

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July 19, 2015

[7.19.2015] paper smooches sparks

Paper Smooches SPARKS!

Yay, time to play. ANYTHING goes this week at the SPARKS challenge from Paper Smooches. Let the games begin….

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Well, I’ve done a twist on my one of my previous SPARKS cards. I’ve basically used the same sentiment, instead it is a mix of silver embossing powder and the word friend die cut from white cardstock. Totally love playing around like this. I’ve been trying to make two cards at once, sometimes related and sometimes not. But it is a great way to use creativity when it flows. Lots of die cuts in this little card. Can you find them all? Don’t worry, I have them linked in my supply list below.

Link up your project at the Paper Smooches SPARKS blog by Saturday, 11:59pm PST.

Check out the other girls sharing their SPARKS cards this week.
Audrey
Lisa
Erin
Heather
Savannah

July 12, 2015

[7.12.2015] paper smooches sparks

SPARKS time

Ready or not, the BRAND new SPARKS challenge from Paper Smooches is out. It is a fun inspiration photo this week. LOTS of ways to to use this photo.

Fun, right? I asked myself, what is the one thing that stands out to you in this photo? The line of objects across the page. So, that is what I decided to mimic. I’ve had my Bitty Bungalows stamp set waiting to be inked up, so that little cutie was put to good use.

I woke up at 7am on a Saturday to make this card. Yup. My husband had a morning meeting, so I took the time to get all crafty in my PJs. I also watched Vampire Academy as I stamped. I admit it, I like these cheesy vamp movies or tv shows. I’m a huge Buffy and Angel fan, HUGE. I still watch ’em on TNT. I can’t help it. Ha. But I digress.

I stamped all these little houses, colored them with Copics and fussy cut them. You could also use the prefect matching dies to cut them out.

I stamped and colored the trees and heart on the background and then remembered I wanted to use Distress Inks to color in the grass and sky. Oops. So, I used rubber cement as a masking fluid. It really works quite well. I have a video showing this technique on a different card. It really works well. Then, I added all my little homes and stamped a few birds… just because they are so cute.

Link up your project at the Paper Smooches SPARKS blog by Saturday, 11:59pm PST.

Check out the other girls sharing their SPARKS cards this week.
Audrey
Lisa
Erin
Heather
Savannah