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WSC96: Unity Friends With Flair!

Another Friday and another Weekend Sketch Challenge from Beate!  This week Unity Stamp Company is doing a little blog hop I'm participating in.  If you'd like to see some more Unity Flair today, hop on over to the Unity blog where you'll find a list of 49 other participants!  And there's a prize hidden somewhere in those 50 blogs today, so you'll want to be sure to visit each one!

I combined two Unity stamp sets -- I thought this sweet bird went well with Cosmo Cricket's bird paper from the Earth Love mini deck. I machine stitched the "ground" lines on the bird paper and around each of the other distressed papers.

Beautiful sentiment -- I love it!  It's accented with Zva crystals and the bird is colored with Copic YR00 & YR01 markers.  Card is 5" square.

To see more samples of this sketch, please visit these talented ladies today:  Beate, Cambria, Charmaine, Jenn, Lori and Mary Jo.  We hope you'll play along with the sketch this weekend!  Thanks for the great sketch, Beate!

I'll be back again at 10am CST with another sneak peek of Taylored Expressions new stamps & kits that will be released tomorrow!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Unity Birdie Inspiration & Giggle Grove
• Paper: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love mini deck, Neenah Classic Cream, Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate
• Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Adirondack Juniper, Antique Linen Distress, Copic markers
• Accessories: Spellbinders Blossom die, Tonic Paper Distresser, Zva Crystals, sewing machine

Unity's World Record Inspirational Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the 163rd stop on Unity Stamp Company's World Record Inspirational Blog Hop!  My project is a framed art piece measuring 6" x 7.50" (3.50" x 5" opening):

 

Supplies:

• Unity Stamp Company: Home & Stories
• Target Dollar Spot photo frame
• Memento Dew Drop Ink Pads: Rhubarb Stalk & Tuxedo Black
• Copic Markers: R00, R24, R37, E33, T1, T3
• Cryogen Poison Ivory shimmer cardstock

All the Blog Hop participants were asked to share their favorite quote ... here's mine: "Tomorrow is another day" ~ Scarlett O'Hara.  I never seem to have enough time in any day to get done what I want -- do you?  :)

If you are not familiar with this blog hop, you can see all the details and begin the World Record Inspirational Blog Hop at Unity Stamp Company's blog.  If you have lost your way in the blog hop, you can find a list of all the participants HERE.

Your NEXT STOP on the blog hop is: Heather's Blog.

Have fun and thanks for stopping by!

Just For Fun: Neighborhood of Simplicity

 

Some sweet stamping friends of mine, Alli, Carole, Julie, Michele and Lori, invited me to play along in their Just For Fun monthly challenge they do.  This month Lori chose this sweet Neighborhood of Simplicity stamp by Unity and Michele chose the cute paper by My Mind's Eye (Bloom & Grow-Eye Candy).  Those are the only parameters -- use this stamp and paper and make something . . . lots of fun!  Thanks for letting me play along this month, girls -- I totally enjoyed it!!

The neighborhood was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with these Copic markers:

 

This image was so much fun to color!  It's matted with SU's Taken with Teal cardstock.  I punched the edges of the patterned paper with Fiskar's Threading Water punch and matted it with Stampin' Up's Ruby cardstock.  Papertrey Ink's Paper Tray sentiment, Hero Arts flower & button on a 5" square card.

 

I used this week's CPS #108 for the layout.  Gotta keep it short and sweet today -- I'm off to play with some wonderful stamping friends!  Thanks again for inviting me to participate in today's JFF challenge, girls!

Unity Meets Webster's Via CPS!

 

At CHA last month, I finally had the chance to meet most of the Unity Stamp Company team and thanks to their kind generosity, came home with a few of their darling stamp sets that I'd been wanting to try. I chose to use this sweet bird from the Hey Chick! set and combined it with some of my favorite Webster's Pages paper.  This week's CPS#102 made it all happen (I flipped the sketch just a little)!

I stamped the bird, using Unity's fabulous & unique acrylic/wood mounting system, with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Neenah Classic Natural White cardstock and colored her with Copic markers BG13, R39 & YG95, to match colors in the patterned papers.  Clear Copic Spica glitter pen highlights all the red coloring on the bird.  I loved the feel of the wood handle on Unity's acrylic block!

I made a frame with the Cuttlebug Concentric Hearts die, placed it over my colored bird and machine stitched the two layers together.  A sparkly blue button accents this focal piece.  It is popped up over a layer of Webster's Pages Hello Beautiful (Love Note) paper that was cut with pinking scissors and matted with Prism Rose Dark cardstock.  These layers were also machine stitched and popped up over the card's base layer of Webster's Reflections of Nature (Chestnut Mocha).

The blue accent strip (Webster's Inspired-Peacefulness) at the bottom was punched with Fiskar's All-A-Fleur Embossing Border punch.  This little bird is headed out my door to wish a sweet friend a happy Valentine week and I hope you all have a good one as well!