Growing In Unity Day Four....

Welcome back for day four of five of my Growing In Unity blog week. Today I have a little bit of a different  project for you. I decided to make a cute little gift with some quick packaging. Once again I put to use the Samantha Walker Blossom Stackers stamp set by Unity Stamp Co..

First, I purchased some "fancy" elastic at our local fabric store. Then I pulled out some of my acrylic paints....

To make the headband I started by putting a medium sized dab of acrylic paint on a piece of acetate. Then with an old used gift card I spread the paint out thin and evenly. This is going to be my stamp "pad". Load your stamp wit the paint and stamp away onto the elastic. You'll want to smooth out your paint on your acetate every couple of times that you stamp the image.

Once I was done with the gold paint, then I cleaned off my acetate with a baby wipe and put a little dollop of fuchsia paint on the acetate. Using my stylus I added little dots of pink paint.

Next I made a quick pillow box to match!

...and of course this post wouldn't be complete without my little one modeling the finished product!

Make sure to leave a comment to be entered into the random drawing for an Itty Bitty stamp of your choice!

See you all tomorrow!

Tonya Dirk

Growing in Unity...Day Three

I'm back again today with another post using my favorite Unity Stamp Co. stamp set...Blossom Stackers by Samantha Walker.

For this card I opted to go a little wild. Bright colors and a couple of techniques. I started by heat embossing the large scallop flower with white ink and white embossing powder on white card stock. Then I got busy with some Distress ink to make the blended colorful background.

For the flower centerpiece above I mad an accordion flower for the base. To make the second layer I rolled out some clay and stamped it with one of the smaller stamps from the set. Baked it in the oven to harden it then topped it off with an orange jewel. Lastly, I embellished it with some buttons, twine and hand-dyed seam binding.

Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered into the random drawing to win an Itty Bitty stamp of your choice!!!

Hope to see you again tomorrow!

Tonya

Growing in Unity...Day Two

Hi Peeps! Welcome back to another day of stamping from Unity Stamp Co.. I have another project today that uses the Samantha Walker Blossom Stackers stamp set. On this one I also utilized the coordinating Spellbinders dies.

This card was the result of what we like to call of happy little mistake. Originally I had in mind that this was going to be a shaped card. Then after I attempted to die cut it, I realized that I used card stock that was too heavy. It had only cut through the first layer of paper....BUT it then had made a lovely impression on the inside of the card. I thought it was kind of cool so I went with it! You can see a glimpse of it below.

...and here is that impression in all of it's glory!

That will be a great little spot for my hand written sentiment!

See you all back here tomorrow! Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered into the random drawing to win an Itty Bitty stamp of your choice!

Tonya

Growing in Unity...Day One

Good Monday morning to you all today. This week I have been offered that fabulous opportunity to participate in Growing in Unity Day by Day. For those of you not in the know, Unity Stamp Co. is one of the most amazing stamp companies out there!

Each day this week I will be sharing with you a project that I have made using their stamps, make sure to come by and leave a comment each day. At the end of the week I will randomly draw a winner from all of the comments that I have received throughout the week, that lucky person will win the Itty Bitty stamp of their choice! Awesome huh? and so generous of Unity!!!

Ok, let's get going with my first project of the week. Today I have a card for you. I used the Blossom Stackers stamp set that was designed by Samantha Walker.

I created the background by stamping with a cream ink and a soft pool ink, then embellished the middle of the circles with some small jewels. 

Finished it off with a strip of bold patterned paper along the top, a strip of glitter, some hand dyed seam binding, a button and twine!

Thanks for stopping by today, hope to see you throughout the rest of the week!

Tonya

Couple of Cards

Happy Friday everyone! I'm here today to share with you a couple of cards that I honestly did just whip  together with some scraps that were left on my desk. I love to make cards after I get done making a layout. There is usually enough stuff left over on my desk to put one or two together.

These were made using some My Mind's Eye...

This first one was super quick and simple as the leaves and flowers were already pre-cut and just sitting there waiting to be used.

Another pretty simple one that utilizes a bunch of thin cut strips of patterned paper.

                           

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. We are enjoying some beautiful weather in our parts, should be perfect for the soccer and baseball games on our schedule.

Tonya

1 stamp 3 ways...

Happy Wednesday all! Today I'm here with a trio of cards. All of these cards were made using the same stamp set in three completely different ways.

The set that I used today is Papertrey Ink's Heart to Heart #7.

Card #1 - this one pretty much used the stamps as you see them...

Card #2 - of this one I used two of the leaf stamps to create these geometric circles

Card #3 - I used the leaf stamps to create the outer edges of the three flowers.

All three were pretty simple an easy to put together. I love that a little $5 stamp set can be used for so many different looks!

Ahhhh....

These were the good times...having your bestie in the same class as you. This year they were split up, at first I thought this would be a good thing. However, after a two weeks plus of clinging and crying every morning as I am trying to leave her classroom I find myself wishing they were together again! She never cried in preschool or kindergarten, this has me a bit perplexed. Oh well, I know it will pass and eventually there will some new really good friends. I'm just praying the transition comes about quickly...she's breaking my heart. I did notice another little girl having some of the same emotions and talked to her mom. She came over after school a few days ago for a play date and that seems to have helped them both out a bit. We made it through Thursday and Friday with no tears!

This layout uses a Studio Calico kit...City of Lights if I remember correctly!

I saw an arrow shape on the Silhouette website that was very similar to this, and I knew it was an easy one for me to re-create on my own, so I made my own cut file for it. Super easy...I should so do that more often! 

Hope you are all having a wonderful Monday!