GIU winners

Thank to you to everyone who patiently visited my blog last week! I have randomly picked my two winners and they are: Denise S and karen adams

Please email me at amberloyana @ yahoo.com and I will pass along your info to Unity!

GIU Day 5

Hello everyone! I am the Growing in Unity girl this week at Unity stamps. Each day I'll post a project using their stamps and at the end of the week I will draw 2 names from all the comments you leave and those winners will receive a package of stamps!

My last bookmark for the week uses the United by Love stamp set which I love! The sentiment comes from the Brave Girl Teepee set.

 

 My plan was to give these to the new girls in our book club. I thought it was perfect because we have 12 girls. But I love this image so much I may just end up making one for everyone in the club. We'll see how much time I have. I colored the girls using a aterbrush and distress inks.

Thanks for stopping by my dusty blog this week and leaving comments. You all left such kind words it really made me feel good. I miss this crafting community and hope to be able to participate in it again . I just need to find a magic way of making time for 2 hobbies! Have a great weekend everyone!

GIU Day 4

Hello everyone! I am the Growing in Unity girl this week at Unity stamps. Each day I'll post a project using their stamps and at the end of the week I will draw 2 names from all the comments you leave and those winners will receive a package of stamps!

I'm so sorry my posts weren't on time! I forgot to publish a scheduled post then the others got forgotten while I was busy with my husband who had surgery. Poor time management on my part! I apologize. I also ran out of time to make 2 different projects a day! So today is just this one tag.

The sentiment is from Fly with Wings of Hope. I can't find the name of the heart image. My stamp is so old that it is mounted to a wood block instead of in a bag with a label. I tried searching Unity's website but couldn't find it. So if you know the name please let me know! 

I started the tag with some Tim Holtz rubons, blended some distress ink, used a stencil with ink and then addded the Unity stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and, again, I'm so sorry about being late!

GIU Day 3

 Hello everyone! I am the Growing in Unity girl this week at Unity stamps. Each day I'll post a project using their stamps and at the end of the week I will draw 2 names from all the comments you leave and those winners will receive a package of stamps!

I made 2 more tags using my favorite stamp set Insightful Meadows.

 For the brighter one I used an ink smooshing technique. On the darker one I used a blending technique.

Thanks for stopping by today.

GIU Day 2

 Hello everyone! I am the Growing in Unity girl this week at Unity stamps. Each day I'll post a project using their stamps and at the end of the week I will draw 2 names from all the comments you leave and those winners will receive a package of stamps!

 I've got a couple more bookmarks today. And again, I used the stamp set in 2 different ways/styles.

I used Mystical Mermaid for the image and the Tim Holtz small talk stickers for the sentiment.

 

 The first tag is another watercolor. Only I masked the image and then colored around it.

For this second one I used Peacock Feathers distress ink and the smooshing technique to get that background.

Thanks for stopping by today.

GIU Day 1

 Hello everyone! I am the Growing in Unity girl this week at Unity stamps. Each day I'll post a project using their stamps and at the end of the week I will draw 2 names from all the comments you leave and those winners will receive a package of stamps!

 I am hosting book club in a couple months so I decided I would create bookmarks to hand out to the ladies. And for some reason, I also decided that each day I would use one stampset in 2 different ways/styles. For today I used Imperfection is Beauty.

The first tag is a simple watercolored tag.

I did a little fussy cutting to get a 3D flower:

And for the second tag, I used a more mixed media style for it.

Make it happen art journal page

Pardon the dust. It's been a year since I posted! Gah. Other creative endeavors took over. But my goal this year is to participate in Simon Says Stamp's challenges. This week's Monday challenge is to use Something New. I pulled out several items that I haven't used yet including a brand new art journal, Dina Wakley paints, and Tim Holtz ephemera and stickers.

It's by no means a favorite of mine, but it felt good to move paint around again and get messy!