HIP HOP HANGOVER FRIDAY!

Hi everyone! I know - long time no post - but it has been a busy couple of weeks around here. We've had 2 birthday's in the house!

Now you ask - what is Hip Hop Hangover (a.k.a. HHH)- well all us UNITY STAMP CO. addicts hang out in a thread called "Hip Hop Thursday" every week, and chat the day away. Hip Hop is also the day of new releases and specials for Unity Stamp Co. each week. SO much fun, and if you haven't been - YOU MUST JOIN US NEXT WEEK!

So after PARTYING in the UNITY HIP HOP THREAD over at Split Coast Stampers - I had to post my favorite thing I have made lately using Unity Stamps! This is the birthday card I made for Keith. It is "kookie" just like we are - and he LOVED IT!



supplies used:
Die Cuts with a View Cardstock
Georgia Pacific White Cardstock
Close to My Heart Patterned Paper (green stripe)
Die Cuts with a View Patterned Paper (bold design)
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Palette Ballet Blue Hybrid Ink
Old Paper & Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks
Little Monster Image colored with Copics and Bic Mark-Its, and outlined with Copic Spica Glitter Pens in Clear and Black
Cuttlebug Embossing A2 Tiny Mosaic Texture Folder
Spellbinder Circle & Scalloped Circle Nestabilities
Spellbinder Long Rectangle Scalloped Nestabilities
Chevron Punch

Directions for the Green Paper: Take Green Striped paper by Close to My Heart. Using Texture Sponge - add Old Paper and then Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks in layers onto the paper. Run paper through Cuttlebug using Tiny Mosaic Texture Embossing Folder.

The card was based on this sketch from the SO SKETCHY BLOG.


Thanks for looking and be sure to look to the right side and become a FOLLOWER of my blog and come back tomorrow to see the ATC Row Houses I am working on using Unity's Simple Pleasures set!

Now go create something!!!

A little Halloween, and a Little Pink

First of all I have to share the sweetest pic of two of my fur-babies. I "caught" them like this on Sunday morning. How sweet! Missie opened her eyes just as I was taking the picture, but they stayed like that forever. It is so sweet how Missie Moo & Mazie love to sleep together!


The card below is done with Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Making Memories Halloween Stamps, and a Cuttlebug Die/Embossing Folder duo cut out of some crazy paper I found at Hobby Lobby. Eyes are K & Co. gems I found at the Dollar Mart. Sorry for the glare - new camera.


This card is done for the Monday & Tuesday Challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.com The Monday challenge was to try a new technique with the stair step fold. And Tuesday was the Color Challenge (pink, black & White). Papers are Die Cuts with View & Hobby Lobby (zebra). All pieces on card are Chipboard. Stamped with Unity's September KOTM mini giggle grove, and quote in brilliance ink. Ribbon is from Michael's, flowers are prima. Black Jewels are K & Co. Again - sorry for the bad pic, my new camera has that movement correction, and I haven't quite mastered it yet - oops!

ROCK ~ PAPER ~ SCISSORS

Today's card is for the limited supply challenge over at Split Coast Stampers. We were only allowed to use paper, stamps, ink, decorative scissors and a paper trimmer - oh and BLING of course for the "rock"!!! I pulled out my new WISH kit by Unity Stamp Co. & the GIGGLE GROVE kit happens to be in the same envie. So after stamping everything I realized I needed a little greeting and giggle just seemed to fit this silly little card! Cardstock is DCWV, Distress Ink Worn Lipstick by Tim Holtz, & Clear Baubles (sorry they are hard to see - will have to work on that for photos.)

Thanks for looking and have a WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

Unity Stamp Company Wednesday Challenge on SCS

We had to make ANYTHING but an A2 sized card. So I went for 8" x 4". Just what I felt...Paper Salon Patterned Paper, DCWV Cardstock, Aegean Blue VersaMagic Ink, White Pen for doodles, Unity Stamp Co. Flower & Quote, Nesties to cut circle and quote, & border punch by The Paper Studio. Thanks for letting me share today!

Welcome to the new blog!

This blog is going to be all my about my art. I'm going to save my old blog for what it was originally intended, to talk about my O.C.D.

This week I decided I was going to take part in as many challenges as I could each week. Yesterday and today I have been focusing on splitcoaststampers.com challenges.

This is the Stipple Background Challenge for yesterday:

This card uses Ancient Page, Palette & Momento Ink pads for the stippling. The flower is a Penny Black Stamp stamped with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The flower is very similar to the one used on Split Coast, but it was an SU set that I do not own, so I thought this was a pretty good substitute.


Below is today's Color Challenge, and I also used the sketch from a challenge last week. Colors for today were: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango & Kiwi Kiss. Again these are SU colors and I do not own their papers, inks or markers. So I went to this handy dandy website: http://www.scraptitude.com/colorcombo and found the colors I would need to use. You will always be able to use this site to find out what the colors for Split Coast Color Challenges I use are, so bookmark it for future reference. :o)

The papers on this card are from a pack by The Paper Studio called Out & About. The DCWV green cardstock was not a close enough match, so I used the momento ink to darken it up a bit. The brown cardstock was by Making Memories and has a pattern on one side. Again, not quite the right shade and was very flat. So I sponged some Brilliance Rust Ink onto the CS to add some more depth. Below is a close up of the stamped image by Unity Stamp Co. called "Sweet ZZZ's"

I colored the image with Copic markers. I used Y28, YG03, YR65, R20 to color the image. I also layered some Ginger Prismacolor Pencil over the YG03 Yellow Green Marker. The bird was a layering of YR65 Atoll and R20 Blush.

I hope you enjoyed these cards today. And I hope to post almost daily with my art. If I use an abbreviation you do not recognize please feel free to ask.

Now go CREATE SOMETHING!