Growing In Unity - Day 1

Happy Monday!!!  Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving weekend.  

Today starts my week long adventure being a Growing In Unity (GIU) girl.  I am super excited to be sharing some of my projects.

My first project for this week was my own adventure.  Recently I purchased some Silks Acrylic Glaze. I spent a lot of time with the demonstrator at the Scrapbook Expo playing with these paints and was very inspired.  Then I brought some home and looked at them for a few weeks, not really knowing what to do.  Those demonstrators make everything look so easy and by the time you get home with the products I loose some of my inspiration.  So for today's project I decided to open the jars and take the Silks out for a spin.  

First I painted different colors onto a piece of book paper, layering to blend some of the colors.  The paper sure feels like silk after the glaze dries.  I then stamped the Hot Air Balloon image from the Adventurous Stamps set  from Unity.  I embossed the image with black embossing powder .  I then used my sparkling H2O's to color the flowers and balloon.

 I think it turned out great for my first attempt.  And of course I did learn some things as well.

Please be sure that you come back daily and comment all week.  Unity has been very generous and has allowed me to give one lucky reader an Itty Bitty Stamp of their choice.  I will be randomly choosing from all the comments and the winner will be picked Sunday.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges

Simon Say's Blog - Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

Thanksgiving

Hello my friends.

Can you believe how fast this month has flown by.  It is going to be Thanksgiving in less than one week.  Wow.  Before we know it Christmas and New Years will be upon us.  

I wanted to stop in to say Hi and  and to tell all of my crafty friends 

how grateful I am to have you around to inspire me to create. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday.    

This card is for all of you 

Teresa

12 days of Christmas Inspiration

Hello my crafty friends. 

I am just stopping in to say a quick hello and to have you hop on over to a fabulous blog.  Damaris from the At Studio D is running her 12 days of Christmas celebration.  Last year she had some wonderful inspiration, so I expect this year will be the same.  So take a minute to stop by.  You won't regret it.   Here first project is up today.... it is a fun card.  

PYC Challenge #8 - Grateful

Happy November!!!!  

The days are just wizzing by.  Before we know it Thanksgiving will have come and gone.  I don't know how it is for you, but for me the last few moths of the year go screaming by.  

I hope everyone had a save Halloween.  We were invaded by a zombie.  My son had so much fun acting out the whole zombie thing.  I am glad he enjoyed himself so much.  

Today we start the Challenge #8 at The Parade Your Crafts Blog.   

The theme is - Grateful

The collection I am using is Thankful from Authentique. 

 You can find all you paper needs at The Paper Parade 

For this challenge I wanted to do something totally different. I spent a good amount of time scouring Pinterest for inspiration with now luck.  But I did learn how to make the rolled paper flowers.  

Last weekend I attended the Scrapbook Expo.  I was on a mission for supplies I can not get at our big box craft stores.  As I was spying in on a make and take, I discovered these cool little tins.  They came in two sizes, 2 and 3 inch diameter.  The tins are like a bottle top or pastry baking tin.  

Bingo.... I found the inspiration.  Especially the Thankful collection remind me of classic kitchen decor.  

I carefully folded a strip a paper to make the ruffle around the outside edge of the tin. 

 I glued it down using Beacon 3-1 adhesive.  I made a few of the rolled flower,s two out of plain card stock and one from the Authinque collection.  Added a pearl bead to the inside and some glitter around the edges.  The sentimet if from the sticker pack from the Thankful collection.   

I was thinking that I could use some magnets and display this on the fridge or even use it in my office.

And not to forget the scraps....

Now it is your turn.  

Join us in the challenge at 

Parade Your Crafts

PYC Challenge #6 - Halloween

Can you believe it.... Halloween is only a few weeks away.  I went into Michael's today and they had already started clearance out all of the Halloween and Fall items.  Wow!!

I am just now feeling in the mood for Halloween to be here.  For the last couple of weeks I have been working on Halloween cards for my Mother-in-Law to send out to her grandchildren.  

Today we start the Challenge #6 at The Parade Your Crafts Blog.   

The theme is of course..... Halloween

When Lisa sent me my kit for this challenge I could not wait to use it. 

The collection I received is from Graphic 45 - Steam-punk Spells.
You can pick up a piece of this awesome collection at The Paper Parade 

Also included in my kit was some of the new Tim Holtz glitter.  My color to is Black Soot.  

Oh how I loved to use this glitter.  

This collection is beautiful and fun.  I loved the different colors of the paper.   Below are just a few of the cards I created from this set.  I have at least two additional cards ready to build.  

These first three cards I used the graphics that was included in the kit.

 I punched the cat and bat out of black card stock using my Fiskars seasonal punches and then covered the punched out image in glitter using the Glossy Accents.  

The flower I made using some AC card stock and my Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Sizzix die.  I added a little bronze glitter to the edges.  The file tap is chip board that is part of this paper collection.

For the last card.  I really loved the flowers and they really remind me of the Day of the Dead.  Even though is still has that Stem-punk feel.  I used a stamp from the Sweet Stamp shop to make the sugar skull.  I glittered the eye scokets using the Tim Holtz glitter.   And I took some of the Autum glitter sheet of paper from Challenge #5 for the border behind the flowers and skull.  

I popped the skull up using some pop dots.  

I hope you can join us in this challenge.  And please stop in to see what the rest of the DT created.  You will not be disappointed.  

Teresa 

I will be entering the Dia De Los Muertos card into the following challenge

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Use a Rubber or Clear Stamp 

More to share

Just stopping in to share another card I made from what

 I am now referring to as world card making weekend...LOL 

I am trying to use up many of my scraps that I have been holding on to. 

 I just can't bring myself to throw them away even though they seem to be multiplying.  

Teresa

World Card Making Day.......

Yesterday was World Card Making Day.  

Did you participate?   I did.  

I made card for some challenges around the internet.  

 I also made some Halloween card for my Mother-in-law to send you here grandchildren.   

Let just say I was busy.  

I am sharing with you a card I made using Core'dinations paper 

and some great stamps from Sweet & Sassy Stamps.     

Thanks for stopping by.... and have a wonderful week.

Teresa

I will be entering this card into the following challenges

Core'dinations - World Card Making Day Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Blog - We're Going Dotty