Growing in Unity Day One

Good Morning!!!  

This is going to be a great week. 

 I am the the Growing In Unity Gal this week for the Unity Stamp Company.

I will be sharing a project each day.   And at the end of my featured week I will be giving away some Unity Stamp grab bags to a couple lucky readers.

The stamps I chose for this project came from the Spirit of Summertime KOM

I stamped the flip flop border using the border stamp from the kit and an Obre stamp pad.  

I went with a diagonal layout design and embossed the top layer of purple.

The sentiment is also from the Kit.  

 I first stamped it on a lined piece of paper 

but that did not work out because of the squished lettering of the sentiment.   

 I then discovered this blue paper in my stash and though it worked much better,  

Now for the what you have been waiting for.

How do you win some Unity stamps of your very own.

It is easy.  

Just leave a comment on my blog every day this week on my Growing in Unity post.

Next weekend I will pick two lucky winners to receive a grab bag of 25 stamps.

Thank you for dropping by.

I will be back tomorrow with another fun project.

Teresa

You brighten my day

Happy Friday!!!

I can't wait to get this weekend started.

For my project today I mixed up a few challenges.


First is one of my favorites
the Magazine Monday challenge at the Paper Crafter's Corner



This is one of my favorite covers.  I am such a sucker for flowers.
For my project I used the foliage and black background as my inspiration.
Love the different shades of greens.  As you will see I also picked out a little bit of the orange color.

I was also inspired by this challenge over at STAMOlorations.
I love that the color of the feathers is focused on the top end of the image.
The colors are very striking too

The Sketch challenge at the Lawnscaping challenge blog
helped me pull it all together.  I really like that diagonal design of the sketch.
The diagonal look seems to be the in thing currently.  

For my card I chose to use the foliage image and die from Lawn fawn.  

They are stamped and cut from on watercolor paper because I used twinkling H2O's for the coloring.  I only colored the top half of the foliage to mimic the effect of  the CASE card and those feathers.  

I went with the You Brighten My Day sentiment 

because that is how I felt that was the message being sent with 

black and white images coming alive with color.

I decided to add the orange butterfly to bring in a little more 

color from the magazine inspiration and to brighten the overall card.     

The butterfly is punched from watercolor paper that I colored orange with the H2O's.  

I popped up the wings a little to give some added dimension to the overall project. 

I hope you are inspired today.  

Teresa

I will be entering this card in the following challenges.

Lawnscaping challenge # 128, Sketch challenge

STAMPlorations - CASEplorations challenge April 2016

Paper Crafter's corner Magazine Monday's challenge # 141

HB2U

Good Morning,

Hope you are having a beautiful day.  

I found some time to hit the craft table last night.  

It is nice to be able to work in the evenings now that it is light later.

I seem to be more creative when I have some natural light coming into my work space.

This time I combined two 

great challenges for my project.

STAMPlorations CAS challenge

And

Paper Crafter's Corner Magazine Monday's Challenge # 140

This is a cool magazine cover for April.   I love all of the umbrella's.

What inspired me from this cover was not only the umbrella's but it also reminds me of a

 CAS project with all of the open space and being framed with the red border.  

I went away from a rainy them to something more warm.....

The beach.....

Of course I had to go green for the STAMPlorations Challenge.  

I love this simple image.  It is called beach therapy.   

Yes, I believe the beach is very therapeutic. 

I water colored the image and beach using distress inks. 

  I wanted to keep the beech light so that the focus was on the image.  

Now all it needs is a tiny cocktail...LOL

The HB2U sentiment is also from STAMPlorations.  

I hope you like all of the green.

There is still plenty of time to make your own project for these challenges. 

Thank you for dropping in.

Have a wonderful day!

Teresa

I will be entering this card in the following challenges

STAMPlorations blog - CAS card challenge - Anything goes with Spring Green 
STAMPlorations Blog - Never-ending Anything Goes Challenge

Paper Crafter's Corner Magazine Monday's Challenge # 140

Simon Say's blog - Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday 

Embossing

Happy Monday!!

Today I have another project to share.

For this card I colored a image from Serendipity stamp and then cut it with a circle die.

I like how the coloring comes all the way to the edge to when you cut into the image.

I then framed them image with the dark blue scalloped circel

The butterfly images are an embossed layer.  

It is hard to see in the photo but I used my Wink of 

Stella pen to add a little sparkle to the flowers.  

Thanks for stopping by

Teresa

I will be entering this project in the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Blog - Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
Serendipity Stamps SSCB #54 - Emboss

Sunrise

Hello All,

I have been a little crafty this weekend 

and have a project to share with you.  

I used the Magazine Monday Inspiration from

The Paper Crafter's Corner

Isn't this a wonderful cover.

There are so many great feature and colors in this photo.

What caught my eye immediately was that wonderful sunrise.

Such fun and beautiful colors.

I knew that using my Gelatos was going to be perfect  

to blend the background colors.

Just recently at Tuesday Morning I picked up some new 

stencils.  One had the positive and negatives of images.

and of course one of the images happened to be a sun.

I added a little extra color to the Happy part of the 

sentiment using some distress ink.  

I love morning Sunrises,

They bring on a New Day.

Teresa 

I will be entering this project in the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Blog - Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
Design Memory Craft - Take the challenge with Mou.....April - New 
Paper Crafter's Corner -Magazine Mondays - Week 139

Spring

Good Morning!!!

Can you believe it!!!  Two post in two days.  

Maybe that means that the creative bug is back.  YAY!!!

I needed to make a thank you card for a sweet lady that sent me a wonderful RAK last week.

You know the drill.   Find some inspiration.  

I went looking for some challenges that I have not participated in for a while.  

What caught my eye this time??? 

  

Newton's Nook Challenge 

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge

These two are perfect together.   

 love the colors of that cupcake 

and I have this sweet spring stamp from Newton's Nook.  

I did struggle a little bit getting everything put together.

I actually cut off the top part of my sky because I did not like the overall length of the panel.

The paper I used was from the RAK I received.  

I love the sweet little flower design of the paper.  

I framed the image panel in dark blue for some contrast between 

the background paper and the image panel.  

Thank you for your kindness is stamped on the inside.

Now to get this card into the mail.  

Thank you for dropping by.

Teresa

I will be entering this project in the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Blog - Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes
Newton's Nook Challenge # 30 - Spring Theme 
Cupcake Inspirations - Challenge #354

HI

Hi!!!

Spring is is full swing here in California.  

Everything is so green and the flowers are blooming.  

I've been trying to make time to create more.

Hopefully that means I will be sharing more.

Today I have Spring card that I made for my cousin that is going 

through cancer treatment.  

I just want to brighten her day and I will be sending her cards frequently.  

For my project today I used some inspiration from the

 Magazine Monday's challenge at the Paper Crafters corner

 and the April challenge at The Greeting Farm 

 

And the Wednesday Challenge at Simon Says Stamp blog

I was inspired by the magazine cover. 

 Those blocks of color overlapping each other.  

I thought it would be a cool background.   

I tried a couple different groups of blocks

but settled on using only two.   

After I put most of the card together I felt the background needed something

I tried to stamp a couple flower images but messed them up...Ugh.  

So....  Time to embellish.   that is when I pulled out some flowers and covered my oops. 

I love the added flowers.  They give some more dimension.  

I also popped the sweet  Anya image off the background using pop dots.  

Thank you for dropping by

Teresa

I will be entering this project in the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Blog - Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes
The Greeting Farm - April Challenge - Bloom where you are  planted
Paper Crafter's Corner -Magazine Mondays - Week 138