2024 Growing in Unity - Day 4

 

Good morning my crafty friends.  

I hope you have been having a wonderful week.  

My time with  the Unity Stamp Company is almost over.

Do you have favorite color?  

If you know me, mine is purple.... purple everything.  

With that being said, I could not go a week without using purple in my project.  

I just love this paper, especially the floral piece.  I actually did not want to cut it at all.   

But paper must be used, so, I wanted to make the paper be the star of my card. 

Unity has so many wonderful sentiments.

The sentiment is from the Moments in Bloom set  

This is a great set if you are do not like to color images.

For the sentiment I embossed it using purple embossing powder. 

And then used some die cuts for the shapes.

Very quick and easy.

Remember there is a giveaway.

  

Please leave a comment every day and the end of the week I will choose a couple of lucky winners to receive a $20 credit to the Unity website.  

And if Blogger is being a booger or have an unknown comment, please,  

leave your name in the comment so I can include you in the drawing.

Thanks for stopping by.

Teresa

2024 Growing in Unity - Day 3

 

Happy Wednesday.  

Hope you are having a great week.   

For my project today I have two card layouts using the same image.  

 I could not decide which one to share. 

When stamping I usually stamp more than one image, 

This way I have so I have multiples to color.  

I can either use them for the future or have a throw away one for those coloring errors. 

 

The owl image comes from the True Colors kit.

This kit is my favorite of all of the kits in my stash. 

I colored the image using alcohol markers. 

 I then added some dimension to the flowers using Nuvo drops.

It is hard to see but both the green and brown papers are embossed with leaves.  

And the Shine sentiment is a rub on.  Remember those.  I found a few in my stash.

The Hello Beautiful sentiment is from the Gather Love Kit. 

 

Remember there is a giveaway.

  

Please leave a comment every day and the end of the week I will choose a couple of lucky winners to receive a $20 credit to the Unity website.  

And if Blogger is being a booger or have an unknown comment, please,  

leave your name in the comment so I can include you in the drawing.

Thanks for stopping by.

Teresa

2024 Growing in Unity - Day 2

 

Hello there my crafty friends.  Its day two for my week with Unity.

For my project today I took some inspiration from a project that I saw on Pinterest.   

I love the effect of the watercolor background with a simple back image

For my card I used my color burst powder. 

 I still have not mastered using color burst.  I feel like I usually make more of a mess.  

I made a whole bunch of little squares of many different colors.  

I then settled on the green/yellow groups.  

I then stamped and embossed the images onto those squares.   In the future I think I would stamp the images and then cut or punch out the squares. 

I went with the tall card layout.  My card is 8-1/2" x 3-3/8" to fit the envelopes I have.

The images I chose came from 3 different sets.   Within Beauty,  Whole Wonderful World, 

and Feel the Joy.

  

That is my project for today.  

Remember there is a giveaway.

  

Please leave a comment every day and the end of the week I will choose a couple of lucky winners to receive a $20 credit to the Unity website.  

And if Blogger is being a booger or have an unknown comment, please,  

leave your name in the comment so I can include you in the drawing.

Thanks for stopping in today

Teresa

2024 Growing in Unity - Day One

 

Happy Monday my crafty friends.

I am excited to be the GIU gal this week.  

 I've been very busy with daily life activities and have not been able to spend a lot of time crafting.  It was very nice to be able to dust off the supplies and create some projects to share with you. 

For today's project I chose to use an image from the Open Sky, Deep Ocean KOM.  

This is such a lovely set. 

The flower is nice and large.  It is perfect for a 5" x 7" Card layout.

I colored the image using alcohol markers and chose to add a little sparkle.  

 I used some chucky black glitter for the flower's center.  

I found some fun paper in my stash to add some color to the background. The sentiment is one that was included in a grab bag I purchased from Unity.  I'm not sure which set it is from.

Be sure to head over to the Unity Stamp Company and see what other 

fabulous images they have to offer. 

Now for the fun stuff.  

 There is a giveaway.

  

Please leave a comment every day and the end of the week I will choose a couple of lucky winners to receive a $20 credit to the Unity website.  

And if Blogger is being a booger.  

Leave your name in the comment so I can include you in the drawing.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Teresa

Growing in Unity 2023 - WINNERS

 

Thank you for all of the wonderful comments on my projects from Last week.  

I appreciate all of the feedback.  

This week Sandra is sharing her projects.   

Stop by and check them out here at cardsandcreativity.blogspot.

And now it is time for the to announce the winners.  Please contact me at resatwo at sbcglobal.net.

Silvia Hayes

Kellyskardsfl

You have 2 weeks to claim your credit

Email Kelli at Unity Stamps

 kelli@unitystampco.com

Include in the subject line "Winner from Teresa's GIU Week"

Congrats!!!

~Teresa~

2023 Growing in Unity Day 5

 

Happy Firday!!! We made it through the week.  I hope you have some fun weekend plans.  

Today is my last day of my Growing in Unity post for 2023.   I am super honored to be a part of this group of lovely creative people.   

Thank you for all of the lovely comments.  

For my final post I am using the Turn Toward the Light set.  Why.... it's a flower of course and I love coloring sunflowers.  

For this card I went with the slim line design.  It is about 8.5" x 3.5".  I learned log ago not to make a card size until you have an envelope to fit.  Luckily I picked up some slim line envelopes on sale recently.

 For the coloring I chose to play with my watercolor pens with some more traditional color.  I left some splatters behind.  Though the splatter technique is something I need some practice with.  These turned out rather light.  

The word "Explore" is actually part of this pattern paper.  It is not a stamped image. 

I hope you found something inspiring this week.  

I will wait until Monday to pick my winners so you have time to comment all weekend.   

Here is a recap of  this weeks projects and links if you need to catch up

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Have a wonderful weekend

Teresa

2023 Growing in Unity Day 4

Hello there!!

I hope you are ending the week strong.

Today I am using stamps from the Slowly Turning Classic set.  

I was drawn to this set because it reminds me of my dad.  He loved his trucks and anything old-antique and classic.   I could see him driving this truck with a smile on his face and he would have it painted cherry red.  So... for today's project the truck is red.  LOL 

Sometimes I find it hard to find images for masculine cards.  This set is perfect for a masculine project and Unity has a good selection of images for your favorite guys.  

This time I went ahead with placing the sentiment.  It is great combo.  I worked out of my comfort zone a bit and combined a few different patters.

I also stamped this image on a gift bag.  I found that the best way to get a good image on an uneven surface is using a stamp press.  This way you can ink and stamp multiple times

Now it is time to start the day and head off to my real job.   Don't forget to leave a comment on each of my post this week to win credit to the Unity Stamp store.  And remember to leave your name if blogger is being a pill and making you Anonymous.    

If you missed the past days I have put the links below

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Have a great day!

Teresa