12.27.13 FWF

Welcome to the final FWF of 2013!

I'm glad this year is over!

As usual, check out the Unity blog

for the hop details & to see all

the amazing Unity creations!

Here is a Starbucks gift card

holder. I cased May Flaum's idea HERE.

I punched the Starbucks siren out of a cup,

covered her with clear rock candy Stickles

and glued her onto the cuff. SU rub-ons,

Unity holly stamp colored with 

Copics & red Stickles.

TH music washi tape, the red washi 

is from a Simon Says Stamp grab bag.

I zig-zagged and used ColorBox 

green ink around the edges. I used

the lip of a cup for the pocket.

Here are a couple more pics:

Got a birthday card colored

for my cousin, too bad her birthday

was on the 21st....better late than never!

Unity Itty Bitty Balloons to You sentiment.

Mo Manning Tall Cake stamp colored
with Copics. I pretty much copied how
the cake was colored on her site HERE.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Have a Happy New Year!

12.20.13 FWF

Here we are, 5 days from Christmas!
I'm off to do some shopping today,
but first my weekly post!
Check out the UNITY BLOG for all
the Hop details!

Here is my tag inspired by Teri Anderson

& the CLASSroom's 12 Tags of

Christmas with a Feminine Twist.

You can find Teri's tag HERE.

I cut out the center of the tag, inked 

it with peeled paint DI, misted it

with a little water, & 

then sewed vellum that I had dry

embossed into the center. I used a TH 

snowflake embossing border.

I die cut some SB snowflakes from vellum,

cut the words on my Silhouette,

& colored the Unity snowman 

with my Copics. Some s.e.i. ribbon

finishes the tag off.

Day 8- Double Embossing

Double embossing was the challenge for Day 8 of

The 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

at the CLASSROOM last week. Today is

the last day to enter your tags.

You can see Sharon Harnist's 

Inspiring tag HERE.

I used a Cuttlebug music folder to

emboss the coffee dyed tag, gently rubbed

VersaMark over the raised parts

and heat embossed it with clear EP.

I applied evergreen bough, vintage photo,

& black soot DIs.

The reindeer is a TH stamp heat embossed

with a mix of gold & silver EP.

Brads are from a grab bag. "Snow" is 

Golden molding paste.

The branch is a Silhouette file covered 

with walnut Distress Stain and clear

rock candy Stickles. The bell is covered 

with antique linen Distress Paint.

Holly leaves are hand cut from paper

I misted a long time ago, covered with

clear rock candy Stickles.

Fibers are s.e.i. & velvet ribbon from stash.

The berries are hole punched from 

a glittery enveloped from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!

Shabby Chic Tag-FWF

Blogger is being weird so I 

am editing this post to add to Unity's FWF

Friday Hop.  Check out the details on 

Unity's blog HERE.

12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist 2013

Day 6 by Julia Stainton 

CHECK IT OUT AT the CLASSroom

I had so much fun with this technique of 

coloring on the backside of the image!

Claudine Helmuth sticky back 

canvas 3.4 x 5.5, Unity stamps:
LOL paper hearts & magical sets
Girl from Night Divine/Peace on Earth
Sentiment from grab bag

Girl stamped on vellum with 

black StazOn and heat 

embossed with ZING! clear ep
Lace dyed with worn lipstick DI
Worn lipstick & black soot DI around the edges.

Glitter paper, SB die cuts,

Jewels & sequins from stash

colored with Copic.

Image colored with Copics on the backside

Simple Stories houndstooth pp

Eyelet & charm from stash

Here is Julia's example:

I'm a few days behind but I'm 

really enjoying all the inspiration!

Hope you are, too!

Thanks for stopping by.

Freezing Cold FWF

Glad its Friday but

Not glad it's below zero!'

Happy to share with my Unity friends
on this Friends With Flair Friday.
Unity blog HERE for all the Hop details.

This will be short. Almost forgot to link up

and the Michael W. Smith 

concert is about to start!

Both of these are inspired by 

The 12 Tags of Christmas

With a Feminine Twist

at Ellen Hutson's

the CLASSroom. 

Unity stamps of course. 

Molding paste through a

negative of the snowman. 

More details for each in earlier

posts so check them out if you like!

Thanks for stopping by!

Another Day 3 of 12 Tags

I couldn't resist making another

tag for Day 3 with Ronda Palazzari.

 Really enjoying the 12 Tags of

Christmas with a Feminine Twist

At Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom!

Here is my tag:

Coffee stained tag, black soot
around the edges.
CHF Aged Sheet Music stamp
Distress paints, stain & inks
Crackle paint through TCW star stencil
Brilliance gold ink on stars
Clear rock candy Stickles on snowflakes
Thickers letters
Distress stains dyed ribbon
Silhouette & SB snowflakes
Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas DP

Here is Ronda's tag:

12 Tags-Day 4

 Kittie Caracciolo

Made the tag for day 4 of the 

12 Tags of Christmas with a 

Feminine Twist.

Check out her tag HERE.

I did what I could to make a 

look alike today.

Stash paper and an old evergreen

stamp to white embossed the pines.

Tiny snowflake stamp for the 

falling snow.

I found the birch trees, evergreen sprigs,

and the kids sledding in the 

Silhouette store.

I popped up 2 of the birch and both 

layers of the snowy hills.

Clear rock candy Stickles to 

finish off the hills.

12 Feminine Tags of Christmas

Welcome to my Day 3 post

for the Feminine version of

12 Tags of Christmas.

Check out the details at

the CLASSroom!

Prizes and lots of inspiration!

This tag is inspired by Ronda Palazzari.

 

Another coffee stained tag,

simply because I stained all my tags

and have no plain ones around!

Stenciled snowflakes with molding paste,

stamped and embossed the silver

snowflakes on top of the paste.

 

Unity stamps

Everything is covered with

various Distress Inks or paint.

Iced Spruce, Peeled Paint,

Festive Berries, Vintage Photo,

and a smidgen of Black Soot

Splattered with water

 

 

Used some white ink through

TCW star stencil

Silver embossed the star. Lots of

Clear Rock Candy Stickles.

All the embellishments are

"found items"....I found them on

my desk, left from other projects!

 

Couldn't resist adding this picture

from our little snowy corner of

the world! Snowy all day...

it's beginning to look a lot

like Christmas!

 

 

Thanks for poking your head

in my door today to say hello!

12Tags-Day 2

Julie Ebersole showed us a 

die cut in a window on her tag

over at the CLASSroom.

I don't have any cool dies like

That so I had to settle for a cool 

little house stamp, it's okay, I'm

not so much a city girl anyway!

Coffee/vanilla stained tag

Unity stamps

Music background CHF

SB die, Stickles

Green paper is MME

Scrap of paper from

Me & My Big Ideas

Thanks for taking a look!

12 Tags of Christmas.......

.......With a Feminine Touch!

Here is a fun series from Ellen

Hudson and 

the CLASSroom!

Check it out, there are prizes!

For Day 1 with Jennifer McGuire,

I made a card instead of a tag because 

I need to get one in the mail to my bil!

The challenge is to use molding 

paste and a stencil.

I cut out this little snowman from Unity

3 times, glued the negative spaces

all together and then smoothed 

molding paste over him, had to

coat him with iridescent ep, too!

Here you can see how my stamp made an

impression in the too soft molding paste!

I found out that ep resists ink! I had my 

stamp inked with StazOn when I made 

the impression! After I remelted the ep,

the ink stuck a little better.

Thanks for stopping by!

11.29.13

Wow! Can't believe how quickly the year is winding 

down! But still a few FWFs left to enjoy in 2013!

I've got a bunch of pictures so we can get right 

to it! Unity's BLOG is the place to find all the details!

First up is a bday card for my fil.

I used the BeInspired sketch for

this month's challenge.

Unity candles and the circle stamp

heat embossed and pinched out.

My next project is inspired by May Flaum

and her post HERE. I LOVE how she

made her gift card holder from the coffee cuff.

I am linking this up to Eclectic Paperie's

108th challenge: Recycled

Front above. Festive Berried DI,  Ranger Stickles

in Ruby Slippers & Clear Rock Candy. The

circle stamp is heat embossed & 

has Glossy Accents on it.

Below is the back side

Inside we have Spellbinders snowflake dies, 

coated with more Rock Candy Stickles.

I usually put a layer of waxed paper

between the die and the paper.

Couldn't bear to throw them away

so you can see 2 of them I used here.

The pocket and blue stars are 

cut out of the empty coffee cup.

Faux stitching around the pocket,

ran my paper piercer along the edges

and used the holes for spacing.

Lots and lots of Unity stamps here.

I realize I have a Starbucks card in a

Caribou Coffee cuff!

Here is a card cased from one on

Kristina Werner's blog, Day 13 of

Her Holiday Card Series.

Since I used BG's Out of Print papers,

I'm linking it up to the Basic Grey

Cold & Frosty Challenge #108

Thanks for stopping by, have a great 

post-Thanksgiving weekend and 

first week of Advent!

HCW Wrap Up Faux Letterpress

The final day of class was yesterday

and one of the card techniques 

was to use dies for faux letterpress.

I gently inked the snowflake die and ran

it through my Big Shot with my

silicone mat. Super easy! Added a stamp

& some twine.

Spellbinders snowflake die

Evergreen Bough DI

Unity stamp, Festive Berries DI

Paper Studio twine

So another Holiday Card Workshop 

draws to  a close.

Thanks for stopping by!

11.22.13

Happy Friday and Happy Thanksgiving!!

So excited for this time of year!

Today is for FWF and sharing

all the fun and creativity of Unity fans.

Check out the details HERE.

I've been in the Holiday Card Workshop

and have made about 15 cards using 

Unity stamps. I'm showing 3 here

so check out the rest in my older posts if you like!

Used the new Layers Of Life

and Distress markers, misted,

on watercolor paper

Here is a chalkboard look.

Top two stamps are Unity.

Heat embossed these little guys

and colored them with Distress 

Markers.

Thanks for stopping by & 

have a great weekend!

Day 5 Holiday Card Workshop-Chalkboard

Chalkboard look cards are

all the rage and I must say that

I do like them and I like making them!

 

Here is my take on the look:

 

 

Also decided to go with the slanted

look.  Difficult to take a straight

picture!!

 

The first two are Unity stamps

and the bottom one is Cornish

Heritage Farms.

Moonlight White Archival Brillance ink

White ZING! EP

Stickles, PS jewel colored red with R46

Signo gel pen on the lines.

Paper is from last year's stash

 

 



Feminine Version of the Day 5 Color Scheme

Holiday Card Workshop

I used the same technique for

making my plaid and masking

as the other Color Scheme card I

posted yesterday.  I added a bit

more to this card to dress it up a bit.

Ribbon, some pearls and layered it

onto red cs.

Always learn so much in these Online Card Classes!



Mix-Ability Challenge #42 Heavy Metal

The Mix-Ability Challenge at SCS

for this week is to use

 any aluminum foil or self adhesive

 foil tape and acrylic paints along with

chipboard (or die cuts).

I cut my shape out of cs on my

Silhouette four times and glued

them all on top of each other.

I covered the 5 x 5" panel with

heavy duty aluminum foil and then

ran it through my Big Shot with

my "cut to fit" silicone baking sheet!

Came out great!

Gesso'd it

Painted it and after it

was dry, I sanded the edges a bit.

Coated it with Studio multi-medium

then thin black paint that I quickly 

wiped away.

 A double matt of Wausau Crinkle CS

and DCWV textured CS.

 

 

Distress Paints used:

Broken China, Antique Linen, Wild Honey.

Day 5 Color Schemes

For this card, 

I cut a bunch of lines out with my

Silhouette and used that stencil

with an ink blending tool to achieve

the lines going both ways. 

I like the look, but a real stencil
would probably work better
aaand I didn't make it quite big enough
so I had to reposition it to get the corners.

I used the Unity Peace & Joy stamp.

I made a mask by stamping the back

of the stamp onto the blue side of

my Inkadinkado masking paper.



Another Go @ Not Too Fussy

 

I just wasn't satisfied with my

first attempt at the Not Too Fussy card.

I love the technique but not my results.

Here is a card using the branch I cut

on my Silhouette for the stencil on my

previous card.  I colored it with a

Gathered Twigs Distress Marker,

embossed it with iridescent EP and

then again with white EP.

 

 

I paper pieced the ornamtents

and added the sentiment.  Both

stamps are Unity.

 

 Check out the Holiday Card Workshop!

 

 

 



Day 5 Not Too Fussy

Day 5 of the Holiday Card Workshop

is focusing on His & Hers cards.

As you can imagine, the His cards

are the "not too fussy" ones!

Here is my first one and this was fun!

I've clear embossed on molding paste before

but I had never tried a color or 

in this case my mix of gold & silver.

Love it!!

I cut the branch on my Silhouette

and used the negative space.

Used. Palette knife to spread the 

molding paste over the stencil.

From there it was just adding EP

& heating.

I presses VersaMark onto the 

Spellbinders snowflake & used the same EP

on it & on the Unity sentiment.

Day 4 Stamping with Back of Stamps

This card has been in the works for a

while. I colored the image last week

& just hadn't used this Urchin with Bird

from Mo's Digital Pencil yet.

Linking this up with Oozak's
Holiday & Anything Goes Challenge

I have a good friend whose husband

passed away and Friday will be their

33rd anniversary, only she has to face it alone now.

This card will be going to her.

It's a little wintery because that's the way

it is in the Midwest this time of year!

I die cut the snowflakes from polka-dot

paper I got from a SSS win.

The green paper is old s.e.i.

She is colored on Cryogen paper.

Inside I used a stamp from 

My Favorite Things Cheerful Blessings.

I first stamped the red with the back side of 

the stamp and then used Memories black ink

to stamp the sentiment. Clear Spica pen 

on the pink snowflakes, PS pearls.

I used my tape letter maker to

write out the verse on the left.

Holiday Card Workshop

Day 4 Curve Stamping

All these techniques we are 

learning/practicing in the 2013

Holiday Card Workshop

are so much fun!!

Here is my curved stamp card.

The scallops I use all the time in my 

Mixed Media play, thought they

worked like garland here.

I used watercolor paper, a Unity stamp,

Mowed Lawn & Festive Berries

DistressMarkers on this card.

I misted the stamp after coloring on it

and did some 2nd & 3rd generation 

stamping. The edges of the green cs

are sanded a bit.  I colored the PS jewels with

R46 & YG17 Copics.

The sentiment is from

Cornish Heritage Farms.

2nd Layered/Embossed Card

Had a bit of a struggle with these cards.

Either my paper or silver EP is too light.

Live and learn!

I will have to try this with different  stamps

& colors someday, love the concept!

The trees are more Unity stamps.

Sentiment is Cornish Heritage Farms,

some of the very first stamps I bought

years ago!

Peeled Paint, Stormy Sky &

Evergreen Bough DIs. VersaMark

& probably ZING! EP.

Paper is from a win somewhere.

Always a good time to join in

the Holiday Card Workshop!