I was the designer for the last week of February on Card a Day Challenge Blog found here. The theme for the whole month was everything love, the colors were red, pink and white. The technique for Tuesday that week was coloring in dark or kraft paper. Here are the cards I made for the challenge. Details can be found on the Card a Day Challenge Blog. Check out the other designers for the month. It is fun to see what different cards are made with the same challenges. – Denise
Welcome to the Growing in Unity Blog Hop. This is the start of the blog, so make sure you follow the links at the end of this post to see all of the participants. Leave a comment and you could win a prize package from Unity Stamp Company. They are always a wonderful assortment of stamps that I am positive you would love. Comment on everyone’s blog to increase your chances to win.
It is such a busy season, that I only had time to make a couple of cards. Lucky for me that using Unity stamps makes it really easy to do this quickly. I signed up for the KOM just a little over a year ago and while I love it, I don’t always get a chance to use many of the stamps before the next kit comes. I am challenging myself to use more of them in the coming year. For these two cards, I went back to the November 2016 KOM called Midnight Kisses. I had only used two stamps in this kit since I received it last year, so I used images and sentiments that I haven’t inked up before.
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I am so excited that I actually have made a New Year’s card in time to send it out this year. I stamped the girl and sentiment with Versamark on black card stock and heat embossed them with gold. I cut them out freehand so that I had room to position them on an A-2 size card base. I backed the images with Foiled Velum by DCWV. For the inside, I also used Versamark and gold heat embossing. The star background was stamped three times across the top to cover it all. I really like the gold and black together.
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For this second card, I stamped with Versafine ink on water color paper and then used Distress Ink and a wet brush to color the image. I used Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber, Rusty Hinge, and Bundled Sage. I also put a faint wash of gray around the whole image to make it pop. I have seen people use this technique and it really works well. I stamped the sentiment on the same water color paper and cut around it with an oval die. I brushed around the edge with the Fossilized Amber and then wet it slightly with a wet brush. I did the same technique for the inside. The background paper is from an Authentique 6 x 6 paper pack called Latest and Greatest.
I ended up using a total of 9 stamps from the KOM that I used and there were still a lot I didn’t use because there are so many in those kits. Keep hopping along and be sure to comment to enter for the prizes. If you want to see my original GIU posts, just look in the November archives on the right hand side of this page.
Your next stop is Lori.
Here is the full line-up in case you get lost.
Denise https://thecraftyledger.blog/ ⇐ You are here.
Lori http://mncrafting.blogspot.com/?m=1 ⇐ Go here next
Shannon https://lingeringhappinessco.blogspot.com/
Amber https://allamberallthetime.blogspot.com/
Kim https://mycutecrafts.com/
Angela https://stampingbowd.blogspot.com/2017/12/growing-in-unity-blog-hop.html
MariLynn https://mississippi-mcgyver.blogspot.com/?m=1
Amanda https://salnclts76.blogspot.com/
Paula https://scrapaddictsattic.blogspot.com/
Amanda https://amandascreativecorner.blogspot.com/?m=1
Crystal https://crystalominkler.blogspot.com/
This ends my week for Card A Day Challenge. Today I used only one set of stamps to make four cards. The set is a KOM from October 2013 by Unity Stamp Company called Oh Christmas Tree. There are so many stamps in these sets, that I made four cards all using different stamps and there were still stamps I didn’t use because I ran out of time. If you want details on any of these cards, check out the post on Card A Day Challenge here.
Today is Freestyle Friday on CADC blog. After using a lot of stamps lately, I went back to my Explore for this one.
Once again the details can be found on the Card A Day Challenge blog here.
Tomorrow will end my week as designer for CADC blog and I will actually have more than one card to share, so be sure to stop by – Denise
I am on day five of my guest design week for Card A Day Challenge Blog. Today is a color challenge and this is my card with help from my Explore.
To see details of this card along with the inspiration paper please visit the CADC blog found here. Thanks for stopping by – Denise
Today is Wow Wednesday on my week for the Card A Day Challenge Blog and this is my card.
To see how I made this guy sparkle, see Card A Day Challenge Blog here. I love cards that can come together in a snap and this was one. – Denise
Today’s challenge for the CADC is to make a Christmas Thank You card. I used a layering stamp to make this seasonal.
All the details can be found on the Card A Day Challenge blog found here.
