Growing in Unity Day 3

 The week is half over already!  Today for Day 3 if the Growing in Unity Week I am showcasing a Fun Slimline card. 

I started by making two masks for my flower.  Then starting in the center I stamped my flower, masked it.  Then I cleaned my stamp, moved it to another location (and rotated it) then stamped again.  I used my Misti for this as sometimes I needed to stamp twice to get a clean line around the mask.  Once again, I masked the flower, and stamped a third time.   Then I repeated at the top of my panel.

I colored in the images with some Olo markers and then fussy cut around the entire line of Daisies.  Using a Slim line card base (3.5" x 8.5"), I trimmed off one side to about 1/2"  I adhered my fussy cut flowers to the 1/2" flap with both double sided adhesive and liquid glue.  

For my sentiment I stamped one from the set out on white paper, trimmed down and then glued to the bottom third of my front panel.

For some added sparkle, I used my Shimmer pen over the blooms, here you can kind of see the shimmer.

Once again, thanks for stopping by.  Leave a comment for a chance to win a Unity Gift Certificate and stop back tomorrow for Day 4.

Supplies:

Unity Stamp Co Be Unstoppable 

Brutus Monroe Raven Detail Ink (affiliate)

Misti

Brutus Monroe Perfect Blend Paper (affiliate)

Olo markers

Scissors

White Card base 

Shimmer Pen

Mini Slim Birthday Card (BM Stencil of the month and Galaxy Glazes)

 Today's card features the Brutus Monroe Stencil of the Month and the new Galaxy Glazes.

I started by spraying the stencil with Pixie Spray and letting the dry a minute on the back of my stencil.  Then I temporarily attached my stencil to a 3.5" x 6.5" black cardstock on the diagonal.  Using a piece of post-it note, torn in four pieces, I covered the corners of my card panel to keep them clean.  

Next, I used the Blue Galaxy Glaze and my stencil pal, I applied a thin layer over my entire card.  When I apply glaze over a stencil, I try and only pull it one way to prevent the glaze from squishing under the stencil.  After removing the post it notes, I slowly pull apart my card panel from the stencil.  Setting the panel aside to dry, I quickly wipe off my stencil and tools, and place them in a bucket of warm water until later to clean.  (If you leave glazes or pastes on your stencils and they dry, they could potentially not wash off later.)

Earlier, I had made another panel the same way, using the Purple Galaxy Glaze that had dried overnight.  I cut this panel down to 3.5" x 5.5."  My card base is a white heavyweight cardstock measuring at 6.5" x 3.5."  I attached the stenciled card panel to the middle of my card base with liquid glue.  For my sentiment I used a scrap from my cardbase and the birthday sentiment from Christopher's Sentiment Cutting Dies.  After I attached it to my cardbase with liquid glue, I stamped a "happy" sentiment from my stash with a blue ink.  I used my scissors to cut it down before I affixed it above the birthday die cut.  I finished off my card using some white flat back pearls to my card.

Here is the link for my YouTube video.  This is my first edited and voice over video.  I hope you like it and will give me a thumbs up and subscribe.   

Here is an affliated list of products that I used in the Brutus Monroe Store:

• Stencil of the Month
• Pixie Spray
• Galaxy Glaze Purple
• Galaxy Glaze Blue
• Christopher's Sentiment Cutting Dies

Maker Forte Release One Layer Flower/Birthday Card

 

My card today is a very fun and simple one layer card.  Starting with an A2 white card base, scored, folded and placed in my Original Misti.  I love the flower image from the Beautiful Night Garden Stamp (designed by Alex Syberia).  I choose an Orange and Redish/Pink ink to spot ink up this image. Spot inking, is what I call inking my stamp several times, overlapping colors. Actually, I like to repeat this step until I am happy with the mix and saturation of the two colors. 

Next, I removed the card from my Misti. Using the same Redish/Pink ink, I stamped the Red rubber Splatter 2 background stamp, I over the entire background.  However, I did not use an acrylic block or my Misti, which gave a more organic and imperfect look the the splatter look.

For a focal image, I chose the new Flower Cluster stamp (designed by Varada Sharma), placed it and my card base back in my Misti.  First, I treated the card base with an anti-static tool. Then, I stamped the Flower Cluster and my Sentiment (chosen from Alex Syberia's Flower Background with Sentiment Set) with the Color Hive Clear Embossing Glue Ink Pad. Thirdly, I covered them both with a Black Embossing Powder from my stash.  Finally, I heat set the embossing powder and my card was finished.

I hope you enjoyed my first Maker Forte post and card as a member of the Design team.  Below is a list of items I used that you can purchase in the Maker Forte store.  (all are affilated links with no additional cost to you.)

Maker Forte Store 

• Beautiful Night Garden Stamp
• Splatter Square Style 2 Background Stamp
• Flower Cluster Stamp
• Flowered Background Stamp
• Color Hive Clear Embossing Glue Ink Pad

Brutus Monroe April Inspiration Box Birthday Card (Glow in the dark)

The April Inspiration Box has these adorable party Dinosaurs that just screamed Comic strip to me.

I started by coloring my images with a variety of Copic markers.  I wanted a rainbow effect so I chose two colors and did some simple shading on each image.  Next, I fussy cut each image out including the sentiment that I wanted.

I used Phonebook cardstock and cut it four times from the window panel die from my stash.  I used liquid glue to attached them together for some dimension.  I also cut hte die from some white cardstock and just used the "windows"  

I used some purple tape to temporarily attached the white window pieces to the back of the Slmline Lily Pad stencil.  Using Clear Skies ink and a blending brush, to lightly ink up the windows and then I used the Glow In The Dark Glitter Paste with a rubber spatula over the stencil as well.  (You ended up not seeing the blue ink, so I could have skipped that step.)  

I carefully peeled each piece of the stencil and wiped down any edges that had extra glaze and then set them aside to dry. Next I used liquid glue to attached the yellow frame to my A2 White card base being careful to place the balloons, under the one section.  Once my Window panels were dry I used liquid glue to attached them their appropriate squares.  Because of the glitter glaze texture, I used liquid glue to affix all of the colored images and placed an acrylic block on top to hold them down until they all dried to the front.  I used some foam dots to attach my sentiment to the middle of my card.

Here is a picture of the glow in the dark glitter paste.

Here is the list of products you can by in the Brutus Monroe Store:

• Phonebook Cardstock
• April Inspiration Box
• Lilypad Slimline Stencil
• Glow in the Dark Glitter Paste is not available right now but you could use the Glow in the Dark Embossing Powder or Chroma Glaze in its place.

Growing in Unity Blog Hop--Birthday Card

Hello and thank you for stopping by my blog today.  I had the priveledge of being the Unity Girl of the Week for the last week of 2020.  I have one more post tied to this week as I participate in today's Growing In Unity Blog Hop.  I am the first stop along the hop and I have the list below so you can hop along an leave comments.

My card for the hop uses the Smak Kit that I chose for my participation for the week.  I had to get the November 2019 Smak kit for its winter beauty and this big snowflake.  This card is for my mama as her birthday is coming up next month and her favorite color is blue and she loves snowflakes and snowman.  I started by taking the snowflake stamp in my Original Misti and stamped it out with My Favorite Things Nightshift Blue Ink.  I then used a ranger foam dauber and used my finger to apply thermoweb transfer gel to the stamp and applied that right over the blue image.  I set the panel aside to dry for about 20 mins and let my laminator warm up.

Once the gel was dry, I used some Opal Deco Foil and ran my panel through a laminator, twice.  I peeled back the foil and it left just the right amount of shine to the stamped image.  It was not perfect, but that is what I wanted.  Next, I took a blending brush and inked the same Nightshift blue ink the rest of my panel making the edges extra dark.  

I placed my panel in my splat box and splattered on some shimmer spray and some waterdown blue ink.  I used a sentiment from Birthday Go Round with the same ink on some heat resistant vellum from Brutus Monroe and covered the ink with some Pearl Embossing Powder.  After I heat set the powder, I used a circle die to cut it out and attach it to my card panel.  

Before I attached my card panel to my white A2 card base, I used the same simmer spray and a paint brush to cover the edges of my card base.  I used liquid glue to attach my panel to my card and that finishes my card.   I  hope you like my card and Happy Birthday mom!

 Here is the order stop by and leave a comment on each blog and you have a chance to win one of TWO Unity filled prize packs.

• Candi:  YOU ARE HERE
• Brandon-https://tazersfan.wordpress.com/
• Shannon-https://olasmoon.blogspot.com/
• Mary-https://a-red-letter-day.com/
• Linda-https://rubberstampormodify.blogspot.com/
• Michelle-https://annemichellecreates.com/
• Jennifer-https://jhammond0128.wixsite.com/website
• Holly-https://mamabirdcrafts.blogspot.com/

2020 Growing In Unity Week Post #2

For my second Growing in Unity Week post, I focus again on an Angie Blom stamp, but this time I had to include the guys.  I used the Forrest Guy stamp set to create a birthday card for my guy.  His birthday is coming up and I thought this would be a perfect chance to be ahead in my card making for once.  

I started by stamping out "Forrest" in Copic friendly ink on an A2 card panel made from Neenah 110 lb cardstock.  I colored him in with Copic markers.  Next, I cut him down using some rectangle dies from Hero Arts.  I wanted the panel to be smaller so we could see the other panel I made.

My second panel was very fun to make.  I just took a green piece of cardstock from my scrap bin and cut it down to A2 card panel size.  I used the Vintage Burlap Background stamp in my Misit with Embossing Ink.  Next I usedBrutus Monroe Raven Sparkle Embossing Powder in a couple of spots on my background and carefully flipped over my panel to "throw" off the extra powder onto a scrap sheet of copy paper.  I did this careful "throw" technique because I wanted to used a second embossing powder on the rest of the background.  I chose a clear powder from Brutus Monore and followed the same steps as above.  Then I used my heat tool to set both embossing powders.  I like the two tone look that the embossing powders givee my background. (In hindsight, I would do the clear first and then the black, as there is always some leftover and I do not want to contaminate or waste any embossing powder.)

Here is a close up of the two different embossing powders.  The Raven Sparkle has a little glitter in it which is why its one of my favorite black Embossing Powders.

I also used the same ink and Raven Sparkle Embossing Powder for my sentiment on another piece of the same green cardstock and attached it to the front of my colored panel.

I glued both the background and colored panel down on an A2 Black Card Base.  For the inside of my card I messily stamped the same Vintage Burlap stamp in the corner of a white card panel with a light green ink and a sentiment for my honey with black ink.  

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment for a change to win some Unity goodies at the end of my week.

Do you struggle with Masculine cards like I do?  What is your favorite Unity stamp for masculine cards?

Supplies Used

• Forrest Guy Stamp Set - Unity Stamp Co
• Vintage Burlap Background - Unity Stamp Co/Brutus Monroe Collaboration
• Raven Sparkle Embossing Powder - Brutus Monroe
• Icicle Embossing Powder - Brutus Monroe
• Copics
• Misti -My Sweet Petuntia
• Green, Black and Embossing ink
• Rectangle Dies -Hero Arts Infinity
• Liquid Glue
• Heat Tool
• 110 White and Black Cardstock
• Green cardstock scraps