2023 Growing in Unity Girl of the Week Day 1

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  Its been awhile since I have made a post.  This week I am the Unity Girl of the week and will be sharing a project everyday with you.  You have a chance to win a gift certificate to the Unity Stamp Company just by leaving a comment on my blog.  You can increase your chances by commenting everyday.

Today I have a Masculine Mini Slim Card for you.  I love Mini slim cards they are my favorite.  List of supplies with links (affiliates will be noted) are at the bottom of the post.

I started by using some tan cardstock and stamping the feather image in Embossing ink over the entire 3.25" x 6" panel.  I heat set my favorite clear embossing powder and then ink blended over the entire surface with Weeping Willow ink. (I realize that this feather stamp is not available anymore, but since it is just a backdrop.  I listed a few substitutes from the Unity site that could be used instead.  I apologize, I am trying to ink up unused stamps this year.)

Next I stamped the Deer head image with Weeping Willow ink and covered it with clear Embossing powder.  I used Olo Markers to color in the image. I used an older frame die from my stash to cut out the image and attach it to my panel. 

For my sentiment, I went direct to paper with Weeping Willow ink and then stamped and heat embossed this "punny" sentiment.  I did the same technique for the DAD die cut and then attached everything to my Mini Slim card base.

I hope you enjoyed my card and will stop by each day to see what I have planned.

List of Supplies

• Unity Stamp Co Smak Kit July 2015 (FEATHER--discontinued)
•                 Could use Feather Soft Love or Scattered Pieces but there are several feather stamps
• Unity Stamp Co Kit of the Month All Kinds of Holiday Love (DEER)
•                  Could use All Santa's Reindeer or He's a Wordy Buck
• Brutus Monroe Embossing Ink (affiliate link)
• Brutus Monroe Embossing Powder-Icicle (affiliate link)
• Simon Hurley Create. Weeping Willow Ink (affiliate link)
• Simon Says Stamp Punny Animals
• Heffy Doodle Stitched Alphabetters Dies
• Spellbinders older Nestablities Label set (couldn't find name)
• Olo Markers
  

You're My Favorite Dad (Brutus Monroe June 2022 Stencil of the month)

 

Since Father's Day is this weekend, I thought I would show you the card I made for my dad.  Sometimes its hard to know what to use for a masculine card and my go-to is usually a brown and a blue color.

I started with the June 2022 Stencil of the month Groovy Grid.  Using my Stick and Stamp Mat and coordinating Blending Buddy, I placed my 4.25" x 5.25" white card panel in the middle, with the stencil on top.  I used my blending tools to add Simon Hurley Creates Grrr! and Clear Skies inks in a random panel over the stencil.

Then I cut the panel and a brown mat with some stitched rectangle dies from my stash.  I cut the dad from the center of my brown mat (since it will be covered by my panel).  

Next I cut out two of the smaller and one of the larger leaves from the Fabulous Florals set and ink blended some Clear Skies ink over them. I just used what was left on my brushes and did a light coat so that some of the white cardstock showed through as well.

For my companion sentiment, I stamped the You're my Favorite (from Super Sentimental) in Clear Skies in and cut it out with a stitched die from my stash.  To soften the white of the circle, I lightly blended some of the leftover Grrr! ink from my brush around the edges and along the edges of my dad letters (cut from an alphabet set in my stash).

After I matted the card panel and mat to my Precut A2 Card base, I used the Dad letters to line up my circle sentiment and leaves.  Finally, I added my DAD over the top of the leaves and just overlapping the bottom of my companion sentiment a bit.

Here is a look at my card one more time:

Thanks for joining me today.  Have a fabulous rest of the week and remember to create something everyday!  

 

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