Growing in Unity {Day 5}

I have had so much fun this week with all of you! As all good things must come to an end, today is day 5 and my final post for GIU. I had so much fun creating the projects that I shared this week and it was so fun to get to know more about you in your responses to my posts. Thank you so much for sharing my week with me!

For today, I am sharing a few cards that I made using another one of my favorite Kit of the Months,"Lucky to Have You" 2/12 KOM. This one goes way back... but I have used these images from the kit many times over the years. I love the vintage look and that clock image is my all time favorite. 

For the first card, I blended Antique Linen distress oxide, Antique Linen distress ink {not oxide}, and Gathered Twigs distress Oxide over Newton's Nook Argyle Stencil. Then I heat embossed the clock image using Walnut Stain Distress Embossing Glaze. I really love how it turned out so you could imagine my utter sadness when I stamped the two vintage cars and realized the one on the right was not even close to straight. (why it is always good to check that on scrap paper first!) 

But, you know what....there are no mistakes in art, only embellishment opportunities! So I decided to get creative with the sentiment to try and hide this little bump in the road. Once, I adhered the sentiment, I decided I wanted to add some ink splotches to the card. I didn't want the sentiment to have splotches, so I covered them with Washi tape. To make the splotches, I smooshed Gathered Twigs distress ink on a stamp block and sprayed it with water. Then with a paint brush, I flicked the ink onto the card.

I attached it to brown cardstock with a white core that I distressed for an old look. and removed the Washi tape from the sentiment.

The next card was a fairly easy slimline. I smooshed Antique Linen distress oxide on watercolor paper and blended Gathered Twigs distress oxide around the edge.

I stamped the vintage car images spaced evenly (and straight) down the middle of the panel. Then attached it to brown cardstock that I distressed. Next, I stamped the sentiment, cut it in three and layered it on a strip of black cardstock. To finish this card, I popped the sentiment on foam tape and added it to the card front.

My last card, is also a slimline. I had to get creative with this one too. I ran out of the brown cardstock I used on the other two cards, so I needed to piece together the left over pieces to fit my slimline. I lined up the three pieces on the card base and distressed them. Then, to cover the two lines where the pieces connected, I added thin strips of black cardstock that I also distressed. Voila! You would never know that was not one long piece of brown cardstock! 

I blended Antique Linen distress oxide over the white panel and stamped the two sentiments down the whole panel. Next, I blended some Gathered Twigs distress oxide over a piece of vellum and stamped one of the vintage cars on it. I folded the edge of the vellum over the top and bottom of the white panel and adhered it on the back so you didn't see the glue. I also put a little glue behind the car image and at the bottom, under the big black enamel dot. To finish this card, I added twine and foam tape before adhering it to the card base. 

And I would be remiss if I neglected to mention that I finish off my cards with this awesome stamp from Nic! This is a fairly new stamp as we recently moved and I needed an updated stamp. Magnuson Custom Stamps made it exactly how I wanted it! 

Masculine cards are always hard for me to make. I feel like I tend to purchase more feminine or children oriented stamps. Do you have a type of card that is hard for you to make? Thank you again for stopping by this week. I really enjoyed sharing with you all!!!

Kimberly