Growing in Unity {Day 4}

I  cannot believe how fast this week is going. I am having so much fun sharing my Unity Stamp Company creations with all of you. For day 4, I would like to share these two cards featuring the "Spark" stamp set and a sentiment from the "Timing is Perfect"stamp set. 

Generally when I make ink smooshed backgrounds, I do not photograph them. I sometimes make them to use up ink on my glass mat. Sometimes, I am just playing and save them for a later time. I made these backgrounds specifically for these cards, but unfortunately, I did not take a picture of the process and it is real hard to replicate an ink smooshed background. 

If you have not tried ink smooshing, it is really fun, but it is really important to heat set the ink before switching to another color. Otherwise, you will just get mud. Once my backgrounds were dry, I added more ink with stencils. 

These were both made on watercolor paper. For the teal card, I used Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, and Mustard Seed distress ink. I also used the Mini Microbial stencil and Mini Moving Vines stencil from The Crafters Workshop. I blended Pumice Stone distress ink over the Mini Microbial stencil in various places on the background.

For the pink card, I used Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and Twisted Citron distress ink. I blended Ground Espresso distress ink over the Mini Specimens stencil and Pumice Stone distress oxide over the Mini Microbial stencil. 

To finish the background panel, I stamped the sentiments on them and die cut them using the Gina Marie Designs Labels 6 Cloud Like Edge Nested Die Set. I had some grey white core cardstock in my stash that I distressed with a sanding block and added the ink panel to. 

I stamped and fussy cut the images from the Spark set. Then, I colored them with Copic Markers. I popped them up on foam tape and adhered them to the cards. I hope you like these cards as much as I enjoyed making them! 

Thank you for stopping by! Do you have a favorite technique to use when making cards? 

Copics:

Teal Butterfly

BG10, BG11, BG13, BG23, YG01, YG21

Pink Butterfly

R20, R30, Y00, YR31

Caterpillar

Y00, YG01, YG21, R20, R30

Branch/leaves

E34, E35, E37, G20, YG01, YG21

Kimberly

SSS A Trio of Something

I had a lot of fun doing this challenge for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Trio of something! I have wanted to use this Tim Holtz Flutter set since I got it ( a while ago!) I liked how the card turned out and I cannot wait to mail it! 

Love the colors of the Oxide Inks!

 

I blended Antique Linen, Seedless Preserves, and Wild Honey Oxide inks on cardstock, then stamped the butterflies with Archival Jet Black ink. Then I sprayed them with water, die cut and let them dry.

I stamped one of Tim Holtz Slight Alterations background stamps in white from Hero Arts on the card. I masked the white background and stamped the Penny Black Slapstick Brick Wall Stamp with Archival Jet Black over the masked images.  

I die cut the flowers & leaves out of scraps and I stamped with a verse to add to the color. The flowers were cut out of Yellow that I blended Seedless Preserves Oxide ink on and sprayed with water. The dies used are retired MFT die-namics flower & leaves dies. The sentiment is from the Penny Black Smile Today set. 

{Secret...I have had all four of these stamp sets for a while and this was the first time they touched ink!!!}

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Slight Alterations CMS 060 

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Flutter CMS294 & dies

Penny Black Smile Today

Penny Black Brick Wall

Unity Stamp Co Who You Really Are (used to stamp flowers)

Distress Oxide Antique Linen

Distress Oxide Wild Honey

Distress Oxide Seedless Preserves

Archival Jet Black

Hero Arts White

MFT Flowers & Leaves Die-namics

I'm Baaaaack!!!!!

I have so many cards to add today! I have not posted in a while so I have a lot of catching up to do!!!

Here are a few cards that I have done over the past few months:

I was away from my children for a couple of weeks, so I had made this to mail to them. Everyone loves to get mail (when it is not a bill!) I used Close to my heart stamps and paper.

This card I made for my husband while I was away. I used my Close to my Heart Paper and AMuse stamps. I stamped the usa on the paper and cut it out (inside the line) so you wouldn't see the ink. The heart is covered with glassy glaze to make it shine.

I had a lot of fun with this one. I embossed Cherry Cobbler with clear embossing powder then cut it out with a butterfly die cut. I love the effect it has when you add the embossed image on the die cut! I made this for my SIL. Got the idea from a Stampin up catalog.

This card is really a lot better in person. I really need to take a photography class! I made this for a birthday card. I die cut the butterflies in the brown paper so the lighter paper with the script would show through. I really like this effect! This paper is all My mind's Eye.

I have more so check back tomorrow! As always, I love comments and thank you for looking at my blog!