Growing in Unity Friday

It's Friday! I can't believe how quickly this week has gone. Today I've got a couple of coffee cards for you. I took the cue from the coffee stamp included in the April 2020 Kit of the Month.

One of my favourite colour combinations in the Distress Oxide range is Ground Espresso with Hickory Smoke and I created the background by using the "smooshing" technique, you smoosh the ink pad on a piece of acetate or glass, mist it with a little water and press the paper in to the ink. Heat set and repeat with a different colour, build as many layers as you want. I usually find that if I don't really like the background after a couple of layers I haven't added enough, so I keep going. If I in the end find I really don't like it, well it's just paper.
The small coffee cups stamped on the background is from the December 2019 Kit of the Month and I used VersaFine Clair ink in the Acorn colour.
I added some old lace and a ribbon to give the card an "old café feeling".

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Growing in Unity - Thursday

Wow, Thursday already! It is amazing how quick the time flies. This time I want so show you two cards with the Donna Poppies. I cut the panel first and mounted the stamp in my Misti stamping tool, stamping first one flower in the corner and then turning the paper 180 degrees and stamping again. VersaFine Onyx black was the ink used and the poppies were coloured with Dylusions Postbox red spray ink. Splatted the card with water and lifted off some of the colour to create more life. I made black frames with my Gina Marie Designs wonky rectangles and mounted the panel with 3D foams strips on the card. The diecut is from Papirdesign and is the Norwegian word for Congratualtions

The second card was made more or less the same way, but this time I fuzzy cut the blooms and mounted them on the frame. The sentiment is from the January 2020 Say it with Love sentiment kit the orange butterfly is from the same kit

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Growing in Unity Wednesday

Hello all! Today I've got a couple of butterfly cards, I simply adore butterflies.

 This card started with little piece of white paper where I played around with when I first got my blending brushes from Picket Fence: I grabbed a butterfly stencil from Prima, some Distress Oxide stamp pads and went to town. I stamped the small butterflies from the April 2020 Kit of the Month, cut a small panel from the test paper, added the big butterfly from the July 2019 Kit of the Month that I stamped, coloured and fuzzy cut before I glued them on top. The sentiment is from the April kit.

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Growing in Unity - Tuesday

Today I have two similar cards to show you. I just love galaxy cards, there's just something so dreamy about them, and I thought it would be perfect with a galaxy background for the stamp of the woman looking out on the stars and planets from the February 2020 Kit of the Month. All the stamps used on these cards are from that kit.

On this first card, I made the background, and after I made sure it was dry I stamped and embossed with white embossing powder the motif. The text is stamped with white pigment ink on black cardstock

This second card was made the same way as the first, but here I limited the number of colours for the background to 3, the first one was a full rainbow 7.

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Growing in Unity (GUI) Monday

If you've come by my blog earlier you might have an inkling that I like the Stamps from Unity Stamp co. Well you might say that i LIIIIIIKE them, and some of them I do love. So when I got the opportunity to be Growing in Unity Girl I was more than happy.
Yesterday was Norways Constitution day which usually is celebrated with childrens parades, marching bands, and lots of fun and people in the streets. Due to Covid-19 the celebrations were a bit different this year, but we celebrated all the while. So to mark the national holiday (and my sisters birthday), I'm showing a floral card today.

I have combinedthe floral motif from You are forever beautiful with one of the Congrats from the May 2019 sentiment kit - Say it big. I stamped the images with VersaFine Onyx ink on Fabriano Hotpressed water color cardstock and coloured with Dylusions inks (water brushes filled with coloured ink). The frame was made using nested Wonky rectangles from Gina Marie Design, cutting out of Bazzill white cardstock.

I'm rather fond of keeping it clean and simple and want the beautiful floral to shine on its own.

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Winners of Growing in unity comments and some Fathers Day cards

I've drawn 2 winners from all the wonderful comments I got last week and the luck winners are:

Tigger11. oktober 2019 kl. 17:56

Her å er kommentaren min vekke, fatter ikke hva som har skjedd. Men kjempefine kort. Kaninen og reinsdyret er kjempesøte ❤️

And

Jorunn`s scrapperier7. oktober 2019 kl. 16:00

I love your beautiful cards. Looking forward to see more from you this week
Hugs :)

Please contact me with your address so I can pass it on to Unity and you can receive a bag full of wonderful stamps.

Thought I'd show a couple of Fathers Day cards that I made for Scrap the Rainbow, first one in red tones. The tractor was stamped with Distress Oxide in the colour Candied apple and then spritzed with water, the back ground was stamped with tire track stamps from North Star Stamps.

The second card is 4x12" with a diecut from Little Yellow Bicycle in the background, the tractor was first stamped in Luck Clover Distress Oxide ink before it was stamped again with VersaFine Clair Nocturen ink, shifted sligtly to the right.

Her er bakgrunnen et diecut ark fra Little Yellow Bicycle. Tekststempelet er denne gang fra Norsk stempelblad.

Growing in Unity - Day 5

And so it is here, the last day of my week Growing in Unity, what a week it has been.

Today I have but one card to show. The second Sunday of November is Fathers day in Norway and so I´ve made a card for my dear husband who´s a wonderful father for our daughter and his two teenagers.

I recently was at Papirfest, a weekend of crafting akin to JunkieFest in the US, and there I got to borrow some Distress Oxide sprays. I used them to make the background, before stamping a couple of stamps from the June kit of the month, the motorsykler was masked before the stack of suitcases was stamped.

When mentioning my husband... we got married this summer and I made the wedding stationary myself using Unity Stamps (of course).
The invitations looked like the card on the left (the one one the right was a test)

The place cards looked like this:

And finally the Thank you cards looked like this:

I used the Botanical Background stamp and embossed with japanese laquer embossingpowder on white, glossy cardstock, the envelope was stamped with the flower stamp from You are forever Beautiful with red ink from Marvy (but any red ink would do).

It's been a blast sharing my projects with you, and I hope I've inspired you to create a couple of things yourself.

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Growing in Unity - Day 4

So here we are the penultimate day of my week of Growing in Unity, and we continue with the Christmas theme, I simply love Christmas.

This time I´ve used stamps from the September Kit of the Month, All Kinds of Holiday Love, and the pillow box that was included with the kit. The flowers were stamped with Versamark INK and embossed with gold embossing powder from Nuvo and coloured with Brusho pigment powders. I really like using the Brushos like watercolours and painting with them. In fact, I just love the Brushos the colours, the versatility and all the different ways Thea can be used. To embellish I used a little red and white bakers twine.

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Growing in Unity - Day 3

Lovely Crafting People, here we are at day 3 for my week of Growing in Unity.

Today we´re getting to the first Christmas cards. I simply adore the Cuddlebug line and the Chrismoose and the Winter Bunny are no exceptions. I recently made a couple of birthday cards blending through a stencil behind a cuddlebug, and I was so happy with the resultat so why now reuse the formula? I´ve used a Tim Holtz star/swirl stencil with 2 Distress Oxides, the moose was stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with Brusho pigment powders.   

The second was done much in the same way, used slightly different colours.


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Growing in Unity - Day 2

Hello lovely crafting people! Here´s day 2 of growing in Unity. And today I´m showing off my love of all things Harry Potter. I was all giddy with excitement when Unity launched the four sets of Harry Potter stamps, and just had to have them.

This first card was made using Distress Oxides with Lifechanging brushes to blend a background and then spritzed with water. I Stamped the lamppost and the doe with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. Actually the doe was first stamped with StazOn Platinum INK, but it didn´t show up the way I wanted it. I originally wanted to stamp a sitting cat, but it turned out I don´t have that. I stamped the sentiment on yellow inkblended watercolour paper and cut them up to only use part of the sentiment. The enveloped was stamped as well and the owl (Hedwig?) coloured with a white pencil and the heart coloured with a red Posca pen.

Stampsets used: Sending an Owl, Something Magical, Shine out of Darkness

The second card was made using a Gina K wreathbuilder and the Something Magical stampset  The inks used are from VersaFine Clair and StazOn Gold. The gold frame around the panel is a gold glitter cardstock from Bazzill.

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Growing in Unity - Day 1

Hello crafty friends, greetings from Norway, here´s the first post of my week of Growing In Unity. Being a GIU-girl is one of the things I´ve wanted to do for a long time and finally I had the good fortune to be picked :)
I´ve been a fan of the Unity stamps ever since 2008-2009 and have some stamps from back in the day to prove it, though I haven´t used any of them in todays card.

Today I´ve played with Distress Oxides to make backgrounds for the beautiful stamps. First using the smooshing technique, the colours are chosen to create a sort of rainbow effekt. The stamp is from the «Say it Big» sentiment kit, it creates such a stricking effect.

The second card is a condolence card, with a blended rainbow and stamped straws from the «Insightful Meadows» stampset by Donna Downey, it´s an oldie but a goodie, and the sentiment is from the August 2019 kit of the month. The last thing I added to the card was a little Pearl Glimmer Mist, my motto in life is «Everything is better with a little Glimmer Mist»

If you leave a comment, you have a chance of winning a grab-bag of Unity goodness. I´ll be back tomorrow with some more cards