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.

If you leave a comment, you are eligible to win a grab bag of 25 wonderful Unity stamps.

Come back tomorrow for a peak at the next project I've got to show you.

DT Contributions May 2020

My design team contributins for May.

Hobbygarasjen

I made a layout with a picture from Constitution day 2018 when my daughter and I visited my mother. My eldest sister knitted the national costume my daughter is wearing, combined with the patterend paper made this the patterns from that costume, I though it was just fitting

Materials:

Paper: Papirdesign Vårstemning Nordlandsbunad, Bazzill Marshmellow

Dies: Papirdesign Doilie, Tall, Alfabet (Thickers)

The challenge for May is to be ispired by the national costumes of Norway (we have many). I made a minialbum using leftover envelopes.

Materials:

Papir: Bazzill Marshmallow, Papirdesign, Vårstemning - Nordlandsbunad

Envelopes: Creotime hvite kort

Dies: Papirdesign Konfirmant, Hjerteklem

Scrap the Rainbow

The May challenge is "Rainbow greetings)

I love Rainbows and this time I wanted to change it up a little, so I grabbed my favourite Distress oxide colours a brand new stencil from Giogiocraft and went to town. The text die is from Papirdesign.

The second inspiration card is made with the same supplies, I just changed the stencil for one from Altenew and used the colours in rainbow order.

DT contributions for March and April

I realise I've been a bit lacking in sharing some of the cards I've made the last couple of months, so here are a few.

March:

For Hobbygarasjen I made a kids card using a  turnabout stamp from Concord&Ninth, aren't they the coolest.

Materials

Paper: Fabriano akvarellark

Stamp: Concord&Ninth

Ink: VersaFine Clair Yellosw, Grenn, Blue, Twilight

This set of masculine cards were made using a Gelliplate to make backgrounds that were then cut out using circle dies. The paint used was PaperArtsy Fresco in turquoise tones. The stamps are from Kort og Godt and are suitable for gentlemen.

Materials
Card: Creotime kortbase m/konvolutt
Stamp: Herrestempel fra Kort&Godt
Ink: VersaFine Clair - Warm Breeze
Paint: PaperArsty Fresco Calypso og Cerulean Maling
Dies: Elisabeth Craft Nested Circles

Scrap the Rainbow:
The challenge for march in Scrap the rainbow were colourful childrens projects.
Here's one were the background was made pushing distress Oxide Ink through an Echo park heart stencil. The kitty stamp is from Unity stamps. The text stamp is from Papirdesign

This is a mixed media style card with a varity of media like molding past, sparkle medium, acrylick paint and stamps with VersaFine Clair coloured inkpad. Stamp from Unity

This was initially though of as a Valentines card, but hey, kids need to know they are loved too. Stamps from Unity Stamps, ink from VersaFine Clair and  coloured with Dylusions spray inks.

April DT contributions:

My brother in law will celebrate his 70th birthday this Autumn, So why not make a card in steampunk style, and forutnately Stempelglede made a set of stampsin that style.

The backgroundwas made by gluing aluminium tape on cardstock and embossing it with a Sizzix embossingfolder

Materials:

Stamps: Stempelglede

Dies: Spellbinders (numbers), Papirdesign (text), Sizzix (embossingplate)

Ink: StazOn and VersaFine

Cardstock: Bazzill

Cardbase: Creotime

I used the bunad patterend papers and dies from Papirdesign to make a card featuring the  Nordlandsbunad. The edge punch I used is one of the oldes in my stash the Martha Stewart Doily Lace 

February DT-submissions

I just realised that I've totally forgot to show the various cards I've made for the two challenge blogs where I'm DT, first up Scrap the Rainbow:
The challenge was to make something red or pink and I pulled out the cute kitten from Unity Stamps. Paper: My Minds Eye, cardstock from Hobbygarasjen

Stamp: Papirdesign (text), Unity Stamps (kitten)

Ink: VersaFine Clair pinecone

Paint: Nicholsons Peerless Watercolor

The second blogpost I had for Scrap the Rainbow was a series of cards for children using a patterned paper sheet I got from a good friend of mine. I used red cardstock and red glittercardstock in addition, as well as dies, stamps and buttons from Papirdesign (and the kitten from Unity).
It's so fitting with colourful, clean and simple cards for kids, and if there is one thing I know is that it is never wrong to include a unicorn or a kitten.

Materials:
Paper: Cardbase from Craft Emotions, Hero Arts patterend paper, red cardstock from Craft Emotions, red glitterpaper from Best Creations
Stamps: Unicorns from Papirdesign and kitten from Unity Stamps
Dies: Papirdesign
Embellishments: Buttons from Papirdesign, bling from unknown
Ink: VersaFine Clair Nocturne
Water colours: Nicholsons Peerless watercolors

My card for Hobbygarasjen

Here the challenge was to make something for someone you love and I chose to make a card for my Mother, since second Sunday of February is Mothers Day in Norway. Her favourite colour is blue, but I so liked the red patterend paper from My Minds Eye, that I think she forgives me. Besides, red is the colour for love.

Paper: My Minds Eye, cardstock from CraftEmotions

Stamp: Papirdesign

Dies: Nested hearts (unknown)

Colour medium: Red Velvet Glimmer Mist, VersaFine Clair pinecone blekk

MerkMaten - Matkort

Hobbygarasjen er blitt valgt til å samarbeide med MerkMaten og de flotte matkortene deres.

 Kortene er til hjelp for de mange som har Matallergi, Intoleranse, Cøliaki,eller Matoverfølsomhet

Kortene ser slik ut og kommer med 10 stk i pakken

Designteamet hos Hobbygarasjen er utfordret til å være kreative med kortene for de mange forskjellige anledningene/festdagene vi har i løpet av et år.

DT Jorunn Elin

har laget kort til en barnedåp og har valgt å bruke kun fremsiden av kortet med teksten.

Laget så et større kort som passet sammen med mønsterark og en fin krone. Kortet skal stå på kakebordet.

DT Trude Julie

har laget sine kort til julekakene og pyntet med blomst og en swirl rett på kortet.

Kort pakkene kan bl.a kjøpes hos Meny, Joker og Bunnpris butikkene. 

Finner du dem ikke, så spør betjeningen om å ta dem inn i akkurat din butikk.

January inspiration

Happy New Year everybody, thought I'd kick off this years inspiration with a couple of cards from the two challenge blogs where I'm a design team member.
Godt nyttår folkens! Tenkte jeg skulle starte inspirasjonen for 2020 med to kort som er brukt som inspirasjon i de to utfordringsbloggene hvor jeg er med som designteammedlem.

First Scrap the Rainbow:

The challenge is to use a picture already coloured or taken from printed paper.
I've used papers and picture from Maya Design. The text diecut and roses are from Papirdesign.
Først Scrap the Rainbow:
Denne gangen har jeg valgt å bruke et klippeark fra Maya Design sammen med koordinerende papirer fra samme produsent. Jeg har komplettert med diecut fra Papirdesign og blomster fra samme produsent.

The second card is from Hobbygarasjen, and here I've used stamps from Hero Arts, a wreath builder template from Gina K. and Misti stamping tool with inks from Versafine Clair and embossing powder from Nuvo.
Det andre kortet er for Hobbygarasjen og her har jeg kombinert stempler fra Heroarts, kransbyggestensil fra Gina K. og Misti stempelplattform med ulike farger blekk fra VersaFine Clair og embossingpulver fra Nuvo

Materialliste

Kartong: Bazzill Raven og Fabriano hot press akvarellark

Stempel: Hero Arts stempelsett

Blekk: VersaFine Clair (Twilight, Medieval Blue, Blue belle), VersaMark

Embossingpulver: Nuvo

Christmas cards - using dies

The calendar is showing 17. December and I thought I'd share a few cards I made for the Scrap the Rainbow challenge blog. I've used what I'd call nontraditional Christmas colours.

First one in Brown, gold and kraft. I realise unfortunately that the deer diecut in gold does not show up very well, but it is there. I've used Sparkle Medium through a Dina Wakley stencil, sprayed with Coffee Shop and Creme de Cacao Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels. The stamped banner is from the coordinating stamp set with the stensil from DW. The cardstock is from Bazzill and are in the colours Kraft and Java, the Gold glitter paper is from Best Creations. The die cutting out the greeting is from Papirdesign.

The second card is made using a die from Studio Light. The base is Kraft cardstock from Bazzill, the patterened paper from Kaiser Craft and the greeting is made using a diecut from Kort&Godt 8saying Christmas hug)

Growing in Unity Bloghop

One of the really cool things about being chosen as a Growing in Unity Girl (or Guy) is getting the chance to contribute to the Growing in Unity blog hop, and this time I was so fortunate to join.
The card I made for this post is made with one of my favourite new stamps from Unity, Scenic Route, and the motif is so fitting since we recently bought a new (used) car and it is a VW Caravelle. Not one of the old style as on the card, but still... And it is blue rather than red, but I thought "It's Christmas".

Remember this is a GIU blog hop so please continue to see what the rest of the gals have to show you.  Unity will have a prize drawing at the end of this blog hop so comment on all the blogs you visit to be included in for the prize.
Here is the list:
1. Tammy Huber Murphy https://www.youtube.com/user/tjskids...
2. Joyce Verdon https://joycielcreations.blogspot.com/
3. Shanna Slater, https://caffeinatedcraftiness.wordpress.com/
4. Edelmira Rivera http://winecheesescrapbooking.blogspot.com/
5. Sharon Duff https://dannyandpeteysmom.blogspot.com/
6. Trude Julie Berg <- You are here, hop on to the next please
7. Annie Sterner https://justascrapdork.blogspot.com/
8. Renee Moran https://delaneyjanecards.blogspot.com/

November challenges - DT submissions

In November both of the design teams I'm part of are Christmas related. I'mm first show the cards for Scrap the Rainbow:
Non-tradisional Christmas cards.
The first weekend of November I attended the Scrap4Fun crop in Haugesund and was inspired to make some Christmas cards. The first four are in a rustic style based on some wonderful patterned papers and ephemera elements from FabScraps

This next card is based around the products from Papirdesign, particularly the wonderful patterned paper with the great tit. The shape die is from Studio Light and the coloured paper is from Bazzill, the rest is Papirdesign products, patterend paper, dies and stamps.

Then there's the cards I've made for Hobbygarasjen, there's 8 cards made from one sheet of patterend paper with a glourious bullfinch. The paper is Vivi Gade - Fugl og gren, and I liked it so well so O just had to make cards that showed off the paper itselt

In addition to the paterned and coloured paper and the stamped sentiment (from Papirdesign) there's some pine twigs diecut out of scraps of green paper.

I do like using large word diecuts and Papirdesign has one saying "God jul" the Norwegian equivalent of "Merry Chrsitmas". The diecut was covered with Wink of Stella before being covered with a layer of Glossy Accents

Then there's a couple of cards with cigar bands, where I used the stipe showing off the patterend on the back of the paper, why not use all of the paper, including what we ususally discard?

Finally i used some scraps to make some clean cards.

Here they are collected in one picture

Materials

Dies: Granbar, Papirdesign, Papirdesign, God jul, Elisabeth craft, Stitched circles 2

Stamps: PapirDesign

Ink: VersaMark

Patterned Paper: Vivi Gade - Fugl og gren

Coloured paper: Baxzill Pomegranate, Bazzill Raven svart kartong

Various items: Pakke med kort og konvolutter, Nuvo crystal drops, Red berry Nuvo crystal drops, Clear Morning Dew, White embossing powder, 

Scrap the Rainbow - challenge #17 nontradisional Christmas cards

The 17th challenge we're running in Scrap the Rainbow is called "Non-traditional Christmas" so for that I've made a couple of cards that does not scream Christmas when it comes to the colours

First I've used a stamp with lots of cats and gifts from Aall&Create and combined them with a text stamp from Kort&Godt

The second card is inspired by a card I saw Kristina Werner make last year (or maybe earlier). I' used circle masks and inkblended through those and stamped Unity Stamps over. The strings have been drawn on afterwards.