Growing In Unity Day 5, the Finale! LOL

Howdy again all and I sure hope you have enjoyed the Unity goodness this week! I know I have enjoyed showcasing them! For my final card, I used the technique spotlight tutorial at SCS that was put up Wed and also the Ways to Use It challenge from Thursday, to use stripes. The tutorial is on how to do a pop up card and this is my first one and it was alot of fun! First here is the link to Beate's tutorial:

Pop Up Card

and here is mine, the front:



And it opened:



The hardest part I had making this card, was attaching the inside to the outside base, lol! I got it crooked at first, then didnt line up the fold...LOL! But finally got it passable, still a bit of a area there on the fold that bugs me...BUT, I just think this set from Unity is one of the cutest!! So fun to color and such cute sayings with it! (I used every bit of the stamps in this set on this one card too).

Ok, that's all for now! I will be back later this evening with the winner from me of the 'Dream Tree' stamp! Have a wonderful weekend!
--CAT
Card Details:
Stamps: Hey Chick! From Unity Stamp Co.
Papers: SU! cardstock and DP
Accessories: oval nesties, scallop border punch, SU! ink to paint the birdies using the lids and water, silver rhinestones, SU! ribbon, pop dots, terrifically tacky tape

Growing in Unity Day 4!! Altered 2 yr. Planner!

Howdy all and Happy Thursday and HIP HOP today!! Don't forget about Hip Hop today in the Unity forum at SCS! Loads of fun to be had by everybody!! Lots of giveaways and good specials I am sure!!

Unity Forum at SCS!


Wow, the week is almost over, it sure flew by! For today's creation, it's not a card this time. I decided to alter one of those 2 year planners. Hobby Lobby had a bunch on clearance the other day for .43 cents...so I grabbed up a few to alter! We are only one month into the year and its good for two years! LOL! Here is one I have finished:



It was super easy to do. I just carefully removed the photo they had for the outer cover, then cut my cardstock to fit (which for this was 7 1/8 by 6 1/2). Then just decorated it, leaving it mostly flat so as not to poke through the plastic or take up too much room. To reattach the planner, I used terrifically tacky red tape, ran a line of it down the middle and just attached it. I just love how this turned out! And I had the hardest time getting a good photo of it too, the light kept reflecting off the plastic and you couldnt see the scoring I added and you STILL cant see how I added a bit of spica glitter pen around the sun and beams, lol, but its there! I think you can buy just the plastic covers too in some places, they call them check book covers at my local LSS...but who carries checks anymore? LOL!

Ok, thats all for today, and see ya during HIP HOP at SCS! I'll be popping in and out, have grandson tomorrow! Thanks so much for stopping by and I have so been enjoying your awesome comments, makes my day!
--CAT
Alterd Planner Details:
Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.
Papers: SU! cardstock
Accessories: 2 yr planner, scallop edge punch, ribbon, scallop corner punch, scor-pal, spica glitter pen, copic markers, oval nesties.

Growing in Unity Day 3!

(whoops! Hit the enter button again with just the title, so sorry if you got that through google reader, lol!)

Hiya again all and welcome to day 3 of my week of Growing in Unity! I'm still in a loving mood even though Valentine's Day is over, so thought I'd make another card with a theme of LOVE on it! LOL! Here it is:



This set, Butterfly Beauty was the first set I purchased from Unity Stamps. I believe it's one set of my Unity ones that has seen the most love! I just love butterflies and with this set, you can either coloring them and just stamp like I have done this one, sort of a monotone card. I scored on the sage shadow cardstock and used the backside of the scoring, then sponged with some sage shadow all over it to get the lines to pop out more. Kinda hard to see in this photo though. But it did make the lines show up more. I think it sorta looks like tile! Then just added a bit of bling here and there and the sentiment is from the kit of the month again put into SU!'s hodgepodge hardware piece. This was another quick card for me!

That's all for today! I had hoped to get a Unity Addict Challenge card done, but dont know if that will happen before the day is over or not, lol! I have really struggled with it for some reason, lol. Hope you are having a wonderfully creative week and thanks sooo much for stopping in and for the wonderful comments!

AND because I just love getting comments, today's comments will be entered into a drawing to win an extra Dream Tree stamp that I have! I ordered the kit that it came in, then won one and so passing that on to one lucky person! Just comment for the Dream Tree stamp on THIS post today, and I will announce the winner of it Friday afternoon!
--CAT
Card Details:
Stamps: Butterfly Beauty from Unity Stamp co.
Papers: SU! cardstock
Accessories: scor-pal, hodgepodge hardware, silver rhinestones, half pearls, ribbon, pop dots, scallop edge punch.

Growing in Unity Day 2!

Welcome back to day 2 of Growing in Unity week! I made today's card using Amber's sketch from last week and another little stamp from January's kit of the month. Another card with a little LOVE on it! Here it is:



I really adore this card, lol! I stamped the image twice and popped it up on pop dots to make it stand out a bit more, used the CB embossing folder and scor-pal on it too, just love all the details I was able to get into this one and the sketch! I made the flower with nesties since I didnt have any to match the papers I used! And then loaded it up with some buttons, lol! Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you are having a wonderful week. I will be back again tomorrow with more Unity goodness!
--CAT
Card Details:
Stamps: January Kit of the Month from Unity Stamp Co.
Papers: SU! cardstock, Basic Grey dp
Accessories: CB swiss dots embossing folder, scor-pal, basic grey buttons, SU! ribbon, pop dots, heart rhinestones, square and circle nesties, MM brad, corner rounder punch.

Growing In Unity Week!

Howdy ya'll and welcome to my week to host 'Growing in Unity!' Basically what that means is that I LOVE Unity stamps! and LOTS of us do! Soooo a bunch of us signed up to showcase Unity Stamps for a week on our blog, and Ta-Da! here we are at my week! Be sure and stop back each day this week and leave a comment and you will be entered for a chance to win a Unity single on Thursday during Hip Hop on SCS! woohoo!! Nothing better than FREE stamp now is there?

For my first card, I decided to show the card/gift bag that I gave my daughter for Valentine's Day. I found the inspiration and instructions for this little card/bag on Angie's ChicnScratch Blog. She has such awesome stuff on there! Her's is a Mother's Day one and I made this one a Valentiney:



I used the february kit of the month stamps on mine. This was super quick too! This is SUCH a fun set to have! Even though it does have alot of stamps for Valentine's day in it, you can also use the stamps just to express LOVE!! And the world definitely needs more of that in it! I couldn't find any of the little white bags, but did find some brown ones the right size I wanted and used the kraft cardstock with it so I think it still likes good!

Ok, that's all for today! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come back tomorrow for some more Unity goodness! I hope that this will inspire you to spread the LOVE!! It's the month of love!

OHHH!! Also, check out Angela's blog! Read this post:

WORLD RECORD BLOG HOP!!

How fun will that be??!!! I'm in!! Come on and join us!!

--CAT
Card Details:
Stamps: February Kit of the Month from Unity Stamp Co.
Papers: SU! cardstock, dp is by Making Memories
Accessories: nesties, heart rhinestones, ribbon from Making Memories and SU!, scallop border punch, pop dots, oval punch, button by Basic Grey.