Positive Force: Growing In Unity hop

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Time for a Growing In Unity Artist Hop!!

It's time to hop along with the Growing In Unity Guest Artists from January and February! If you have hopped to my blog from Joyce's blog you've come to the right spot! If you get lots along the way...I have posted the full hop order at the bottom of this post.

For my project today I am using the stunning image titled Daisy Days. I chose this stamp as it is such an awesome size and the details of it are equally as stunning. I've been working on a lot of journaling projects during the stay at home orders, so I have a stack of blank travelers journals that I am using. I decided that the next one I fill needed a beautiful cover.

I started by covering the journal cover with brown bag cardstock. This particular journal has a not so attractive image on the cover, so I wanted to replace it with something pretty. I then stamped the image onto the plain cardstock using Stazon brown ink.

I then trimmed the image and backed it with dark brown cardstock and black cardstock. I thought these two colors would pull out the details of the image. I then added the image to my journal cover. I then used the same colors and created a stack of the same cardstock for my journal title; which is cut from the True Words cut & paste journaling book by Melody Ross.

I then added the small black details using Stazon Studio Glaze in black.

I love the way this image totally transformed this from a plain journal to something I can't wait to pull out and carry around with me.

Here is the full hop order in case you get lost along the way...

Teresa
Aimee
Denise
Helen
Shanon
Amy
Joyce
Lynda ---- you are here!!

Oh...and don't forget to leave a comment...as one lucky person that comments along the hop route will win an awesome Unity prize!

Happy crafting....Lynda

Sunday, July 23, 2017

It's time for a Growing In Unity gal blog hop!!!

It's that time again....for the Growing In Unity gals from this quarter to hop along and share with you creations we have made using some of our favorite images from Unity Stamp Company.

I've been a HUGE unity fan from the very beginning of their start. I was one of the first members of their group on Splitcoast Stampers and looked forward to every HIPHOP event they ever had on that site! Having been a fan for such a long time...lets just say that I have quite a collection of Unity images in my studio!!

To show my love of Unity for this hop I decided to share with you a project I have recently made for our neighbor's daughter. She is a HUGE horse lover and loves to swim, so I knew right away which images I would use to make her a collection of cards and matching envelopes. We recently learned they are moving away, so these are the perfect gift to give her so she can keep in touch with friends.

I'm using three sets by Phyllis Harris for my cards:

Easier with you by my side by

Felt with the heart

and depth of life

I adore her imagery and really find the images soothing. I love coloring them and find myself using them as a go to for cards for children.

Each image was stamped using Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. I then used chalk to create the backgrounds for the images. I find that chalk is much more forgiving when creating large areas of color. I then used a spray fixative to keep the chalk in place.

You can see on the envelopes that I only stamped part of the image and left a good bit of the envelope plain for addressing.

here is the full set of cards and envelopes: