Growing in Unity 2025 Day 1

 

Good Morning crafty friends. Today is my Day 1 as a Growing in Unity Girl.  One of my favorite things to do since I absolutely love Unity Stamp Company. 

One thing I like to do is use one of my Unity kits of the month and use a variety of the stamps it contains to show a different variety of things you can do.  So I hope to inspire you to step outside the box and get creative.  

This week I plan to use Lot of the month: Difference Maker. 

My card today I chose to work with the sunflower.  At first I stamped it and colored it but didn't like how it was looking. So I stamped again, used Tim Holt's distress crayons and fussy cut the flower out.  I then stamped the image again leaving it uncolored and used my distress trimmer.  I wanted to used a teal color in the background so I layered a few different colors to make the image pop.  I then added the colored image at an angle to give it a 3D look.  I also added the sentiment "Life is Tough but so are you!"   

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  Remember to comment every day this week for your chance to win.  Prize will be a $20 gift credit to Unity Stamp Company  and there will be 2 winners soale sure you comment. 

I will be back tomorrow with another creation. 

Hugs

Amy

Growing In Unity Winners announcement

 

Hello Crafty Friends 

Just popping in really quick to announce my winners.  I apologize for taking so long.  Life just gets so busy so quick.  And my son decided to hit me with "Mom can you paint my graduation cap". Last minute so of course mom is gonna try to pull this one off.  Will have to share later. 

Ok now into the WINNERS:

Angie Buehler

AND 

Ida

You are my winners!!! Congratulations!!! 

You have won a $20 credit to go pick out whatever your heart desires at Unity Stamp Company!!!  Yay!!! 

Please email kelli@unitystampco.com to claim your gift credit within 2 weeks".  In the subject line put "winner from "Amy's GIU week."

Thank you all for the amazing comments.  It's always my goal to inspire at least 1 person.   

Have a great day! 

Hugs 

Amy

Growing in Unity Day 5

 

Good Morning crafty friends.  Its Day 5 and my final day as your Unity Gal!!!  It went by so fast.  I hope I was able to inspire you all with at least one of my projects.  Remember to go back and comment if you haven't already on all 5 days for the chance to win some Unity.  I will draw my winners at the beginning of the week, giving everyone plenty of time to comment.  

Let's get into todays project.  I created my background using a stencil from my stash and blending brushes.  I wanted to use the girl stamp on this one and highlight the "Be A lot" stamp set.  I decided I was going to leave all the color in the background and not color the stamp itself so it would pop out more.  Also there is no "BE" stamp, so I used it from the sentiment I used earlier and stamped it above "Alot". I backed each stamp with blue cardstock to make it stand out more. 

I hope everyone enjoyed my week as I always love creating using Unity Stamps.  That's it for today.  Don't forget to leave those comments.  

Hugs

Amy

Growing in Unity Day 4

 

Good Morning everyone.  Today is Day 4 of my GIU week.  It always goes by so fast.  I am using my Growing in Unity stamp set "Be Alot".  

My son is Graduating High School this year.  Seems like that went by too fast too.  Wasn't he just a little boy just yesterday?  Sheesh!!  I am proud of the man he is becoming.  He graduated early and will walk with his class in 2 weeks.  So I made this card for him. 

I used The feather stamp and stamped it on white card stock in black.  I used Tonic studio colored card stock to back the white.  I also used my Tim Holtz distress cutter to cut my paper. 

Instead of a Happy Graduation as a sentiment I chose "Shine bright".  Because that's all I hope he will do from this day on.  Shine bright in everything he does.  

Ok. That's it for today.  I will see you back her tomorrow for Day 5.  Make sure you leave a comment on every one of my posts because you could be the lucky winner of some Amazing Unity!! 

Hugs

Amy

Growing in Unity Day 3

 

Good Morning crafty friends.  Today I'm sharing a fun wood canvas I created using Unity Stamps "Be A lot" stamp set. 

I used Ken Olivers color burst and water color burst for the background.  Had a little fun getting messy.  I used paper towels to help soak some of the water up so it didn't soak the wood.  It was a little different than a regular canvas.  But still turned out pretty.  I used the same sentiment as yesterday and the butterfly.  I absolutely love this butterfly. The details are amazing. I stamped it twice to get a fluttering effect.

I hope you enjoyed today's project.  Come back tomorrow for more creative inspiration. And make sure to leave comments every day for your chance to win some Unity goodness. 

(I didn't realize my post didn't post today. So here it is. Sorry about that.)

Hugs

Amy

Growing in Unity Day 2

 

Good Morning and welcome back for Day 2 of my Growing in Unity week.  Let's go ahead and get started.  I de ided to have a little more fun with my blending brushes and ink pads.  I used my Catherine Pooler stamp pads: Limoncello, it's a boy and sued shoes colors. 

First I knew I wanted to used the cute little bees from the Be A Lot stamp set.  So I decided to use a bee hive stencil.  I first used the yellow color (Limoncello) and planned to only use that for the back ground but ended up having a happy lil accident with some blue and I really liked how it was turning out. So ai added some more blue tones.   

I stamped my bee's in black and I chose the sentiment for all the Be's to go with the Bee's.  Plus I love the positive sentiment.  We all need to remember or be reminded of how good enough we really are and to just be YOU!!!  I wanted to add a layer so I bordered the sentiment with a wood piece to match and attached it with double sided tape to pop it off the card.  

I hope you like my card and enjoyed some inspiration.  Make sure you come back again tomorrow and leave comments every day for a chance to win some Unity.  See you all again Tomorrow. 

Hugs

Amy

Growing in Unity Day 1

 

Good Morning my crafty friends.  So excited to share my creations using Unity Stamps.  

I hope you stay with me all week long and enjoy seeing what I've created.  

I will be using Unity Stamps Company's Kit of the month "BE A LOT" all week long.  This is an amazing set and my favorite part is the positive quotes mixed with my favorite things. We all need a little more positivity as well as Self Love!! 

Today I decided to make a card.  It is hard for me to do clean and simple as I love mixed media and using all kinds of layers.  But that crafty mojo just did it's own thing today.  I started with blank card stock cut down to size for my card. 

I decided to play with my blending brushes and ink. I chose my stencil and went to work shading in the stencil and adding a few smears to add a little shaded areas behind.  On e I was happy with the colors and the design, I then added an amazing Sentiment in the kit "no beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart."

I decided to stop there and keep it very clean and simple because it really looked great and I have the perfect person to give it to.  I hope you enjoy it as much as the receiver will.  Stick around with me all week  and leave comments for your chance to win some goodies from Unity Stamps Company.  

Have a great day.

Hugs

Amy

 

Growing in Unity Winners

   Hello everyone. 

I'm just popping in to Thank everyone for their amazing comments,  they mean so much and to announce my WINNERS!!!  

I apologize for the delay as life got away from me. 

And without any further delay

Congratulations

Kathy H.

And 

Silvia Haynes

Congratulations ladies!!! 

Please Email  kelli@unitystampco.com to claim your gift credit within 2 weeks".  In the subject line have them put "winner from Amy's GIU week." 

Thank you again everyone.  Keep on crafting and inspiring others.  Have a great day!! 

Hugs

Amy

Growing in Unity Day 5

 

Hello and welcome to my final day of Growing in Unity.  It's been a fun week of sharing my projects with you all.  I am hoping at the least to inspire one person to try something new or just go get messy and create and let your creativity flow.  

Sometimes creating with different emotions can bring amazing things.  I have come up with some great things when I'm sad.  Beauty comes from everywhere and every feeling. 

So today my project uses the word Inspire.  And I hope I have inspired you.  

I had a lot of fun playing with my tags from yesterday that I decided to play on a couple different canvases to see what I would come up with.  

I started out by using Gesso so the color burst wouldn't just soak into the canvas.  After that was dry.  I started playing with the same colors as yesterday.  Using my heat tool in between to get the darker areas.   On the first one, I attached the stencil "Inspire" to the canvas before I sprayed.  I actually thought it would cover the area and come out as the background color, but to my surprise it all gathered underneath.  I used my heat tool very carefully as to not melt the stencil to dry the color underneath.  Happy lil accident.  I loved how it turned out.  After everything was almost dry I removed the stencil and dried it the rest of the way.  I just kept playing until I liked the background.  I then took the same stmp with the leaves and painted them carefully to only get the leaf and stamped it until I was happy. 

The second canvas I did at the same time.  Only added the stencil at the end and highlighted it with a reg. Pen.  Then I went back over both with a gel pen and a paint pen to highlight the word.  I purposely wanted it to fade into the background.  So make sure you click on the image to get a good look at it if on your phone. 

I hope you liked my projects this week and it is always sad when the GIU week is over.  Remember to comment on all of my posts this week for a chance to win some amazing Unity!!!!  I will pick my winners at the beginning of the week and post them here and on the GIU post. 

Have a great day

Hugs

Amy

Products used:

Ken Oliver - color burst original Fuchsia

Ken Oliver- Liquid sparkle radiant drops 

                      Sangria and midnight

Ken Oliver- Liquid metals Metallic Amethyst and                           Metallic Turquoise. 

Unity Stamp Company: Vintage Era Background Kit

Artplorations: Inspire stencil

Gelly roll pen

Dual tip markers. 

Growing in Unity Day 4

Hello everyone.  Welcome to my blog and my day 4 of Growing in Unity.  Make sure you are commenting all week for your chance to win some Unity.  I will be picking winners and posting them at the beginning of next week.  So head back to Day 1-3 to comment as well.  

So today I have another project for you.  I actually decided I wanted to play around with my Ken Oliver color bursts... I remember when he first came out with them... I had to have them.  And now he has all sorts of different ones.  

I made some really cool tags for today.  I started out adding a little bit of Gesso to the tags so that the color and water doesn't just soak up into the paper and become a mess.  After that was dry,  I started adding different colors and spritzing with water to help the colors run together. 

There really is no wrong way to play with colors bursts as you just have to play... Get messy and have fun.  And get messy you will.  They may even stain your hands too.   Ok back to the project.  When I was happy with the colors, I used my heat gun to start drying the tags out.  This also moves your colors around.  When they were all dry,  I decided to use only the leaves from one of the stamps.  Tis is something I actually do a lot of.  I only want part of the image.  This stamp is a post card stamp and really cute, but I just wanted to use the leaf.  So I used some of my Deco art antiquing cream white.  I painted it on the stamp with a paint brush as to only get the part I wanted.  Then I stamped each tag.  Note every time you stamps you will have to repaint it and stamp again.  I also used the flying birds stamp in this kits to add to the background. 

Here are my tags.

        

You will see the leaves changed color some.  Stayed on the white side but the color from the color burst kind of bleeds into it.  I personally love how they turned out.  Let me know what you think and don't forget to leave those comments for your chance to win.  See you again tomorrow for my last day of Growing in Unity.  

Have a great day!! 

Hugs

Amy

Products used:

Ken Oliver - color burst original Fuchsia

Ken Oliver- Liquid sparkle radiant drops 

                      Sangria and midnight

Ken Oliver- Liquid metals Metallic Amethyst and                           Metallic Turquoise. 

Unity Stamp Company: Vintage Era Background Kit