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

Growing in Unity Day 3

 

Hello.  Welcome to Day 3 of my Growing in Unity week.  Today I'm sharing a different kind of project.  It's on a wood Canvas.  I mod podged some tissue paper I had to the wood to give it a Vintage looking back ground.  I then took a stencil to add the bee hive type look for texture.  Using my Deco Art paints.  I distressed the background and edges.  I again decided to use the Eiffel Tower stamp and detached the word love to use it in a different way.

 

I found some gears in my stash and used them staying with the Vintage/Steam punk theme. I added a few more embellishments and layered some things under the stamped image to make it pop up off the canvas more. 

I hope you enjoyed Day 3 and don't forget to head back to the previous days to comment for a chance to win.  Please leave your comments today as well to have a chance to win some Unity!  

Thank you for joining me. Have a great day.

Amy

Products used:

Unity Stamp Company:  Vintage Era Background Kit

Art Anthology - beehive stencil.

Bazzil Basic paper: pleated paper

Deco art Media Acrylics

-Quinacridone Magenta

-Colbalt Teal Hue

-Diarylide yellow

-Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide 

-Antiquing cream- white, raw umber

Tim Holtz - ideology -philsophy tags

Mod Podged

Embellishments from my stash.

Growing in Unity Day 2

 

Hello my crafty friends.  Here we are with Day 2 of my week as a GIU Gal!!! 

Today I have another canvas for you.  I decided to go a lot lighter on colors with this canvas.  

I started out again with a burlap stencil and whipped spackle to give me some texture in the background.  I then also used another stencil, Tim Holtz splatters and used some metallic lustere to add the design.  I used paints and paste wax as well as the lustre again to color my background.  

After that dried, I used some Nuvo drops to add some more color and texture.  I Stamped my image using Cathrine Pooler inks and fussy cut it out.  I grabbed some embellishments from my stash and arranged them until I was happy with their placement and attached them with glue.

Thank you again for joining me for my week for Unity Stamp Company.  Remember to leave your comments every day for your chance to win some Unity!!! And please go back to previous days and comment as well.  

Have a great day!!

Amy

Products used:

Unity Stamps:  Vintage Era Background Kit.                Dusty Attic Stencil- burlap.                                    Prima- Art Alchemy paints metallique vintage rose   and crocus fields.                                                    Faber Castell - Whipped Spackle.                            Embellishments from my stash.                              Tim Holtz Stencil-Splatters THS009.                         Art Anthology paste wax- silver and black.           Art Anthology- Patina Teal Velvet paint.                Nuvo Drops - Strawberry Coulis and pale parawinkle.                                                                    Deco Art- Metallic Lustre - Fab Fuchsia. 

Growing In Unity Day 1

 

Good Morning and Thank you for joining me for my first day of my Growing in Unity week. 

All week long I am using my Unity Stamp Company Vintage Era Background Kit stamps. 

You will notice I do a lot of mixed media.  And alot of things on canvas as well.  I think outside the box sometimes and come up with meat ways to use stamps.  Which you will see later in the week. 

Let's kick this day off with a bright and colorful mixed media canvas.  

I started off by using a brick wall stencil and some whipped spackle to add some texture in my background.  After letting that dry, I started playing with colors using mixed media art spray and Prima Art Alchemy paints.  I wanted to leave it lighter in the middle and darker towards the outside. Almost like the sun was shining thru clouds. 

After letting that dry and I was happy with the colors. I Stamped my image and fussy cut it out.  I also burnt it a little with a lighter to add the burnt look.  I then arranged different embellishments around until I was happy with the arrangement.  

I hope you enjoyed my creation for Day one. Remember to leave a comment every day for a chance to win some Unity!!!  

Have a great day!

Amy

Products used:

Unity Stamps:  Vintage Era Background Kit.            Marabu Mixed Media Art Spray-                               sunshine yellow, plum and flamingo.              Rubbernecker Stencil- repeating brick wall.        Catherine Pooler - Limoncello Ink pad and   blending brushes.                                                    Prima- Art Alchemy paints metallique vintage rose   and crocus fields.                                                    Faber Castell - Whipped Spackle.                            Embellishments from my stash.