~ Growing In Unity: Day 5 & Friends with Flair ~

It's a Unity day today. Last day of my Growing in Unity week, one which I had a blast, playing with Unity stamps. It's also Friends with Flair day today as well. And it's gonna be another maniac day for me too, with dental appointment and violin rehearsal thrown in! I guess that's what being a mom is.... your kids' schedules takes over your life!

Thankfully, found some time last nite to scrap and with a new stamp kit, Brave Girl. A box chocked full of new stamps was delivered yesterday, much to my delight! Here's my first LO: 

Made use of Scarlet Lime April's kit for this LO. The base is Basic Grey Basic White paper (boy do I hug the Basic ranges). LO based on a sketch at Butterfly Craft. I used quite a fair bit of stamp images from Brave Girl... gonna be one of my fav scrapbooking sets!

LO created using a Studio Calico May kit (which incidentally arrived this week). This is based on a sketch by Sketchy Thursdays (I rely on sketches a lot these days as I've got limited time for crafting and dun wanna be fluffing about). Although the kit is entitled Brave Girl, I found them equally versatile for use on male LOs too. 

The photos used on the LO were taken on my iPhone using a Hipstamatic app. Now if you have an iPhone, you need this app! It makes your photos look rather 'vintagy'. What I love about it is the ability to change lens, films and flashes to create a certain look in the photo. Or simply shake the phone to get a random look. It makes taking photo so much fun! 

Thanks for dropping by. And if fancy winning a Unity single stamp set of your choice, drop me a comment. The winner will be drawn this weekend! It's gonna be a fun weekend as my boys will be basking (playing their violins) in Birmingham town centre on Saturday for charity. They are helping out Christian Aid and I'm praying for sunshine! Whatever you are doing, hope you have a good weekend! TTFN!

~ Growing In Unity: Day 4 ~

A little late in posting but it has been a maniac day today. Anyway, today's offering is based on the theme of 7 Deadly Sins. I've been wanting to do something like that and I created each sin on a tag but with a modern twist, using Unity stamps of course!

7 Deadly sins from top left: Anger, Sloth, Envy

Bottom left: Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Greed

I gave a modern twist to it. Base of tags done using Tim Holtz distressed inkpads and spritz with water to give it a mottled, weathered look.

Words created using {ippity} alphabet stamps.

Here are the tags closeup with more details:

First deadly sin: Anger

I chose skull to signify the theme.

Stamp sets used: Confession stamp image in background from I {luv} Unity set, ticket image from Le Chic Vintage and skull from Pirate Madness

2nd deadly sin: Envy

It relates to the eyes doesn't it, so hence this li'l cute monster with one eye. 

Stamp sets used: Monster & sentiment from Cuter than Most

3rd deadly sin: Gluttony

I could have used a lot of food images but I especially luv this gumball image... in the eye of a child, scoffing tons of that would be gluttony!

Stamp sets used: background image from Going Retro, 'yummy' from Retro Barbeque and gumball from Mar10 KOTM.

4th deadly sin: Greed

Who doesn't want it all?

Stamp set used: Treasure to Me

5th deadly sin: Lust

The image of an incandescent tryst suddenly appealed to me.

Stamp set used: 'sun' from Jul09 KOTM, 'couple' & 'grass' from Jan10 store kit.

6th deadly sin: Pride

This had me stumped but I figured one does take pride in cooking so hence the kitchen theme!

Stamp set used: Kitchen Logic, 'leaves' in background from Bevy of Butterflies.

7th deadly sin: Sloth

Well, this was easy... lazing on the sofa!

Stamp set used: Comfy Cozy

Doing these tags certainly stretched my imagination. Definitely had fun and even broke into stamp sets that I've not used yet!  Definitely be doing another series of tags again but based on a different theme! TTFN!

~ Growing In Unity: Day 3 ~

It's a brilliant day today in the UK... the sun is out! Day 3 of Growing In Unity and I'm showcasing some cards today. I broke into April's store kit and had a good play with the help of some card sketches from various blogs.

Here are my cards: 

Based on a sketch by Card Patterns. Patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket Material Girl (fast becoming my fav paper). 

Based loosely on a sketch by Mojo Monday. Patterned paper by Basic Grey Granola. The two above cards will be given to teachers at the end of this term. I'm starting to make 'thank you' cards now so as not to stress myself later.

Based on a sketch by Caardvark. Patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket Material Girl. This will be winging its way overseas to a very crafty friend of mine!

A friend of mine requested a wedding card and I made her this: 

Used images from Sep 09 KOTM set. Patterned paper is actually a digi paper printed out!

Thanks for dropping by! At the end of this week, I'll pull a winner from the comments left and the prize is a Unity single set of your choice! So drop me a comment if you fancy winning one! The postie just delivered my Studio Calico kit so I'm off to get crafty! TTFN!

~ Growing In Unity: Day 2 ~

It's Day 2 of Growing In Unity week. Well, I went a bit crafty last nite and sewed a pouch for my iPhone. Despite getting a cover for it, I found light scratches and decided to protect it better. I had some spare felt around and made use of one for my project. 

Bear in mind that I'm not a sewer! I used to get my mom to do my needlework in school (which I now regret!) but I tried my best.

I stamped the butterfly image (April's store kit) onto a grey felt using Unity's black palette inkpad. This was then cut out. I sew it onto the pink felt and added beads as antennas. Then, I did a blanket stitch to form the cover for my iPhone. I finished it off by adding a handle and lace to the cover.

A close-up look at it.

It's simple but it does serve my purpose. Hopefully this will minimise more scratches on my pink protective cover. I quite enjoyed doing this project. I found it fun to be able to use the stamps for other purposes. Let's see what tomorrow brings... If you fancy winning a Unity single stamp set of your choice, drop me a comment! TTFN!

~ Growing In Unity: Day 1 ~

It's my turn this week to host Growing In Unity, which basically is to showcase any creative work using Unity stamps. As you know, I'm a fan of Unity/{ippity} stamps since discovering them early last year. I have since amassed a fair number of this red rubber stamps. What's the appeal? I guess the unique designs and I especially luv their scrapbooking sets. 

Today's offering is a mini book which I made for a friend's birthday. After lots of stamping and punching and this was the result: 

Made use of a Bazzill cardstock for the cover.  That is one of my fav Unity stamp image. I find it so versatile.

The pages came from October Afternoon. I pulled out one of my old Scarlet Lime kits and played with it. 

Most of the stamped images are from the scrapbooking sets.

I particularly luv the words stamp. I find myself using that a lot.

The background on the left page was stamped using a border stamp from the March/Apr SB set. The quote on the right page came from {ippity} Love in Return set. That's one of my fav quotes and used fairly often.

The back of the album stamped simply with an {ippity} stamp from Love in Return. 

The inner pages were held together using a strip of cardstock, punched using a Martha Stewart punch. Idea's not mine... seen a fair few albums done this way and thought I give it a go. Good use of border punches too (which I've seem to have amassed apart from stamps). 

So pop back this whole week for a showcase of Unity/{ippity} stamps in action. And if you fancy winning a stamp set of your choice at the end of this week, drop me a comment! Thanks for popping by and have a great week ahead. TTFN!