Unity Who Does That? 10-15-09

Good morning everyone!! Welcome to Unity's Who Does That for this October 15! Oh my Halloween's going to be here before you know it!!

Today, we're featuring the October 09 Kit of the Month again... Love this kit!

My first card uses the pretty flower stamp, and the wonderful inspiration quote. What a great mantra to aspire to... Make a difference...

One of our paralegals at work is getting married, and so my second card is for the impromptu shower we're having at lunch today...


Angela's got some awesome specials today, so be sure to take advantage of them....

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Choices:
Jolly Little Winter
Little Me
Folk Inspired

GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFTS!

Enjoy the rest of your blog hop. :)

(I design for Unity Stamp Company)

copic master color turnaround

Sometimes I use a color combination that I just love - or see it on someone else's card. I had been jotting them down on yellow postie pads but that has quickly gotten unworkable. After having made the hair/skin colorboard, I realized that there was no reason I couldn't so something similar for my favorite combinations. I wanted something easy to flip through and use as a reference. This Maya Road Small Calendar Stand was perfect. Not too big such that it takes up too much room, it was the perfect size and scale for my desktop.

I fully expect this to become very full eventually, and so I did not want to bulk it up too much. I set aside only two of the thick chipboard inserts to act as dividers for "warm" color charts and "cool" color charts, and quickly covered them with some scrap paper.

Next, cut several insert pages to 3"x3.75" from your favorite "use with COPIC" cardstock. Mine is Prism's Simply Smooth Cardstock.


Stamp multiples of the same easy to color stamp using your favorite "use with COPIC" ink - Mine is Memento Tuxedo Black. The stamp is from Unity Stamp Company's September 2009 Kit of the Month. I like to use the same image throughout, because it really highlights the color differences better, IMO.

Then, simply experiment with your favorite color combinations. These are a combination of my own favorites, suggestions from others in the LM stamping forum, and from me surfing the web for my favorite copic artists (many will post their color combinations with their creations). Note that these are not fully colored, nor are they all that CAREFULLY colored as to the smaller details - my goal was to catch a blend only for reference sake, not to create a perfectly colored image.

a quick, but FLAT decoration on the cover finishes the project. (I want it flat so I can maximize the insert page space).

Then its just a quick flip to find my favorite for whatever paper I'm working with.  Extra pages are clipped to the back for easy access when I come across a new combination I want to memorialize.

Right now, I really struggle with yellows and pinks, and so, plan on surfing to see what others have done.


I hope this helps... TFL. Wendy


(I design for Unity Stamp Company and Lifetimemoments)

Unity's Stamping Store KOTM Blog Hop 10-10

Good Saturday morning! Today, we're playing with Unity Stamp Company's October 2009 Store KOTM - Wonderful You. Click HERE for an image of the entire kit, and a list of stores that are carrying it exclusively. The kit is chock full of both whimsical and sophisticated collage images... Just GORGEOUS!

1) (untitled)

My first card uses the pretty heart stamp from the kit, and Vintage Ledger background stamp.

(ink is butterscotch and caramel from Adirondack)

2) Love Potion #9

LOVE these little bottles from the kit. So cute.


Enjoy the rest of your hop! Happy saturday!!

(I design for Unity Stamp Company)

Autumn Pals

The CHA releases included some super cute fall images in the Unity Stamp Company Autumn Pals kit. This was one of those kits that as soon as they got here, my daughter grabbed one and started to play...

Here are our cards - I colored the first two - my DD colored the last one.





(I also love that the nonanimal images in this kit are very universal and the perfect scale to use with some other stamps that I can build scenes with... Totally awesome and very diverse).

TFL! Wendy

(I design for Unity Stamp Company)

Unity thursday - 10-8-09

Its Thursday!!! And we're playing with the awesome October Scrapbooking/Collage kit from Unity Stamp Company.

I had all these pictures from a birthday party, and thought I'd just get them all onto a single layout. I love using a block method for a clean look...

XO and Frame from October Scrapbooking/Collage Kit
"SEPT" letters are traced and then cut from the Giving It All Meaning background stamp (one of my new favorite things to do...)

TFL! Wendy



(I design for Unity Stamp Company)

keep calm...

I periodically just fall in love with a stamp.... This one from inkadinkado's Patterned Pets set fit the bill - isn't she the cutest??? I love this saying too...

PP is My Minds Eye - Oh LaLa for him.

(**card is available in etsy store)

TFL! Wendy

Who Does That? 10-1-09

good morning everyone!! Welcome to Unity's Who Does That for this October 1st! Can you believe how fast the year is speeding by??

We're featuring the October 09 Kit of the Month

This is one of my favorite images - what a CUTE rock star guitar! And perfect for the rocker birthday party we have to go to this week. (I colored these with metallic pencils from Derwent. Such pretty colors)


My second card features the pretty plane/banner stamp. So celebratory - perfect for a new baby.

Thanks for stopping by!! Be sure to check out the DT members' blogs (links at sidebar to the right )for other peeks and examples of the new kit. Enjoy!!

(I design for Unity Stamp Company)