Hopping with My Sweet Petunia and Unity Stamps

 Good Morning!

Welcome to the My Sweet Petunia and Unity Stamps Blog Hop!

I was very honoured to be asked to be a Guest Designer for the hop.

If you've been hopping already, you've arrived here from the very talented Sharon Nettleship's Blog

I LOVE my Misti and rarely stamp without it!

I have a few little techniques that I like to use with Line Stamps

Today I'm showcasing two awesome stamp sets from Unity Stamps

My first card features thank you kindly

For me, this set was calling for a soft watercoloured look

I wanted some variation in colour and to have the bear in brown so I used my Original MISTI, memento black ink and SU Markers to set the image down in steps.

First, I stamped the parts of the image I wanted in black.

I inked the whole image carefully, using a baby wipe to take off the ink I wanted to set down in different colours.

Next, I added some Melon Mambo for the flowers

Then, some Old Olive stems

I used the Basic Black Marker to bring her little hand back in.

Lastly, I used Bashful Blue, Creamy Caramel, Taupe and Dijon with a waterbrush as I wanted just hints of soft colour.

I really wanted to highlight "Love" in the sentiment, so I used my Misti and Markers to colour directly on the stamp to get the two colours onto the sentiment.

I was digging the mostly monochromatic colour scheme, so I just mounted the image onto another shade of blue designer paper and added the enamel dots to bring in a little more pink!

But that's not it!!! I had to make another card with this absolutely A-dorable May Unity Sentiment Kit. It's called Happy Snail Mail and it is CHOCKED full of awesome sentiments!!!

The image that accompanies the set is just way too cute!!!

I also love the excellent quality of the soft red rubber!

 For this guy, I used my  Mini MISTI to create variance in colour in the sentiment and to also get an OMBRE effect on the larger words.

I stamped the image in Memento Black ink as I was using Copic Markers to colour the image.

I coloured directly on the sentiment with a Pear Pizzaz Marker.

I used Melon Mambo for the Snail Mail sentiment

Then I went over the bottom third of the word with real red marker.

This is the final result after colouring with copic and adding Signo White Gel Pen Highlights

I sure hope you like my creations as much as I enjoyed making them.

Your next stop on the hop is Karen Maldonado. I know she will have something amazing to share with you!

This is a HUGE hop! Not only will you be inspired, but you will also have the opportunity to win some amazing prizes!

Everyone who leaves a comment on all the blogs in the hop will go into a drawing for 3 prize packs from Unity and winner's choice of an Original or Mini MISTI. Be sure to comment by May 30th at noon Central to be eligible. Winners will be posted on both the Unity Blog and the My Sweet Petunia blogs on May 31st. 

Here's the Hop list in its entirety because I know you surely won't want to miss a single stop~

My Sweet Petunia

Heather Hoffman

Ilina Crouse

Echo Noble

Jeanne Streiff

Angie Blom

Maureen Wong

Kary Lim

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Angeline Choo

Giovana Smith

Stephanie Gold

Lee Ann Barrett

Lisa Arana

Chris Dayton

Maria Levine

Dina Kowal

Sharon Nettleship

Vicki Garrett

Karen Maldonado

Stephanie Severin

Donna Baes

Julie Warner

Mandi Mance

Anna Wight

Noelle Reece

Angela Bode

Shemaine Smith

Tosh Leyendecker

Kris Lancaster

Kelli Hull

Gaylynn Martling

Marci Snee

Joslyn Nielson
Maria Sabina

Stephanie Muzzulin

Ceal Pritchett

Robyn Weatherspoon

Unity Blog

Good Luck and thanks for "hopping'" by!!!

XX's and Oh's

--Vicki~~

The Pink Elephant Challenge #20

I was thrilled to be asked to be a Guest Designer for The Pink Elephant Challenge Blog. Unity Stamps are sponsoring the challenge this week and I am a huge fan of their Kit of the Month Stamps! You get a WHOLE lot of stamps for a great deal each month and I have been very pleased with the images and the quality of the deep etched rubber! The images and sentiment for this card came from the March Kit of the Month

In case you were wondering what the challenge is this month, it's a great sketch by Carol Houghton, one of the Pink Elephant Designers. Hope you'll visit the Pink Elephant Challenge blog to see the awesome creations and play along with us~!

Don't forget to come back today, I have more posts for you!

I almost forgot to tell you how excited I was to play with SU's new in colours! On this card I used Razzleberry, Dusty Durango and Soft Suede. A few dew drops and some machine stitching made this card a very quick and easy one!

*****Vicki~~~~~

More Unity

I was really excited to receive my first Kit of the Month from Unity Stamps a wee while ago!!! I can't believe the wonderful assortment of stamps that you get for such a reasonable price. It didn't take me long to ink them up and get creating.

I was totally impressed with the quality of the deeply etched rubber stamps that are mounted on foam and cling!!! I have to say that they are extremely well made!!! So Kudos to Angela and her team over at Unity!!!

If you've been on SCS, you may have seen this card. I made it for last weeks Hip Hop Challenges.
I used Basic Grey DP and copics and some more of that Pretty Pomegranite Ribbon from SU~ I'll truly be sad when I run out of that. I purchased two rolls of Pomegranite and Chocolate Chip. It's so soft and Satiny.............

Anyway, enough of the bla bla bla for today, I am under the gun to get some career deadlines met, so I guess stamping will have to take a backseat for a few hours!!!!

Oh and BTW, these stamps are from the March Kit of the Month!

Happy Stamping

*****Vicki~~~~~

OCC and Unity Inspirational Blog Hop!

Good Saturday Morning!!!! I combined the OCC Challenge with the Unity Inspirational Blog Hop! Over 200 stampers are estimated to be participating in the swap this weekend! Can you believe it. The Challenge over at OCC hosted by our very own Kim Teasdale was to use Bashful Blue, Night of Navy and More Mustard! Head on over to OCC to see the gorgeous Creations! All the cards look so different based on the ratio of colours!

I got my yummy Unity Stamps kit of the Month for March this week just in time to play! There was also a sweet surprise inside: these gorgeous Rub ons from Cosmo Cricut!!!




Okay, the deets on the Blog Hop! The Hop Starts at 11 a.m. Central Standard Time!
"View the Inspirational Blog Hop by starting at http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/"

If you are mid hop, Please move along to Sarah's Blog.

and my favourite Quote is Plain and Simple, but soo soo effective: " A closed mouth gathers no feet"..........kind of the think before you speak principle......works for me during those times that I need to "bite my tongue"

Happy Hopping!!!

*****Vicki~~~~~