Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Queen Kat Wednesdays!!

Each Wednesday I post on the Whimiscal Ink Sorority blog for Queen Kat Designs. This week I posted a mixed media piece using some new Amy Brown Fairies:

Close up:



That's all for now!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Ippity Tuesday

Have you been over to My Unity Place yet? You need to hop on over there because there is alot of fun Unity/{ippity} stuff going on. Currently they have 4 scrapbooking challenges for National Scrapbook Day which was this past Saturday. But there is still time to participate HERE.

One of the challenges was to use a black and white photo so with my {ippity} Stamps here is what I came up with:

I thought some Tim Holtz papers would work well with a black and white photo so that is what I used underneath the photo, just a random collage of papers. The text paper being from Stampin Up. The {ippity} kit used here is called Love in Return.

Did you know the line of {ippity} by Unity is getting a revamp and it's wonderful. There will be only about 50 Unity Endorsed {ippity} chicks and I am one of them!! SO if you love UNITY I promise you will love {ippity}.

I will have my {ippity} kits in my Etsy Shop TYKATSUPPLIES. So be sure to watch out for that. Here on my blog I also have an {ippity} page.
Here is the full LOVE IN RETURN kit (click to take you to my Etsy page for purchase):


I have one in my hands ready to ship immediately. If you are that lucky person to grab this kit right away be sure to indicate in the notes upon check out that you got to my shop via my blog and I will include a free gift with purchase!!

If you miss out never fear just let me know and I can get some ordered up for you!

Well that's all for now!!

Be sure to stay tuned as I will start some regular blog posts each week showcasing Ippity.

I would love to be YOUR {ippity} chick!!


Sunday, May 8, 2011

National Scrapbook Day Unity Challenges

What a busy weekend! Happy Mother's Day to all celebrating today!

Yesterday was National Scrapbook Day and Unity was celebrating with some fun challenges over at My Unity Place!

I am hosting one of these challenges as well which is super exciting! My challenge is called "Material Girl", yes since I named the challenge the song is still in my head! The challenge is simple and it's to use material/fabric on your layout! Only layouts using your Unity/Ippity Stamps are allowed for this challenge.
Here is what I came up with:



I made fabric flowers in the lower right corner. I used white muslin and a Unity stamp from the Devotion Collection: Love Never Fails. I created a bloom using the same technique that Lesley Langdon used in her tutorial a few weeks back. The dark pink flower was created using the burnt flower technique.

Come swing on by MY UNITY PLACE and check out the forum for all the National Scrapbook Day challenges! You have all week to participate and a chance to win a Melody Ross/Unity Kit!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Just Us Girls Saturday Sketch Challenge

Happy Saturday and it's time for another Just Us Girls Challenge. This week Pam is our hostess and it's sketch week. Check out this fun sketch:

Here is what I came up with using Unity Stamps:


Just Us Girls Design Team



Clare Buswell - May Featured Designer

How to play: You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of the JUGS post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the keyword or tag, JUGS83. After you post to Linky Tools you can also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, May 12. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on the following Friday morning.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Unity Friends with Flair Friday

It's Friday and time for Friends with Flair Friday, Unity Style!

This week I have fun but simple card using a wonderful set by Donna Downey
Here I stamped the head image and colored with copics. Layered with some nice simple colors and this works out to be a lovely CAS style card.

Well that's all for now!

Thanks for stopping by!


Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Queen Kat Royal Release

Today is a fun release day over at QUEEN KAT DESIGNS. I got to work with some new Amy Brown Fairy Images and I wanted to share some with you.





Be sure to become friends with QKD on facebook as the Queen herself hosts wonderful release parties. Be sure to stop on by and say hi!

That's all for now!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Unity TWEET TWEET Challenge

Did you know that today is Unity's 3rd Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Unity!!!

OK, so I should have made a birthday card but I went the canvas and paint route for this month's Unity Challenge. All of the Unity Challenges are now a tab of their own on the Unity blog! Be sure to check it out a new monthly sketch challenge just went up today as well. This month's challenge is called Tweet Tweet and it is to incorporate a bird or two....



I decided to pull out a piece of stretched canvas (8x10) not canvas board this time. Using paint, Echo Park papers and many Unity stamps here is what I came up with This was fun to create, I just LOVE LOVE using paint, ink, stamps on canvas and in my art journal. This was one fun inky mess. I stamped all my images using Stazon but for the border of ink I used Liquid ink. I used Liquitex acrylic ink. It comes in a small bottle that has a top with an eyedropper attached. I just dropped some drops at the edge of the canvas and with my finger (of course) just rubbed it out all along the edge. I have a yellow and orange and I definitely need some more.

Here is another shot of the canvas close up:




Well that is it for now!

Till later....

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