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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Just Us Girls Color Challenge & Unity Challenge

This week we have our color challenge of Green, White, Orange! I pulled out some Unity Stamps and followed the current Unity Inspired Sketch challenge.

This is the sketch:

Here is what I came up with:

Check out the JUGS DT:

Vicki

Marisa

Elise

Lisa
Tangii

Andrea

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS180. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, March 21st. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by this week!

Maria

Friday, March 15, 2013

Friends with Flair Friday

TGIF!! Wow it's been a very busy week for me. I didn't get too much craftiness going on but I did another journal page (or spread) last night! I love having something to post for Unity FWF.

As I have mentioned many times in the last few weeks I've been into art journaling lately. Just simple fun with paint, sprays, stencils and stamps. I've been a card maker for many many years and I guess sometimes you need to switch gears. However, that does not mean I won't and don't want to make cards anymore because I do. But what fun to take all those rubber stamps and use them for something else like journal pages, layouts, project of life.

Earlier this week I signed up to take 2 Tim Holtz classes! I am so excited for that. I mean how very cool to meet and take a class with THE Tim Holtz.

While at the store signing up for the classes guess what I picked up:

This things is pretty cool. It's literally a gel like plate. Feels rubbery almost.

Here are some of the very first prints I made:

Used stencils and stamps to create all the "images". I will definitely play much more with this.

So onto my project for this week. Yesterday Angela released a few new Phyllis Harris stamps and put them on sale. I thought I'd use one of the ones that I have in my art journal. This is from the set called "All About Balance" and too is on sale!

I used so many things on this spread. Starting with for the background Dylusions sprays and Crafter Workshop Stencils. MANY MANY Unity stamps on the background, around the edges etc. The banner across the top is from the Unity itty bitty called Tiny Vintage Banners.

This section is a Ranger Artist Trading card (sticky back) - Canvas surface. The sentiment is from the All about balance kit and the circle is from a SMAK kit.

Some close ups of the pages:

The hearts underneath are actual paper dollies which I sprayed with Dylusions sprays and stencils.

Well I think that's all for now! I hope you enjoy checking out my journal pages. I haven't actually "journaled" yet. I'm not really into that even when I scrapbook. I just LOVE using all the stamps I have instead.

Thanks and Happy Friday!!

Maria

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Just Us Girls Technique Week

This week's Just Us Girls challenge has been chosen by our very own Vicki and she picked using a negative die. I used the mover and shakpers mini butterflies along with Styled Labels by Tim Holtz. The butterfly is my "negative", I think I did that right, right? :-)

My card stock and pattern papers are by Stampin Up. And the sentiment is from Sweet Stamp Shop.

Check out the JUGS DT:

Vicki

Marisa

Elise

Lisa
Tangii

Andrea

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your project for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a 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 use the keyword or tag, JUGS179. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.

Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, March 14th. The Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by this week!

Maria

Friday, March 8, 2013

Art Journaling Fun - FWF!

Happy Friday! Yes I'm back with more art journaling. I told you I'm addicted right now! I started to get bored with just making cards. Don't get me wrong I will I do love to. I will still try out for DT's for cards etc but right this very second I'm having fun with my art journals! Just playing with paints, stencils, sprays.

Yesterday I did a purge in my crafty space and tried to organize a wee bit. Now I have a bunch of stuff I want to list. Will work on that. But while cleaning I found something I bought a while back (surprise surprise) that I haven't used. They are plastic sheets to make stencils of your own. SO I decided to use one of my favorite Tim Holtz dies for the big shot and create my own:

I haven't used them yet but will soon and probably make more!

So I did a 2 page journal spread. This one I started with the background a while ago. I can't remember what I used for the colors but I think it was watercolor. On top I used a Crafters Workshop stencil and some matte medium which creates a nice texture that is raised and cool.

Next up I took the background and added some more stencils and stamps. I decided to "paint" a flower in the middle and this is what it looked like:

How horrible is that? Oh my I decided to try and play with my SU reinkers for the heck of it. But it didn't quite come out looking good so I decided to take it another way. I cut out freehand flowers from some pattern papers that match the page and came up with this flower in the middle:

Here you can see some of the background Unity stamps. I used a small butterfly, the punchanella stamp by Christy Tominlinson, the sentiment "Life".

This is the left side. "happiness" is an old Unity sentiment from way back, I decided to use that on both pages for a title of sorts.

This is the right side. Around all the edges I used a blue polka dot washi tape, then distressed it a bit with black ink.

Here is full final spread:

Thanks for stopping by today! I will be posting this for Unity Friends with Flair Friday and to Balzer's Designs for Julie's art journaling daily.

Maria

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Queen Kat Designs New Release

It's time for the new release over at Queen Kat Designs! Be sure to swing on by their Facebook page for all the latest!

Here is a new image from Maigan Lynn:

So with my girls for this month I finally decided to water color all my images! And I loved it! They came out great I'll be sure to share the others!

Now be sure to also go over to the QUEEK KAT DESIGNS STORE and check out the release!

Release party starts at 7:00pm PST tonight on the QKD FACEBOOK PAGE!

Till later

Maria

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

WINNER WINNER and a Sneak Peak!

Hi there!

For those who hopped along on Friday and over the weekend for my friend's Julie's Blogoversary I'm here today to announce my randomly selected winner of 2 Unity Itty Bitty Stamps!

The winner is:

Karen of Karey2005 - Craftily Yours

Thank you Karen for hopping and for the kind comments! Thanks to all who hopped along with us and all the wonderful and inspiring comments!

Karen please contact me for your prize!

Julie also has some winner's she announced so if you haven't be sure to swing on by her blog to check it out!

So I am messing around yet again in my art journal this week. Did I mention I'm loving it?!

Here is a small snippet of what I am working on:

Well that's all for now!

Till later!

Maria

Friday, March 1, 2013

Julie's Blogoversary Blog Hop & FWF Friday

I have been invited to participate in my crafty friend's Julie Odil's Blogoversary Blog hop and today happens to be Friends With Flair Friday for Unity!

The theme for this hop is Celebrate Friendship! If you arrived here from Gwen's Blog then you are on the right track! If not head on over to Julie's blog to start this hop from the top!

There are some fun prizes to be had along the way. And I know that Julie will be picking 5 random winners from the blog comments for some super awesome prizes!

Be sure to leave me a comment here (I would love it if you follow me as well) and I will randomly pick someone to receive some Unity Itty Bitty's!

I've been into art journalling a bit lately and created this art journal page. I have this fun canvas from Pier 1 which I loved and wanted to create or recreate it in my journal.

Here is the canvas from Pier 1: