Happy Birthday Beautiful

Well you all know I love my Unity Stamps

but

this is the first time I have made a card using one of

the Unity Girls.

Isn't she great she is called
Poppy Girl.
I made her following the challenge over at the
Unity Facebook page Show & Tell.  The challenge
was to use a Unity stamp and the colors,
Red, White and Kraft.  I love coloring on kraft
the colors come out so vibrant plus you can color white.
I used my Polychromos to color this image.  I am
really in love with how this one turned out.
Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think
of my card.

Challenges entered:

Great Impressions - Always anything goes - ends 12/31

Heartful Stamping - use stamped image - ends 12/10

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes - ends 12/16

Christmas JOY

Ok, I am really running against the clock on this one.

I made this card following the sketch over at 

Retro Rubber Challenge where you have to use an older

rubber stamp.  The Joy stamp is from a 2000 Stampin Up

set.

I stamped it with VersaMark ink and then heat embossed with
Brutus/Monroe Alabaster embossing powder.
I LOVE this embossing powder, some of the best I have used.  It covers
very well and heats/melts quickly and evenly.
I flipped the sketch on it's side and using some glitter paper
 added some strips.  The background paper is from a
Christmas paper stack from Michaels a couple years ago.

Well, that is it, thanks for stopping by.

Challenges entered:

Retro Rubber Challenge - sketch/use rubber stamp  ends 12/2
Time Out Challenge - Anything goes Christmas  glitter/sparkle ends 12/6
Moving Along with the times -  Anything goes Christmas ends 12/6
Crafting with Attitude - Anything goes ends 12/24
CCEE Stampers - Color Red

Spotlight Colored Clematis

Hi, well it is the first of December so it is time to share

my card I made as a Design Team member over at

the Crafting Circle

for the monthly 

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge.  

Make sure you come and play along as this month it is a

prize challenge.  You could win a Gina Marie gift certificate.

If you are not familiar with her products you really should

check them out, she has some of the best dies and at the absolute 

best prices. 

For this card, I used a Power Poppy digital image called

Climbing Clematis.   A long time ago I made a card using this technique 

called the Spotlight Technique where you just color a portion

of the image.  If you want to check that post out click HERE is was about

6 years ago.  I colored the flower twice, once directly on the

entire image then again on a second one and cut it out then

attached it over the bottom one to give it some dimension. 

After I had it all colored I cut it out using a Gina Marie

die Nested Labels.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you head on over the 

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge and play along.

Challenges entered:
Pile it one - Two patterns ends 12/10