Unity Be Inspired Challenge

Welcome to a new week and the end of a fabulous weekend, my friends...  This is going to be a great one!!! Let's declare it!

Today's also International Day of Women...  Congratulations to all magnificent ladies from all over the world, specially the creative ones who share this great hobby with me.

Today I am sharing a card made for the current Unity Stamp Co.'s Be Inspired Challenge.  They provide color combination and sketches inspiration so we all can share our passion and learn from each other.

This card was made using the "Jars of Love" kit which I love.  

I also used some cut butterflies, enamel dots and spray paint over design paper.  Notice I used a portion of the design paper from Crate Paper, showing the design on the back.  I usually don't cut that part, 'cause love to use paper to the max.

Hope you like my card... Have a beautiful beautiful week...  just as you are!

Don't forget to be imperfect in everything you do.

Unity Be Inspired Challenge

Hello my friends... Today is a good day... everyday has its own magic, don't you think?

I want to share a card I made for a very special co worker whose birthday was a couple of days ago.   A writer, among other things... very talented person... a dreamer.

I used the inspirational colors from the Unity Be Inspired Challenge, and several stamps from different kits.  Used a mask to stamp one image behind another.  The background was made with watercolor pencils and water brush.  The sentiment was heat embossed for a special texture.

Love the card is so unique... never will be one with same design since the watercolor can never be the same over and over... :)

Tks for your visit.. and make today your special day!  Have a great weekend!

Unity (be inspired)

 Every month, Unity Stamp Co shares a color inspiration image and two sketches (layout and card), along with a release of a new sentiment kit.  This is something all Unity lovers look forward each month.   It's called Unity (be inspired) Challenge.  The current challenge is #23.

I usually go with the color combo inspiration...  I really love the result of getting inspired by a photo or image and love how Unity gets out all the colors from the image and put them together very clearly so we can follow.

Here's the card I made inspired by this one.  It is a CAS style card using all the colors from the challenge and a sentiment by Unity Stamp Co.

I used stencils for the background, with some sprayed mist and color.  The sentiment is stamped in a darker color to stand out.

The gold sequins are perfect for a final touch and were inspired by the lights in the reference image.

The based where all is inked and stamped is gray, but all is over a kraft card base, which I've been using a lot lately.

Hope you like it.  I will share with Unity Be Inspired, and also with Unity Friends with Flair next Friday, so leave a comment for a chance to win with Unity.

A Red Unity Be Inspired Challenge...

Hey Friends... Having a good weekend?

I used to dislike Sundays... There was a time in our lives that these days were lonely.  We decided to reinvent them and now we look forward to Sundays and try to do something nice.  Most of the time we really cook a nice meal and pair it with wine at home, or simply share with families and friends.

This is a card I made to enter the current Unity Be Inspired Challenge.  Loved the color inspiration provided.  You can access it HERE.

This beautiful Ange Girl is called RED and I love her.  For this card, I wanted to keep her kind of abstract and mostly use the silver and red colors from the palette in the clothing.  Also... note how I heat embossed silver in her clothing and in some of the snowflakes...  Wish you could really see it.  Love the final effect.

I really love these Ange Girls from Unity Stamp Co.  I think I have enough of them now...  (Nah!)

Oh, I'm so thankful for your visit to my blog.  Don't forget to leave a comment.  These are very appreciated.  And perhaps you can win something with Unity.  I will link this post to next Friday Friends with Flair.  Every Friday the Unity community share work of the week and we all get great inspiration.  You participate by sharing your projects, and also by leaving comments.  :)

Be Inspired...

HELLO my friends.  Starting a week with lots of things in mind... work, health, house chores, scrapbooking projects, family...  I have so much to do...   But being busy, worried, and even in pain... remind me that I'm alive! 

For the Unity Be Inspired Challenge I made a Christmas card with non traditional Xmas colors... Those are the ones I love!

I used gold paper, and also made some beautiful textures with modeling paste and gold spray mist over pink cardstock.  Colored my lady mainly with watercolor pencils... and I absolutely loved the result and hope you too! 

Finishing touches include sequins (of course!), baker's twine, and these beautiful chipboard snowflakes I've got from a Unity mystery bag recently.  I painted them... Lovely, aren't they?

I will link this to the Challenge, and will also share in the Friday Friends with Flair next Friday, so you can leave comments and have the opportunity to win with Unity Stamp Co.

OH... and don't wanna leave without sharing a Halloween photo from last Friday.  We had a blast at work.  My team dressed up like local (Puerto Rico) children's characters.   We also had other departments and had a contest.  All won something... and all had so much fun.

Love the Little Things...

Hello Friday... and hello friends.

I have heard a lot of "sayings" about loving the little things... it's in the little things... or that the big things are the little ones... etc...  I always say that it is in the little things that a person shows a real self.  For me this applies to good and not so good things.  So no matter how little you think are the things you do for someone, probably they are big for them.

I had these stamps from Unity that had not used before and discovered this sentiment with this "ribbon" shape... Love it!

Then... inspired by some colors and images in the Unity Be Inspired challenge,  I colored this image showing several glass vases.  I love coloring even though I don't think I color that well.  I mostly use watercolor pencils, because are an economic tool vs other coloring markers... and I wanted to achieve the softer look these pencils help achieve.  So watercolor pencil it is!

But besides all that.. do you see this background I just made?  I really like it.  It is one of those things that suddenly come to your mind.  I was the other day thinking about nothing (literally) and though of vellum and how many cool things you can do with it... and I imagined circle shapes in a layout...   So soon after that thought, I was at my scrapbooking table playing with vellum.  I cut the circles and assembled as background with mini glue dots.   Sprayed some color on it and then postioned the image and sentiment as shown.  I covered the "glue dot" that were seen through the vellum, with pearls.  I also added some glossy accents to the vases in the image for a more glass-like look.

Hope you love the final result as much as I do.

I'm linking this to Unity Stamp Co Friday Friends with Flair, and the Be Inspired Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.  I will enjoy reading your comments.

:)

Another Unity Be Inspired...

Hello my friends...

I am posting today my contribution to the Unity Be Inspired challenge from #Unity Stamp Co. 

And notice I said my "contribution" and not only an "entry". It is both. I love when I am able to participate in challenges and contest. They get us inspired, and make us be active in this great hobby. You also get to see other interpretations of the same inspiration, from people around the world who also loves what you love.  I confirm everyday how subjective art and scrapbooking are, and I love that fact.  So, for me, more than an entry in a contest/challenge, it is also a contribution to keep the hobby alive. And it is a support for the brands I love, and the contest/activity they are promoting... So they can keep doing it. 

This is the inspiration combo this month. Great colors and sketches. 

I immediately got captured by the colors, that sunset, and the way you can see different colors in line and mixed at the same time. 

I wanted to make a similar arrangenent of colors but also wanted to soften them. 

So I stamped the main image and covered with a mask. Then painted my colors with pencils. 

Carefully I blended with water brush protecting the image and mask. 

When finished I took out the mask and covered with vellum to soften the colors look. 

The sentiment was stamped on the vellum.  Love that sentiment because it is not only the pure thruth but it goes perfectly with the effect I was trying to achieve. Behind the vellum is the true beauty and there is a butterfly. 

Same thing with people. Beauty inside is the one who reflects the real person. 

Hope you like my card. Comments are always welcome.