Stair Step Card

This is a stair step card, I made for a Crop Chocolate challenge.  It was my first time making one and also my first time using my Unity Stamps Blossom Stamps along with the matching Spellbinders dies.  These were alot of fun to use and I can't wait to use them again.  They add such a nice effect and there are so many stamps to match the dies.

Supplies used:

• Unity Stamps Blossom Stackers
• Spellbinders Blossom Stackers die
• Carta Bell Paris Girl 6x6
• Liquid Pearls 
• Black Cardstock
• Ribbon

Blog Hop Winner

First I want to say thanks to everyone who participated in the blog hop, your comments really made my day I always enjoy reading them.  Now for the winner, I used random.org and came up with number 14.  That means my blog winner is :

Gaylnn- "Lots of detail there for sure. Very creative with those nice colors. :)"   

Gaylnn, can you please email me your information to cswagner at (use the @ symbol) sympatico.ca. 

Unity Stamps Color Challenge

I made two cards for the blog hop and planned to enter them both in the Unity Stamps Challenges.  I realized afterward that each entry must be a separate blog post, I entered the sketch challenge already and this is for the color challenge.  Here is the inspiration photo

 

And here is my entry, its hard to see in the photo but I stamped the entire card with red butterflies before adding the paper.  It's a subtle effect but it looks nice in real life, just very hard to get a decent picture.

 





 

 

Julie's Blogoversary Blog Hop - Celebrate Friendship

Welcome to Julie's Blogoversary Hop, my friend Julie is having a one year anniversary for on her blog and decided a hop would be a great way to celebrate.  You should have arrived here from Karen's blog, if you just stumbled on this start at the beginning at Julie's blog. The theme for this hop is friendship, which was a hard one for me because I don't normally make "friend" type cards.  I wanted to use Unity Stamps for this (I am becoming addicted but they are awesome) and I didn't have any stamps that fit the theme for a layout so cards it was.

I am also using these cards for the new Unity Challenge and its based on the sketch below.  I made this card using mostly grab bag stamps I won in a Friends with Flair contest and the butterflies were EP Be Mine.  The colors are not ones I normally would use but they had an inspiration picture and while this is not my entry for that challenge I loved the colors so much I carried them over to the card sketch which is unusual for me since these are not my usual colors.

Blog Candy !!!
Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment and become a follower for some Blog Candy from not only myself but to be eligible for Julie's blog candy.  The hop closes on March 3 11:59 pm.  Your next stop is Kary's blog, good luck to everyone.