Monday, January 13, 2014

Growing in Unity Day 1: Hip Hip It's Your Birthday

Happy Monday, Unity Friends!  I'm up as the Growing in Unity (GIU) girl this week!  whoop, whoop!

I'm working on using my Unity that I got and never inked up.  I have quite a few, so you may see some this week!  LOL, had to have them, ya know!?

This card is made with It's your Birthday from the Stamp of the Week club in 2013.  It happens to be Mrs. Unity's BIRTHDAY!  Happy Birthday, Angela!!! Thanks for all you to do bring stamp-y goodness into my space!

Anyway, when I pulled this out, I really had no idea what to do with it.  I searched Unity's web site and found a stunning example by Unity Artista Shemaine.  I totally cased it - love the mixture of patterns.

  

The paper is from Basic Grey Obscure.  I have had this collection for a long time, and once I broke it out, I'm totally addicted to it!  The twine is Timeless Twine.   Love the little double-bows of twine.

Leave a comment on my GIU posts this week to win some Unity goodness (two Itty Bitty stamps)! 

Have a lovely weekend!

Craftily yours,

Karen

29 comments:

  1. Just a gorgeous card Karen (and great shout-out to the original artista!). Perfect way to start the week for Angela's birthday.

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  2. Very cute. Love what you did with the twine!

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  3. Pretty layering on your card, and I live the pile of presents stamp!

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  4. Very pretty card. I like all the layering on your card.

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  5. Great papers and coloring and I like how you used the twine.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  6. Yay... Congrats Karen. Great design for this bday stamp. Looks beautiful. Cheers!!!

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  7. Yea! I get to visit your blog everyday this week! I looked at this card and thought, "that's not Karen's usual style at all." That's because it's Shemaines, LOL! But it's very well done! Love the twine ;)

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  8. This card is amazing Karen!! :) Love all the layers, details and colors. Looking forward for your week of GIU!

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  9. Really fun birthday card, Karen! Great colors and I like the baker's twine. Looking forward to your GIU week!

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  10. Cute card!! Love the colours and the twine.

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  11. Love the colors!! Congrats on being the GIU girls!!

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  12. oh my gosh...this is adorable. Love all the layers and texture!

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  13. Love all the different papers, they are awesome.

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  14. What a fun card! Love the bright colors and fun image! Congrats on being this weeks GIU ga!

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  15. This... is an awesome card! Love how you did the twine and coloring! Congrats on being this week's GIU girl! :)

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  16. Whoop, whoop…gotta love GUI week! This is a wonderful way to start out your week, too. Great colors and the twine is faboosh with that party sentiment!

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  17. what a fun card! love the colors and cute stamps!! :)

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  18. Very cute card. Your coloring is great.

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  19. Congrats Unity girl! Saw this in show n tell I think? Love your version. Adorable!

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  20. Awesome card! Love all the details.

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  21. love the black & white twine on all the mixed colors/textures! Great choice! :) I like the little double bows, too! :)

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  22. Adorable card and so fun and colorful! Congrats on being the GIU gal!

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  23. Congrats on being the GIU gal! This card is so pretty- great card lift!

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  24. Congratulations on being the GIU designer. Great card, like the fun mix of colours and patterns.

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  25. Karen, congrats in being the GIU gal this week! Will look forward to what you will be creating this week! This is a lovely card! Great layering of papers and embellishments!

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  26. Lovely inking on this.
    The background is
    so pretty, great for
    a birthday.
    Carla from Utah

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  27. The black and white twine is great. It looks nice with all of the colors. Great job.

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  28. Wonderful card, I love the twine moving across it!

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  29. Congrats on being the GIU Gal this week. I love the fun colors of this card.

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