Growing in Unity Friday - Wish Big

I cannot believe that this is my last entry of my Growing in Unity Week. It has been such fun showing you my projects that I made for this week. This layout is one of my favorites. It features Lady Lu, our other dachshund baby. This is from her birthday celebration in February. Every year, or anytime it is one of the puppies' birthdays, it is time for cupcakes. And let me tell you, it is always a fun time. Lady Lu tries to stick to her name and be a lady when it comes to eating her cupcake. But her brother, Pal Pal, is a whole another story. He usually eats his in one bite. So you need to be quick with the camera. With Lady Lu, as you can see, you can at least get a few good pictures and sing Happy Birthday to her.

I created this page using my Uniquely Unity kit from Archiver's. I used 12x12 kraft paper for the background paper and stamped half of it using Memento Rich Cocoa ink. All of my photographs I printed on french vanilla cardstock and distressed the edges with an edge distresser. For all of the patterned paper, I inked the edges with Color Box Chalk Ink Chestnut Roan to add a softness to the edges.

The title area - collage area - is a place where I had a lot of fun with this page. The flower buttons - I used the flower button punch from Epiphany Crafts...Love it! The portion of title BIG is cut out using QuicKutz Diesel alphabet die cuts. The rose stamp - colored with Copic markers and then Glimmer Mist'ed. The little February calendar is from actual patterned paper from the kit. And the Wish tag is from my stash.

A face only a Momma could love - Yummy Cupcake face!

Supplies used for this page: Memento Dye Ink - Rich Cocoa; Epiphany Crafts - Flower Button Punch; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Pearl; Color Box Chalk Ink - Chestnut Roan; Unity Stamp Company - Uniquely Unity; QuicKutz - Diesel Alphabet (not shown)

Copic markers used: R02 - Flesh, R05 - Salmon Red, R08 - Vermillion, YG91 - Putty, YG93 - Grayish Yellow, YG95 - Pale Olive, and YG97 - Spanish Olive

 

Today is your last chance to comment away at today's post and at all of this week's posts because one lucky, random commenter will win one of the following stamp sets:

Sending My Love

Bitty Backgrounds

Little Me

Bella Fiori

Homegrown

Hugs & Kittens

Handmade Holiday

Bella Trees

Imagine It

How awesome is that?

The lucky winner will be announced tomorrow.

As an added bonus, for anyone that places any {ippity} order this week, out of all the orders placed, one order will be randomly selected to earn another {ippity} stamp set free! Also, every order gets free shipping, a free grab bag stamp, and a handmade card!

 The winner of the {ippity} stamp set will be announced on Sunday.

Enjoy!

Graduation time

Usually at this time of the year, my husband, Doug, and I have invitations for graduation parties coming from every where. This year is a quiet year. We had only two. One for our nephew, Evan, and one for our friends' son, Geran. Unfortunately, we will not be able to attend either party this year; Evan lives in North Carolina, and Geran's party is on a day we will be visiting our nation's capital. Nonetheless, we could not be any prouder of these two guys. And to show it, here is what the card looks like that I made for them. Evan's is on its way to North Carolina as we speak and Geran's is on standby awaiting his party.

The detail shot shows that I layer up the tag from The BEST set along with using another stamp from the set, and using the graduation cap die cut from QuicKutz. I added an eyelet at the top for ribbon and at the bottom of the tag I added a grad cap brad. The tag itself is pop dotted up from the card for added dimension.

Enjoy!