Unity Blog Hop 02.12.15!

I’m SO thrilled it’s Thursday and I get to HOP with you all. I’ve missed you all so much.

Today there are NEW Unity stamps by Tracey Malnofski, a NEW sentiment kit with the debut of a NEW Unity {be inspired} Challenge, awesome Unity promos, a couple of projects of mine to share, along with a NEW scrapbook layout video.

Let’s start off with a look at the NEW Unity {be inspired} Challenge. Be sure to enter as you can win LOTS of beautiful rubber stamps from Unity Stamp Company!! Click the picture below and it will take you to where you can enter the challenge.

Here’s a peek at my take on the color challenge with the card sketch.

For the above card I used the following Unity Stamp Company stamps.

Blossoming Thoughts & Wishes February 2015 Sentiment Kit

Now onto a scrapbook page I put together recently of a picture I took with my son just after the New Year. We were so lucky to have him for three weeks for the holidays before his return to college. We’re all so proud of his accomplishments. HOLD them tight while you can—they grow up SO fast!

If you’re interested in the process for putting the layout together, here’s a link to a video I captured while creating the layout.

Using LOTS of Unity Stamp Company Stamps on this 8-1/2-x-11-inch Layout

For the above layout I used the following Unity Stamp Company stamps.

Here’s a peek at the NEW releases by Tracey Malnofski—I can’t WAIT to play with them!

We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to giveaway (Unity sign not included). Leave a comment on EACH blog in the hop (including the Unity blog) for your chance to win. The winners will be announced Monday night on the Unity blog.

  blog:http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/

Good luck to you ALL!

Be sure you take advantage of Unity’s latest promotion by clicking the graphics below which are just like magical portals that will take you away to Unity Stamp Company where you can

SHOP—SHOP--SHOP!

SALE STARTS AT NOON CENTRAL TIME

PLEASE share your lovely creations on Facebook with the Unity {show & tell) Facebook group. Lots of us check-in there daily (I check in several times daily--I’m addicted to inspiration).

Thank you all so much for hopping along with us and leaving positive comments. They are MUCH appreciated. If you ever have questions regarding my creative process or crafty items or tools that I use along the journey, PLEASE leave me your questions in the comments.

Click on the next picture below to be taken to the next blog in the hop for some Unity inspiration!

Unity Blog Hop 01.01.15!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR Unity enthusiasts!!

Me and Unity are involved in two BIG HOPS going on today, so be sure to read THIS post for information regarding our usual Unity Thursday Design Team Hop and scroll ahead on my blog to read information on how to enter to win prizes for The Season's Giving Hop. This is an enormous hop where LOTS of craft companies, including Unity, and bloggers, including ME, are coming together to say THANKS to those who take the time to visit our blogs and watch our videos. PRIZES!! Enough said.

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Every month Unity has new kit club releases.

In the layout below, I’m using the FIRST SMAK kit of 2015 entitled “Ourselves”.

The picture in the above layout shows my son and daughter with the loves of their lives having dinner recently at The Squeeze Inn in Sacramento, CA (and using a fisheye lens—super cool). 

I used the following Unity Stamp sets to adorn the layout.

Here’s a video I put together while assembling the above layout.

Scrapping & Stamping with Unity’s NEW January 2015 SMAK Kit “Ourselves”

One of my goals this year was to begin making paper crafting videos on YouTube with Unity Stamp Company's stamps as the primary focus and using technology to help my passion emerge from my imagination to the real world.  Not only did I meet that goal BUT I finished capturing my 25th video just last night and published it to YouTube. Heck, in the past week I published five videos--I was on a roll.  If you find some time over this holiday to kickback and are in the mood for some paper crafting videos, PLEASE take a look at MY StampTech Videos Playlist on YouTube--it's come a long way, baby!  It's almost three hours of hands-on paper crafting with Unity Stamps the star of the show. I could not have done it without YOU—Thank you for giving me the motivation of meeting my goal.

Here's a link to MY StampTech Videos Playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjd8JiNx2C43c_Wq-XTvwAmfmym2MW-ra

If you like what you’ve watched, please subscribe to me—it’s much appreciated. In the past year, I’ve published videos to include tutorials on the following:  Using Silhouette Cameo Pixscan technology, How to Print Your Own Tissue Paper, How to Stamp and Print on Sticky Notes (with free template download), Sewing Buttons & Butterflies, and a tour of My Laundry Room Studio.  There are also videos on scrapbooking, card making, and mixed media items.

NOW ONTO THE GOOD STUFF . . .

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WHAT does Unity have this week for two lucky Unity enthusiasts?!!!

We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to giveaway (Unity sign not included). Leave a comment on EACH blog in the hop (including the Unity blog) for your chance to win.  The winners will be announced Monday night on the Unity blog:

http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/

Good luck to you ALL!

Be sure you take advantage of Unity’s latest promotion.

SALE STARTS AT NOON CENTRAL TIME

PLEASE share your lovely creations on Facebook with the Unity {show & tell) Facebook group. Lots of us check-in there daily (I check in several times daily—I’m addicted to inspiration).

Thank you all so much for hopping along with us on New Year’s and leaving comments. They are MUCH appreciated. PLEASE leave me your questions in the comments.

Click on the next picture below to be taken to the next blog in the hop for some Unity inspiration!

Unity Blog Hop 12.25.14!!

Merry Christmas to YOU and to all of the special people in your lives! You are all so very dear to us and I’m so thankful to be sharing some time with you today.

We’re having a happy Unity Blog Hop for you, with some prizes to be won, and I got a few NEW videos for you, too.

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I’ve got some tags to share using Unity stamps with assembly videos. Creating with tags is one of my most favorite ways to craft. For me, they’re almost like a crafting joy ride. Most of the time, there’s no reason at all to make them. I just want to, so I know there’s no pressure that anyone is going to receive it or that anyone has applied any kind of special attachment to it. It’s just for me. Therefore, the theme, color, motivation, etc., is all mine and mine alone. It’s probably never going to leave my craft room. I can hold on to it as long as I want to. Last Saturday night I had a tremendous urge to make tags, so I “Let the December 2014 Tag-A-Palooza begin!”

Here’s what I came up with and I am tagging you to make some tags of your own.

Using Unity’s NEW “Impossible to Forget” stamp set

Using Unity’s December KOM and NEW January SMAK Kit

I adore this foxy couple from Unity’s December KOM!

Here are all the tags below in one picture.

If you get some time to unwind from the holidays and want to see Unity images in action, here’s a link to my StampTech Playlist on YouTube: http://youtu.be/W0b3HYQzoD0?list=PLjd8JiNx2C43c_Wq-XTvwAmfmym2MW-ra

Making these videos for you made my year! I thoroughly enjoy crafting with you all virtually over my shoulder in my laundry room studio. Thank YOU so much for being there!!

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WHAT does Unity have this week for two lucky Unity enthusiasts?!!!

We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to giveaway (Unity sign not included). Leave a comment on EACH blog in the hop (including the Unity blog) for your chance to win.  The winners will be announced Saturday night on the Unity blog:

http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/

Good luck to you ALL!

Be sure you take advantage of Unity’s latest promotion!

PLEASE share your lovely creations on Facebook with the Unity {show & tell) Facebook group. Lots of us check-in there daily (I check in several times daily—I’m addicted to inspiration).

Thank you all so much for hopping along with us on CHRISTMAS and leaving comments. They are MUCH appreciated. PLEASE leave me your questions in the comments.

Click on the next picture below to be taken to the next blog in the hop for some Unity inspiration!

Unity Blog Hop 12.11.14!!

Yippee!! We’ve made it to another THURSDAY and Unity’s got a NEW sentiment kit with NEW Unity {be inspired} Challenge, LOTS of new stamps, and a SALE. I’ve got a NEW video and a goodie for you, too.

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Here’s a peek at the NEW Unity {be inspired} Challenge.

Be sure to enter so you have a chance to WIN!

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I have a “thing” for office supplies and office machines. Recently I fell in love with another way to use sticky notes—STAMPING & PRINTING on them. The thought of it makes me giddy. They stick to stuff. People are used to seeing them as reminders for things to do. This makes them a surprising medium to put something out of the ordinary on them--like something nice, funny, or outrageous. Sticky notes are square which means they’re perfect for photos, especially Instagram’ish photos. You get a BUNCH when you purchase them and they come in quite a few colors. White sticky notes are my favorite right now.  You can stamp on them using black Archival ink and use just a bit of color to make something stand out or use absolutely no color at all!  In the video, I used an Inktense pencil to apply just a bit of color to the stamped image and used a clear Wink of Stella brush to blend the Inktense color on the image—so, there’s a bit of color and a bit of glitter on the sticky, too.

Here’s a few examples of how I used Unity stamps, black Archival ink, an Inktense pencil, with sticky notes, and my printer.

For the above layout, I printed my photos and stamped my sentiment on white sticky notes, so that I could put some hidden journaling under the photos and another photo under the stamped sentiment. You’ll see more of this layout in the video.

I stamped quite a bit of Unity stamps onto sticky notes using black Archival ink for a fun display to look at in my laundry (craft) room.

Why not use a darling Unity stamp on a sticky note to leave someone a message?

We’re all in a hurry these days. Sometimes just a little sticky note on a sack of Ghirardelli will make someone’s day.

Another way I used this medium was to print the Unity {Be Inspired} Challenge prompts. That way I have them off my computer and out in my crafting area, so I can be inspired—you’ll see more of that in my video, also.

I’ve included a FREE sticky note template for you to download, so YOU can print on sticky notes or use it as a practice template to stamp on BEFORE stamping on sticky notes, you know for stamp placement, etc. Once you download it, print it out, and USE it!

Here’s the link to the the FREE sticky note template:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7iIy4RNSM8qY1BDZXJQNm03YkU/view?usp=sharing

STAMP Unity Images & Print Photos on Sticky Notes!

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WHAT does Unity have this week for two lucky Unity enthusiasts?!!!

We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to giveaway (Unity sign not included). Leave a comment on EACH blog in the hop (including the Unity blog) for your chance to win.  The winners will be announced Saturday night on the Unity blog:

http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/

Good luck to you ALL!

Be sure you take advantage of Unity’s latest promotion!

SALE STARTS AT NOON CENTRAL TIME

PLEASE share your lovely creations on Facebook with the Unity {show & tell) Facebook group. Lots of us check-in there daily (I check in several times daily—I’m addicted to inspiration).

Thank you all so much for hopping along with us and leaving positive comments. They are MUCH appreciated. PLEASE leave me your questions in the comments.

Click on the next picture below to be taken to the next blog in the hop for some Unity inspiration!

Unity Blog Hop 11.27.14!

Not only is it Thursday and the Unity Hop, but TODAY is Thanksgiving in the United States!  I have a layout with a video to share with you on what I’m thankful for—my family.

Featured in the layout above is a picture of my four children being goofy and silly together while we were at Disneyland. When this magic happens, these are the happiest times in my life. My family is my reason for everything. Being a wife to my husband and a mother to my children completes me. That’s the truth. I cannot imagine my life without them and I couldn’t be more proud of them and my husband.

“I may not be perfect, but when I look at my children, I know that I got something in my life perfectly right.”

That quote says it all.

What are YOU thankful for?

Here’s a video I took while putting the above layout together.  It’s super short and might entertain some of you while you’re waiting for your bird to cook.

Thankful Layout using LOTS of Unity Stamps

Here’s a peek at the Unity stamps I used above.

(some) OTHER SUPPLIES USED

WHAT does Unity have this week for two lucky Unity enthusiasts on Thanksgiving Thursday?!!!

We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to giveaway (Unity sign not included). Leave a comment on EACH blog in the hop (including the Unity blog) for your chance to win.  The winners will be announced Saturday night on the Unity blog:

http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/

Good luck to you ALL!

PLEASE share your lovely creations on Facebook with the Unity {show & tell) Facebook group. Lots of us check-in there daily (I check in several times daily—I’m addicted to inspiration).

Click on the next picture below to be taken to the next blog in the hop for some Unity inspiration!

AND I hope you all have a SAFE and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!