since I was able to do both Hip Hop Challenges yesterday you are gettin a double dose of Unity in my HHH post!!!The first challenge I did was to use Gel Pens on your card.
Well I own 2 gel pens a Sakura Gelly Roll Pen and a White Gel pen!
So the Sakura it is - I immediately thought of cupcakes cause I always use it on the cupcake liners!!!! I used Unity's Cupcakes a'la Yummy and the Limelight Challenge sketch for the week. The papers are from Basic Grey's Urban Prairie. I stickled the tops as part of the Limelight challenge to use pink bling! They are Worn Lipstick Distress stickles!


The second and far more difficult challenge for me anyway was to TILT your main image! YIPES! I like things nice and straigh - so tilting sends me into a tizzy! Somehow I
managed to survive! I was also able to create this for Dutch Dare's Card Challenge which
is being sponsored by Limelight! It was to create a Valentine
using NO pink or red. Yes there is a tiny bit of pink but hopefully
it will be overlooked/forgiven!
I used the birds from Giggle Grove and did some reverse stamping to make them
face each other. Colored them in, drew a little heart and handwrote Love Birds.
The paper on this is also Basic Grey's Urban Prairie - lovin this stuff!
Thanks for looking!

Today is a big day at Minnie Cline Elementary!
It's the 100th Day of School!!!!!
So while I am off instructing the future crafters of the world or at least NW Missouri, here's my Hip Hop Hangover post!

This card is also a challenge card! I used this week's Etsy Challenge on Ashely's blog! The shop is ZoZoCards found HERE and my particular inspiration is this piece of work, HERE.
I used this week's Unity Card Sketch which can be found HERE. I flipped it to work better for my image. I LOVE my new vanilla HP Hardware - but I am still trying to decide if I can handle it with WHITE paper! What do you think? I colored these little Owls from the Unity October KOM with my SU markers - see who needs Copics?!?! I then punched them out with my Marvy Pink Oval punch and layered them with a Marvy Purple Scalloped Oval Punched out piece of DP from SU. I added soem details to the scallops and oval.

I need life to sllllllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwww down a bit! But since I don't see it doing that...here's a super fast Hip Hop Hangover post!

This is the card I whipped up for my brother's birthday! It uses the relatively new set from Unity by the owner Angela called This is the Time! I just love it! I used Worn Grid on the background cause I think it goes so well with this image! This also uses this week's Unity Sketch! TFL!

Man I have missed Hip Hop! It is so nice to chat with the girls on that thread - they are soooooo nice!!! And I won a handle yesterday! Well I already have ALL the handles so I will be needing to figure something out to do with that! Hmmmmm! Stay tuned!
Here's my card for HHH! It started out as the SLIM challenge card and then I went back and added to it!
I just LOVE this BIG snowflake from Unity! Did you check out the deals yesterday? Well if not there's still some time - most are good till midnight tonight! GO CHECK THEM OUT!
This card is still pretty simple! I stamped the snowflake in Versamark then embossed it in Silver EP. I punched it out with my PINK marvy circle punch. I layered that on a silver scalloped circle via my PURPLE scalloped circle punch from Marvy. I paper pierced around the circle on each scallop. The base is brushed silver layered with Nght of Navy. The pp is old Basic Grey. I added bling-a-ling to the center of the snowflake, top corners, and to the scallops at the bottom. I layered silver satin and a narrower navy statin ribbon behind the image. Both are from my stash that I got on clearance in the sewing department at Hobby Lobby they will have leftover rolls for like 50cents!

Have you experienced Hip Hop yet??????
No?
Well you simply MUST check out The Unity Stamp Company Blog
and join us next week in the Unity Hip Hop Forum on SCS!
Every week they have challenges, chit chat and best of all FREE Unity! And then of course Friday is Hip Hop Hangover - cause you stayed up to late chattin! So this is my first time participating in HHH, I hope it's good enough -those Unity girls are some WAY talented ladies let me tell ya! This was for one of the challenges yesterday to use GOLD! I don't have a problem with god so I enjoyed this one! My wedding rings and most other "important" jewelry is gold.
And I had new Unity goodies to use! I placed an order last Friday - FAB black friday specials and it made here YESTERDAY less than a week! How is that for super fast shipping?!?!
Here is my card! It has alot going on!
First off - have you been visiting Tim Holtz's blog this week???? The 12 Tags of Christmas? Well on day 2, Tuesday, he showed this technique of swirling alcohol inks and the metalic mixatives together to make a swirly background for his tag. Since I actually had those things I thought I would try it! I wanted GOLD but didn't have it so I used Pearl and Red - it is pretty and I had fun trying would have been better with GOLD and another shade of red to add more depth. So that is the red base and the big red scalloped circle under the sentiment. I then went with this weeks sketch challenge on SCS for my layout! The patterned paper is Basic Grey's Wassil, the yellow looking paper behind it is PTI's gold which looks better in person, this whole photo is pretty bad but it was dark here and I wanted to post so that's what you get! I stamped the sentiment Jesus is the REason for the Season in versamark then embossed it using CTMH's gold EP. I punched that out with my purple marvy scalloped oval punch. I had punced out a red scalloped circle from my base piece with the Purple marvy punch. I inked both of them and the patterned paper pieces and base all with gold encore ink and heat set it! I added some gold brads to the sentiment as well. It needed something so I added a strip of green velvet ribbon I found at wal-mart!!!! Turned out nicely! It also wound up qualifying for the other hip hop challenge Shout Out - to create a card with the sentiment or words being the focus! Thanks for looking and join me next week for hip hop! It's so fun!