Where I Want to Be

Hello again! I am so excited to share with you my projects for the Beth Duff Designs collaboration with Unity Stamp Company! Two of my FAVORITE companies working together!

I used the set called "Warmth of Home" which is the perfect set for a Christmas themed card! I decided to do one card two ways. My first is with Copic Markers. I went with Cool Gray colors for the couch, Warm Gray for the blanket, then reds and greens for the pillows. I hit the blanket and red pillow with clear Wink of Stella to add a bit of glitter.

My next card, I used Prismacolor Colored Pencils on kraft paper. For this card, I used Warm Gray colors for the couch, for the blanket I used the Silver with the lightest Cool Gray, and again red and green. I again added Wink of Stella, which isn't amazing on colored pencils, but I love glitter, so I had to try!

The paper for the background is Vintage 45, I thought it looked like a wallpaper. The floor is kraft paper cut with a Penny Black die. The rug is the crochet stamp from "Warmth of Home" stamped on the reverse side of the printed paper. The sentiments are so sweet in this set, I have a lot of family that is spread out, so "home is where I want to be" really spoke to my heart. I stamped it onto a stitched rectangle using Catherine Pooler Eucalyptus ink.

Now it's time to hop! We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to give away. Leave a comment on EACH design team member’s blog in the hop for your chance to win. {We will announce the winners on the Unity blog TUESDAY night.}

Angeline 


Camille


Crystal 


Donna


Echo 


Gaylynn 


Karen


Kary


Kris 


Mandi


Maria 


Noelle 


Robyn


Sharon


Shemaine


Beth Duff Designs


Niccole


Lynnea


Annie


Rachel (You found me!)


Unity Stamp Co

Thank  you for visiting me,

R. Winn

Magical Friendship Week

Good to see you again! I'm so excited you're joining us for the Kindred Stamps & Witt and Sass Stamp Company "Magical Friendship Week" Collaboration! Our teams have put together some absolutely magical cards for you and today, I get to share mine!

I used the lion from Witt and Sass's Magical Creature stamp set and colored him up with Copics. He is paired with a boy and owl from the Kindred Stamps Student's of Magic stamp set which are also colored with Copics. For the owl, I used very little color, but did chose to dot the wing and a few other small sections to imitate a Snowy Owl. 

Next, I used a retired stencil from Clarity Stamps of a gnarly tree with a square from to create a background. I used Catherine Pooler inks for the grass and sky, from bottom to top, the colors are Eucalyptus, Skyline, Juniper Mist, Black Jack, and finally, Midnight. After lifting the stencil, I did go back and blend some color into the square frame of the stencil to diffuse the bright white that was left behind.

I didn't love the tree being white either, so I took two shades of brown Distress Crayons and colored it in, after coloring it in, I used a dry paint brush to kinda blend the colors together and soften the look. I placed my owl on a tree branch, and the lion and boy in the grass below. To add depth to the card, I glued to owl down with Tombow Mono Glue, but used dimensionals to pop the boy and lion up a touch.

I absolutely love this sentiment from Students of Magic, so I had to use it. I found an off white paper in a Graphic 45 stack to heat emboss the sentiment on to. I used a Lindy's Gang embossing powder (seriously fantastic powder!!) Looking through my die cuts I wasn't finding a shape or style that I loved so I opted to just fussy cut around the sentiment. 

I mounted my card face onto a sheet of patterned vellum that looked like stars, then mounted them both to a purple card base. To finish the card off, I added a few sequins from the Kindred Stamps Galaxy Shaker Pack. 

Hopefully, you've enjoyed my project, and hopefully you go pick up a few magical stamp sets of your own. I feel so lucky to have become friends with Audra of Kindred Stamps, and Amy of Witt and Sass Stamp Company. These are kind, genuine women who work their hind ends off to deliver exceptional products to their customers. I'm proud to have the chance to work with each of them, and truly value having both of them in my life.

I want to invite you to become part of our communities, you can join the Kindred Stamps Fan Club and become a Sassy in the Witt & Sass Stamp Company Facebook group. Make sure you check out all of the products that both Witt and Sass and Kindred Stamps have to offer as well! We can't wait to see what you make!

Thanks for stopping by,

~R. Winn

Kindred Christmas

It's that time of the month! Kindred Stamps newest release goes live this Friday!!

We are so excited to share this release with you because there are SO many cute sets. I am sharing my card using "Kindred Christmas" this set features, US! The Kindred Stamps Creative Team, Audra, Marcia, Molly, and Me. It has a ton of wonderful sentiments and if I do say so myself, we are pretty adorable.

I started with a sparkly pink card base, then layered a piece of white card stock under a purple glitter card stock. I used the Lawn Fawn Snowfall Backdrop from Kraftgali to create a snowy scene. 

I colored us up using Copics, with a touch of Wink of Stella on Marcia's snowflake. For the sentiment, I chose to use the buildable sentiment "'tis the season to sparkle!" which I heat embossed in Lawn Fawn Rose Gold powder.

I hope you enjoy this card and am so excited for you to see all of the cute sets releasing this month. The entire Kindred Stamps October release will be available Friday, October 19 at 8am PST/11am EST. Be sure to check out the Kindred Stamps blog on Friday for the full product release as well as the complete line up of all the Kindred Stamps Design Team projects from release week! If you visit and comment on all of the designers' blogs this week, you could win $15 in Kindred Stamps shop credit! So join the Fan Club and release event, show the design team some love, and get ready to empty those wallets this Friday!

Thanks again for visiting!

~R. Winn

Better Together!

Hi there!

I have some adorable tags to share with you today! I used the Beth Duff Designs set "Better Together" for a set of 4 tags, which may not seem like a lot, but tags and I don't get along, I really struggle with them.  I have a plethora of tags that sit in a drawer in my craft room, so I went ahead and grabbed a few to pair with my "Better Together" images. 

I started with this little cup of soda! It is so happy and the sentiment paired perfectly with it I think, I used Delicata ink in a dark blue so there is a little shine to it. Next I added some Studio Katia - Clear Round Drops from Kraftgali and some dark pink enamel drops to give the tag a bubbly feeling!

My next tag uses the pizza from "Better Together", I kept the base a simple blue and added a couple of scalloped circles that were in my stash. The large one hung over the edges so I trimmed it up after mounting it. I love the punny sentiment to pair with the pizza! I tried to make my pizza have a bit of a toasted look for the crust.  I added a couple Double ClickSkittles to finish off this tag.

The fries in "Better Together" are SO cute, I tried to color the little fry holder in a shaded look and the fries themselves are in a combination of light Earth tones and Yellows. I went a little rustic with the color scheme of this tag, using some skinny banners, which I didn't glue down all the way so they free flow a bit. These I taped under a light blue circle die cut. My sentiment on this one, I stamped in Ink On 3 black in, onto another tag, which I then cut down. I finished the tag off with some little green gem things from Queen & Co.

My last tag is a bit more busy. It features the chips and hot dog from "Better Together" which made me think of picnics! I used a tag from one of those tag stacks that a friend gave me years ago. My chips, I tried to color like a bag of Sour Cream & Onion, they sounded good that day! The hot dog bun is actually in the colors I would use for skin with a bit of E71 added in. I put the two buddies onto a gold glitter oval, the banner is actually from a kit, there is something else on the back but the plain white side was perfect for the sentiment. I added a few sequins from Kindred Stamps.

I hope you've enjoyed my take on Better Together, you can grab you own set from Beth Duff Designs and use coupon code "Rachel" for 10% off your first purchase!

Thanks for visiting!

~R. Winn

Day of the Dead!

Hi friends, Rachel here! I get to share with you my projects using the newest set, Day of the Dead. I absolutely adore this set, and hope you enjoy my two projects using it.

My first card, I colored up the little singing boy and the ragged skeleton for a card together. I'm not amazing at doing darker skin tones, but I felt like the little boy came out well, if a little darker than I had intended. His hair is shades of grey with it lighter on the top to look like a spotlight is hitting him and making it shine.

For the skeleton, I used E0000, E41, and E51 to create the bone color. I fussy cut them both, then went back with a Pen Blade to cut the fine details between the rib cage out. In my opinion, small details like this really complete the look for images like this.

 

Finally, I colored up two of the banner strings with bright colors, and went back with Copic white and a fine detail paint brush to give the illusion of a cut out. 

To create the background, I used a  wood floor Penny Black die cut that I picked up from Blitsy, and layered it over a sheet of black card stock. 

I like the bilingual sentiments in the set, I like to pretend that I can speak Spanish, when in reality I know about enough to ask where the bathroom is. HA! I stamped "La familia es todo." in Catherine Pooler ink on white card stock, and used stitched die to cut it out. After I had placed it, I trimmed it up, rather than trying to cut a straight line on my own (it never turns out.)

My next card, I kept very simple. I wanted to color the pup up, because well, I love dogs! So I colored him in shades of brown, then covered it with a light Warm Gray, to give him a bit of a ragged look. I added a Warm Gray shadow below him.

I decided to do a colored card base, and this orange just felt right, so I used it for both the base and for the sentiment, which is actually two of the sentiments in "Day of the Dead". 

I used a Birch Press die I snagged at Kraftgali for the white card face. I added a few of the Day of the Dead Shaker Pack sequins in bunches in a few random spots on the card to finish it off. 

Hopefully you enjoyed my take on this set, I hope you pick it up so I can see what you make with it! Thanks for visiiting today!

~R. Winn