Growing in Unity Day Five: The Favorite

Welcome back for my last day as a GIU Gal for Unity Stamps.  This week has really flown by and I've enjoyed reading all your comments.  As promised, today's card was made using my favorite Unity stamp set "Grey Skies Happy".  I don't suppose it will surprise anyone that it is a Phyllis Harris set - I LOVE all her sets!  I think there are several reasons that this is my favorite set.  The rainy weather theme is perfect for Washington state.  The set reminds me a little bit of one of my favorite childhood books Ramona the Pest, which is probably why I always end up coloring the rain boots red.  I also tend to color the image kind of the way little girls around 3 or 4 like to get dressed - they put on their prettiest items or the ones they like best with no regard to whether they go together or not.

I hope you can read the sentiment.  Photographing that part of the card was tricky.  In case you can't read it - it says "You make me happy when skies are grey".

Thank you so much for stopping by this week and thank you to Unity Stamps for allowing me to participate in Growing In Unity 2019!  Now, you have one more chance to enter to win some Unity Stamps for yourself.  You have until midnight on April 6th to leave a comment to be entered in the contest.  All comments posted after that time will not be entered into the drawing.  So, here's today's question:  What is your favorite Unity stamp and what makes you like it so much?

Thanks so much for stopping by, be sure to check back next week for the names of the winners of the contest! See you soon - DeAnn

Growing in Unity Day Four: Owl I need is a little inspiration

Hello! Welcome to the fourth day of my week as a GIU Gal.  The card for today took a long time to think through.  I knew I wanted to use the owl stamp (Looking For Love), but I wasn't sure how I wanted to put it together. Usually, when I am in need of inspiration, I will just pop over to Pinterest or check out the examples made using the stamp at the stamp company's website. Guess what?! I couldn't find any examples for this stamp.  Zip! Zilch! Nada!  So, I looked at other owl cards, but they just made me want to buy more stamps and really didn't inspire me.  I stamped the owl on some paper and started playing around with it and then, I left it in my craft room and thought about it - for hours!  Do you ever do that? Just mull ideas over in your mind trying to decide exactly how you want to make a card?  That's part of my process, especially when it's an image that I know I want to use, but haven't decided on the colors or papers that will work best.
So, I thought about this owl all day.  I thought I'd put my card together after dinner, but dinner got interesting when my oven decided to throw out an error code and overheat. So, we had to shut off the power to the oven, cool it off and try to problem solve, oh, and still throw together something for dinner.  So, this card was finished at 1 am, which sounds late, but I'm a night owl (ha! I think I just made a pun).  I'm pretty happy with the end result, which is usually what happens when I have a stamp that stumps me for a bit.

Just one more day to go and I've saved my favorite stamp for the last day, so I hope you come back tomorrow.  Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered to win Unity stamps for yourself!  Today's question is: What do you use to inspire you when you are card making?
Thanks for stopping by!  See you tomorrow. - DeAnn

Growing in Unity Day 3: The Unity Stamps that started it all

Thanks for joining me for Day 3 of my GIU week. Today, I'm using the Unity Stamps that were my introduction to the company. I stumbled onto Unity during a blog hop, I'm not even sure it was a Unity blog hop, but somehow by exploring the different blogs I saw a card made using both of these Itty Bitty sets and immediately fell in love and placed my first Unity order.  The names of these sets are: Perfect Day Hummingbird and Too Much, Too Often Daisies 

Don't forget to leave a comment so you can be entered to win some Unity stamps for yourself!  There will be two winners. Today's question: What is your favorite animal to stamp and use in your cards?  And yes, cartoonish animals count, too.  Thanks for stopping by!  See you tomorrow! - DeAnn