My Sweet Petunia and Unity Stamps Blog

It is time for another hop, and I am delighted to be sharing with all of you a collaboration between My Sweet Petunia and Unity Stamps. 

I will have more information on the hop and the prizes below, but first I would like to share the 

cards I made for today's hop. 

For today's hop I used the Unity Stamp Happy Snail Mail Sentiment Kit for May 2017.  The set is full of 17 fun sentiments, a heart, and this wonderfully fun snail atop a mushroom.  Who can resist, which is why I did 2 cards.

I wanted to use this frame in my design, so I laid it out in my Misti for placement. To prepare I removed the foam padding, as the stamps are red rubber stamps mounted on foam.   

I arranged my stamp inside the frame and picked it up with my Misti door. I stamped with embossing ink and heat embossed using gold embossing powder.

I find it easier to paint inside my Misti as I use the creative corners to hold down my watercolour paper. For a bigger piece I would also add a couple of the magnets. I proceeded to watercolour using Zig brushes and Daniel Smith Watercolours. 

 I fussy cut the snail and mushroom once I finished painting it, keeping a bit of the grass. I then die cut the matting pieces and heat embossed the image on the designer paper, also in gold and attached the pieces to my card base. I attached the frame, then styled the mushroom and attached within the frame on foam strips.

To finish, I stamped the sentiment and die cut a banner, attaching it to the bottom of my card. I added Wink of Stella to the circles on the mushroom, as well as to the snail, and finished with a few sequins and crystals.

A close up of the snail and mushroom showing
the sparkle.

For my second card, I stamped the image on watercolour paper and heat embossed with gold embossing powder, and painted with Zig brushes and Daniel Smith Watercolours. I did the watercolour background and splatted it with a darker blue and white acrylic paint, then die cut the piece with a stitched rectangle die. I added designer paper to my card base and attached foam strips to the back of my panel before attaching to my card, and finished with my trademark sequins.  
More sparkle and an up close of the snail.

Thank you for joining the hop today, and I hope you 
have enjoyed my process to make these cards. 

Now on to the details for the hop and the prizes! 

Everyone who leaves a comment on all the blogs in the hop will go into a drawing for a chance to win.  The prize from My Sweet Petunia is the winner's choice of a Original Misti or a Mini Misti, and from Unity Stamps 3 prize packs.  Please comment by May 30th at noon Central Time in order to qualify.  The winner's will be posted on both the My Sweet Petunia Blog and the Unity Stamp Blog on Wednesday May 31st.  Now on to the hop.  Have fun everyone!

You should arrive here from Kary Lim's Blog

My Sweet Petunia

Heather Hoffman

Ilina Crouse

Echo Noble

Jeannie Streiff

Angie Blom

Maureen Wong

Kary Lim

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Lee Ann Barrett

Lisa Arana

Chris Dayton

Maria Levine

Dina Kowal

Sharon Nettleship

Vicki Garrett

Karen Maldonado

Stephanie Severin

Donna Baes

Julie Warner

Mandi Mance

Anna Wight

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Angela Bode

Shemaine Smith

Tosh Leyendekker

Kris Lancaster

Kelli Hull

Gaylynn Martling

Marci Snee

Joslyn Nielson

Maria Sabina

Stepahnie Muzzulin

Ceal Pritchett

Robin Weatherspoon

Unity Stamps Blog

Products: Misti Original and Mini, Unity Stamps May 2017 Sentiment Kit Happy Snail Mail, Memory Box Scalloped Stitch Trimmings, Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles, Frantic Stamper Stitched Double Fishtail Labels, Zig Brushes, Daniel Smith Watercolours, Wink of Stella, Gold Embossing Powder, Embossing Ink, Neenah Cardstock, Lawn Fawn in the Meadow 6x6 Designer Paper Pad, Sequins, Crystals, Foam Strips.