Day 2 – Growing in Unity 2024

Day 2 brings you shaped cards. I wanted to try something a little different at some point this week. Well, two sweet shaped cards were the next to be completed.

For the first one, I made a simple 5 x 5 square card. I went about this a little backward by starting with my focal image. I used the largest of Unity Stamp Company’s Scallops & Squares Nesting Dies for my focal image panel and then used Hoppy Notes and stamped the focal image using Gina K Designs Amalgam Jet Black Ink (the link is to Obsidian Amalgam Ink as that is the current black amalgam ink). I love this super sweet little bunny.

I colored the image using Prismacolor Pencils.

After coloring the image, it sat for a bit waiting to tell me what it wanted to be. After a few days, this little guy told me he wanted to be a 5 x 5 square card. I cut an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of white card stock down to 5 x 10 and scored it at 5 inches. I also dug into my stash of Unity paper packs and decided to use a peach polka dot out of the Cloud-Hopper Chronicles paper pack from the June 2023 Whit Kit.

Finally, I added the sentiment from the Hoppy Notes set and I had a sweet little card.

Today’s second card is a little tag card made using Unity’s Make a Tag Die Set. I started with the small scalloped tag and stamped my focal image using Unity’s Born To Be Loved set. This sweet little girl was chosen for me by a dear friend during one of our art days while I was trying to decide on which bunny sets to use for this week. She looked through my basket of bunny sets and said she liked this one best, so I knew I had to use this one. I stamped the image in the same Gina K. black amalgam ink.

I decided to simply spotlight color this sweetie. Every little girl deserves hot pink, and it is sort of my signature color.

Again, it took me a little time to decide what to actually do with this little tag. As with the square card above, this little sweetie told me a tag-shaped card was the way to go. I used the largest scalloped tag from Unity’s Make a Tag Die Set to cut the base, making sure that the top cutting blade was just off the paper so that I still have a fold. I cut a layer with the next size down. The layer is from Unity’s Watercolor Stripes paper pack from the May 2020 Whit Kit.

I glued the stitched tag directly to the tag base and then popped up my little sweetie tag using foam tape for a little dimension. The sentiment on the front is also from the Born To Be Loved set.

Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win one of two gifts from Unity that I have to give away this week. Each gift is $20 in store credit on the Unity Stamp Company website. I will be drawing two names using a random picker at the end of the week from those who comment.

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