Unity Friends with Flair Friday

This is my Unity Friends With Flair Entry. This is another one of the backs of my Faber Castell Design Memory Craft chipboard mini journal pages. I used DecoArt Decoupage to put Tim Holtz Text Tissue Paper on the background. Then I covered it PaperArtsy Chalk ink in the Chalk Color. I used a credit card to spread the paint. Then I covered the Heart stamp with Cobalt and Red Geranium Archival inks. I stamped the sentiment with black Archival ink. It's a little crooked but what are you going to do? It's just an art journal page. I inked the edges with a mini Distress Blender Tool and the blue Archival Ink. Both the stamp are from Unity Stamp Company. Thanks for stopping by!

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #13 - A Year of Choices (And Some Changes)

It's the first of the month. That means it's time for another challenge over at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge. We are celebrating our 1st Birthday!! It's been an awesome year and we have lots of fun things planned for our birthday celebration. Be sure to check out this month's challenge post for some amazing inspiration.

We are also implementing a few changes to our challenge rules, so be sure to remember the following when creating your June post.

1. You must include the challenge graphic.
2. You must comment on at least 3 design team member's blogs to be eligible for prizes and recognitions.
3. You may combine with 4 other challenges.

Also, our sponsor this month is Maya Road and they are offering 2 prizes filled with Maya Road Goodness to our 2 lucky random winners.

Our theme this month is "A Year of Choices." You can pick out any theme we have done over the past year. How fun is that? For my project I used several themes: Spray Inks, Around the House, Stamps and Flowers.

I made a very Patriotic American Shadowbox. Since Memorial Day was last week and the 4th of July is coming up and I bought an awesome new Unity Stamp Company Patriotic Stamp set, I was in the mood to make some thing red, white and blue.

Michaels has had these 7 Gypsies Shadowboxed in the Clearance section a while now and I finally picked one up.

To create the background I brushed on some Decorate Twinkles Glitter Paint in Blue Galaxy.

Then I sprayed on Decoart Spray Ink in Primary Cyan and Maya Road Spray Mist in Strawberry.

Here's the final project.

When I was trying to decide what to do, I thought my big Unity Flag Stamp would fit perfectly in the big opening - and it did!! I also used the smaller round star with stripes Unity stamp. I used Decorate Media Matte Medium to adhere the stamped images to a piece of thick chipboard before I adhered them to the box. I stamped Let Freedom Ring on a Maya Road Ticket and stenciled a red star on the ticket with Decoart paint and an Andy Skinner Stencil. I attached it to the shadowbox with a Maya Road Mini Clothespin in White.

In the lower left corner of the box I added a Maya Road Kraft Flower that I colored with Stampers Big Brush pens in red and blue. Then I added a wood 4 and 3 blue Maya Road flowers. For the rest of the embellishments I used stickers from various companies. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will play with us this month!!

Unity Friends With Flair Friday

I'm uploading this little canvas to Unity Stamp Company's Friends With Flair Friday. I used the Heart/Flag stamp that I got in a grab bag from Unity and my favorite background stamp - Stars of Worn. To get color on the heart stamp I used two small dabbers. I just dabbed on the distress inks to the stamp and then stamped it and cut it out. I used Barn Door and Faded Jeans Distress Inks. I also used the dabbers to create the striped background. I stamped the Stars of Worn background with white ink for the background.

I used a blue Stamper's Big Brush Ben around the edge of the stamp and around the edges of the little canvas. I smudged the edges with my fingers. The word courage is from Tim Holtz Chit Chat and I used the blue pen around the edges of the courage sticker also. The size of the canvas is about 3x4. The easel is fun to use in your house and you can switch out little seasonal canvases all year long. Thanks for stopping by!