Friends of Unity-Animal Blog Hop

Welcome to our August Friends of Unity Blog Hop where several amazing designer friends and myself share our love (and obsessions) of all things Unity Stamps each month with a new theme and lots of Unity GIVEAWAYS!!! Scroll down to enter & get ready for some fur-tabulous and Paw-mazing inspiration!!! 

But before I get started...check back to all of our July Blog Hops to see if you are one of the many Winners and claim your prizes! 
Esther Asbury. is a Winner here at My Kraft Kloset, for July 2019!
Congratulations!!! 

Our theme for this months Blog Hop is...Furry Friends or any kind of animals!
And once again I am challenged to create something with animals, which I'll admit, I'm not great at coloring. But I dug into my Unity stash to see what I could find and I was pleasantly surprised. And with Unity...once you get started...it's hard to stop stamping. So, I have quite a random collection to share with you today! 

First up this darling 'Panda' card

I started with an A2 110lb kraft cardstock base with a lovely green watercolor patterned paper from MFT that's cut about a 1/4" smaller and adhered to card base. Using a die cutting machine, cut a a six circle cutout die cut in a darker green patterned paper from G45 and glued down with liquid glue. (save the extra circles). Using a Misti stamp tool, I stamped the panda's, butterfly, stars, and sentiment (from 2 Unity Panda sets) with Catherine Poolers Midnight black ink on white X-Press It cardstock. And colored all the pieces with alcohol markers. I used a light gray on the panda's for highlights and dimension, fussy cut them out, and adhered them to the card. With a blending brush I added a touch of green distress oxide ink to the sentiment, adhered it to one of those extra die cut circles leftover from earlier, trimmed the edges, and used 3D foam tape to pop it up and adhere to the panel. Added some shimmer to the butterfly wings with Wink of Stella-clear and added yellow stickles glitter glue to the stars for some extra sparkle. Once dry, adhered all the pieces to the panel to complete this adorable card! So, cute for many occasions!

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​Next up: This adorable 'bunny' card 

I started with a 12x12" 110lb light pink cardstock, cut in half 6x12" and folded for a 6x6" finished base (not shown) with two amazingly fun 6x6 patterned papers from Doodlebug, cut on a diagonal, and adhered to the card base.

Using a Misti stamp tool, I stamped the bunny on white X-Press It cardstock with Gina K Amalgam black ink and colored with these alcohol maker colors shown above. I only used two gray markers on the bunny, with a touch of pink, and a red heart. I added colorless blender ink onto a terry wash cloth and dabbed it onto the bunny in a few places, to take off some gray ink, which leaves a faint textured imprint from the wash cloth. To resemble fur. A quilted paper towel or baby wipe works too.

I felt the image was too stark. So I tapped some pink distress oxide ink onto an acrylic block, added a couple drops of water, and painted on some pink watercolor around the bunny. Don't add too much water, as your paper may ripple or pill, because we're not using watercolor paper. But it can be done. Just add a little color at a time and dab off with a paper towel. You can let it dry a little and add more color for depth as needed. Set a side to dry. Once dry, I added some watered down black distress oxide ink splatters around the image with a paint bush, being careful to cover or mask bunny, so not to get any on the image. Set a side to dry. Using a die cutting machine I cut out the bunny with a stitched square die; cut out a larger square in black cardstock to create a border; and cut an even larger stitched square from a light green cardstock. Once dry adhere the bunny image to the black cardstock square, adhere the light green stitched square down first, like a diamond, and then adhere the bunny image on top. Stamped a sentiment (from a Unity grab bag) with Amalgam ink onto light green cardstock, adhere to black cardstock, trim around, and adhere to card. Added some pink and green glittery enamel dots to finish this precious card that is so adorable for many occasions!

Voila! And you too can make "furry friend" cards! I hope I've inspired you to mix and match your stamps in new and creative ways!​​ And see what you can create. ​The possibilities are endless! ​ 

Here are a few other 'furry friends' below that I created for you to enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by! ~Kim
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Supplies {affils}: 
(Panda card): Unity Stamps: Star & a Bear, Butterfly & a Bear (or there is a bundle of panda's in a set too); White X-Press It  cardstock (alcohol marker friendly); Spectrum Noir markers; Catherine Poolers Midnight black ink; Brutus Monroe-110lb lunchbag cardstock (kraft); My Favorite Things (MFT) Watercolor Wash Brights 6x6 pad (green); MISTI Stamping Tool; Graphic 45-Lost in Paradise; Ranger Distress Oxide Ink-Cracked Pistachio and Diamond Stickles glitter glue; Picket Fence Studio-Life Changing Brushes;  Big Shot Machine; Gina Marie Designs Six Circle Panel Die; Wink of Stella-glitter clear; adhesive enamel dots-clear glitter;  3D Foam Tape; Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue; Scor-Tape 1/4"

(Bunny card): Unity Stamps: Bunny-Keep You Forever Sentiment Kit, grab bag sentiment is from Completely Captured My Heart by Phyllis Harris; White X-Press It  cardstock (alcohol marker friendly); Spectrum Noir markers; AC Black and Green cardstock; SU light pink cardstock 12x12; Doodlebug-6x6 Kraft in Color-Color patterned paper; MISTI Stamping Tool; Ranger Distress Oxide Inks-Picked Raspberry & Black Soot;  Big Shot Machine; Gina Marie Designs Square Dies, & Stitched Square Dies; Gina K Designs-Amalgam black ink; adhesive enamel dots-pink and green glitter; and 1/4" Scor-Tape adhesive. 

Challenges:
HLS August Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
Brown Sugar Challenge 292 August 2019
Addicted To Stamps Challenge #352 - Make Your Mark (markers)
LTCCB #37 - August Anything Goes
WWC232 - "Anything Goes" Challenge
Simon Says Wed Challenge: Anything Goes
Repeat Impressions Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2419
Simon Says Mon Challenge: Bright and Cheerful (bunny card)
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper August 2019 challenge