Hip Hop Hangover

First off, I must say that I am *trying* to work out some photography issues with my cards. I generally craft at night, and don't have natural light to work with, so I have been playing withe the white balance on my camera trying to get decent photos. I don't think I am there yet, but I will keep trying.

The first card is one that was created to fulfill the I {heart} Unity challenge that Jeanne posted during Hip Hop yesterday. This is the only love or heart stamp I have from unity.



I stamped the So & so loves stamp on watercolour paper using brown staz-on ink. Then I watercoloured the image using the watercolour wonder crayons from Stampin' Up! I wet my brush and picked up the colour from the crayons. This is my first ever attempt at watercolouring using the crayons, and I think it went okay.

The second challenge is a birthday card for Ms. Unity herself, the fabulous Angela!



This card uses the fantastic Cocktail Party set. The beverages are stamped with basic black ink, and coloured with SU markers. The "shadow" was created by colouring on a plastic case with a blue marker, then water colouring it on the image.



I rarely do anything inside my cards, but this seemed appropriate.

The lanterns at the top are stamped on velum, and embossed with black embossing powder. I then coloured them with SU markers, and used a wet brush to dilute the colour. They are cut out, and attached on pop dots.



You can kind of see the pop dots through the lanterns, but I don't mind it.

If you haven't already been there, make sure you visit Angela's blog to get the list of all of the Hip Hop Hangover participants.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back tomorrow for my contribution to Lauren's sketch challenge.

Let me know what you think of these cards. I love to hear what's on your mind.

Hip Hop Hangover

Happy Hip Hop Hangover!

Didn't we all have a GREAT time looking at all of the amazing blogs during the Unity blog hop!?!?

I am soooo excited there is now a scrapbooking design team. I *really* want to start scrapbooking, and I am sure these amazing ladies will inspire me to take the plunge.

This card was made because of Jeanne's Unity Dazzle challenge, but I didn't get it done in time for the challenge, so it is my Friday hangover card.



This card was also inspired by the one that Sharon Harnist shared on the Classroom blog. I never reach for purple, but her card is GORGEOUS, so I decided to pull out some Plum cardstock for the card base.

The image was sitting on my stamp desk from last week when I made this card. It is coloured with chalks, and the wings are also covered using my clear spica glitter pen. So glittery in real life.



Along the edge of the card I used some old olive SU rub-ons. They don't show up too well, but the metal charm tied to the ribbon is about the same shape and size as the rub-ons, so it really seems to flow well.



Make sure you also check out the rest of the Hip Hop Hangover blogs by stopping by Angela's to get the whole list.