Mirror Card Using Unity Stamps

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today I made some very encouraging cards using some Unity Stamp Company stamps. I've had these stamps for a while and to be honest, I'm a huge fan of Unity Stamp Co stamps. I always get a great image with their red rubber stamps.

Being a small business myself I absolutely love that I can support a small business when I purchase from Unity. Unity is located not far from me, about 4-5 hours away, in Minnesota. I've been purchasing their stamps for a very long time and have a fairly elaborate collection of the red rubber goodness they cook on-site to order!

Ok, well we are all here for the cards, so let's get right to it.

I've been trying to really encourage others lately. When I find myself in need of encouragement most, I try to encourage others as much as possible. I am a firm believer that what we put out into the world, we get back.

I wanted to remind women that when they look in the mirror they are not seeing the version of themselves that others see. We often pick and poke at ourselves in a way that is detrimental to our mental health.

I created scene cards where the woman was looking in the mirror. And the mirror is really a mirror.

I used Tonic Studios brushed silver cardstock. If you haven't checked out their papers yet, I'm sorry but your wallet will be mad!

I created the frame with a beautiful die from Spellbinders. It is actually a locket die but with a little trimming and a snip, it becomes a beautiful mirror frame.

Check out my video and see how these beauties came together!Delaney Jane Cards YouTube

Thanks for stopping by! -Renee'

I'm Late

Color throwdown day again, I am really loving this challenge. It makes me push myself to be creative. Check out the challenge here: CTD442

When I saw the colors for this week, I knew this was the stamp I wanted to use. It is this tiny set by Avery Elle called I'm Late and it is made up of three little stamps. The snail with the balloon and two sentiment lines, Happy Birthday and Sorry I'm Late...


And since this was such a simple little stamp set I wanted to make a simple little card. I chose a one layer, clean and simple card. I actually colored on the card base y'all!!! <---seriously don't know where the y'all came from because I'm from the Midwest.

I embossed a wonky stitched rectangle on the front of the card base and I loved how that looked. I stamped the image and sentiment in Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink and colored with my Copics. You can see the colors this week are a pale aqua, pale beige, pale grey and pale yellow. I used three greys, N0, N2, & N4 for the snail. I used Y0000, Y11, Y13 & Y21 for the balloon ( I probably could have skipped the Y11 it really didn't even show up). I used BG0000 & BG32 for the background aqua color  and E000 & E40 for the beige color. I blended the backgrounds out with the colorless blender 0 marker. I also added some texture to the ground with the 0 marker. A simple highlight with the white gel pen on the snail, darkened his eyes with a black glaze pen and then some spectrum noir sparkle pen and glossy accents on the balloon and the party hat and the card front was complete.

I finished the inside of the card with the remaining half of the sentiment, Happy Birthday and stamped the snail in an aqua ink. That finished the card for today.