Happy Easter

Can you believe Unity Stamp Company is sponsoring our contest over at Mountain Plains Crafters?

We are so excited to take the time to recognize National Craft Month, and to have Unity Stamps join us by donating not just one prize, but two!  

Be sure you "like" MPC at the link above, and tag your friends on the pinned post to qualify for the prize.  One tagger, and their friend, will each win a grab bag of 25 stamps from

Unity Stamp Company!

For my project, I decided to do a mash-up of two different stamp companies

why?

well, because I really just don't have many Easter stamps!

good reason, huh?

I'm featuring Unity Stamp Company's have a little faith

and the bunny is from Tim Holtz Spring Sprung

the title sentiment I cut from Jillibean Soup's Southern Chicken Dumpling Soup 6x6 pad

I colored the tulips using Copic markers

and created the watercolor background using Gelatos

Now go get yourself & your friends entered to win some fantastic Unity Stamps!

Julie's 3rd Blogoversary Blog Hop! Wahoo

Welcome to the 3rd Edition of "Julie's Blogoversary Blog Hop".  We're so glad you have joined us!  Julie has gathered together her friends and tons of sponsors to make this a GREAT event!

Here are our wonderful sponsors!

You'll be inspired by each stop of the hop.  The theme, "Lucky to Call You Friend" will be evident in the projects of Julie and her friends.  Many of the talented ladies have blog candy to give away on their blogs, so watch for that, and follow the individual rules on their blogs for how to win it.

Here is the complete hop list:

Julie  

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Brenda 

*** Paula  ** You are here ***

Kary < ------ <<< Go here next!

Ruth 

Miwa 

Karen  

Chris

Regina   

Donna K 

Gwen 

Ema  

Polly  

Lucy 

Beth  

Corrie 

Maria  

Karen  

My 13-yo niece, Autumn has been spending her Spring Break with me this week

and, of course, we got crafty!

We created these birds on Canvas thanks to Donna Downey

{aka That Crazy Donna Lady}

based on Inspiration Wednesday March 4

Here is Autumn's

the sentiment on hers

Here's mine

the sentiment on mine

Do you want to know about the prizes, and how to win them?  Leave a comment on Julie's blog, with your email address, so she can send you the free digi paper that EVERYONE gets!  Leave a comment on each hop along the way.  Prizes will be hidden along the hop.  

Here are the prizes available:

The Cutting Cafe -- any 3 sets

DigiStamps4Joy -- 1st prize - $10 gift certificate and a Guest Designer spot on a challenge

                              2nd prize - 2 digis of choice

Fitztown -- 3 digis

Snapdragon Snippets -- $15 gift certificate

SVG Attic -- $15 gift certificate

3 Girl JAM -- $20 gift certificate

QKR Stampede -- 3 images

Eureka Stamps -- 3 images

Timeless Twine -- $20 gift certificate

Aurora Wings Stamps -- $15 in digis

Close To My Heart Stamp Set 

 Unity Stamp Company -- 25 random stamps

Decosse's Dynamite Doodles -- free digi paper for each participant

    3 mini sets of papers - grand prize

    3 individual sets for 3 other prizes

    Mini Heartland paper set 

Creative Bugs -- 5 images

Amy Doodle's Stamp Co. -- free image for everyone, plus 40% off of entire purchase for one lucky winner

Please enjoy this free image from Amy Doodle's Stamp Company -- Nerdy Girl!

It's time for the next stop on the hop!  Have fun, and thanks so much for participating!  Off you go to Kary's Blog!

AMAZING stamps

I'm in the group on facebook where today I saw an artist post a linky to her Esty shop

Oh.My.Gosh.

those stamps are AMAZING!

they are a little price but they aren't mass produced

extremely details & just beautiful

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BevChoyArt?ref=l2-shopheader-name

I'm tellin' you, after my boy goes to Italy for the World TaeKwon-Do Championship

I WILL purchase at least one face stamp!

I cannot draw faces, I have tried & tried

and I'm just horribly bad at it

and Bev is unbelievably awesome

so I'll get my faces from her & just do the decorations around them ;-)

win-win

You can see some of her stamps she's put to use on her facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/bevchoyart?ref=bookmarks

watercolor

SoSuzyStamp monthly challenge right now is Watercolor

which is great since I have an obsession with Gelatos right now

the background is all Gelatos

the Dragonflies I colored with Copic markers

the sentiment is from an old Fancy Pants set

black ink is StazOn and a bit of Crystal Stickles

and speaking of Dragonfly, isn't he adorable? this is one of my most recent So Suzy Stamps!

fly bird fly

Saturday & Sunday I was working on some crafty projects when I got the urge to change directions and make something with this awesome Donna Downey Bird Stencil.

But I resisted the urge to pull off what I was working on, I hate partially done projects!

Then there I was innocently zipping around on facebook when I noticed 

HEY

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge March challenge... Birds of a Feather!

This is a 8x10 canvas

first I pained the background with a whispy mix of Dark Titanium White & Neutral Grey

then I applied a layer of Teal mixed with Glazing Liquid & let it sit for a couple of minutes then whiped it off with a baby wipe

I hand painted the tree using Raw Umber but it was kinda blah

so I grabed the Raw Umber Light & mixed with one of my favorite mediums Course Texture Gel

Next I painted on the leaves with Light Green & Sap Green Hue

Using Donna Downey's Grunge Halftone Dots, I randomly painted them using the Dark Titanium White

and added a little High Flow Carbon Black & a few light splatters

I stenciled the bird using Quinacridone Red

Using a Fineliner & the Teal paint mixed with Airbrush Medium, I finished it off with the sentiment