Sunday, October 29, 2017

Growing in Unity Hop + Prizes




Boy (or in this case girl) - do I ever have an exciting couple of minutes planned for you. I'm so jealous because you guys (or girls in this case) get to hop through some AMAZING talented cardmakers AND you get the chance to win some awesome prizes from Unity Stamp Company.


If you're here from the hop, you're on the caboose of the talent train. 
Here's the official order:
Becca Cruger from Damsel of Distressed <-- YOU ARE HERE

Here in North Dakota, we saw the first snow of the season this week! Naturally that put me in a Christmasy mood (aka the pre-Christmas panic of realizing I haven't made any Christmas cards this season and I now have exactly ONE MONTH to get crack-a-lackin'). 

I bought the Unity Itty Bitty stamp set All is Calm All is Bright stamp set last Christmas season and never opened the package. So now I'm killing two guilt birds with one stone! I get to use a never-before-used-schtuff (in the words of Darnell Knauss) AND start my Christmas card spree. 


I stamped my image and then sponged over it with some Broken China Distress Oxides. Then I spritzed it with a little bit of water. 


To add a little texture and shimmer to my background, I schmeeeared some Heidi Swapp metallic white embossing paste through a stencil. 


Instead of letting it air dry, which would have produces flat circles, I used my heat tool to dry it. You can see that this causes the paste to bubble and crack, producing a yummy texture (and helping impatient crafters like me get on with their business). 


I put it all together, and got this little lovely! I even think I can get away with mailing it with no extra postage. Woot! 

Thanks for popping by! If you're new to my blog, I'd love for you to give me a follow. I love teaching new mixed media techniques and sharing my processes with you all - so you won't be bored! 

Now get to hopping and win some prizes!

53 comments:

  1. what a good holiday card...and I do like the texture on your card.
    stamping sue
    http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

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  2. I loved this beaitiful card of yours Becca !

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  3. AWESOME card! I love the dimensional paste for the card base!

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  4. Love the background you created. I must try for sure.

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  5. Lovely card for Christmas and great techniques.

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  6. Lady!!! This is soooooo pretty! I need to make it to your craft haven in GFK one of these days :)

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  7. Fabulous image and awesome card, love the bright blue and pure white.

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  8. Love your card and using the stencil and paste.

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  9. This is the perfect card for starting holiday card making. Beautiful and quick to create. I think you put me in the mood to start my holiday cards. Thank you for the motivation to get started.

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  10. A very pretty card!!! Love the white image and blue distress ink. The texture you put on the card stock is very cool! Love it!

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  11. Two guilt birds ... snort ... we've all got lots of guilt birds. Love that awesome blue.

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  12. Beautiful card! I have not notice this set before but obviously need to add it to my collection!

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  13. What a fabulous card, and great technique, don't you love having a NBUS pile!

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  14. Love how you put this card together. So pretty.

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  15. OMG! This is beautiful! I'm in awe! Your technique is amazing!

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  16. Lovely technique! We had a snowfall here in central British Columbia a couple of weeks ago; thankfully it did not stay!

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  17. Gorgeous stamp Becca, I love the way you have done this card

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  18. Lovely card! Love the All is Calm All is Bright stamp you used.... now it's on my wish list! :)

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  19. I love this image! And love your card. Pretty color and love the added texture.

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  20. A wonderful card with this lovely Unity stamp, the amazing fresh blue and that bubbled/crackled metallic paste!!! Really a great texture!! Your talent always shines, Becca!

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  21. Beuatiful card, love that stamp too, great to see a card with it!!

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  22. I just love your stencil technique- and also love that you can use it for an added touch with no added postage : ) Beautiful card. Not loving the idea of snow coming soon....LOL

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  23. Fantastic mixed media card, Becca. I love the deer.

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  24. Loving the mixed media. Very pretty.

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  25. Liked your stencil technique. I'm like you, use the heat gun, great card

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  26. As always, love your cards! :). What a cute card to get me in the christmasy season! ;)

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  27. This is unique and pretty with great texture!

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  28. Gorgeous card! Much love and God bless you 😍

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  29. You made a gorgeous card with such basic techniques. I love it!!

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  30. Wow - that's amazing! Love the technique and the colors are unique and really go well with the image. It's more like art than a card!

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  31. I like that technique,different.

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  32. Love this card. Thanks for sharing your technique with us🙂

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  33. Wow, that looks so cool. It's snowing on him...

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  34. Great looking card! I found a couple of Christmas stamps in my stash that have not been shown any love. Time to break them out, with your simple but artsy technique. Thanks.

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  35. such a great card! OMG the colors are amazing! I just love the textured dots!!

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  36. That deer is gorgeous. Fun technique with the paste. Hugz

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  37. Really like this card! I keep coming back to it to enjoy the crisp white and aqua colors. Very Christmas-y!

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  38. This soooo makes me want to run right home and try this!

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  39. simply gorgeous...guilty of that as well...taking a year to use a stamp....and then I wonder why did I wait so long????

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  40. Gorgeous! I also may have one or two unopened Christmas stamps from last year...

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  41. Always a good thing to use those unopened stamps. The added texture really sets it off.

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  42. Cute card! I have never used the texture pastes.
    --Phaline Mays

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  43. Never bored visiting your site...Always so creative and I do so enjoy learning new techniques too. Gorgeous card, love that reindeer stamp and that pearl embossing paste through the stencil. Gives the card extra texture and interest without adding bulk...love it x

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  44. Love that fabulous stamp Becca, and the background under the image panel is stunning
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  45. Stunning stamped image💙 love the process of your card.

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  46. Love the subtle texture you added to this pretty clean and simple card Becca!

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  47. Oh what a beauty, Becca! Love that HS paste--need to use mine more often!

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