Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Unity Challenge Wednesday!

It's finally here! Officially, it's no longer a hop, but more of a HUNT...check out the bloggers who are participating to find the candy (aka freebie) on someone's site! The challenge this week is to CASE (Copy And Share Everything) a Design Team member's card (click on that link to find the blogs to surf for your chance to win!). I chose THIS card by AJ Otto...I love the simple layout and the graphic look of the partial images. Here's my card:

I changed the colors, stamp set, and embellishments, but kept the layout and the partial-image look. I also decided to use Bitty Christmas Tags, the set I *WON* last week at Unity's Hip Hop Thursday (It's every week! Check out the forum tomorrow!)

This card was pretty simple...I cut eight 1" squares and punched one 1 1/4" square in the Very Vanilla, then eight 1 1/8" squares and punched the scalloped square out of Ruby Red. I stamped partial images of eight of the adorable Christmas images from the set on the small squares, and colored them with my Blender Pen. On the center image square, I stamped the angel, wiping off a 'stripe' to fit the sentiment. I adhered the small squares first, leaving a 1/4" border all around, then adhered the center image, using dimensionals under the scalloped square *and* the image square. I added three little 'candy dots' to the corner, and the card was done! Easy peasy *smiles*

I'll let you in on how I did the envelope in another post later today! *wink*

Thanks for stopping by! Have fun blog surfing to find the Unity candy!!
~Michelle

Supplies Used: Paper: Ruby Red, Very Vanilla cardstock (SU!) Ink: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Summer Sun, Brocade Blue, Wild Wasabi (SU!) Stamps: Bitty Christmas Tags (Unity Stamp Company) Other: dimensionals (SU!); candy dots (Pebbles, Inc.)

13 comments:

Jess said...

This is wonderful! How funny, we both chose tree cards to CASE and turned them into Christmas cards! I love what you did with this one.

Brooke said...

what a great idea!! i LOVE this! so cute!!!

AJ said...

that is sooooo cute Michelle~~ I may care your case!!! ;)
how adorable, love, love, love it!!! :)

Tiff said...

WOW! LOVE this! Great coloring job!

Lisa Hetrick said...

I love how you used the itty bitty's. I'm CASEing this one. TFS. Lisa :)

Carole Bryson said...

Woah - I just love that Christmas card - its fantastic !

Sherry Campbell said...

Absolutely beautiful. You are so lucky to have won that set! Yay!!

Jennifer Buck said...

Super cute! This stamp is perfect for this layout! :)

Latisha said...

wonderful xmas card, I love it

Cat Tidwell said...

Wow! What an awesome card! I LOVE this, using the Christmas images for this layout!

Lori said...

Great CASE! What a fun way to show off a bunch of different images.

Heather said...

This is such a GREAT card!! Love it!!

Nettie said...

I love your card and I just got this set. Great case!

Nettie