Sweet & Sinister Hip-Hop!!!

The title of this post was totally stolen from ArtsyMama from her Sweet & Sinister swaps, but it was perfect for today's Unity Stamp Co. hip-hop. I have a bit of Sweet AND a bit of Sinister (but the fun kind...it's actually a bit sweet too) to share with you today.

But first things first, if you haven't come here from Patter's blog, then you need to do this hip-hop properly and start off at Angela's Unity blog (because that is where you really find out all the fun stuff for the day...like bargains and new stuff) and then follow the hop across the DT blogs until you find the chance for the final blog candy.


For my artwork today, first I am going to share the sinister. This is a fun little gift to give someone (or everyone) for Halloween. I love these new stamps from Unity because all you have to do is stamp them in a single color and you are done. Super-fast and easy (like fast enough that you could do this for everyone on your block in just a couple of hours), but still really darn cute!!! For this set, I used the Unlucky 13 kit.

Supplies used:
*Unity Stamp Co. Unlucky 13 kit

*Scenic Route paper kit

*ribbon from Hobby Lobby
*Black StazOn
*black brads
*black cardstock
*tin
*candycorn

For the tin, I simply stamped one of the diecuts from the Scenic Route kit and tied a bow around the tin. It would be very easy to do this for a group though, using a stamp (like maybe these) to create the diecut look.

This is a small card...like 3 1/2 x 6 1/2...just big enough to send well-wishes for the holidays. The design of it is based upon this week's SCS sketch, SC197.

Now for the Sweet...a pink, girly layout of Kat.

Supplies used:
*Unity Stamp Co. Je t`Aime kit
*Unity Stamp Co. Butterfly Beauty kit ("beauty" on brown&white tag)
*Unity Stamp Co. Birds of a Feather kit (bird, swirls on butterflies, and "sweet" on pink scallop tag)
*Unity Stamp Co. Sept KOM (white flower pots on pink tag)
*Unity Stamp Co. Little Labels 1 kit (flower on little green circle tag)
*Unity Stamp Co. Scalloped Journal single (pink journaling tag on bottom right of layout)
*Cloud 9 paper and chipboard embellishments
*Martha Stewart tags & butterfly punch
*Basic Grey paper (title and journaling block)
*Prima flowers
*American Crafts glitter alpha thickers
*Marvy Uchida Scallop oval punch
*Little Yellow bicycle die cut paper (green)

If you have been following my blog at all, you know that I like to put a lot of embellishment on my layouts and this one is no exception, but this is why I love stamping....I have all these great little stamps that work for embellishment on a layout so that I don't necessarily have to journal on my layout. I get my feelings across with the embellishments.

Now to finish up your blog hop, you need to hop on over to Wendy's blog to see what she's cooked up for you this week.

And don't forget to come join us in the SplitcoastStamper forums for the fun, games, chat, and don't forget all the giveaways!!!