Hip-Hop, October Rock!!!

Yippee! I love Thursdays!!!

Welcome to another installment of

Unity Stamp Company's Hip-Hop Thursday!!!

We start off the fun and festivities with a DT blog-hop so if you didn't come here from Amber's Utterly Fabulous blog, then you need to head over to the starting point, Angela's Unity blog to get the details about all the fun {and bargains} for the day and where the blog hop goes from there.

Don't forget once you get to the end that you have a chance for blog-candy if you leave a comment. Then come join us in the Splitcoaststampers Unity forum where there will be fun and giveaways all day long!

We have started a new month and that means fun new happenings at Unity Stamp Company. One of the most anticipated of these happenings is the release of Unity's new monthly stamp kit. This month does not disappoint...I LOVE THIS KIT called Thinking about the Good Times!!!

So you know that I have to show you some artwork with this today! My first project is a simple card using 4 of the stamps from the kit (the swirl, pumpkins, owls, and Good Times sentiment.) First I stamped the pumpkins using White StazOn onto the kraft card base. I stamped the swirl onto a Making Memories Halloween Tag and then added just a touch of orange glitter to the tips. The owl branch was colored using watercolor pencils and then again a bit of orange glitter was added to them.

Supplies used: *Unity Stamp Co. October Kit of the Month, Thinking about the Good Times *Scenic Route paper *Bazzill Kraft paper *White and Black StazOn *Fiskars Threading Water border punch *Making Memories Halloween tags *corner rounder *watercolor pencils *orange glitter

For my second project, I have a layout to share. We bought our pumpkins this week and by coincidence, Kat was dressed up in her fun Halloween shirt from Target, so I just had to take some photos. The stamps used from the Sept kit are the polkadot ribbon (blue to the left of the photo), the owls, the butterfly, the bird (doesn't that look like the partridge from the Partridge family? I start singing their theme song every time I look at that stamp), and the pumpkins.

The design of this layout is based on a sketch from a brand-new sketch blog called, Inspired Blueprints. I think that this is going to be a good blog to keep an eye on for inspiration...I am already impressed with what they are doing!

Yesterday, I got my latest stamp order in (fun stuff, I got all the new Halloween stamps so am hoping to have some fun Halloween projects to share soon) and in it was a stamp, Scalloped Journal, that I had really debated about ordering because I didn't think that it was going to be big enough. I should know better than that by now with Unity's Wood Cassette Mounted stamps...LOL!

You will notice that the scissors in the photo here are the full-sized version of the Fiskars so that gives you a good idea of just how big this stamp really is. I had posted about it on the Unity forum and it was requested that I use it on a project for today. You will notice that it is on this layout! ;o)

Supplies used: *Unity Stamp Co Sept Kit, Thinking about the Good Times, *Unity Stamp Co. Scalloped Journal, *Unity Stamp Co. Worn Grid, *papers from MME, Daisy D's, Basic Grey, Bazzill, *StazOn Black inkpad, *watercolor pencils, *Marvy Uchida scallop punch, *Pink Paislee alpha stickers, *Fiskars Threading Water border punch

My final project for today is a masculine card. I could see this working for a guy's birthday. This card features one of the new phrases from the new stamp kit designed by AJ, Simply Said. To give you an idea of the sizes on these stamp, this card is a 5x7.

This card is a combination of a couple of challenges from Splitcoast, CC186 (color scheme) and SC196 (card sketch.)

supplies used: *Unity Stamp Co. Old Skool Ride, *Unity Stamp Co. Sign of the Times, *Unity Stamp Co. Simply Said, *DCWV papers, *White StazOn, *Martha Stewart brown twill ribbon, *copper brads

Now head on over to our NEW GUEST DT MEMBER, Anne-Marie's incredible blog...you all are going to be blown away by her scrapbooking if you have never seen it before...she's INCREDIBLY talented and she is your next stop on the HOP!!!