Marci Snee: Welcome to the Unity & My Sweet Petunia Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Friday, May 26, 2017

Welcome to the Unity & My Sweet Petunia Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Thanks so much for stopping by to see my projects utilizing the amazing MISTI, by My Sweet Petunia, and beautiful stamps from one of my favorite companies, the Unity Stamp Company.

This is my very first blog hop and I'm so excited to be included in this one specifically. If you haven't heard, I head up the MISTI Fan Club as President in Chief (totally made up) and am honored to be one of the stops on this ride. Imagine my surprise when I found out we were spotlighting Unity as well! I just love their stamps and pretty much stalk their Facebook site hourly.

Here are my projects I created. I hope you enjoy them!

My first project was using Unity's May Sentiment Kit, ...happy snail mail. It''s such a cute set and I immediately fell in love with it! I used my MISTI to stamp and emboss my image perfectly. For a little flair, I put three dots of different colored Nuvo Drops in the mushroom circles and swirled them together using a straight pin. I think it's kinda cool. I thought I made this up all on my own, but a friend said she saw someone else do it....doh! (maybe Jennifer McGuire)

This little snail is so cute, I thought I'd make a note-card and matching envelope real quick. My MISTI Creative Corners helped me stamp off my image over the side of the paper, giving me a sturdy corner to work with. They also helped me create my rough square on my envelope, which I drew over to make thicker.

Lastly, I used one of my favorite Unity stamps, Mystical Mermaid, to create a card using what I call "selective embossing." I first stamped on my watercolor paper using the MISTI and black detail ink. I then watercolored the image. After I was happy with the look, I took a VersaMarker and colored directly onto the red rubber of the stamp where I wanted gold embossing. Hopefully you can see in the picture that it's her body and hair piece embossed and not her arms, hair or flowers on her fins. I then took the same marker and dabbed all the dots to make them look like bubbles using silver embossing powder.

Thank you so much for taking a moment to look at my creations. It was very fun to collaborate with these two amazing businesses.

***Watch my quick video below to see how easy it is to transition between stamping with thin, clear photopolymer stamps to the thicker red rubber, foam mounted stamps.

GIVEAWAY: As a spectacular THANK YOU for visiting all our pages, Unity & My Sweet Petunia are having a drawing to award prizes for those that comment on every site.

Unity will award three (3) prize packs. One to each of the three winners.

My Sweet Petunia will be awarding winners choice of MISTIS. Please comment by May 30th, 2017. The drawing will be held at noon (CST). Winners will be posted on both My Sweet Petunia and Unity blogs on May 31st, 2017. Good luck to everyone!

Here is the listing of bloggers participating in this fun endeavor! Make sure you comment on every blog to qualify for the prize drawings!