Where there is Great Love....there is a HIP HOP challenge!!!

Its HIP HOP Challenge day peeps, and Im so excited to share this card with you, because it uses Unity's Kit of the Month for September, called: Friendship.Love.Miracles. This kit is available until September 30th, and then it is gone forever....so, if you are interested, click on the link above, read about it and join the kit club fun. The kit club is phenomenal, and the kits get better and better each month. Ok, back to our HIP HOP challenge for you today. The challenge was picked by Sherry this week, and she suggested paper-piecing. Sherry gives an awesome tutorial on paper-piecing on her blog as well. This is such a fun technique and adds lots of dimension to your cards. Basically, you stamp your image on white cardstock first, and then another time, or multiple times on different desinger papers. I used the tree trio stamp from this set and stamped it on white, then 3 more times on Basic Grey's Mellow DSP, to give each tree their own appeal. LOL. You then cut very closely around the edges of the DSP stamped images, and then glue them down (or use dimensionals) onto your white cardstock image. Color and finish your image. Here I used copics to color the tree trunks, and I sponged around the white cardstock with saffron ink. I added sunflower dew drops to the four corners of the image. I also paper pieced the sentiment, which, I normally just use different colored markers to create the same effect. This was so much fun though, so I thought I would try piecing the words as well. I stamped the sentiment in Pumpkin Pie and Always Artichoke inks on white cardstock. I cut the larger words from the pumpkin pie sentiment and attached them to the Artichoke sentiment. I finished the sentiment by sponging the edges with saffron ink. HIP HOP Thursday is going to be loads of FUN tomorrow. There is going to be 3 new sets released and 4 new singles!! WOW, not to mention all the other fun specials, chatter, challenges and prizes!! Stop by the Unity forum on SCS tomorrow. The fun begins at 10am Central time and goes well into the night!! Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Recipe: Paper: PTI White, Lemon Tart. SU Close to Cocoa, Always Artichoke. Basic grey Mellow DSP. Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie and Always Artichoke. Stamps: Unity KOTM September 08: Friendship.Love.Miracles. Accessories: Dew Drops (Sunflower), May Arts ribbons, and sponging.