Growing in Unity - Day 4 - The Animals Are in the House!

Hello Friends, day 4 of Growing in Unity and today the animals are in the house! I have two cards for you today...not because I made a mistake but because I couldn't choose a favorite. You see I love animals and Tierra Jackson draws some of the cutest animals around! I'm sure you know she is the creator of the Cuddlebug animals which are just darling. She also draws other images as well and it's one of those images that I'm going to start with today...Take No Bull.

This stamp set features a darling Scottish Highland Cow. I have a particular fondness for these cows as we had one for a while on our farm. Such sweet creatures, they have the most beautiful faces buried under all that hair!  I stamped this image onto a piece of white cardstock and color him using layers and layers of colored pencils. Once I was satisfied with the look I diecut it using a square stitched die.

I then stamped the background panel. I started off by stamping the Barn Wall onto a piece of ocher cardstock with VersaFine Clair Acorn ink. I then stamped a few of the flowers from Insightful Meadows over top in VFC Nocturne. It was all embossed using clear matte embossing powder.

The sentiment was stamped on a scrap of white cardstock, and matted with a piece of cardstock matching the card base and embellished with a fancy brad. The sentiment and the image were both wrapped with a bit of twine and mounted on the barn wall panel using double stick foam tape.

The second card I made was one of Tierra Jackson's Cuddlebug - Horse. Now I know what you're thinkin...it's a horse not a donkey. Well you're correct but it's close enough for me and donkey's are my favorite. We've had several over the years and I absolutely love them. They are such special animals.  So that's why this horse is colored up to be a donkey!

I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and then painted him and the background using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor paints.  Layer after layer.  He was mounted on a card blank once dry.  I then diecut and embossed a piece of Mocha/Mocha Starstruck foiled paper from Rinea using a wood grain embossing folder.  I then rubbed Ghost Ink 2.0 (also from Rinea) over select areas of the frame and rubbed away a bit of the color to give it a distressed, vintage feel. It was mounted on the card.

I then stamped the sentiment from Have You Heard? (another cow set from Tierra Jackson) onto a scrap of white cardstock, trimmed and added it to the card with a twine bow.

Hope you've been enjoying my week so far...be sure to leave a comment on this post for your chance to win one of two amazing surprise packages from Unity Stamp Co!  

Supplies: Card 1 - 

Unity Stamp Co - Take No Bull, Barn Wall, Insightful Meadows

MFT - Stitched Square

Imagine - VersaFine Clair - Acorn, Nocturne; Clear Matte Embossing Powder

Cardstock, Twine, Brad, Colored Pencils

Supplies: Card 2 - 

Unity Stamp Co - Cuddlebug Horse, Have You Heard (sentiment)

Rinea - Mocha/Mocha Starstruck, Ghost Ink 2.0

Gina Marie - Label Frame

Spellbinders - Wood Grain Embossing Folder

Cardstock, Twine