Friends of Unity June Blog Hop

 Hello…time for another monthly blog hop with my Friends of Unity co-crafters! This month our theme is:

I chose “drink” as my focus. Before I begin, wanted to let you know I’ll be doing a giveaway this month. Enter comments below (please include your name) for a chance at winning some Unity goodies from my stash. I’ll announce a winner in next month’s hop post. I didn’t hop last month, but I’d like to congratulate this commenter -

Becca Yahrling 

from my April post, and send you a package of goodies! Please PM me with your address and I’ll send out a package in the next week or so!

For my cards, I was inspired by and used the pretty Paper Rose’s Heart and Home Basics paper collection. My husband and I were in Europe in April and had the chance during that wonderful trip to visit the champagne region in France. We toured and visited a few champagne houses there. I just had to celebrate our upcoming anniversary with that remembrance through this card. I used a paper for the background and die cut tags from the pack for enhancements. I used a hole punch to get scalloped edges. For the image, I used a stamp from Life is a Celebration kit. I also used a now renamed kit, originally called Bitty Backgrounds … not sure of new name, to enhance bubble look. I stamped the image on coffee stained paper, I created a few years ago, and colored it with pencils and pens. I used a die on that one too! I added brown crystals to complete the card.

For the second card I, pulled out the One Sip at a Time kit. Again, I stamped the floral part of the cup on coffee stained paper and used my pencils again to color them in. I fussy cut them out. I used paper from the pack for the cup holder and both white and Kraft paper for the other pieces. I used pencils to add dimension to the pieces. I adhered all the pieces and stamped the sentiment on another scrap. I then used the lovely paper as background pieces along with Kraft paper. I finished off the card with tan pearl dots.

Had fun with the theme this month. I must admit, I love how the monthly themes take me out of my comfort zone and challenge me to think outside the box! Hope these 2 and other cards in the hop challenge you to try something new! Thanks for stopping by and remember to leave a comment for a chance at winning this month’s package from me. See you next month!

Now, on to the rest of the hop! 

You may have come here from:

Toni’s blog

You can continue on with:

Dawn’s blog

Or, you can start from the beginning with:

Crystal’s blog