Score!

Yep. I can do that now! I'm so excited! The Michaels in our end of the world are finally, finally carrying the Martha Stewart scoring board! I had been wanting a Scor-Pal for the longest, but at close to $60, it's just out of my price range. With my 40% off coupon, I picked up this bad boy for a measly $12.98. I'll say it again - pun intended - scoooooooore!

Welcome, my Unity peeps! This is the first of my Growing in Unity posts. Can I gush for just a second? Unity and {Ippity} are an incredible value. My mom is one of those "if it's good quality and has style, it's an investment" people. Unity stamps fit that perfectly. While I do live on a shoestring budget, having qualtiy stamps and ink make a huge difference in how projects turn out.  And Angela does run a mean sale from time to time.

Anyway, I got the chance to work with a sketch I saw last week at Get Sketchy. Couldn't do it then, since I would never have gotten the flaps to work without the scoring board. No such limitations today.

I started out by cutting a 6x6 piece of DP. All of these are from Cosmo Cricket's Girl Friday collection. I used the Cricut to cut two hearts at 5 1/2 and 5 inches. The other papers were cut, and I inked up these images from Ippity's Straight from the Heart set. I deckle-cut and Distress-inked the edges of the bottom sentiment. Popped a Making Memories velvet brad into a Prima flower, and scored the outside edges of the hearts.

I attached the heart pieces and the grossgrain ribbon to the back and covered them with  a piece of cs that won't show. I colored the tree with Copics,  popped most of the red hearts up on pop-dots, and used a bit of cheap Studio G chalk on a Q-Tip to shade the grass and sky.

Here's a better look at the inside, though I'm not wild about the picture. It was a fun project!

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