Happy June!!!

I'm just so happy that it's a beautiful June day. None of my OK friends are in danger, my kids are all healthy, my husband is sweet as can be. The list just goes on and on. Can life be any better?
I'm blessed and I know it. That should be a song.
I thought I'd share an image with you guys today. Just 'cause I love ya. I hope you like it.

I hope you have a wonderful, beautiful day! 

xoxo, Tracey

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all my friends!!
xoxo Tracey

Free digital images!!

Our hearts are so heavy because of the madness in Boston. I thought giving an image might cheer up our spirits a touch. I hope so.
I'd love to see what you've created with the image. Just post to my FB page here
I can't wait to see!!
Enjoy this day we've been blessed with!
xoxo  Tracey

Winners, winners, winners!!!!!

I have the winners for the Fashionistas!!!!! In random.org, I drew numbers 10 and 17!!!
Number 10 is "bumblebee creations" and number 17 is NatashaMay"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations girls!!! I'll contact you today for your prizes!!!!
~Tracey

Win a set of Fashionistas!!! All 4!!!

I'm doing a drawing for 2 winners! Each winner will receive one each of the 4 new Fashionista rubber stamps from UnityStampCo. Just a couple of things to do. First go to the Unity FB page here , "like" the page and leave a post saying, "Tracey sent me" Then leave a comment here to let me know that you're in the contest. That's it! You're in!!

April 10, 2013 I'll do a Random.org drawing from the comment section for 2 winners. If you win, you'll receive my new set of Fashionistas from UnityStampCo.!!!!! yay!!!!!
Unity also has a FB page for the Stamp of the Week, the Kit of the Month and a general "Show and Tell" page. We have tons of fun and would love to see you there!!!!!

xoxo Tracey :) :) :)

Fashionistas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Unity friends,
This is my first ever blog hop and I'm incredibly excited and nervous! I hope I do everything ok and you all enjoy my blog and the hop.
We have a brand new line today called, "Fashionistas"! I've been waiting a long time for this release. It's special to me because they are my own designs. :)  The design team, Angela and I have worked very hard so please have a great time and enjoy the hop! :) :) :)
Tracey

UnityStampCo. "Roxanne" Fashionista rubber stamp,

Crate Paper, "Maggie Holmes" designer paper,

Copic ink,

Prima tag,

Crate Paper embelishments.

 Next, please visit our Carisa for the next stop on the hop...

Carisa Zglobicki - http://ladyguineveresinkyfaeries.blogspot.com/

Eryn Hannig - http://vintageglamdesigns.blogspot.com/

Jen Erickson - http://shut-up-its-true.blogspot.com/

Jimmi Mayo - http://www.stampingwithjimmi.blogspot.com/

Karen Maldonado - http://reallifeinpictures.blogspot.com/

Lisa Henke - http://www.mylittlecreativeescape.blogspot.com/

Robyn Weatherspoon - http://robynweatherspoon.blogspot.com/

Shemaine Smith - http://shemainesmith.blogspot.com/

Thienly Azim - http://modpaperie.blogspot.com/

Erin Schreiner - http://www.erinleecreative.com/

Angie Blom - http://www.angieblomdesigns.blogspot.com/

Jane Davenport stencils!

I just love these stencils! They are the new Jane Davenport "Jane Girl" stencils from Artistcellar. If you get a chance, you should try them out. They make portraits "almost" easy.

I have a new Unity release on Thursday. I'm super excited about it because it's my first line I've done for Unity. Please, please, please check back on Thursday for the details. I'll be the first stop on the blog hop!
Thanks so much everyone!
xoxo Tracey

Owl

Hi everyone,
This is a sketch I worked on last night. I wanted to do something with owls. I didn't notice it until it was online, but one eye is bigger than the other. grrrr....LOL! I wonder why we can't see these things until we see them on the web?

Life Book 2013

This is the most fun I've had in a long time. Life Book 2013
It's a year long mixed media class featuring gobs of fabulous artists. This week's assignment was using scales of light. I'm not finished with mine quite yet. I'm not sure what else to do.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! :D :D :D

Eat ALL the cake!

Hi crafty friends,
I was lucky enough to have another release this week. It's a favorite TSB image that is now a Unity image. He was previously called, "Birthday Bunny" and now I believe he's called, "Too Much Cake.: :)
I thought that was just too cute. Oh I just checked, it's actually "Eat ALL the cake" LOL!

http://unitystampco.com/shop/eat-all-the-cake/
I hope everyone is having a beautiful weekend and I'll talk to you soon!
Tracey

New release!

Hi everyone,
More new news from Unity. We have a release today. We're also having a 40% off sale to celebrate Angela Magneson's (owner of Unity) 40th birthday. Please come and check things out. There's a drawing for a grab bag of 100 stamps going to 2 lucky winners! Please stop by and see my new stamp set, Tulips and Daisys. 
Angie Blom also has a release today. Her new line is called "Angie Girls" and they are adorable! Please stop by and thank you so much for reading my blog. I appreciate each and every one you so much!!!

Have a beautiful day!
xoxo, Tracey Malnofksi

New things happening at Unity!!!!

I've loved UnityStampCo. since it's beginning. Loooong before I started working there. So many new things are happening. I have a new category on the website, Tracey Malnofski Awesome!!! I love it! (thank you, Angela) We're getting a new website soon and have you seen this month's KOM?

I think I'm in love with it! I'm going to try very hard to keep Unity happenings updated here on my blog.
Please stop by our social community My Unity Place We have new things happening there also.
I hope everyone is having a beautiful Tuesday!
xoxo Tracey :)

Hello friends,
I have a few minutes left of the baby's nap, so I thought I'd write a little.
I've finally got the Christmas tree down. Well, all the ornaments and stockings anyway. Isn't it a little exciting to think where you'll be when you next take out the ornaments. I was thinking that my Kylah will be almost 2 next year. Isn't that amazing? It seems like she was just that little 3 1/2 lbs. baby doll that was just born. My daughters will be 18 and 20!!! Wow! Amazing! It seems like I was just 20. LOL!
I hope everyone will stop by The Crafter's Cafe . We were going to be shutting down over there, but it seems that we'll be able to keep things going. So, stop by and say hi.
This painting is a little disappointing. I really liked how the girl turned out, but it seems that when I try to put color on I ruin it every time. I'll keep practicing. I guess that's all we can do, isn't it? 
Well, have a happy day everyone.
xoxo,
Tracey

watercolor markers, Prisma colored pencils, Faber-Castell big brush pens and graphite.

Good morning everyone,

It's a beautiful snowy day here in Indiana. I'm just loving the snow. It's my grand baby's first snow and she's also lovin' it. We're going to buy her a snow suit soon! I'm so looking forward to the years ahead raising my Kylah. It was just so difficult raising my 2 girls as a single mother. I didn't really get to enjoy being a mother. Now I can enjoy raising my grand daughter. My husband loves her as his own. We're going to have some wonderful years together.
My mac is being worked on, so I'm having to use my old pc. This pc isn't connected to our new scanner/printer so I can't scan any of my new art projects that I"ve been working on. I've been taking some online classes from Jane Davenport. http://janedavenport.ning.com/page/home She's just a wonderful artist. I'm taking a class called, "Joynal" It's about drawing fairies, unicorn, mermaids and making your own storybook. I have 3 pages done and I'll post them when I get my mac back.
So, for now I'll just dig into the archives and grab an old image for you all today. I hope it's inspirational and you can make something with it. :) Tell your friends about my blog please. I'll be posting lots of free images.
Have a happy day my friends!! Love you all!

Tracey

Hi everyone,
Well, now that I'm closing the store, I'm going to use this blog as my personal blog. I hope you will all stick with me. I'm trying to learn new techniques and spread my artistic wings. There are so many things I want to learn and I need lots of feedback. I'll also be posting random free digi's. Some from the store and some that will be new. I hope you can use this image and make amazing works of art. Thank you all for reading and I hope to hear from you in the comment section...

xoxoTracey

Challenge #63: Gift Packaging

Well, as we start to wrap up the end of the year, and the end of our time here together with this challenge blog, we wanted to take a moment to thank you all so much for the great memories over the past few years!
The inspiration you have shared with us in our challenges and our TSB Groups and communities around the web has been invaluable! As we get ready to move on to newer and better things, we are just a little sad to let go of this place we have loved so long!
We're not quite ready just yet!
We still have TWO more challenges to play and we hope you'll join us for your LAST chance to claim images from The Stamping Boutique before they're gone!!

I want to do things a little different here today! I will announce the winner and Top 3 of last week's challenge in just a bit, but I want you to see the projects our team has made for the challenge this week, first!! These ladies have so much talent and creativity and it is truly a pleasure to bring you their work every week!

Our challenge theme this week is: Gift Packaging!

Crystal

Deanne

Debbie

Elizabeth

Judy

Kim

Lawren

Marlene

Patti

Yolie

Now that you are feeling inspired, I can show you last week's results!

Congratulations to our Winner, 

Kevin!

Congratulations, Kevin!
Please email me (stacie) at
hestiashelper@gmail.com
with your choice of any THREE images from
The Stamping Boutique

And the Top 3 as voted on by the TSB DT:

Lisa S

Vicki, Paper Squirrel

Margreet

Blog Challenge #62: Ornaments

{sigh}... OK.... it is finally sinking in! Our Boutique and Challenge will be closing in 20 days!

I think all our DT girls are still a little bit in shock!! Usually, they vote for the winners of our challenge, but this week, the votes just didn't roll in! Sadly, I resorted to using Random.org to choose the winner this week!

Congratulations, Dana! You are the WINNER this week! 

You can contact me (Stacie) at hestiashelper@gmail.com 

with your choice of any THREE images 

from The Stamping Boutique!

Better make your choices pretty quick, because the images will be going into the vault after 12/31!

As we begin to wind down, we only have 3 challenges to go!!

This week, our team created some of the most fantastic

ORNAMENTS

to inspire you to get creative!!

Crystal
She used her "carpentry skills"
for this little beauty!!

Deanne
Great interpretation of the theme!
PJL looks fantastic in pink sparkles!!

Debbie
She used a soldering iron and real tools for this one!
This little guy is one of the newest in the store!

Jacqy
What a CUTE way to hang gifts in the tree!
Everybody loves a Smoochie!

Judy
Don't you want to see this one up close
to figure out how she did it?

Kim
So elegant and perfect for the holidays!
Three different papers in this little ornament!

Lawren
Oh Lawren and her toilet paper rolls! Der-Der!! (-:

Marlene
Love this little mischievous guy!
He really pops with that green background!

Patti
What a great folded tree!
And she used THREE TSB digis in one project!!

Patti
This is her second project and I just LOVE the sparkles!

Rhonda
This image is probably one of my favorites of all time!
And the fluffy snow is a GREAT finishing touch!

Wendy
Look at his cute 3-D beak and hat!

Yolie
Love this embossed shape and the pearl centers!

Oh! I am going to miss these ladies!!! :(

Every week, they create some of the most amazing projects 

to share with all of you!

We hope you'll take some time this week to share with US!!