2 Recent Unity Cards

Took another hiatus from cardmaking to enjoy some downtime reading during our rainy season! But I did have a chance to play a little. 

The first card was inspired by a new purchase of a beautiful Alexandra Renke Washi tape. Just love the colors. I started by layering a strip of Washi down one side of a card panel. I then started looking through Ephemera scraps and found, what I thought, was a torn piece of fibrous watercolor paper. I decided to use that and then turned to my Unity 5/16 SMAK kit and found a vintage flower stamp and some others that I could use. I stamped the flower using a brown archival ink and started painting using oxide inks - 2 reds, a pink and orange, plus a brown Distress ink. I ended up covering the flowers with a very light sheen of Prima Metallic watercolors. I stamped the “be unique” image on another page and painted that. I used 2 papers from a Prima Julie Nutting pad to complete the cardface and provide a background for the watercolor paper. To add a little detail I stamped the “Authentic” word on vellum and embossed it with a mixture of a pink Ranger powder and a Gold Wow powder to get the peach color I wanted. I added fancy Prima crystals and peach ribbon and called the card done.

After watching some watercolor artists on YouTube (wishing I had their skills), I decided to watercolor another card today. This time I pulled out Unity KOTM’s for a heart from the 2/18 kit and sentiment from the 1/14 kit. This time I stamped the image using pink ink and the sentiment using black archival ink on a Melissa Francis watercolor paper. It’s very thin and quickly absorbs color, making it more difficult to blend colors. I decided after I was finished that I needed to outline the image. I used a gray pen for the leaves and a green pen to add shadows and definition on the flowers. To finish the image I decided to use crystals for the flower centers. I found green paper to use as trim and a subtle patterned paper for background.

Had some fun using up paper scraps, using different papers for watercoloring and trying new stamps out. Till next time, happy crafting!