Growing In Unity Day Two

Going in a completely different direction, today, I decided to have some fun with Washi tape backgrounds (need to use some of this stuff up!). I had picked up some pretty Park Lane and Firefly rolls and started to think about my Unity stash, and Voila! I found some pretty good matches.

I started by first pulling out a piece of lightweight cardstock cut down a bit. I layered some of the tapes diagonally across the entire sheet. I then trimmed off some of the excess and die cut the paper down. For this card, I pulled out the girl from the 4/17 KOTM kit and a sentiment from the 2/19 KOTM kit. After stamping her, I used watercolor pencils and some distress inks to color her face and hair. To match the shiny Washi tape, I used Nuvo Shimmer Powders (the only 2 I own). These powders are very shimmery and can be multi colored if you don’t combine the grains. I ended up sprinkling some of both and spraying with water around the portrait. (Although, I did mute it after with white acrylic paint). I die cut her and created a frame out of gray paper that I also used to back the Washi paper. I completed the card by adding ribbon and die cut arrows. 

For the second card, I found an Ocean themed Washi set and paired that with the She Mermaid Kit.  This time to reduce the background competition (these tapes are very vibrant and have metallic silver bits), I staggered placing the Washi on the paper horizontally leaving white strips. Wanting the mermaid to stand out, I took a watercolor scrap and layered on some of the blue powder. I also added an ArtC Indigo ink and a Brea Reese Violet Glitter ink by tapping droplets onto the paper. I spritzed with water each time. I finally used a Wow Silver Glitter Embossing powder (never tried it before) and stamped just the tail part into the paper, fussy cutting it out after. I added more color to parts of the tail. I clear embossed the top half of her using black ink. I used the same powder and inks to add color and finally added a silver pen in spots. I combined her parts, embossed the sentiment, and added crystals and crystal flourishes to complete the card.

This was a fun exercise to do, and, again, I think, the backgrounds really set off the stamps nicely. Hope you liked this pair... see you tomorrow!