Saturday, September 5, 2020

Friends of Unity Blog Hop

Hello and welcome back to the Friends of Unity September Blog Hop! You may have missed me last month as I had to prepare for a load of guests and household furniture and boxes to be staying with me for awhile. My son and family moved in (22 month old grandbaby, son and DIL, 2 cats, a dog, a tortoise and a chinchilla) while they tried to sell their condo and search for a house! And, successfully, they’ve achieved both objectives and will be closing on both in the next month! What a joy and great diversion to have them here!


Meanwhile, along with my sanity, I’ve gotten my crafty mojo back! Today I’ll be sharing 2 cards created with the theme of Friendship in mind! Remember to comment on each post in the hop for your chance to win some Unity goodness! In July, I promised a giveaway from my post, so I’d like announce

Andre M

as my winner! Please PM me to claim your stamp set!

The first card was created for a very special friend’s birthday, using the sunflower from August’s KOM, Count Your Blessings, and the sentiment from August’s SMAK, You Are My People! I watercolored the sunflower to match the Summer Charm paper from Craft O’ Clock. I then used pencil to deepen colors and fussy cut out the sentiment, the flower and some butterflies from the paper.




For the second card, I used paper from a Somerset Studio magazine and stamps from Here’s to Love and Friends! The sentiments in this kit are lovely! I embossed the image twice, once with black and the second time, just the flower in shades of red and pink. I then used a Jane Davenport pastel palette and some Qtips and a dry brush to add color. To deepen colors a bit, I added Prismacolor watercolor pencils. I fussy cut out the wreath and made a shaker card with it. I used very pale sequins in the shaker and for embellishment. Finally, I added thin green sticky strips to the black paper backing from Love From Lizi to add a border.


Hope you enjoyed these friendship cards - see you next month! I am the last in the hop order, so if you need to stop back at the top, here it is:


29 comments:

  1. Your mojo is strong! Love this card.

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  2. What a stunner that sunflower is! Both are just gorgeous! Those magazine inspired pieces are amazing. Your son and his little zoo are so blessed to have the luxury of a place to land for a short layover and the timing working out so perfectly. Congratulations to them!

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  3. You definitely have your mojo back. Both cards are beautiful!

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  4. Gorgeous cards! I especially love the sunflower and the way you colored the image!

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  5. Wow, both are just stunning!! I love your artistry.

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  6. It is SO GOOD the sunflower cards looks real! What a fantastic card!

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  7. Wow, Joyce!! Your sunflower is absolutely stunning!! Gorgeous card! And I adore the soft colors in the second card... so sweet! Such beautiful cards!!

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  8. Stunning cards. I love sunflowers so that one really speaks to me!

    Linda Abel

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  9. Gorgeous cards! Love your coloring, designs, and pretty papers. Thank you for your friendship and inspiration!

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  10. Wow... your cards are beautiful! I Planted sunflowers for the first time this year, what fun to watch, and yours is absolutely stunning. I thought it was ephemera at first it is so realistic!! Beautiful. That stole my heart, but the heart wreath is so warm, soft and pretty too! Simply beautiful!

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  11. Wow full house, beautiful cards my dear

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  12. Wow! Those sunflowers are stunning! Glad you've snuck in some time to create while having such fun house guests!

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  13. Both cards are gorgeous, Joyce, but that sunflower is just spectacular. You have amazing colouring skills!

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  14. Such beautiful cards!
    Love the depth of the
    first one.
    Carla from Utah

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  15. Oh, you have definitely gotten your mojo back! That sunflower card is just gorgeous and I love the beautiful watercoloring. Your heart shaker card is so delicate and pretty too.

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  16. These are both Stunning! That sunflower just warms my heart! It’s gorgeous!

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  17. Stunning cards joyce! The sunflower is just perfect!

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  18. Gorgeous cards! That sunflower...love, love, love!

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  19. I'm so glad to see you're back and with great mojo! These cards are both so beautiful, but that sunflower card is absolutely breathtaking!

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  20. Both of your cards are wonderful... but that sunflower is simply amazing.

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  21. I LOVE both of your cards. Great job on the sunflower.

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  22. Beautiful cards. I love sunflowers!

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  23. Oh my! I am IN LOVE with this stop on the hop! Sunflowers are the happiest flowers and your card has such detail! I love the depth and warmth you've created and just adore both of your cards. WOW! TFS :)

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