Friends of Unity July Blog Hop

 Welcome back summer and the Friends of Unity hoppers! Hope you are enjoying some nice weather! This month our focus is on stencils!

I used the opportunity, this month, to create an anniversary card for my husband as 2 days ago we celebrated our 38th year anniversary… a major achievement! And still very happy!

I started by embossing the image from Unity’s Thoughts From the Past using Seth Apter green powder on watercolor paper. I stamped the image from Get Your Happy On using a combo of distress yellow and green inks on another piece of watercolor paper. I watercolored the image using my Schmincke watercolors. I then used my Prismacolor pencils to deepen the shades. I fussy cut out the image and turned back to the background paper.

I then used a stencil with Altenew paste and added some X’s and O’s. I pulled out a few sprays in green and gold and a yellow stain and started added color to the background, using a water spritzer to move the color around. Once it was completely dried I lined up the stencil and added more paste.

I found a packet of gold sparkly windows, a scrap paper I had added watercolor to that matched, and some patterned paper. Bringing them all together, I added a sentiment from another Unity kit, a gold brad and some enamel dots and called it done! 

Thank you for stopping by, and now, on to the rest of the hop! You may have arrived here from

Dawn’s blog

Next up is

Alaine’s blog

Or you can start at the beginning with

Crystal’s blog