Friends of Unity April Blog Hop

 Hello… back again for another fun blog hop! This month our theme… which seems to be my theme for all of 2025, is… 

Unfortunately, I had absolutely no problem coming up with scraps for this hop! Before I start in on describing my cards, wanted to remind y’all that we do giveaways every month from our personal stash! All you have to do to be eligible is leave a comment (with your name). I skipped last month’s hop, but I am doing a giveaway, as promised in my February blog! So I’d like to congratulate 

Silvia H.

for winning a package from me! Please PM me your full address and name and I’ll send out your goodies ASAP!

Now, for my first card, I used a coffee stained and sprayed leaf impression paper I created a few years ago. I added a random narrow corrugated cardboard piece and a small leftover Tattered Angels sprayed paper. I stamped the image from Unity’s March 3025 membership kit called Chapters and Crossings. I colored her clothes in with old cheap markers, and watercolored her face using flesh toned watercolor papers (from a craft kit). I just tried for a variation in colors to match the other papers. I fussy cut her out and used foam tape. For extra dimension I added Washi tape, gold thread and black dots and sparkly sequins. I mounted everything on black leftover scraps. I used a freebie peel off sentiment strip I received in a Unity kit.

I used a couple of stamps from the kit on a paper scrap for the inside of the card.

For the second card, this time, I used Unity paper scraps, a gray toned paper scrap and leftover vellum and white paper. I used a couple kits for the images and sentiment - One of those People and Strive to be. I ended up using a Legion’s paper used for pencils to color in the leaves and flowers to match the background. I combined the white paper and stamped vellum to create the background for the florals and added dots and pearls to complete this one. Must admit … least favorite card but I did use up scraps!

Finally, for the third card, I really went a little out there with several patterned paper scraps and a couple papers cut out from crafty Daphne’s Diary mags (the script paper and the one just underneath it). I started with the floral script paper and just looked for coordinating papers. So, for this one, I decided to try to match the flowers and butterfly on the script paper using stamps from It’s your Choice and The Secret of Change. After watercoloring a couple of flowers (2) and the butterfly, I fussy cut them out. I arranged all the papers and added the sentiment stamped on leftovers and the fussy cut images using foam tape. To finish off the card I just added yellow dots!

I added the sentiment from one of the kits on another leftover piece for the inside of the card!

So, it felt so good to use up leftovers! Wow… looking back these all turned out so different. Hopefully,  you got some ideas for using leftover scraps of paper! Thanks for stopping by… and check out the rest of the hop! Remember to leave a comment with your name attached!

Now, you may have come here from: 

Toni’s blog

You may continue on with: 

Rachel’s blog

Or, you can start from the beginning with:

Crystal’s blog