Saturday, May 3, 2025

Friends of Unity May Blog Hop

  Hello… welcome back to May’s Friends of Unity Blog Hop! This month our theme  is… 

As usual, the hop contains some giveaways! I’ll be doing a giveaway this month by randomly selecting from commenters posting below. Please be sure to include your name, so I’ll know who provided the feedback. I’ll be announcing the winner in next month’s blog post!

Now, for my first card, I used Barnyard Sass and Blooms, Unity’s April membership kit. I started by painting a dark to light watercolor wash on watercolor paper. I added some paint spatters to the wet wash. After drying the paper, I stamped the fence image onto scrap paper to create a mask. I then stamped the fence again onto the watercolored paper. I used the mask to stamp the flowers.and then watercolor all the images.I stamped the sentiment on a scrap pattern paper. I spattered watercolors and white wash over the image. I used a bit of pen just to deep in some spots. To complete the card, I added several coordinating paper layers, a ribbon and crystals.


For the second card, carrying on from the Use All Scraps theme from last month, I created a paper pieced card. I used the kits, Happy Daisies and Unusual Day Poppy. I found coordinating scraps and stamped the heck onto them… fussy cutting petals and leaves. I also fussy cut the background. Turned out pretty cool, I think. I added Stamperia’s Contour Gold drops for the stamens.


 

Thanks for stopping by… and check out the rest of the hop! Remember to leave a comment with your name attached for a chance at winning a giveaway from me!

Now, you may have come here from: 

Jenni’s Blog

You may continue on with: 

Doreen’s Blog

Or, you can start from the beginning with:

Crystal’s blog

14 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards, Joyce! I always love your watercoloring! I love the layers on your first card too. And the paper piecing with scraps on your second card is perfection!! TFS!

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  2. Awesome job!
    Karen Adams

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  3. How pretty your cards
    are! I love the colors and
    design of the first card.
    Carla from Arizona

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  4. Lovely cards and the paper piecing is very clever

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  5. I like your cards very much! Paper piecing is always fun to see. Well done!

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  6. Both are wonderful! The paper pieced card is so unique and clever!

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  7. These are gorgeous! Such unique colors and papers! WOW!

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  8. Gosh, Joyce. What pretty cards you have created. Love what you did with the scraps.

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  9. Gorgeous colors and patterns on your cards.

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  10. Love the rich colors you used and the pretty papers! Beautiful cards!

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  11. I love poppies, and these are absolutely stunning! Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.

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  12. WOW! What gorgeous cards! That poppy is so creative. ❤️

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  13. Your no line watercoloring is so pretty with that image and paper piecing that huge floral is genius!! Awesome cards Joyce!

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