Growing in Unity - Last Day

 Welcome back… to my last day of my Growing in Unity week. This has been so fun challenging myself again for a full week of creativity and play.

Again, I had to go back to my favorite season for inspiration for this one! I started with a cutout of a magazine page, a patterned paper I just fell in love with. Because of its size, I decided to use it to make a slim line card. I found one of my favorite female stamps that I think kind of celebrates the season in the Golden Glow, 10/23 membership kit. I stamped the image using a combo of stamps… dark brown for the hat and lighter on the rest of the image. Because I like paper piecing, I used the Pink Paislee Autumn Lane pad from last card for the shirt and another tan paper for the cup. With all 3 papers after stamping I used colored pencils for coloring and shading, using tones in the background paper to coordinate everything. I fussy cut and pieced all of the pieces together. I did also use colored pens and white pens on the hair.

Once she was ready, I found a tan scrap paper that looked like cardboard and another real cardboard paper in green I could use to back the image. I stamped the sentiment from the kit on a random scrap paper that matched, embossed it with holographic powder, inked the edges, made a banner of it and backed that as well.

I pulled out a chipboard leaf and used a combination of green inks and clear embossing powder repeatedly to color it. I used an embossing pen to add copper powder over parts of it as well. (See bottom right.) 

To complete the card, I added the “cold” strip I picked up from Unity (inking the edges again), a 49 and Market green ephemera piece, a brown button and green twine.

I think she’s my fav piece this week… the colors, her face and that paper… yes!

Welp… that completes my week! What a fun time I had! Be sure to leave a comment letting me know your feedback and what your favorite day has been. I’ll be picking 2 winners for $20 in store credit and making an announcement on Unity’s Show and Tell page next week. Thanks for stopping by and happy fall crafting!