Here’s another fun blog hop theme from Friends of Unity…
Follow along with us to find some great techniques included in this month’s hop! A reminder to comment below (include your name please) and on the other blogs, if you’d like to win a small package of Unity goodies! I’ll be announcing my winner on next month’s hop!
First the first card, I used a small mountain of supplies and techniques. I started by pulling out Dina Wakely and Paper Artsy acrylics and a roller. I lightly rolled color on to Bristol paper. I then used a combo of red and tan inks and a TH stencil to add stripes.
I pulled out my May 2022 One Friend Kit of the Month kit. I stamped using a Misti and TomBow markers the 2 florals from the kit. After added watercolor and inks to the florals, I then stamped the foliage, after masking the flowers off… again adding some watercoloring to the leaves. I then pulled out gold Perfect Pearls and added highlights to the foliage and flowers and spattered that and some red ink onto the panel. I gold embossed a sentiment from Heart of Autumn, used a gold metallic background with metal flower, gold thread and gold dots on the front. Finally, I added sentiments inside from another birthday sentiments kit!
For the second card, I pulled out papers from Unity’s Magnolia Branch paper collection. I decided to fussy cut up one of the papers and use that to create the ends of a slimline card. I used mixed media paper for the center, and, this time, used the ink smooshing technique to create the colors I wanted in the panel. I then used a stencil to add soft floral background using an oxide red. I stamped the words from a kit called Feel with Your Soul and finally used a polka dot stencil to add Altenew paste dots (with colored acrylics added in to match colors). I used watercolor pencils to add shadows to the dots. I then stamped the floral from Pansies and Sympathies on the end (mostly covered by paper pieced flowers. I backed the paper with coordinating paper, layered on the fussy cut pieces with paste and foam tape. I used the Heart of Autumn sentiment kit on the front with acrylic dots. I added more paper from the pack inside and used a sentiment from Moments of Bliss.
So, ultimately used a few supplies and techniques here. This was a bit of a challenge as I’m unsure how popular these more unique and rare techniques and products are. But, at the end of the day…I had fun.
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