Hello Crafty Friends!
We are back once again for another awesome Friends of Unity Blog Hop! This month’s cue is “Things With Wings”!
Unity Stamp Co has so many amazing bird, butterfly, dragonfly (etc) stamps that will work with this theme easily!
The first two cards I made feature the same stamp kit. I used this beautiful bird on a branch image from the “Don’t Worry “ kit.
My first card is my go- to style, fairly quick & easy using patterned paper of course!
I started off my base with a deep chocolate A2 size cardstock and then trimmed this beautiful patterned paper 1/4 inch smaller to use as a mat.
I stamped the image using waterproof ink onto watercolor paper and loosely added color. I trimmed the paper using a rectangle stitched die and glued it as shown to my card base.
The sentiment was stamped in the upper right hand corner and a few gemstones were added as accents. In the lightening it appears as if the stones are tear dropped shaped (to me anyway) but it’s just an odd reflection.
Using the same image I went for a completely different look below:
I used an A2 sized black cardstock base and cut another yellow piece of cardstock 1/2 smaller and adhered it a bit wonky (as shown) to my base.
I have a pile of gel print pieces that I dug through that I thought would work well. I randomly stamped some miscellaneous elements using stamps I had received from a previous Unity Grab bag onto my gel print using versafine clair ink. I heat set the ink so it wouldn’t smear.
After stamping the bird image I used a white gel pen to get it to pop a bit off the print.
It looked rather plain so I ended up cutting out small ovals using a stitched oval die and adhering them to the corners (as shown) after stamping them with a script stamp.
The sentiment was created in Word.
I had every intention of creating one more card but time was flying (pun intended ) by too fast this month. I hope that you found some inkspiration here whether it’s to pull out your watercolors, gel plate or “Things With Wings” stamps!
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If you’re ready to move on, next up is our beautifully talented friend Bobbie Sue!
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