Growing in Unity - Day 5

Happy Friday!!!

I am sad to say that today is the last day of my time with Unity. 

It has been so much fun.  

Thank You!!

To the Unity Stamp Company for having me this week.  

and 

To all who have left comments 

I appreciate all of the wonderful and kind comments I have received. 

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 I leave you with three cards today.  

All using the same stamp "Real Shared Happiness"

For all 3 card I used mixed media paper and my twinkling H2O's.  

Have your tried the H2O's?  They are awesome.  

Use them just like watercolor but the have a fabulous shimmer.  

I tried a new technique.  

I have seen online where you watercolor inside the embossing lines.  

I thought this image would be a good candidate to try out the technique.

I made three attempts and I got three very different looks

For the first attempt....

I stamped the image and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

  I wanted to let the white card stock show through.   I was trying to watercolor within the lines.  

It was not working out too well.  So I painted the whole background and swirling around the color.  Then I tried to stay within the lines again and used a darker color.  Turned out pretty good.  

Second attempt....

 After I got all of the color inside the butterfly I realized 

that it was not really popping with the white embossed outline.  

So I added some green to try to get the outline to pop.  

This one sort of reminds me of  me of painting... Like Monet.  

Third attempt.......

And as they say.... Third time is a charm.  

This time I choose to use silver embossing powder for the butterfly outline.  

Everything about the outline just pops right off the paper.  

The best tip I can give is to keep the area you are working with 

wet so that you can allow the colors to flow/blend together. 

 But don't over do it with the water or you will have color go outside the lines.  

This technique was easy enough.  

I want to try again on some flower images.

I hope you found some inspiration this week

Well.....  Sadly this ends my week as a GIU girl.  

But no worries....

  

Starting Monday the talented Tifany DeGough

will be sharing her projects with you.  

 See her blog HERE

And remember

Be sure to leave a comment by 

Sunday (4/26/15), Midnight Pacific time

Monday I will be choosing two random comments 

to receive a bag of 25 random stamps from Unity.  

Comment on all of my Unity post this week

Because the lucky winners will could be chosen from any day.

Here is a link if you missed any of my post.

GIU - Day 1

GIU - Day 2

GIU - Day 3

GIU - Day 4

Have a wonderful Weekend.  

Teresa

I am entering the last card in the following challenges

Simon Say's Stamp Blog - Wednesday Challenge Clean and Simple