Friends of Unity July Blog Hop

 

Welcome, Friends! I’m so glad you stopped by for the July Friends of Unity Hop!  If you have stumbled into the fun and don’t want to miss a thing, you can go to the very beginning of the hop at Crystal’s Blog!

This month, our prompt is “Watercolor.”  One of my favorite things to watercolor with is distress ink.  The colors are so rich and vibrant and they blend well.  My first set of cards features Rectified Poppies and a water colored background using distress ink. I experimented with different papers to see what kind of effect I’d get. I love the results; similar, but different.  

I also used watercolor pencils on the flowers to layer in extra color.  This first background is done on a traditional cold press watercolor paper and shows the typical texture of that kind of paper.  The sentiment is from Rectangle Scalloped

I used a smooth 110lb card stock for the second background. It’s a smooth surface and pools the ink well.  I dried between layers and used a dipping method, laying the cardstock into various smooshed inks on my nonporous sheet and spritzed with water. The sentiment in this rendition does not seem to be available any longer, but Do More Awesome is waiting for you! Such a great encouragement!

The remainder of my projects are typical water colored— although, we were challenged to use stamps previously uninked.  Unity Stamp Co has had some amazing sales lately so, I have to admit to having a pretty good stash of stamps I haven’t played with 🤫  The first set features Dallas Girl

The sentiment is from Hello Fresh Start and also uses A Little Bit Washi

Sentiment is from Lauren Girl

Finally, I just had to ink up this last beauty, Blooming Peonies . The sentiment is also from Hello Fresh Start.

Thank you so much for stopping by and for your kind comments! Now, you are off to Gaylynn’s Blog for more inspiration!  TTFN, Jane