Growing in Unity Blog Hop

 Welcome back, stamping friends -

Today I am sharing another Unity Stamp Company project as part of a Growing in Unity blog hop.

This stamp,  called Funky Flowers, is big and bold, and fills up an entire slimline card front! I love that! I also love that you can use just portions of the stamp on other sizes, including mini slimline or A2. I'll be trying that soon!

I wanted to do something a little different than I did during my Growing in Unity week at the beginning of August. Most of those cards (all but one, actually), were colored with Copic markers. I wanted to try to watercolor these big bold flowers so I broke out my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I still need a lot of practice coloring with the Zigs, but I had a lot of fun trying! 

I added some touches of Glaze Gel pens but it's difficult to see in the photos.

When I was finished coloring the image I die cut the panel with a slimline framelit and mounted it on a black mat. I cut the word Beautiful from the Say It Big die set three times out of black cardstock and layered them together with liquid glue. I cut the shadow die out of vellum so the word would stand out, but the shadow wouldn't completely cover the flowers. 

I also added a white embossed on black sentiment strip, popped up with foam tape. 

Be sure to visit the other Unity gals' blogs below and comment on each, for a chance to win one of two prize packs from Unity Stamp Company!

 1. Joan  https://jojosretiredpasttime.blog

2. Michelle https://michellygolzcreates.wordpress.com

3. Avra You are here!

4. Beth https://nursiebethsbeauties.blogspot.com

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

Growing in Unity, Day 4

Happy Thursday, friends!

Welcome to my 4th day as a Growing in Unity gal for 2021!

Today's cards feature a product category that is fairly new to Unity Stamp Co. They are just starting to carry a few word dies, and this set is so unique and fun, and it coordinates with the sentiment kit Say it Big. The dies used on these cards are also called Say it Big. The set also contains a shadow die for each of the 4 words for lots of design possibilities!

My first card is on its way to a high school graduate in the family. In addition to the large Congrats die and and sentiment from Say it Big,  I used the image from Just Because and colored it with Copic markers. I cut an additional Congrats out of black fun foam and layered it behind my cardstock diecut for extra dimension.

I am always in need of birthday cards for friends and family so the 2nd card I created was with the Birthday word die from Say it Big along with a sentiment stamp from the sentiment kit. The cute mouse image is from Special Delivery Mouse.  I colored the image with Copic markers and cut it out with a dotted circle die, and layered it on a slightly larger diecut dotted circle. I glued together 3 layers of the Birthday diecut to give it dimension.

I hope you enjoyed my cards today! Check out Unity's selection of images and sentiments, as well as new word dies, that you can use for many occasions!

Don't forget to comment on this post, and each post this week, for a chance to win a $20 gift credit to Unity Stamp Co!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra