Have you joined in on Unity’s Monthly Challenge yet? You have 2 more weeks to enter your cards, tags, etc. into this month”s challenge, Warm Red/ Cool Blue, for an opportunity to win some Unity goodies! All you have to do is post your submissions by Nov. 4th into Unity’s Show and Tell FB Challenge album!
I’ve created this card as another example of how this color combination can be used in expanding your holiday card inventory! Inspired by some beautiful patterned papers, by LemonCraft, I recently found, I decided to create this composite image using stamps from Unity’s Poinsettia With Love kit and their September Kit of the Month, Elements of the Holiday.
I started by stamping the poinsettia using Watering Can Archival ink onto Arches watercolor paper. I then used my Schmincke watercolors to add blues and blue greens and gray. I flushed out the leaves a little more and used red pens for the berries. When satisfied, I embossed 3 ornaments from the KOM using a red embossing powder and fussy cut them out to fit “into” the poinsettia leaves. I added shading to the ornaments with gray paint.
Before adhering the ornaments I first added clear crystal embossed (by Crafter’s Companion) and Ranger Silver embossed snowflakes from the sentiment kit over and around the image. I added pale blue color around the image in spots to make the clear snowflakes start to show up.
Finally, to finish the card, I inked the edges of the watercolor paper with red, found paper scraps I could pair with the image and I embossed the sentiment from the sentiment kit at the bottom. The card turned out very sparkly so I left it at that!
This was so fun to pull together; loved using those ornaments as decorative add ons! Be sure to try your hand at adding this color combination to your holiday inventory and post in the Challenge album!
