Growing In Unity - Day 3

Hello, and happy Wednesday! I hope that you all had a wonderful Independence Day, yesterday. I have to admit I'm a bit sleepy from celebrating with my family late into the night, but it is all worth it.

This is my third day for my Growing In Unity week. At the end of this week I get to select 2 people randomly from my comments to win a 25 stamp grab bag from Unity...and it's not too late to visit my previous posts to leave a comment if you haven't visited yet, so don't forget:
Day 1
Day 2

My project today was a crafty experiment that actually went right, ha ha! I don't know about you, but I have several projects that just don't turn out like I hoped they would, but I was super happy with the result from this one.

I wanted to see how my watercolors would work directly on vellum - and surprisingly, they worked pretty well. I first stamped this adorable butterfly filled heart image and sentiment from the Start Again Kit of the Month and heat embossed it with glittery black embossing powder because I wanted it to shimmer. Then I selected three colors and carefully painted in a couple random butterflies to make them pop. I then watercolored a white sheet of paper with coorinating colors in the shape of the heart for the embossed vellum sheet to overlay.


I was surprised that the watercolor ink dried and stuck to the vellum like it did, and it dried beautifully. Of course the embossed image made it simple to stay in the lines too - which is a win too :)

And before I forget - please don't forget to stop by Edelmira Rivera's blog this week too, she's a new Growing in  Unity gal and has some amazing projects to share as well - AND is also offering a chance to win too!

Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to leave a comment to have a chance to win! 
Cheers!
Brittany



Comments

  1. WOW!! This card is STUNNING. Thank you for sharing this and for outlining your process for making this. It is just gorgeous!

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  2. Love this card! I would never have thought watercolor would stick on vellum; I may have to give this a try.

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  3. I love it! I would never have thought to watercolour on vellum....you have given me so much inspiration already this week! Beautiful card!

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  4. This is lovely. I do not have much experience working with vellum - definitely need to try this. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  5. how beautiful. Love how you did this - my vellum always warps with watercolors.

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  6. Love the idea of watercoloring the cardstock under the vellum instead of on the vellum

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  7. I really like your soft background--it adds so much to the heart/flowers!

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  8. Very pretty. I will have to try watercolor on Vellum. Thanks for the tip.

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  9. This turned out beautiful! I've never water colored on vellum (never even thought about it!) so thanks for the inspiration to try.

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  10. Beautiful card! I have never tried heat Embossing or water colouring vellum, thank you for the inspiration!

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  11. Isn't it wonderful whenever something turns out so gorgeous? 😍 Love it!!

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  12. Very pretty card! Love the colors you used!

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  13. This is really beautiful. Love all the bright colors and the velum gives it an amazing softness

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  14. I'm afraid of use vellum paper bit you gave me ideas thank you ..

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  15. Oooh a new technique to try! I never would have thought vellum would be water tolerant. Great project!

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  16. Lovely project. Thank you for mentioning my blog. Will do the same in my tomorrow's post. Take care veteran GIU!

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  17. I have this stamp, never thought about stamping on a colored background and then coloring over it.

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  18. Great way to use vellum, I will have to try this..

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  19. I say your experiment turned out wonderfully. I'm curious, what kind of watercolors did you use on this card? love the tones you selected.

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  20. Very pretty, love the colors and layout you used to create this card.

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  21. wow !!! beautiful and so lovely work :) i really like your good idea so much.Thank for sharing.

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