Growing In Unity Day 1 ~ She Remembered...

Hello, friends! I am so incredibly excited to share this week with you as I embark on my first time as a GIU friend! (We are no longer GIU girls only as our very own Brandon Leggitt will be getting his opportunity to be featured very soon!) For those of you visiting outside of the Unity Show & Tell Facebook group I encourage you to join this group. It is full of amazing inspiration from patrons and Design Team members using Unity Stamp Company red rubber stamps!

 

I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to start my week of sharing with. I was very eager to share 2 pieces I had recently given teasing glimpses of.  The first is of a 6x7in wall hanging I made my daughter. I've always loved the look of watercolored lines. Look what I watercolored these lines with! A pineapple stem! I simply brushed my watercolor wash on the stem and pressed it onto my watercolor paper. So easy! I absolutely love the outcome! What are some unusual items you have used to paint with? I'd love to hear.

 

 

The flower is from Forever Beautiful. It has become my absolute favorite flower to stamp. The "She" sentiment is from an itty bitty called Her Own Hero. (Donna Downey has a full She set that I am absolutely in love with. If you do not own this set, I encourage you to put it on your wish list. It is a beautiful & encouraging set.) Be strong & believe is from Day Made.  Green and black are such beautiful color combinations. I used colors from the Altenew Watercolor set. Putting this photo on my blog dulled the vibrancy of the color. (You can see the beauty of the greens better on my IG. If you would like to visit, the link is found at the top of my blog.)

 

I wanted to show you how I do my splatters. I am a very messy splatterer! Haha. So I do them on the floor of my craftroom just like this ↑. The floor is usually covered in splatters, but it wipes up so easily. I reuse the papers as long as I possibly can. I simply cover up the parts I don't want splatter on. If you do not have a fan brush you should! It is perfect for heavy splattering.

 I also made this tag to mail to my daughter Samantha. As a matter of fact, many of the pieces you see in this weeks highlights I will be mailing her over the next few months. To encourage her spirit and shower her with love. I love the softness of this design and its colors.

 

Remember is from the fairly new beautiful stamp set Poppies & Love, by Angie Blom. As beautiful as the poppy is in this set, it is worth buying simply for the bold words. I just love them. I heat embossed remember onto a piece of acetate. Surprisingly, the acetate doesn't seem to bend with the heat like papers and vellum do. I actually heat embossed acetate for a couple of my projects for this week! I am a big fan of using metal and wooden charms in my creations. Keys being a favorite. They are a perfect element to add to the design. The background sentiments are from a 6x6 Balzer Designs stencil full of loving affirmations. It is from The Crafters Workshop and I ordered it from Amazon.  You will see where I darkened 2 of the sentiments in order to really make them pop as a statement. My hope is that they will speak boldly to my daughters heart!

 

I've used this titanium white Brea Reese texture paste on several of my pieces in the past and love the 3D effect it gives. I rubbed it with my finger over a Tim Holtz stencil appropriately named, Speckles. After it dried I placed the stencil back over and gave it a quick brush of vintage photo distress ink. Another product I encourage you to have in your stash are the Tim Holts stencil brushes. They are fantastic!

 

Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win 1 of 2 Unity prize packs. I will also be picking a winner to receive a separate prize pack from me!

I look forward to being with you all again tomorrow as it will be all about feathers!

 

As always~

Thanks for spending time with me today!

 

Until next time~

 

Be blessed, friends!

 

Bobbie Sue

 

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