Friends of Unity Blog Hop - Make a Scene!

 

Hi everyone! Welcome back - it's already time for another Friends of Unity Blog Hop! 

There is a definite change in the weather here and the Autumn color has arrived - by next month's Blog Hop, it is crazy to think that we *might* have snow on the ground! (EEEK!) That is scarier  than Halloween to me! 

This month the Friends of Unity have designed cards with the cue Building a Scene - there are so many wonderful ways to combine our stamps from Unity and this month's cue really made me put my thinking cap on! 

Crystal kicked things off this month with her beautiful designs - if you missed it, be sure to go check her blog out HERE. 

I had fun designing a few simple cards for you, and I actually gave everyone a sneak peek of a card inspired by this month's theme a little early  (you can also check it out over on my FB page Forever Amber's Art if you missed it on the Unity page)

Here are a couple more "Scene" cards I created for this month's theme! 

I love being out in the forest - it's right outside my doorstep to enjoy and even though I am not excited about the long winter months soon arriving - I LOVE winter scenes. 

So my first card is a perfect card to capture that scene between a world of winter snow, and the autumn color being gone. This birthday card has an almost masculine feel to it as well - perfect guy card! 

I inked up the trees from Northwoods Peace with Tim Holtz Distress Ink 

in Rustic Wilderness and spritzed it with a mist of water before stamping on watercolor paper. 

Then I went in with an aqua painter (you could also use just 

a small paintbrush and water) and loosely added just a bit more 

watercolor effect to the image. I used Zig real brush markers 

to add the color to the sky and ground, and let that watercolor aqua painter do the work. So simple  - and I felt like an artist ;) 

The sentiment is from Unity's front and centre stamp set called Shake Your Flakes. I fussy cut it and popped it up on the panel. I added a layer of vellum behind the image layer - I had embossed the card base and the vellum softened it up.. This was such and easy card to create as a scene this month - I know I will recreate it again for another upcoming birthday. 

Next up, a full on winter scene! 

I will admit - Unity has a way of making any season look good and besides Dawn Bryson (a fellow Unity Design Team member) I don''t know a single other person on the planet that loves snow and looks forward to winter the way she does (maybe because she doesn't have to live in it for 7 months of the year! HA) 

The Unity background stamps are gorgeous - and I had a hard time choosing exactly 

which one to use... but I narrowed it down to Wintertime Window

 and used watercolor again as a medium - but I also heat embossed it for shine and 

added some fun texture - the picture doesn't show it well, but that snow piled up in the

 window frames and at the bottom of the image is Tim Holtz texture paste.! 

And my fave Angie Girl was also inked up and colored with Copics. 

Emerson Girl fits this scene perfectly. 

I hope you enjoy the rest of our Blog Hop - my sweet friend Bobbie Sue has some beautiful inspiration for you next, so be sure to visit her Blog here. 

Thanks so much for visiting! 

Peace, Love n Ink 

Amber