One of my favorite techniques is paper-piecing. I love giving cupcakes patterned frosting and putting patterned elements on all sorts of things -- even animals! This type of paper-piecing I tried today, however, is new to me.
I am in love with this image. I wanted the leaves and grass to be green, but I didn't want that green color on the flowers themselves. I tried it with ink pads, just pressing the green against the grass part and purple against the flower part, but it never looked like I imagined. So I stamped the flowers in black on a second piece of cardstock, colored the flowers with Prismacolor pencils, and pieced those colored flowers onto this image. (Now, if I could just get my camera to behave when photographing purples!)
Please check back every day this week for more Unity projects. I'll be doing a drawing for a free Itty Bitty stamp from Unity from all of the comments left this week. Happy Stamping!
15 comments:
A very pretty stamp. Love the purple and I like your pieced border as well.
The purple is beautiful in these peaceful flowers.
Pretty card! I love paper piecing too! Your border around the image is really nice too! Love the flowers!
This is a beautiful card. This is one of my favourite stamps.
I like how you mixed the script paper and music not paper. Very pretty.
Your card is lovely!! Piecing the flowers was a great idea.
Purple is notoriously hard to photograph! I used to wonder why blue flowers were described as purple in seed catalogs....it was because even the pros could not get purple to come out true! Ha. I don't stand a chance!!!
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Gorgeous! Worth the extra work.
Very clever how you colored and paper pieced the flowers.
Lovely card! Your flowers are beautiful and I love the newsprint/music sheet background!
You did a very pretty coloring job on your flowers! Fun idea!
Just lovely!!!!! Your job of coloring is amazing.
Very pretty. Love your paper choices
beautiful card!! love the flowers :)
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Great mix of dp with the purple flower, Kim.
Beautiful card & lovely flowers! Great job!
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