Growing In Unity - Day Two

Welcome back to day two of my GIU week. I see you all survived day one and thought to come back, I thank you.

Today we are talking kraft. I love kraft. I mean absolutely adore kraft. I love the natural looks and earthy tones and kraft is the perfect base for all that and so much more. I think I've done more bright, cheery, and cute, than ever before, since joining Unity Show and Tell (see GIU day one for my plug for S&T, EIEIO), but earthy is my heritage. There's so much you can do with kraft as your base and it's really easy to whip out those quick cards when your kid asks for a card, "I'll be there in 5 minutes", occasions. I mean, not that my kid has ever done that...yeah, right. So following are some of my thoughts and ideas, for what they're worth, on using kraft as the base for something awesome.

First and foremost, this is one of those super quick, but packs a punch cards. All I did is stamp with black ink, add black splatters, mat on black and boom, it looks great and I spent zero minutes coloring. I kept my embellishments in the same earthy tones, just to show you that you don't *need* a lot of color to make a statement. Things Will Work Out for both the image and sentiment.

Next up is also black on kraft, but I used a smaller kraft piece, matted on black, then on more kraft. Just another kind of look, using no color; I even kept my embellishments to the bare minimum because simply having the black image on the kraft paper is wow enough. Love That Face is used here.

Though sometimes a bit of color is nice and really pops when paired with kraft. I used my Gansai Tambi paints, which are on the more opaque side. I also added some colored sequins, but subtle color.  I used April 2017 KOTM Be My Bird on this card.

Lastly I used colored pencils. This is the first time I've used this stamp on kraft paper and I LOVE the way that white just pops! Some white paint spatters are all that's needed to complete the card. Both the image and sentiment are from the May 2017 KOTM Free Your Dreams.

I hope you can see just how versatile kraft can be; and I didn't even get to fussy cutting a colorful image and adding to kraft paper. 

A reminder, be sure to comment for the chance of being one of the lucky two who will win 25 random pieces of deeply etched red rubber to sniff, I mean stamp with.