Stamped with love for Unity

Hi!
    Hope all of you are well and the weather is good wherever you are. Today I'd like to share a card I made using stamps from the only Unity stamp set I've had since the past two years. It's Friends with Flair Time at Unity- a day to share cards made using their stamp and perhaps winning more. I love their stamps and I thought I'd try my luck *wink*. So, here's the card I actually made for the past Unity Challenge, but did not get here to post it on time.  

Supplies used:

Flowers & butterfly - Unity Stamps-Pixie licious Fairies

Border - Lili of the Valley-Delicate Corners

Sentiment - Gina K-Square Pegs

Crayola colour pencils

Rangers Diamond Stickles on botterfly & flower center

Rhinestones for flower centers 

Ink - Splendor #10 Circus

Eraser on a pencil

   The background was made using the 'Bokeh' technique, which I came across on Splitcoaststampers. To achieve this effect, the eraser of a pencil is inked & stamped on the project at random, several times. I used three shades of each blue and green and enjoyed stamping away. As for the flowers and butterfly, they were stamped directly onto the card and onto scraps of card, coloured and fussy cut. The flowers were cupped with a flower tool and glued to the stamped ones at the center, while the wings of the butterfly were curled slightly and glued on the stamped one at the lower edge.

I'm entering this card for challenges at:

http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com - Friends with Flair

Have a great weekend.

Leanne 

What technique is this?

Hi!
    Today I'm very excited to share what I made. It's for a challenge at CASology and Simon Wednesday Challenge After five attempts at trying out this technique in different layouts like random starbursts first, which I didn't quite like, I came up with a floral design which I was happy about.

Here's another pic. from a different angle

Supplies used:

Colour for flowers & swirls - Crylin Acrylic Paint-Pearl Dew 

Pearls - Coloured- Melissa Frances, White- Coture Creations.

Stamps - Swirls- FireCracker Designs-Sitting Pretty

                  Yellow flowers- An assorted flower stamp set 

                  Sentiment - Thanks-Studio G

                                         Wishing you...-Crafter's Companion-Summer Stories

To make the starburst / flowers, I placed a small blobs of paint on the card and covered them with cling wrap. Then, starting from the center, I scratched the paint outwards, using a popsicle stick. The cling wrap was gently peeled off and the pearl center was added to the starburst. While the flower was completed by stamping the tiny flower in yellow in the center then adding the pearl.

For the swirls, three different stamps of the same stamp set were used. Paint was applied to the required portions then stamped. The yellow flowers were also stamped with paint and a pearl added.

Here's a closer pic to show the effect. 

What is this technique called ? I would call it the scratch technique. 

Thanks for visiting.

Leanne

I'm entering both cards into challenges at...

http://casology.blogspot.com - paint

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge - pearls