Growing in Unity Day 4

Hello everyone.  Welcome to my blog and my day 4 of Growing in Unity.  Make sure you are commenting all week for your chance to win some Unity.  I will be picking winners and posting them at the beginning of next week.  So head back to Day 1-3 to comment as well.  

So today I have another project for you.  I actually decided I wanted to play around with my Ken Oliver color bursts... I remember when he first came out with them... I had to have them.  And now he has all sorts of different ones.  

I made some really cool tags for today.  I started out adding a little bit of Gesso to the tags so that the color and water doesn't just soak up into the paper and become a mess.  After that was dry,  I started adding different colors and spritzing with water to help the colors run together. 

There really is no wrong way to play with colors bursts as you just have to play... Get messy and have fun.  And get messy you will.  They may even stain your hands too.   Ok back to the project.  When I was happy with the colors, I used my heat gun to start drying the tags out.  This also moves your colors around.  When they were all dry,  I decided to use only the leaves from one of the stamps.  Tis is something I actually do a lot of.  I only want part of the image.  This stamp is a post card stamp and really cute, but I just wanted to use the leaf.  So I used some of my Deco art antiquing cream white.  I painted it on the stamp with a paint brush as to only get the part I wanted.  Then I stamped each tag.  Note every time you stamps you will have to repaint it and stamp again.  I also used the flying birds stamp in this kits to add to the background. 

Here are my tags.

        

You will see the leaves changed color some.  Stayed on the white side but the color from the color burst kind of bleeds into it.  I personally love how they turned out.  Let me know what you think and don't forget to leave those comments for your chance to win.  See you again tomorrow for my last day of Growing in Unity.  

Have a great day!! 

Hugs

Amy

Products used:

Ken Oliver - color burst original Fuchsia

Ken Oliver- Liquid sparkle radiant drops 

                      Sangria and midnight

Ken Oliver- Liquid metals Metallic Amethyst and                           Metallic Turquoise. 

Unity Stamp Company: Vintage Era Background Kit