Reaching Deep Within: anything goes

Saturday, 8 September 2018

HLS September Anything Goes With Dies - Love You

I bought a new die and was "itching" to use it. It's a beautifully designed die with a boy and a girl kissing on a swing. It's a perfect size for using the branch from the Best Birds set from which I could hang the swing using some black thick Baker's Twine. I decided that I would use the die-cut of the couple as a silhouette and also keep the sentiment in a nice bold black. The rest I coloured. The grass, for example, is stamped using Mossy Meadow ink and the grass stamp from the Enjoy Life set. In fact, the sentiment also comes from that set.

For the branch I used the Best Birds set and my Stampin' Markers. The wood is a combination of Gray Granite and Soft Suede while the leaves are a combination of Mossy Meadow and Old Olive. That setting sun background is a combination of the Distress Oxides. I wanted to keep it on the warm side and so used the Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey and Fired Brick.

I had such fun creating this card. Everything worked together even better than I had anticipated.

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Hope you'll pop over to see what my Team Mates have created and come join us this month at our Happy Little Stampers September Anything Goes With Dies Challenge.

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Everything is Better With a Friend

When I found this wonderful House-Mouse Designs image by Stampendous in a darling little craft store in Calgary a couple of months ago, I fell in love. What could be sweeter than the House-Mouse combined with a beautifully drawn image of a hummingbird? Of course I bought it! Now, finally, I've introduced the images to ink, thanks to the Addicted to CAS challenge and its theme of "birds".

I stamped the image onto a piece of Watercolour paper using my Stamping Platform to ensure that the lines would be evenly stamped. Before removing it from the platform, I took a sentiment from an old Hero Arts stamp set and added that along the bottom right. After letting the ink dry completely, I commenced colouring.

Because a friend of mine introduced me to Prismacolors and Gamsol, I decided to use that colouring technique. I loved the versatility of blending several colours together for my Hummingbird. The House-Mouse was easy enough, as was the flower, but that brilliantly coloured bird was my challenge.