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Happy Saturday! I hope you're having a great weekend.
Today I'm blog hopping with the Stamping Inkspirations stampers.
This month our theme is a sketch:
I'm never quite sure how much artistic license to use when following sketches. Like the house shaped shape. Should I literally make a house or just use any old shape? While I was wondering what to use for a focal point it occurred to me the little watery looking pine tree scene from Stampin' Up!'s Magical Meadow might work. It's small but is narrower at the top, similar to the sketch image. Initially I was less sure of how to work with this image as it's a bit different from the more traditional botanicals in this suite. Other than playing briefly with a team members stamps last summer, this bundle and suite is new to me. I was really happy with what I came up with!
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It is rare for me to use DSP in such large pieces but I just loved the uninterrupted misty look that this print from the Winter Meadow DSP has - so I went for it. Besides, I'm feeling somewhat gaga over having Lost Lagoon back in our palette.
- Because of the smaller scale of my "focal point", I took a lot of liberty making my stripes skinnier. I cut them out of this beautiful Lost Lagoon snowflake foil paper (Snowflake Magic 12" x 12" Specialty DSP).
- The pine tree scene has a lot of shading in it which means you need a "Goldilocks" ink pad that has neither too little nor too much ink. It has to be just right. I keep a few large take out soup spoons handy and smoosh any extra ink down into the pad so that the surface I press my stamp into will be "just right". When you are done spritz a tiny bit of water or stamp cleaner onto a tissue to clean the back of your spoon and set it aside for next time.
- After stamping and die cutting my trees with thick white cardstock, I die cut one extra shape add to the back. I like to stiffen my shapes sometimes. Sometimes this gives just enough dimension to adhere to the card as is. Otherwise if I do use dimensionals it's just a much stiffer presentation. I used dimensionals on this card.
- My greeting is also stamped with Lost Lagoon on thick Basic White card stock. To make it really blend into the card naturally I fussy cut it.
- A few Pretty Peacock pearls from Blooming Pearls Wink of Stella on the die cut tree piece finish this off.
That's it for my creation. Now it's time to continue along the hop. Next up is Annette Ball!
Angie McKenzie ● Leonie Stuart ● Aurélie Fabre
Karen Henderson ● Jan Musselman ● Shel Anderson
Judith Patterson ● Mo Rootes ● Teri West
Chris Smith ● Annette Ball ● Vickie Littlewood
Tricia Butts ● Danielle Kassing
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