I thoroughly enjoyed looking through Kecia's gallery and fell in love with her Sun Dance card. I don't have any stamps even close to her African dancer, but thought about a tree stamp I have. The BG was created with sponging on banana, wild honey and daffodil, then added the mask for the sun and sponged on spiced marmalade and tangerine tango. Removed the circle mask, used the negative mask and sponged on some tangerine tango. The tree was stamped with black stazon and then I sponged some crumb cake to the foreground area, to darken it a bit. I framed the panel with black and placed it on a dusty durango card base. Here's Kecia's wonderful card. Sun Dance by LittleSeaOtter at Splitcoaststampers
The picture really washed out the BG colors--they're much deeper IRL.
Date: Sunday, March 4, 2012 GMT Views: 831
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Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 12:37 PM
Gorgeous! Your card instills a beautiful feeling of peace. Lovely case!
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Registered: January 6, 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 20543
Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 1:19 PM
Great scene! I love the color of the sky and this wonderful tree silhouette!
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Registered: October 29, 2004 Location: Coos Bay, Oregon Posts: 24007
Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 1:31 PM
OMG Sue, absolutely Stunning! Your tree stamp is perfect for the gorgeous background sky and masked sun. BTW, The pic on my computer shows a lot of color in the bg :-)
We are having another gorgeous day on the OR Coast :-)
Registered: May 15, 2005 Location: Arlington, Washington Posts: 30400
Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 2:08 PM
This is fantastic Sue! What a peaceful, eye catching scene! Love it!
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Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 3:08 PM
Ohhhh, this makes me smile & smile! It reminds me of some of the photos my DD took during a mission trip to Kenya a couple of years ago .... love this!