For todayÂ’s Inspiration Challenge (IC603), I chose THIS scrapbook page. I donÂ’t really do scapbooking so mine is a card 😀 but I liked the silhouette images against the sky.
For the bg, I used the Wrinkle Free Distresstechnique by smooshing the brown Distress inks onto my craft sheet, misting pretty heavily, then pressing mostly the bottom half of my water color paper on top. (Repeat this until you get the coverage you want.) After wiping the sheet off, I repeated this for the top half of my paper using the blue inks. Since watching paper dry is not one of my strong suits, I dried it w/ my heat gun then put into my Misti and stamped the hiker & trees w/ the sepia Versfine. I had to stamp them each about 2 or 3 times to get a good impression on this watercolor paper. I used a white marker to edge the panel & the white Prismacolor pencil to highlights to some of the rocks. I had a large brown paint chip & I liked the names of the colors so I let them show at the bottom. The greeting was added on a circle & backed w/ a larger circle from the paint chip.
Thanks so much for looking. Closeups & the inside are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2017 GMT Views: 2465
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Accessories: Misti, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, lg & sm circles dies, white Permapaque marker, white Prismacolor pencil, craft sheet, mini mister
Registered: December 4, 2009 Location: Southern Utah's Dixie Posts: 20806
Sat, Jun 24, 2017 @ 4:50 PM
A beautiful outdoor scene, Julie!! The smooshing works beautifully for the image, even the parts of the rocks that aren't stamped, you still get the feeling of rocks being there!
Registered: May 12, 2016 Location: NW Wisconsin Posts: 8485
Sat, Jun 24, 2017 @ 5:53 PM
Love your technique you did for your background Julie!! Wonderful hiking stamped image is perfect with it. The paint chip gives an earthiness to the overall scene. Love it!!
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Registered: December 16, 2008 Location: Woodinville, Washington Posts: 11572
Sun, Jun 25, 2017 @ 4:24 AM
Absolutely FABULOUS card design. I'd love to go hiking with you. If you ever come out to Seattle we have gorgeous mountains that present hiking beauty you'd probably love!
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 32406
Sun, Jun 25, 2017 @ 7:36 AM
That is neat you used paint samples like you did -- I had some around here, but if you asked me where, I couldn't tell you. I love your hiking scene that is beautiful - this makes a great guy card as well!!
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