Hello everyone! Well we’re halfway to the weekend – this is a busy week, with lots of routine work stuff starting up again and the schools heading back for the new term, but I figured there’s still time to dream of time out in the countryside with the ‘seashore scene’ three-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts. This one works beautifully with the current challenge at Color Dare, adding in the team alongside brown & white.

I started by cutting a piece of the ‘peppermint’ infusion papers to fit a 6×6 card blank, stamping the outline of image 2 into the centre using ‘potting soil’ Archival ink. I then took a Faber Castell eraser pencil to the bird, to lift the colour out of the paper (this technique never ceases to amaze me!) It’s the only way to get a soft white onto a coloured paper – a white pencil wouldn’t show up on the background.

As I’d taken the colour out of the bird, I didn’t want to use the infill stamp for the rest of the image, so instead used a couple of brown pencils for the tree and ground and blended the turquoise and dark green pencils to add the teal in around the frame and on the plants.

I added a narrow mount of white copy paper, followed by a co-ordinating piece of Rainbow River companion paper, then attached the whole piece to a 6×6 card blank. The final touch came from a Pinky Gray greetings sticker.

Thanks for dropping in – I’ll be back with another creation tomorrow