Hello crafty friends. Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday – I had a busy work day not getting home until late evening and, following a full-on weekend demonstrating at ClarityCrafts‘ Open Days, I simply ran out of steam! But I’m back in harness today and thought I’d share with you the second card from the weekend that I was mainly demonstrating, using the ‘meadow treescape‘ stamps and mask set and a bit of Antarctica designer paper.

This is a great design for using up offcuts of designer paper – I happily worked my way through a number of pieces over the weekend, just cutting them to a square shape! Having chosen my paper (it helps to pick a piece you think you can see a landscape in), I lined up the lower masks from the set onto it. I then simply removed them one at a time, working from the bottom upwards, and sponged black Archival ink across the edge of the masks, to create shadows in the ladscape. I also popped the moon mask into the sky area and sponged a little of the back ink across it – that darkens the surrounding area, making the moon/sun look lighter. Once all the shading was done, I stamped the fences into place, followed by two of the sheep and the little sheepdog.

I used one of my favourite square embedders to emboss a frame on the front of a 5×5 card blank, then simply ran a black Sharpie around the edges of the paper (I always do that with a ruler when I’m working on paper) and attached it to the card front. Now, you have no doubt spotted that the sheep on my second card have white fleeces – that’s thanks to Barbara Gray’s inspiration from her launch show on 3rd November, when she used a fine Posca paint pen to dot the white onto the sheep stamp. What a difference that makes!

Thanks for dropping in. The only question now is – do you prefer your sheep black or white?! While you think about that, I’m hopping over to Love Those Pretty Papers to share these there