Hello crafty friends. Well, I promised that the ‘build a wreath’ stamps were going away for now, so here’s a completely different look using the ‘wild frame‘ stamp set from Clarity Crafts. Barbara was playing with them on Clarity Social TV yesterday, which inspired me to get my set out. Just Us Girls have got a masculine theme this time round, so I’ll pop it in their gallery too.
Some time ago I cleaned up old blending brushes, just dipping them into water and them spreading the wet residual ink across pieces of Clarity’s stencil card. Once they were dry, I’d got a whole selection of landscape backgrounds ready to use.
I used a nested square die to cut the card down, then stamped the ‘wild frame’ grove of trees across it with black Archival ink. I added the smaller row of trees from the ‘woodland miniatures‘ set on the horizon, then used low tack tape to cover along the base of the trees (folding it to fit round the curves) and sponged ‘watering can’ Archival to create the shadow. Finally, I popped the small eagle into the sky.
I ran a black Sharpie around the card edges before sitting it within a frame that I’d embossed on the front of a 6×6 card blank using a square embedder. The final touch was to add one of the ‘Christmas & Celebrations‘ word stickers.
Thanks for dropping in – I’ll be back with another creation tomorrow!
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This looks so realistic and I think it is really lovely. Great scene.
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Thanks so much Johanna x
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Deborah… gorgeous card! You were full of all kinds of tips today. I was marveling at your beautiful blending… and learned your trick. LOVE it. Also love the de-embossed square frame… what a great idea. Promise I will be trying that trick out. As always, thank you for sharing and joining with Just Us Girls!
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Love this! Great way to use up that ink so it’s not wasted! Maybe I’ll clean my brushes today, lol!
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No rush – I think I did the last cleaning to produce these backgrounds about 3 years ago…!! Hahaha!
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Superb scene and love the colouring
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thanks so much x
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Your seamlessly ink-blended background is the perfect stage for the woodsy scene you’ve created. Most definitely an eye-catching masculine card. Thank you for joining us at Just Us Girls.
~carol
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