Through the Mist

Hi everyone, today’s make is a birthday card for a male friend, which was inspired by Jo Rice’s recent tutorial, though I made a few changes by using Distress Oxide inks (as I don’t have Elements inks) and adding a reindeer and birdie into the picture .. plus of course a birthday sentiment! 

I cut a 6” square of stamping card, and stamped and heat embossed a reindeer in the corner.   I then placed a square stencil mask over the card and blended Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inks round the edges, then created my sun with a circle mask and more Antique Linen  + Fossilized Amber DOX, and hills with a hill mask and Vintage Photo DOX. (On a previous attempt I inked my background square first, but you could really see it through the reindeer when stamped on top, so i discarded that one!!).  I removed the stencil and masked off just the base of the card, then stamped the fir trees using a mixture of 1st and 2nd generation in brown and black.  I stamped the birds and then the sentiment, which I coloured with Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress Watercolor Pencils, then I replaced the stencil and spattered the coloured panel with water.  I “grounded” the reindeer with a watercolour wash of Hickory Smoke DOX, then added my wisps of mist using a white pastel pencil, then edged the finished piece in black and matted onto a 7” square card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Fairy Fir Tree (small), Reindeer (large) , Birds, Bird Collection; Woodware Made For You (sentiment);

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Antique Linen, Fossilized Amber, Vintage Photo, Hickory Smoke); Distress Watercolor Pencils (Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Pinecone); pastel pencil (white);

Tools: Crafts Too Press to Impress square stencil, Lavinia hill and circle masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #729 - Anything Goes (14th Birthday Challenge) (3rd entry)

Classic Design Challenge #5 2023 - Anything Goes 

Craft Rocket #103 - For the Boys

Make My Monday - Masculine

Simon Says (Monday) - Watercolour (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Add a Sentiment

Stamping Sensations (May) - Anything Goes with option Use a Stencil (3rd entry)

We Love 2 Create #4 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday #597/598 - Anything Goes

This card was also custom designed to enter this month’s Lavinia Creative Challenge Through the Mist, so I am entering a version of it there without the sentiment as that is not Lavinia.

That's al for today - take care and thanks for looking.

Hugs,