Winter Reflections at Dusk

Hi everyone, today I would like to share a make that CASE's a fabulous Lavinia FB Live tutorial by Amanda Branston a couple of weeks ago, where she made a fabulous reflection scene with some of the new release stamps. (Sorry but I guess only members of that FB group will be able to see the video).  Amanda's original picture was in shades of grey and deep orange, and I did make a DL card very closely based on that as I love doing reflections and I absolutely adored this colour scheme. However I'm not entering that one into any challenges as it is a bit too close a copy of Amanda's original, so I made another card inspired by the original but I changed the shape to square, added more tree stamping and changed the colour scheme to a deep pink.

I cut a square of stamping card and created my background by brushing Distress Oxide inks across the card in Kitsch Flamingo, Stormy Sky and Black Soot. I created a horizon line by using the straight edge of a hill mask and Versafine Clair, then stamped various trees using a mixture of black and grey 1st/2nd generation stamping. For each stamped tree I created a reflection by samping with my gel press. I added a white Posca pen snow line, and additionally added snow highlights to the trees with Posca pen. In Amanda's tutorial she stamped snowflakes using Brilliance ink but I found this didn't work for me (I think I need a new inkpad) and I preferred the look of heat embossed snowflakes using Versamark and WOW White Twinkle embossing glitter. I stamped my sentiments and highlighted the word "Peace" with pink Sakura Stardust pen and white Posca pen "snowfall"., then added some sparkle to the water with my Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and some white gel pen highlights. Finally  edged the panel with black marker pen and matted onto my card blank.

Here is an angled picture to show the very sparkly snowflakes.

Stamps: Lavinia Small Pine Trees, Christmas Tree Group, Skeleton Tree Scene, Tree Scene, Snowflakes, Seasonal Words; Uniko Festive Sentiments;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Kitsch Flamingo, Stormy Sky, Black Soot); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist); Versamark; WOW White Twinkle embossing glitter; Sakura Stardust pen (pink); Posca pen (white); gel pen (white); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #756 - Colours of Winter (2nd entry)

Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards Day 26 - W is for Winter

Crafty Catz #660 - Anything Goes with option Christmas/Winter (2nd entry)

FarmQuest Country Christmas #2 - Anything Country Christmas Goes (4th entry) - TOP 3

Happy Little Stampers : Christmas (November) - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Inkspirational #303 - Seasonal (2nd entry)

Merry Little Christmas #53 - Anything Christmas Goes (5th entry)

My Time to Craft #521 - Got to be Christmas 

 (3rd entry)

Paper Dragonfly #23 - Anything Festive (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Make It Sparkle (3rd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #623/624 - Anything Goes  (2nd entry)

Just for reference, here is my grey/orange DL card which is based very closely on Amanda's original tutorial picture.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,