I created this card using My Favorite Things stamps/dies, a stamp from Lavinia Stamps, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Copics, and Prismacolor Pencils.
When I saw the Let Your Hair Down stamp set, it took me back to my childhood…climbing trees, making mud pies and dandelion stew, and playing outside until the sun went down! I’m sure a frog was somewhere close by getting in on the fun, too.
I used the smooshing technique to make this card. I put Mermaid Lagoon distress ink on a glass media mat; spritzed it with water until the water beaded; and smooshed the watercolor paper into the distress ink. I repeated this process a few times until I achieved the look I wanted…a blue summer sky.
I positioned a Lavinia Acetate Hill Mask on the bottom of the card, then sponged Mowed Lawn distress ink along the top of the mask using a Picket Fence blender brush. I repeated this to make three hills, then added more Mowed Lawn to the areas in between.
The child and tree branch are together as one stamp in the Let Your Hair Down set; the frog, along with the stone, is part of the Swimming Hole Friends set. I stamped these, as well as the falling leaves, on a sheet of X-Press It Blending Card using Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink. I set them aside for the night to make sure the ink had dried sufficiently before I colored them.
Because some of the areas on the stamps were small, I used a combination of Copics and Prismacolor pencils; then die cut the stamped images with their matching dies. I stamped the Lavinia Stamps tree (Druid’s Inn) on a piece of X-Press It Blending Card using Pinecone VersaFine Clair ink. I let that dry a while, colored it with Copics, and cut it out by hand.
I adhered the stamped images to the cardstock using a combination of Scor-Tape and Multi Medium Matte. To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment and attached the cardstock to a black cardstock base.
The Wild Child is now ready to spend the day playing under an endless blue summer sky!
Materials Used:
- Strathmore Watercolor Paper, Cold Press, 140 lb. (the background)
- X-Press It Blending Card
- Core’dinations Cardstock Base, Jet Black
- My Favorite Things stamps/dies: Let Your Hair Down, Swimming Hole Friends, Full of Sunshine, Let Your Hair Down Die-namics, Swimming Hole Friends Die-namics
- Lavinia Stamps: Druid’s Inn (Tracey Lavinia Dutton is the artist of the Lavinia stamp.)
- Lavinia Stamps Acetate Hill Mask
- Copics: HAIR: Pink-FRV1, RV06 and Blue-FBG2, BG01. SHIRT: FRV1, FBG2. TREE: E35, E37, E57, E77. FROG: G94, FRV1, FBG2. STONE: T0, T3, T4. 0-Colorless Blender
- Premier Prismacolor Pencils: SKIN: Light Peach, Peach. JEAN SHORTS: True Blue. LEAVES: Spring Green, Parrot Green
- Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Mermaid Lagoon, Mowed Lawn
- Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
- Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat
- Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blender Brushes
- VersaFine Clair inks: Nocturne, Pinecone
- Ranger Multi Medium Matte
- Scor-Tape: 1/8”, 1/4”, 3/8”
Thanks for stopping by! Have a day filled with childlike WONDER!!!
Diane