MC Jan/14 - Block Stamping - Scenic HB

On the Quietfire Creations blog, Holly started the year off with a block stamping technique. I've done that
many times and it's a fun way to create a background. It's been a while like most things... so decided to make one again.

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I used 90# CP watercolor paper and Distress pads ("Salty Ocean", "Mowed Lawn" & "Mustard Seed") and a mister. I also used various sized acrylic blocks starting off with one about 2.5"square. Inked it up with the yellow, taped it here and there with the green and then the blue, misted with water and stamped onto my watercolor paper. Repeated the process till my paper was relatively covered. Then misted t he paper with a bit of water, let it do it's thing and then dried it. Over stamped all over with the same procedure but with a different sized block - approx 1.75" square. Then did it again with a 1"square block.

phase 3

phase 2

I then die cut it with a Spellbinders Fleur de Lis square die set using an off the edge technique to get a rectangle sized design.

Scanned the back of it (which is white) and then imported it into my electronic software to cut a shadow  of the design which I inked with the blue. Layered the two together and adhered it to a side folded cream toned card which I adhered a greenish toned Bazzill monochromatic cardstock edge to edge.

I used the same cutting technique to get the rectangular shape for the sentiment, then scanned and cut with my electronic cutter for the shadow piece.

Stamped the scenery (Beeswax) and bird (Old Island) using Versafine Black Onyx. For the bird I stamped it also onto a separate piece of cardstock, colored it with Perfect Pearls and cut out the body area, adhering that to my card because I wanted the head to land on my popped up sentiment piece.

as a final touch I knotted some twine and adhered it under the popped sentiment.

This will more than likely go for my cousin whose in to fishing, canoeing etc every year with the guys... ROFL.

And it fits for these challenges:
Brown Sugar Challenge  #75  ribbon or twine

Anything goes:
Trimmies Craft Challenge  #240
Polkadoodle Challenge  #1
Simply Create Too  #52