I used this card to teach some techniques at our last Open Stamping day (Jan. 24th).
1. I used a piece of printer paper to do an un-even (hilly?) tear and use the paper to mask the card so I could add Cashmere ink with a dauber brush.
2. I used another brush to add Canary yellow to the upper right hand corner (sun?) and carried it out across the card a bit.
3. I stamped the cacti with the new archival black CTMH ink.
4. I colored both cacti with the lighter Shin-Han alcohol ink marker, and when that color was dry, I went over the spines of the sahuaro with the next darker green. For the prickly pear, I made little doodle circles all over the cactus giving it a mottled look.
5. The flower was stamped in Raspberry (the May Arts ribbon is Raspberry and Green).
6. I stamped a potted Aloe on the envelope and just colored the cactus - then stamped Just Saying Aloe. Very fun!
In Arizona (where I live most of the time) we can't really have too many cactus/desert plant stamps! LOL
2 comments:
Very sharp looking card, Sharli. ;) Great colors and some fun techniques were used. I'm sure your attendees enjoyed making this one very much. :)
Simply wonderful card...just love your sweet cacti! Wonderful!
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