A BIG CONGRATS to our Featured Stamper, Mary, aka jandjccc! What a fab gallery and Mary always leaves such lovely comments and spends most of her Sundays notifying people from the Favorites Thread.
After spending much time in Mary's beautiful gallery, I kept coming back to her Lonesome Bird. I love the greens (my fave!) and the bird, the moon..well I love the whole thing. So I kept those, but I used different images, made a frame around mine and added two punched birds instead of the one stamped bird.
I needed an anniversary card for my hubby, since Monday is our anniversary so I thought Mary's card would be the perfect one to case. I pulled out a long neglected Stampscapes image for this and after placing a circle mask for the moon, I sponged on the various green inks then stamped the image on top. A few wispy clouds were sponged across the moon and some highlights added to the trees and rocks. The reflected light on the water was done by scribbling a white Distress marker and a white gel pen then going over them w/ a water brush. The white gel pen was also used to add some stronger highlights to the water. The frame was die cut as were the flourish elements, then the punched birds and sentiment were added. The finished card is 6.25 x 4.50.
Congrats again, Mary, enjoy your week! Closeups and all the details are on my blog: The Write Stuff. I'd love for you stop by!
Date: Saturday, August 25, 2012 GMT Views: 3973
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Registered: April 4, 2008 Location: Sahuarita, Arizona originally from New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 18436
Sun, Aug 26, 2012 @ 9:33 AM
wow, Julie this is sooooo gorgeous.. It should be hanging on the wall in a art gallery...Love your beautiful sponging and use of the gel pen... also love the frame you used for your creation and the punched out branch and birds... such a wonderful job and case... Love it....
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Sun, Aug 26, 2012 @ 12:14 PM
Your wonderful artistic ability comes through in this amazing card. The framing of that magical scene in those compelling colors accented with the gel pen is genius. AND that moon!!!!
I LOVE how you have so artisitcally put part of the scene into it including those wispy clouds... The birds on the branches made from the CLD die on the edges of your frame is just brilliant!!!! LOVELY LOVELY card....
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Sun, Aug 26, 2012 @ 12:55 PM
Wow, another outstanding card. Your work is amazing.
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