Measurements: 4.25 x 5.5 card base, the image panel – 3 ½ x 2 7/8”, striped panel – 4 ½ x 2 ¼”, all borders are 1/8”
-Masked the kitty, balloon and moon with post it notes (moon is a 1 1/6” circle punch). Tear a piece of paper in two pieces and used both at different steps while sponging on the colors. First cover the ground area to sponge on the sky, then removed and covered the sky with the second piece to sponge on the ground. I hold my paper in place with blue painter’s tape found at a hardware store.
-The moon rays are done with the direct to paper technique/DTP using the Brilliance Moonlight White ink pad. (DTP is rubbing the ink pad directly on to the image panel.)
-After removing the moon mask black was sponged on lightly with a very coarse sponge.
-The tree, weeds and grass images are stamped on after removing the moon mask. There is a straight lined grass image along the horizon – stamped in black ink and a patch of grass image stamped multiple times on the green with gray ink to create texture.
-After the entire panel is sponged with color it is very lightly sponged with Stampin Up Classic – Basic Black using a coarse sponge.
-Remove the kitty and balloon masks and color the images with Prismacolor pencils, baby oil and paper stumps using the Gamsol technique which you can find in the resources section here at SCS.
-Stampin Up ticket punch was used on the top corners of the image panel and border and the small corner tabs on the under panel are from the EK Success Iron Eagle punch.
-The Martha Stewart bats (punch) were paper sculpted using a metal ball stylus to score the lines on the front then flip it over and move the metal ball in a circular motion between the lines while the bat lies on a folded paper towel. The bats are attached with tacky glue.
-The designer paper had the ink distressed look and more was added with the black soot ink.
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Stamps: Penny Black – kitty, Cornish Heritage Farms/CHF – Willow Tree on the right, grass and weeds from the Scene It sets, Custer’s Last Stamp – tree on the left
Paper: White, Remember When – black textured paper, Bo Bunny designer paper
Ink: Ranger: Archival – Jet Black, Tim Holtz distress ink – black soot, Crystal: dye based – purple, orange Tsukineko: Brilliance – Moonlight White, Stampin Up: Classic – Basic Black, Going Gray, Summer Sun, Pigment pad inker: Pigment – Emerald Green
Accessories: Post it notes, sponges, Prismacolor pencils, Martha Stewart bat punch, EK Success Iron Eagle punch, metal ball stylus, Aleene’s tacky glue, foam tape, brads, 1/16” circle punch
Techniques: Masking, sponging, Prismacolor, random stamping for grass, paper sculpting, ink distressing
Registered: March 24, 2005 Location: by a stream and a pond Posts: 2020
Tue, Sep 01, 2009 @ 9:24 PM
THis is fantastic Roxie! Nothing new tho as all of your cards are. I love how you sculptured the MS bats and where you placed them on the card. Might have to buy that MS punch also.