My card for this week's Inspiration Challenge was inspired by this photo of a Summer Storm from Brian R. Ewing at Galleria Arts & Crafts.
It reminded me of this image from The Outpost set from Artistic Outpost. I inked the top of the image in blue and the ground with green ink.
Next, I painted on Frost (blue) and Forest Green Glimmer mist with a paintbrush, keeping my brush strokes horizontal to give the effect of a cloudy sky.
I finished with a wrap of blue seam binding and a vintage Hero Arts sentiment for my rustic anniversary card.
Registered: December 6, 2004 Location: Calgary AB Posts: 1096
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 9:10 PM
Stephanie, this is absolutely beautiful! Love your cloudy sky technique. Takes me back to when I was a kid & we'd go to Saskatchewan to visit family. So perfect
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*~*~Arleen~*~* "My friends, love is better than anger.
Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair.
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we�ll change the world" --
Jack Layton (1950-2011)
Registered: April 4, 2008 Location: Sahuarita, Arizona originally from New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 18436
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 10:50 PM
what a great job you did of painting this scene.. it really does look like a storm is a brewing...love the stamped image to complete the scene... wonderful take on your inspiration...
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 11:51 PM
GReat homey scene....love the vintage look and your neat clouds...TFs..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
Registered: August 7, 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 1087
Sat, Feb 25, 2012 @ 12:20 AM
Oh wow! This is such a beautiful card. Wonderful colors and the stamp is soooo gorgeous!!! And perfect for this challenge - loved all the photos and paintings and broderies of the sceneries like this!!!