I hadn't tried this one before, knowing that I am no Cindy and admiring hers! I ended up making it twice, as I got a smudge when I stamped the birds on the first one, but I like the second time better so it's all good.
To start with, I didn't really have a suitable tree stamp - I did have a Serendipity one, and LAAT, but thought they were both too small and Trees Three too stylised. So, I used another SCS tutorial (Die Cut Stamps Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers) and made my own using an IO tree die and some fun foam. This worked well as it's easier to vary the amount of ink on the foam, and have less for the branches and more for the trunk.
I mostly used the colours I could see Cindy had used in her tutorial, but I also added some orange, mulberry, red and yellow from the Lavinia Elements range. I don't have daubers, so I used the circle stamp from Work of Art for a lot of the heavy lifting, and a small amount of sponging. Instead of a dot stamp, I used two different leaf stamps from my Kittie Kits Garden Master, and the grass also came from there.
The birds are an old wood-mount stamp, and the sentiment came from ODBD. Another bonus from my failed first attempt - I wasn't sure if that fine text would stamp OK on watercolour paper, so I was able to test it out on the smudged front and find that it did stamp better than I expected.
I trimmed the watercolour panel down, distressed the edges and added it to a 7" x 5" card base.
Date: Sunday, October 23, 2022 GMT Views: 484
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Registered: May 26, 2005 Location: McKinney, Texas Posts: 15945
Mon, Oct 24, 2022 @ 4:47 AM
Oh, Sabrina, this is beautiful! I love the sentiment! You were so creative in coming up with the tree. Put that in the thread in case people don't read the detail on your card. That is a great idea!
Beautiful card!!
Oh, and your Snoopy watermark is perfect! He finally found where his pile of leaves came from! Isn't it lovely, kicking up leaves?
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