In The Meadow Archives - Crafty-rootes

My friend and downline Jo recently gave me the ‘In The Meadow’ stamp set which had been on my wish list for a while……….and I love it, thanks Jo x.

Our team challenge this month is to make a masculine card using product from the new catalogue. Masculine cards can be bit of a challenge but I thought In The Meadow was a good set to try making a card to fit the brief.

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For my first attempt I went back to another favourite set, Painter’s Palette as I thought the easel image would work really well with the deer image from the In The Meadow set. I stamped the easel on a Whisper White panel using Basic Black Archival ink. This is my favourite black ink; it is a really strong, dark colour. I stamped the deer image in Soft Suede ink onto a scrap of Shimmery White cardstock as I planned to do a little water colouring. I used the Aquapainter to add a little of the Soft Suede to the deer and a little Garden Green to the grassy area the deer are standing on. Gorgeous image. I then used the Layering Squares Framelit dies to cut out the image and added it to the stamped easel image with dimensionals. Such a simple card but so effective. I mounted the whole panel to a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock, rounding the upper left corner of both pieces. This piece was then adhered to a Thick Whisper White card base using Tombow .

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For the second card I masked off a rectangle in the centre of a piece of Whisper White cardstock using Post It notes. Using a ¾” circle punch, I punched a small mask from a Post It and added it to the upper left hand side of the rectangle before covering the rectangular area with Island Indigo ink using a sponge dauber. I peeled away the masks to reveal the coloured area and added some So Saffron ink to the ‘moon’ with a sponge dauber. The tree image from the stamp set was stamped using Archival Basic Black ink, overlapping the coloured rectangle. I backed the stamped panel with Basic Black cardstock before adhering it to a Thick Whisper White card base.

This is such a versatile set, I can see myself using it in conjunction with a lot of other stamp sets to create great cards.

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Mo x

I can’t get enough of the Sitting Here stamp set, I just love it.

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I wanted to use the stamp set to try my hand at water colouring. I stamped the swing seat in Chocolate Chip ink onto Whisper White cardstock and used an Aquapainter with a tiny bit of water to paint the wooden slats. I wanted a really light, distressed effect to the wood – it worked really well. I used a Night of Navy marker to colour in the stripes on the cushion.

Using the Awesomely Artistic stamp set, I stamped the leaf and foliage image using Basic Grey ink and coloured it in using Sweet Sugarplum – one of the new 2016 – 2018 InColours available from 1^st June – Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi inkpads and the Aquapainter. The cat was also stamped in the Basic Grey and lightly coloured using Smoky Slate ink and added a light swipe of grey to ground the cat. I really liked the way the image turned out. I added the mat to a Thick Whisper White card base and called it done.

crafty-rootes.co.uk – Stampin Up – Sitting Here

The second card was stamped in exactly the same way using the same colours. I tried to watercolour the background, not very successfully as I was using regular Whisper White cardstock. The regular cardstock is thin and starts to pill if it gets wet; I should really have used Thick Whisper White or Shimmery White cardstock which both cope better with water. Best of all would be Water Colour paper which, of course, I have run out of. I added a layer of Chocolate Chip cardstock, leaving a thin border. I put the panel onto a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock whilst I looked for a piece of Whisper White and decided I liked it better.

crafty-rootes.co.uk – Stampin Up – Sitting Here

I mixed it up again with the third card by stamping the cushion in Bermuda Bay ink onto Whisper White cardstock and masked it off before adding the swing seat is in Basic Grey. Because this is an archival ink it doesn’t react with water so I coloured it lightly with Smoky Slate ink. I added the leafy canopy from the Sheltering Tree stamp set using 1^st and 2^nd generation Wild Wasabi ink. The grass, stamped in Garden Green, comes from the In the Meadow stamp set as do the flowers and the butterfly, which I coloured with a variety of markers. I added some shadowing using Smoky Slate ink. It needed some sky so I used a cloud punch out from the Tree Builder Punch and a Sponge Dauber to add light Soft Sky shading, love the puffy cloud effect this gives.

I love the 3^rd card; it looks just like a painting. I am tempted to frame it.

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Mo x