Thursday, January 10, 2008

Sneak Peeks!!




Cornish Heritage is getting ready to release some new images.
This is one from
Asela's
'Trees'. The sentiment is from a set being released the 25th, Essential Expressions.

  • I stamped the Date Palm Tree, adding more to the ground with an artist pen and then masked it to stamp the Clouds and Seagulls.

    After tearing a piece of copy paper, I used it to sponge inks off the edge to apply the colors. First the beach using Distress Tea Dye and Brushed Corduroy, then the water using Adirondack Stonewashed and Stream.

    Before doing the sky, I colored the seagulls with a Sakura white gel pen. The sky was sponged with Distress Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold and Spiced Marmlade. Only the Palm Tree and one Cloud at a time were masked (too lazy to cut more masks! lol)


    I then went back and recolored the seagulls with the gel pen and colored the Palm with copic markers. I used a small dauber to fill in some of the sky color around the Palm and clouds.

    The water horizon wasn't definitive enough for me so I sponged some Distress Weathered Wood along that line.

    The bottom edge is torn and the entire piece is faux layered by taking a Sharpie black marker and a ruler...I just followed the torn edge with the marker, barely touching it.

    Faux photo corner done by cutting a square with my Spellbinders square die, cutting it in half and then taking a small circle die to cut out the center. It's sponged with Distress Walnut Stain and popped up on dimensionals.

    Spanish Script was stamped with Adirondack Stream and sponged with Distress Vintage Photo, Tea Dye and Walnut Stain.


  • Stamps: Date Palm Tree, Small Cloud, Small Seagulls, Essential Expressions,
    Cornish Heritage Farms


  • Ink: Ranger Distress Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Old Paper, Brushed Corduroy, Walnut Stain, Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Weathered Wood Adirondack Pitch Black, Stonewash, Stream Cornish Heritage Farms


  • Paper: Prism Intense Teal, Suede Brown Medium Cornish Heritage Farms, My Mind's Eye, Georgia Pacific White


  • Spellbinders Nestabilities http://www.ellenhutson.com/

5 comments :

StampOwl said...

beautiful card Dawn

Holly said...

Ooooohhhhh pretty! This is my second sneak peak at Asela's new trees - saw your first one with the willow tree earlier this morning. Love your cards!

Anonymous said...

Hi Dawn! Lady, I love this creation! Beautiful. .. . . . . Hope your day is a wonderful one.

Michelle Zindorf

Anonymous said...

This is simply lovely, Dawn. Your masking, colouring are wonderful.

- dlm.

Jennie Skaggs said...

You have absolutely gorgeous cards. Your colors are amazing. TFS Jennie