17 Sept 2013

Dusk to Dawn................

..............and a challenge

It has been a very dull rainy day today just the day for getting inky so taking my inspiration from this
photo

 
 
and with the challenge at Craft a Scene - Dusk to Dawn in mind , a few of my favourite stamps, a little imagination,  I got very inky and made a card.....
 
 

Distress inks were used to create the background onto super smooth white card firstly a light layer of wild honey then used a mask for the moon and reapplied wild honey until I was happy, also at this point I lightly sprayed with water and dried with heat gun.  Dusty concord was used for the bottom of the card getting darker towards the bottom, I stamped the hills (listed below) also in same colour, flowers and grasses stamped at the bottom in black archival, I wanted these to be in the shadow so using more dusty concord and black soot I darkened the edges.  Tree branches were stamped in Black Archival and my favourite little owl was embossed in black.  This was then mounted onto a piece of black card which I distressed the edges before adding to orange card and mounting onto card blank.
 
Thanks for looking
'till next time
 


Ingredients
Stamps Sheena Douglass A Little Bit Sketchy Highland Silhouettes and Grasses Silhouettes
Inks Distress and Archival




11 comments:

  1. Love the background colours you used they go so well together. The whole card is really beautiful

    Chrissie x

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  2. beautfiul scene! beautiful colours. fantastic made!!!
    thank you for joining at craft a scene this month.
    greetings

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  3. Love the scene Maggie, great blend of colors and the mountains were a perfect touch. Thanks for visiting my blog!

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  4. Wonderful blending of the colours to create that autumnal sky - delicious!
    Alison x

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  5. The blending is astonishingly beautiful and so perfect.
    A lovely card.
    Wishes
    Lynne
    P.S. Must become your latest Follower

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  6. Lovely piece Maggie, and a great photo. The sun is shining here today, so I'm off out for a long walk! Valerie

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  7. A beautiful card! Love the colours and the silhouette of the tree and owl. Thanks for joining us at Craft a Scene this month.
    Pia/DT

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  8. Lovely colours - very atmospheric :)

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  9. I can hear that owl calling now. Thanks for joining us this month at Craft a Scene. NancyD

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  10. A beautiful card Maggie, thanks for joining us at Craft A Scene this month.

    Sue x

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  11. Beautiful! Your background colors are spectcular!
    sandy

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