Savannah Sunset

Hello hello, Jenny here and I'm filling in for Taheera this week and taking you to Africa with a warm evening scene and glowing sunset....

I've used Distress inks in shades of yellow, orange and pink to blend the warm sunset after first applying a circle mask to make a bright setting sun. The grassland is made using a torn paper mask with black soot distress ink sponged beneath it. When the inky scene was all dry, I set about stamping out my safari scene using Hero Arts Wild About You. I love both the Hero Arts safari sets, with lots of animals in different poses and sizes to choose from.

I decided to stamp the sentiment on a strip of white card and add the rhino and a strip of grassland to the banner as well..... I think it adds to the perspective of the scene. I cut around the rhino with a craft knife but kept the rest of the lines straight. Can you just feel the warmth from that sun??

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Birthday Bus

Hello, happy Wednesday! I have a bright and fun trio of birthday cards for you today featuring a mix of products from Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn and Neat & Tangled. Two of the cards are very similar, with the third mounted on a slightly different background.

Starting out with an A6 white card panel, I masked off the top half with some Post-It tape. I then blended on some Distress Oxide ink in Twisted Citroen and Mowed Lawn through the Neat & Tangled Tree Duo Stencil, keeping the layering light. I finished off with a light dusting of Broken China to give the slight impression of sky at the very top.

On another two A6 white top folding card bases, I masked off a wide band towards the top of the card. This time I blended on some Fossilised Amber and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide Ink through the MFT Radiating Rays stencil, keeping the layers light and concentrating the darkest colour at the bottom centre.

I set these aside to dry and stamped out three of the buses and six of the clouds from the Avery Elle Birthday Bus set in some MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. I coloured these in bright school colours with my alcohol markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I cut the green panel down and used some craft foam to attach it to a card base. I then popped up the buses on some foam tape and adhered them to the background, adhering the clouds directly to the panels to make it look like exhaust fumes. I know from my experience, these type of buses aren't exactly environmentally friendly!

The sentiment included in the set wasn't long enough for what I needed so I pulled out the HAPPY BIRTHDAY from the Lawn Fawn Simply Sentiment set. On the sunrise backgrounds I stamped this above the scenes and below on the forest scene. I finished off with a little heart at the end of the sentiment using some Lawn Fawn Lobster Ink.

A fun set of cards that could be masculine or feminine, or given to an adult or a child. I think I like the forest background best - what's your favourite?

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie