I’m feeling a bit under the weather today with allergies, hence the blue landscape.  🙂

It’s very calming don’t you think?   I thought this would be a nice sympathy card for a man.

Let’s get started on today’s tutorial.

Supplies:

Brayered Soft Sky ink all over a Whisper White piece of card stock.

Put post it notes on the card stock where I want my horizon line to be and sponged in a circular motion Blue Bayou ink to form a mountain in the distance.

Sponge on Night of Navy ink in a circular motion to create a mountain that over laps the one in the distance.

Sponged Night of Navy ink on the mountain in the fore ground, not covering the Not Quite Navy ink entirely.

Sponged a little Basic Black right at the post it note edge to really get dark at the horizon line.

Took the post it note mask off and put new ones on to cover the sky and mountains.  I also masked a very small part of the water area right at the foot of the mountains to create a light beach area.

With my mask in place, I traced where my foreground mountain is on the post it notes so I can envision where I want my mountain reflection to be in the water area.

I turned the card stock up side down so I could work better.  I sponged on Not Quite Navy ink to create the mountain reflection using a circular motion.

Sponged Night of Navy on the mountain reflection not covering the Not Quite Navy ink entirely.

Removed the post it note masks.

Using a gentle swiping motion with the sponge from left to right, I sponged on Blue Bayou ink in the water area.

Stamp trees with Basic Black ink.

Stamped Canvas stamp over main image panel to create the illusion of a painting with Soft Sky Ink.  Sorry, it is very hard to see this in the picture.

Assembled card and here it is finished.  The finished card measures 5″ x 6.5″.

This ends the tutorial part of today’s post, but if you are interested keep reading to see a bit of my Spring garden in bloom.  😉

These pictures were taken yesterday in the few hours of sunshine we have had here in a few days. 

You just have to love Iris when they are blooming.  They are so very elegant with their ruffled petals.

I have these Early blooming Daylilies blooming away also.  Love them too!

I have these half Barrels turned over in the garden for interest. 

Strawberry jar, I can’t wait to get some berries!

Just another garden ornament.

That’s all for now folks.  Thanks for sticking around for a little bit of a garden tour.

Hope your Sunday is one of peace.

Until my next post. . . . .

Michelle