Monochromatic Maple Tree – Tutorial #112

Woohoo! New Innovative Stamp Creations Stamp Sheets are out! Here is the link: http://www.innovativestampcreations.com/ischomepage.html

Today I used the new Innovative Stamp Creations stamp sheet “Maple Tree Paintings” and combined the images with today’s SCS Monochromatic Challenge CC182. I decided to go for an old photo or pen and ink drawing look by using Greys and was quite happy with the way it turned out. Who knew Grey could be so interesting?

Let’s get started. 🙂

Supplies:

Stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations “Maple Tree Paintings”

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Going Grey, Black

Ink: Adirondack Black, Pebble & Lake Mist

Accessories: Aqua Painter, White Gel Pen, Sponge, Photo Corner Punch, Black marker, Brayer

Stamped Maple Tree with Pitch Black ink on a 4″ x 4.5″ piece of Whisper White card stock.

Brayered Lake Mist ink at the top of the card stock.

Squeezed my Pebble stamp pad so it would make a puddle of ink on the lid and used the puddle to water color the leaves of tree with an Aqua Painter.

Sponged in a hill with Pebble ink.

Sponged Black ink at the bottom of the card stock, but did not cover the Pebble ink entirely.

Watercolored some Black ink on the right side of the tree leaves.

Sponged some Pebble ink at the top of the card stock to make the sky a bit more interesting.

Darkened some of the tree branches on the Right side of the tree with a Black marker.

Made White Dots on the Left side of the trees leaves to create highlights and some dashes on the hill to indicate grasses.

Stamped the birds with Pitch Black ink.

Sponged Black ink on all the edges of the main image panel.

Assembled card and here it is finished measuring 5″ x 5.5″.

This was a fun and challenging project. Why don’t you give a Monochromatic card a try today? Here is a link to the SCS challenge: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=378798

May your day be filled with fantastic images!

One last thing, thank you for all of the birthday wishes. I received over one hundred Happy Birthday comments, about one hundred e-mails and a whole bunch of e-cards. You all made my birthday a very happy one indeed! Thank you, thank you!

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

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