I hope you're all keeping warm and aren't a part of this incredible freeze we've been experiencing here in the northeast USA for the past week!!!
I'm not trying to prolong the winter with my card for the ATG challenge at The House That Stamps Built, but I wanted to make a winter birthday card for a guy and was inspired by a walk through the woods on a snowy day.
Did you know the oak leaves are the last to lose their leaves in fall? So that means their steadfastness forces them to endure the snow and whatever else winter weather can throw at them. Sturdy and strong, the leaves are as is the tree is itself.
The process to create this card began with a watercolor wash background on watercolor paper.
The leaf stamp was stamped and off stamped in various directions with a waterproof ink to create the mass of leaves. The sentiment was then stamped in the area of choice in Clair VersaFine Ink "Autumn Leaves". (Love this ink).
Using some white gouache and water and a small paint brush, I splatted it over the panel before mounting it on various panels and finally the card base.
I hope you found some inspiration here today and I hope you'll play along with this challenge as well as all the challenges we've had this month. You can enter each week's challenge all month long. So there's plenty of time to enter all the challenges this month. There is a $25.00 gift certificate for some fabulous Repeat Impressions Stamps up for grabs. All the details can be found at THE HOUSE. Check it out and then please join us!!!
For more incredible inspiration for this challenge, please visit the blogs of my team mates....you will be amazed by their projects.
Cheri
8 comments:
Gorgeous!!
This is one awesome card, Cheri! I love your snowy oak leaves with that fun watercolor background! Absolutely perfect!!
(BTW - I didn't realize your bit of trivia about oak leaves till I planted one several years ago. The leaves on mine are STILL there, they probably won't come off till new ones begin to grow.)
Absolutely beautiful - love the snow covered oak leaves. In fact we had that this weekend, we have 5 aces of woods around our house and a lot of the trees are oak. Great card for Anything Goes.
This is amazing. Love the textured look
WOW! those leaves look spectacular and so beautiful SS. Love the snowy effect you got with the splatters. Great layering and gorgeous watercolour washed background. Another scorcher here so what a cooling effect I got with this card.
This is stunning, beautiful background wash, snow covered leaves and the splatters are the perfect final touch!
Cheri, this is so gorgeous!!! Your snowy scene is perfect!! And so true about the oaks. We have tons of them and the leaves stay on FOREVER!
Love your color wash technique and the white splatted all over the panel, really adds depth to the whole card. Beautifully done!
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