The Limited Supply Challenge on SCS today is to keep our projects simple and to not use any of our fancy tools like Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Embossing, etc. I decided to take it a step further and to create a single layer card using Fabriano cardstock and one of my all time favorite images from Stampin’ Up-Long-Time Friend. I masked off my image area with Post-It’s to create a faux frame around my card front. I stamped the image with Brilliance Black. I watercolored the image with a brush and several Distress and Adirondack Dye reinkers and then stippled around the ground area with a large round dry brush brushing directly on the ink pad and then the cardstock. I used my fern stamp to create a little garden greenery in the background and Itty Bitty Background stamp for texture on the ground. I sponged the sky in and was finished and removed my frame. I love the appearance of the crisp, white border around the complete scene.
Stamps: Long-Time Friend, Watercolor Minis, Itty Bitty Background
Paper: Fabriano
Ink: Black Brilliance Graphite, Ranger Distress and Adirondack Dye Inkds and Reinkers
Accessories: Watercolor Brushes, Sponges, Stump (to add texture to grass)
This really is an awesome card! I love the one layer look for that image and your coloring is beyond perfect!
HOw did you make your labels for your inkpads? I have a label maker but yours look like they are printed on paper tape.
I love the earhy fell to this Kittie, I can almost smell the dirt!
beautiful, I love it. thanks for sharing
Great card Kittie. The texture of the cardstock (I think it’s textured) really comes through. The colors are so beautiful. TFS
Ooooh, I love this card! It’s so beautiful!
Awesome doesn’t cut it. Kittie, this card is beyond that. Definitely a jaw dropper for sure.
Kittie, this is perfectly gorgeous! You certainly don’t need tools and you don’t need embellishments either!! Ever!!!
WOW! enough said….
I really like the “simple” yet detailed look of this
Starla
oh how I love what you did with this set!!
i just bought this set from a long time SU carder. (I’m new to making cards and doing any art work)So far I have just used the prisms to apply color to this stamp set. When I saw your rendition it caught my eye. Great color!
That is my all time favorite type of card! Sometimes these days all of the stripes and polka dots and bright colors that are on so many cards and things, do not appeal to me or are overwhelming. This is a true beauty of a card to me. Lovely! Donna B
Oh as usual you did a stunningly beautiful work of art!! I have that set, I need to try this out. You are an exceptional artist!