Riley Goes Camping

I am in love with Riley the Moose from Hanna Stamps. Isn’t he adorable.  The sketch challenge on SCS today was to use an offset oval.  I thought Riley in his camping tent would be great popped over a background of trees and his camping site.  Note he has his marshmallows on a stick to roast.  Instead of sitting on the log by the fire he decided to lay in the tent.  What fun to create.

I stamped the Riley image on the oval and also on the main layer of the card.  I ended up not using quite as much of the main layer image as I had first thought I could so you only see the one little corner of the tent on the left corner.  I stamped the fire and marshmallow image from another Riley image and added in this scene.  I hand sketched the trees and log by the fire with an artist pen and watercolored with caramel reinker.  I sponged the ground and leaf areas with Distress Peeled Paint and filled in the texture with my fern stamp.  The tent is colored with mustard. I cut a little bit of grass out of olive cardstock to add to the log just to add interest.  I was going to add grass to the border of the tent as well but it was too much.  I used Nestabilities to cut both my oval layers and popped up over the scene with mounting tape.  I cut an additional Riley head and popped him up as well. I stamped the fire three times and cut out and popped up and added a little log along the border of it as well.  Isn’t he the cutest thing out there camping alone.

Stamps:  Hanna Stamps-Riley Camping

Paper:  Mustard, Watercolor

Ink:  Brilliance, Distress Peeled Paint, SU Caramel, Mustard, Bashful Blue

Accessories:  Artist Pen, Deckle Scissors, Nestabilities, Liquid Applique, Mounting Tape, Sponge Dauber, Watercolor Brushes