Fun with Little Girls and Little Boys

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I love three day weekends.  How about you? I had extra time to play on Sunday and did two projects for the SCS Featured Stamper challenge. The featured artist was Lori (LMcAree) and her gallery is full of inspiration. I was inspired by her many little girl and boy projects.

I was recently chosen to be on the Stampavie design team and  I am very excited to work with their stamp line. My first project is a Sarah Kay image called Picnics of Daisies.

This little girl image is one of the most beautiful girl images I have ever worked with. I wanted to pop her up in a scene with depth and dimension and that placed all the focus on her. I stamped the image on a piece of watercolor paper and painted with reinkers, water and a watercolor brush.  I used my craft knife to do a free hand cut to create an open frame around the image but leaving her feet attached and I used snips to cut the paper away from the image. I started creating the scene by sponging a brown path and green ground area on both sides. I laid the frame over a second piece of watercolor paper, marked the path and grass to line up with the scene and sponged the path and grass.  I used a mini tip applicator to apply grassy texture and to create sprigs on both layers of the scene and then to apply little red dots to appear as red flowers. I placed a little dirt texture on the path using a small background image. Hint: Always heat set your ink before sponging on background highlight color. I began sponging on the yellow and blue to create my background and of course the red flower ink smudged.  Ugh!  I never learn!!!!  I covered my mistake with some higher grass sprigs and hoped that the smudges wouldn’t be too noticeable.  Note that the little red bow is covering a smudge that was just too high for a grass sprig although I did consider adding a tree. smile!   I attached the scene to the main card base and attached the frame with mounting tape.  I love how the scene shows up behind the girl.  See resource list below.

My second project was done using a retired Stampin’ Up set-Little Boys.  I so love the little boy holding his box of Puppies 4 Love.

I stamped the little boy on a piece of oval cut watercolor paper.  I sketched the little fence and tree behind him as well as creating a little sidewalk line at his feet. I wanted to try and keep the white embossed border of the oval clean and to keep the scene within that border.  I cut my fence off a little too short on each side.  Oh well!!!  I painted the images using  reinker, water and a watercolor brush.  I sponged on the tree top and ground area and then used small images from my Kittie Kits Outdoor Master to fill in leaves and grass. I stamped an extra image of the box of puppies so I could pop it up on the scene for a little dimension. I attached the puppies to the main scene with glue dots and assembled the card with a simple layout. I so loved painting the puppies and trying to make them look like a bunch of Heinz 57s. I especially love the one with the little black eye.

Project 1.   Stamps:  Stampavie Sarah Kay Picnics of Daisies   Paper:  Red, Olive, Watercolor    Ink:  Brilliance, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Brushed Corduroy, Lemonade, Tattered Rose, Caramel, Bashful Blue   Accessories:  Craft Knife, Sponges, Brushes, Mini Tip Applicators, Gingham, Snips, Mounting Tape

Project 2:   Stamps:  Little Boys-retired SU, Kittie Kits Outdoor Master     Paper:  DP, Yellow, White, Watercolor    Ink:  Brilliance, Bashful Blue, Bordering Blue, Celery, Mustard, Going Gray,  Sahara Sand, Lemonade, Peeled Paint, Black Soot,   Accessories:  Nestabilities, Scalloped Border Punch, Brushes, Sponges, Mini Tip Applicator, Artist Pen