Still playing around with my new Fantasia watercolor pencils and I am still enjoying the muted colors. For background though I did try a new technique. Distress Oxide inks are fantastic and I really love how they offer a more solid/ soft background. I used 3 different colors of blue for the background. I probably could have just done 2 shades as the 3rd was basically covered up with the animals and hills.
After inking on the Oxide ink on Bristol paper I used a water brush to draw out the clouds and using a paper towel I was able to blot out the color to reveal a more subdued cloud image.
The animals are a Paper Smooches stamp that I fussy cut out after using watercolor Pencils to color them in. The Zebra is more of a teal color in person, it's been gloomy today so my natural lighting more photos hasn't been the best.
I did a little distressing on the hills with a file and added in a faint shadow for each animal with a gray watercolor pencil. The sentiment is a old stamp set from Inkadinkado that I have had for a long time. It's whimsical and fit well with the over all prompt of the new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which you can check out here.
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What a super cute card, loe the stamps and the rich colors you gave them all, love the sentiment. Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra
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