Silhouetted seascape

I bought Nature Silhouettes for this tree, I love silhouettes of trees.  I remember when I was in highschool art doing a pen and ink drawing of an old gnarled tree.  It was a silhouette which had branches twisted and entwined all over the place; it was quite time consuming.  I think I still have it in a folio somewhere.  When I saw this set in the catalogue I knew I would have fun with the tree but doubted that I would use the deer and wolf much.  You never know, the deer might turn up on some of my Christmas designs.

To make this card I stamped with versamark on watercolour paper and embossed with black e.p.  I painted on the watercolour sky and sea with a small brush dipped in water before picking up some ink off the lid of the stamp pad.  (When the stamp pad is closed if you squeeze lid against the ink pad you get a small amount of ink that you can dip a brush or blender pen in)

The background tree is made using the same stamp but I inked it selectively in order to make a larger tree.  First I inked the top branches of the tree with a bit of the trunk and stamped that in the corner of the white background piece.  Then I inked the base of the trunk with the grass next to it and stamped that at the bottom of the white piece.  To lengthen the trunk I just inked the trunk and stamped it in between, then did the same thing again.  It is not neatly done, but the mattes cover a lot of it anyway.  To fill out the grass at the base I used a few stamps from Pocket Silhouettes.

Supplies:

Stamps: Nature Silhouettes, Pocket Silhouettes
Inks: Versamark, Bashful Blue, Not quite Navy, Brocade Blue, Almost Amethyst
Cardstock: Brocade Blue, Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Watercolour paper
Also: black e.p.