Square snowscape
Posted: October 6, 2014 Filed under: Prancers, Stamped Landscapes | Tags: Penny Black stamps, Tsukineko Memento inks 15 Comments
I don’t create many square cards but the symmetry can be very pleasing. I made this little snow scape on a scrap of cardstock which I had previously splattered with masking fluid. The panel was Neenah solar white cardstock not watercolour paper so I refrained from watercolouring and created my night sky and snowy hills and gullies by sponging instead.
I cut a post-it mask for the horizon and punched a little circle mask for the moon then sponged both summer sky and nautical blue memento inks across the sky. Before removing the horizon mask I stamped a row of trees on the left hand side. I cut and positioned a different mask, stamped a couple more trees and then sponged over the edge of the mask. For the last two trees I just used part of a mask to create a few dips in the snow. (I have a tutorial here showing now I create snowscapes with sponging and masking fluid)
To finish I ran the nautical blue sponge around the edge to frame the panel, added some highlights to the edges of a few snow banks and trees with a clear wink of stella pen and stamped my sentiment in nautical blue. When the ink was dry I rubbed the masking fluid off to reveal little white snowflakes.
Thanks for your encouragement to keep on stamping with the Prancers set. You know I will!
Supplies:
Stamps: Prancers, Joy Filled (PB)
Inks: Memento Nautical Blue, Summer Sky (Imagine Craft/Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock
Also: Winsor & Newton masking fluid, Clear wink of stella pen
You are the master of the sponged background, Heather–this is just stunning!!
gorgeous card!
Pitchoune
Beautiful! And all with just two colours of ink…those trees are a lovely stamp! I hope you’ll demo the Liquid Frisket at one of your classes.
We will be using it in the November class. I have nearly finished the samples for the class so they will be on the blog soon.
Wonderful card! Amazing inking and shading to create dimension, like on the snowy banks on this card. Amazing. 🙂
Gorgeous Heather!!!
I am so happy… just receive my Prancers set… so beautiful … and like you do, I am in love with winter scènes… YOUR winter scènes… thank you so much for inspiration!
Hi Micheline,
I know you are going to have so much fun with the “Prancer” set. I was playing with another set today with a couple of trees in it and they are a different style to the Prancers tree so I enjoyed working with them. They will be released and revealed on Penny Black blog this week.
Heather
Thanks for the beautiful tutorial on the snow scene. The info on the masking of the 2nd tree helped me. I had tried masking and kept getting the space that didn’t stamp. I knew I could fill it in but thought I was doing something wrong. Thanks
The realism you obtain with sponges and some ink continues to amaze me. This is a beautiful scene!
beautiful card and great set!
I cannot get enough of your snowscapes. They are so peaceful and I when I view them I can “hear” the quiet of a snowy night.
Another simply gorgeous card! Thanks for linking your tutorial, I’d somehow missed that one. Will try create my own version soon.
Oh how I love your snow scene cards, well any of your cards to be truthful! I love your snow banks, they look so realistic and those trees really are fab 🙂
Wow, Heather! This card just gorgeous!!!!