Snowscape

I started out with a landscape orientation for this scene but ended up chopping chunks off both sides.   As with other snowy scenes I’ve done I tore pieces of paper to mask off the sky and the snow.  The stamp is a small three tree stamp which  a friend passed on to me.

I started by tearing a jagged piece of paper for the mountains and a wavy piece for the snowy hill below the mountains.    With the mountain mask in place I sponged the sky with Bashful Blue and Brocade Blue.  I then added the hill mask and covered the sky to sponge the mountains in Night of Navy.  I stamped trees in Going Grey over the navy and further down also.

The foreground trees I stamped in Basic Black, then restamped slightly higher in versamark before embossing in clear.  This left a snowy outline around the top of the trees.  In real life the trees are very black but in the picture the light has reflected off the embossing making it look whiter.  I did a bit more sponging on the snowy hill with Bashful Blue and then realized that such a snowy scene needed snowy mountains not plain navy ones.  To add snowy tops to the mountains I masked the sky again and sponged versamark along the top edge of the mountains.  After sprinkling white embossing powder on the versamark I used a small paintbrush to brush off some of the powder before I heated it.

I realize that a tutorial might make more sense than my description,  I’ll try to manage one soon.   I know I’ve said that before…

Supplies:

Stamps:  Three Tree stamp (Embossing Arts), Hugs and Wishes
Inks:  Brocade Blue, Bashful Blue, Basic Black, versamark
Cardstock: Whisper White,  Brocade Blue, Basic Black