Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Timeless Tuesday #247 - Snow Scene

Good Morning! The Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge this week is brought to you by our wonderfully talented Deborah Anton. Deborah is asking us to create a winter scene this week. I used Flourishes recently released stamp set 'Snow Scenes' for this fun challenge.




I had a lot of fun creating this scene. It is not something that I have done a lot of with success, so I was pretty happy when this worked out on my first try. I decided to create a one layer card for this challenge so I masked off an area of my card base with post-it notes, 1" from the top and 1 3/4" from the bottom. I punched a 1 1/4" circle for my moon and adhered two more post-its side by side, trimming the top edge with scissors for my hilly landscape which I placed about 2/3 of the way down in my masked space.

I started out by sponging pink ink around my moon and then used a light blue ink over the rest. I then built up the colour of the sky using two darker blue inks, always working from the outside edges inward.

I removed the mask from the moon and keeping the other masks in place stamped the top portion of the fir tree stamp on the right twice. On the left I stamped just the very top branches of the larger tree along the horizon in second generation black (after inking your stamp, stamp off once on scrap paper).

I then moved the mask down just a bit and over (to offset the hills) sponged with some grey ink along the top edge and added some shadow below the fir trees. Moved the mask again, sponged grey again and stamped the closer firs on the right making them a little larger than the first set of firs so that they would appear closer. I then moved the mask a final time, sponging grey along the edge, shadows for the firs and stamped the tree on the left. After removing the hill mask I added shadows for the trees and inked a bit above the bottom straight mask to define the lower edge. I then removed the top and bottom straight masks and added hints of snow to the trees and firs with a white gel pen.



A sentiment and three small grey pearls completed my card.

Be sure to check out what the Design Team has come up with for this week's challenge and leave them some blog love while you are there:

Supplies: Snow Scenes stamp set (Flourishes), white cardstock, various inks, grey pearls, post-it notes, sponges

15 comments:

  1. WOWZERS! Connie, this is Stunning! You should do a video tutorial for this card! The snow banks and shadows look amazing, and I love the little bit of snow on the bare tree. Thanks for the detail on how you did this. I'm going to give it try!

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  2. Your card looks AMAZING!!!!! I love what you did and I had forgotten about masking circles to make a moon!! Love it, Love it, Love it!!

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  3. Connie your scene is just beautiful! Thanks for the wonderful tutorial - your depth and shadowing are stellar. You knocked it out of the park for your DT stint. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  4. Oh my gosh, this is absolutely gorgeous!!!

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  5. WHAT A GORGEOUS SCENE YOU'VE CREATED!!!!!!!!!!!!:) JUST GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!:)

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  6. WOW! That is fabulous! You can hear the quietness of the scene....if that makes any sense! Really beautifully crafted!

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  7. Absolutely stunning card. Thank you for explaining how you did it and thanks for sharing x

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  8. Gorgeous card and amazing scene you created. I love it and thank you for the tutorial as to how you went about creating this wonderful card.

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  9. Gorgeous scene card! Love your layout and the beautiful colors you used....very peaceful.

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  10. What a beautiful Card ,Absolutely stunning.I Love it a Lot.
    Greetings
    Felicie

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  11. Goodness me Connie! This is stunning! I have to say, this is one of my favourite sets of 2013! You did it justice for sure. Wonderful card this week.

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  12. Holy SMOKES!! What a BEAUTY! This is such a gorgeous card Connie. Your scene is so dreamy and makes me want a cup of coffee to look at that as if I were looking through the window. Fabulous!

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  13. Stunning winter scene...WOW....I can almost smell the cold, crisp air!!! I just might have to give something like this beauty a try!
    GOR-GE-OUS!!!!!

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  14. Thud...yeah, that was my jaw hitting the floor! Oh my goodness, your winter scene is incredible! That moon just GLOWS!! I am so enjoying your designs this month Connie! :)

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Thanks so much for your kind comments, they always make my day.