Stargazing Foxes by Rosemary Rogers
Hello everyone, I’m Rosemary Rogers from the Lavinia Stamps Design Team.
I hope you are enjoying the Lavinia Stamps Extravaganza.
Four Fabulous days with lots of exciting things happening, prizes to be won and great inspiration from the team.
The Products used…
Tree of Courage, Tree of hope.
Distress oxide colours for the background: Tumbled glass, mermaid lagoon, salty ocean and faded jeans.
The Steps in creating the card
(click on the first image to view as a slideshow)
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- Using an 18 cm square piece of multifarious card, and Starting with tumbled glass and makeup brush ink up centre of card in a circular motion. Using salty ocean ink up from edge of card towards centre, leaving a light area in the centre. Once happy with this, repeat process with mermaid lagoon, leaving both colours showing in the centre.
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- Repeat twice more using salty ocean followed by faded jeans, you will have a circular pattern with all four colours showing
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- Line up the tree of courage and the tree of hope stamps on your background, I used a stamping platform so I could stamp both together using acorn versafine Clair ink.
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- I then repeated the same process with the foxes, also using acorn ink.
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- Repeat this process once more with Brodwin using onyx black versamark ink.
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- Stamp and cut out masks for the foxes and trees, then placed them over the stamped images, held in place with a small piece of low tack tape, folded in half on the back of mask to hold in place.
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- Place a piece of torn paper over background, then ink base of card with faded jeans to ground trees and foxes.
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- Using a soft lead pencil gently rub pencil on the area where you want the shadow to be, then Rub with a soft cloth to blend into the background.
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- For the next step place a small piece of low tack tape at base of the trees. Then stamp vine at base of trees using shady lane versafine Clair ink.
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- Using small dots on a small acrylic block Kaleidacolour pastel ink stamp onto the area under the trees and foxes to give the look of little flowers
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- Using vintage photo and peeled paint oxide inks, press inks onto mat spray with water. Using a water brush paint the trees.
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- Using versamark and stars2 miniature randomly stamp stars in background then using soft paintbrush highlight with Lavinia gold mica minerals.
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- Stamp lUsing a quickie glue pen, dab ground area then sprinkle with fairy tales eco glitter. ong branch from tree of courage with gold ink to give the effect of a willow tree. Highlight the owl, foxes and trees with clear sukura pen.
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- Using a quickie glue pen, dab ground area then sprinkle with fairy tales eco glitter.
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- Mat onto black and white layers then frame or mount onto blank card.
I hope you enjoy following along with this step-by-step guide. Please share your creations
Take care, stay safe.
Rosemary