Snowy Grove By the River

This is the card I made for DH's birthday.

I knew a snowy card would make him feel cold so I tried to show the sun coming up.

Of course I had to add ducks or geese.

I stamped the Snowy Grove stamp on Arches Watercolor paper with Pumice Stone ink 

and used my Aqua Painter to move the color around the trees.

The ink was still wet enough to stamp again which added a bit of extra texture.

When the ink was dry, and the stamp cleaned, I stamped with Versa Mark

and clear embossed to mask the trees.

I used re-inkers and a wet on wet technique to color the background. 

 I put drops of re-inker in the wells of a palette and used a brush with clear water 

to wet the sunrise area.  

Using a damp brush dipped in the re-inker,

 I dropped color until I was happy with it.

Then I moved to the top of the sky and repeated with blues.

When the sunrise was dry, I painted the ground using the same technique.

I used the bush stamp from another set to stamp some brambles and add more depth 

to the ground.

Finally, I sponged some more color around the edges to add depth.

This is relatively clean and not too simple, but I wanted to share it with you.

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My mixed media are Stamping, Watercolor with Re-inkers for my liquid color, Masking and Sponging

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowy Grove, Nature's Friends (PB), Pines (retired SU)

Ink:   Pumice Stone, Brushed Corduroy (Distress inks), VersaMark, SU Dapper Denim, Distress Brushed Corduroy for sponging

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. cold press), (Strathmore 140 lb. cold press for base)

Other:  Clear EP (SU), Re-inkers (So saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Old Olive) SU, Sponge Daubers (SU)