Tonight I pulled out a stamp that I haven't used before, a Rubber Soul image with three chairs. I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, though the mismatched chairs reminded me of a casual French bistro. While I was sorting through my Rubber Soul patterned paper, (Garden Variety in particular), it occurred to me that paper piecing might be a good solution for the chair cushions: I stamped my chairs on the patterned paper and cut out just the cushions to attach to the main focal image.
I stamped the focal image in Black Brilliance ink on PaperTrey Stamper's Select white card stock, then added a quick shadow under the chairs with a Copic marker (C1). I then used my Copic Airbrush System and marker YR21 to airbrush a warm background in. Since I stamped the chairs on patterned paper and cut out the cushions, there was no need to create any masks. I also used a Spica clear glitter pen on all of the metal parts of the chairs, though I'm not sure you can see that from the photograph. Mini brads are SU. "I'm thinking of you" sentiment is from a Wordsworth set, one of my favorites--Tiny Wise Words. The biggest challenge? Deciding which of the words to put on it!
Thanks for visiting; I should have another post ready by about mid-morning.
