It's that time--April Release Day at My Favorite Things Stamps--and I saved my favorite card to share with you today! All of the new products that we've shown this week are now available at the MFT Stamps store.
I used a variety of products and techniques on this card. For the front, I used the new Cascading Scallop stencil and airbrushed with Copic G16 and YG06 and my Cpic Airbrush System.
I also airbrushed the inside of the card's background, creating rolling hills and a sky. (I made my cardstock stencil with and MFT Stitched Snowdrifts die.) Copic markers used above were YG21, YG25, BG13, and BG05.
I wanted to create a forest inside my card, but I didn't want it to compete with the animals for the spotlight. So I stamped the trees in MFT Cement Gray Hybrid ink, masking so that I could stack and overlap the trees. The third on over from the left looked a bit odd, like its trunk was levitating. :-) So I colored a longer trunk on it when I started coloring.
Here are my colored trees--again, I kept them lighter and less saturated in colors because I wanted them to be background--not the center of attention.
These cute guys? They deserve to be the undisputed center of attention! I layered a few mid-ground trees behind the animals, but kept the animals in the foreground (by layering the animals on TOP of the trees). I used a Copic Black 0.3 Multiliner to draw lines for a stripe down the skunk's tail. That wasn't really necessary, but it gave me a specific place to color up to.
I layered die-cut trees, cut with the new Tree-mendous Die-namics set, on top of my window, cut with Inside and Out Stitched Rounded Rectangle Stax. I wanted the little fox and skunk just peeping through the trees when the card was closed.
I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps Blog for the full scoop on the April Release. Again, all new products are now available at the MFT Stamps Store. Have fun!
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