The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for May 7, 2018 was to create something with an ombre look. (Definition: Ombré is a French word for a color with a shaded tone or varying tones. An example of ombre is a color that fades from dark gray to light gray.).
I had been working with a Hero Arts stamp/die set consisting mainly of silhouettes of African savannah animals and plants. I thought this set really needed a sunset background to set them off so I decided a sunset would be my ombre pattern. I used Distress Inks direct-to-paper on moistened Neena Solar White to get the effect I wanted - I started with "Spiced Marmalade" at the bottom and moved up the card with "Abandoned Coral", "Barn Door", "Seedless Grape" and "Faded Jeans" to get my background. I then stamped my images in Archival "Jet Black" using a line of "grass" and trees to delineate my horizon:
I had been working with a Hero Arts stamp/die set consisting mainly of silhouettes of African savannah animals and plants. I thought this set really needed a sunset background to set them off so I decided a sunset would be my ombre pattern. I used Distress Inks direct-to-paper on moistened Neena Solar White to get the effect I wanted - I started with "Spiced Marmalade" at the bottom and moved up the card with "Abandoned Coral", "Barn Door", "Seedless Grape" and "Faded Jeans" to get my background. I then stamped my images in Archival "Jet Black" using a line of "grass" and trees to delineate my horizon:
And then placed my animals and sentiment:
The medium giraffe is a little off-kilter but I didn't notice this until after I stamped him. Ooops. So consider him turning to follow the tall guy in the background, maybe going a little uphill in the process!
Both the ground and sky needed something so I did another "direct to paper" with Distress Oxide "Fossilized Amber" roughly on the land area to add texture and die cut a moon (for the same stamp set) from textured card, adding some "Fossilized Amber" and "Picket Fence" to give it a bit of depth:
Products used in the making of this card were:
- Stamps: Hero Arts “My Monthly Hero June 2017” (MH0617C)
- Dies: Hero Arts “My Monthly Hero June 2017” (MH0617C)
- Inks: Distress Inks: Distress Custom (“Barn Door”, “Abandoned Coral” and “Spiced Marmalade”). Abandoned Coral” “Seedless Preserves”, “Faded Jeans” and “Picket Fence”; Distress Oxide “Fossilized Amber”; Archival “Jet Black”
- Papers: Neena Solar White; scrap of palest yellow Bazzill card
- Adhesives: Ranger Wendy Vecchi “Perfect Card Adhesive”
RSS Feed
