Just standin' around

This card uses one of those stamps that's been in my stash for ages, and I'm always "just about" to use it yet never quite get around to it. It was part of a set of Oriental themed stamps that were a cover mount on the now-defunct Get Stamping magazine a couple of years ago.

My original plan had been to use my brayer to produce an upside down image to be a reflection of the bird in the water below, but the ripples around his legs meant that didn't work very well, so I decided to stamp the image in the centre of the card them mask off a circle around it, colouring it in with blue chalks - I used several shades, with the darker ones towards the edge of the circle, and coloured in the sun with yellow and orange chalks. Then before removing the mask, I sprayed the image with Spray 'n' Shine to fix the chalks and give the image a soft sheen. Unfortunately it's a gloomy day here and the artificial light doesn't show up the shine on the image like sunshine would have done.

 

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