Thursday, August 31, 2023

{BYSHC} Blog - August Sketch #36

 Hello {BYSHC} Friends!  
August means a new sketch as a springboard for working on that stash of Christmas/holiday cards. 
I was trying to get to the "free shipping" level for a recent Taylored Expressions order and the variety of trees in their Through the Woods stamp set called to me, so I decided to ink it up for this month's sketch.

I started by stamping the trees with Distress Inks on a piece of watercolor paper and then using a blender brush around the sky.  I dripped water onto the panel and then splattered with white ink to give it a feel of light snow. I kept one of the skinny trees to the side and fussy cut it as an embellishment.  The sentiment is from Unity's Feliz Navidad stamp set.  The background paper is from a Tim Holz pad I was gifted in a destash exchange two years ago.  It's rustic feel went well with the trees!  I just added some ink to the sides to give it a distressed look.

Hope you are seeing your stack of holiday cards grow.  If not, play along and get a head start on this year's cards!  Thanks for stopping by my blog.
In kindness, Cathy


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