King of the River

Hello and welcome to my blog  :)  I have one of my samples for the recent Chocolate Baroque tv shows on Hochanda to share today.  I created several samples to launch some lovely new CB stamps featuring Kingfishers, riverbanks and wild flowers.  For this card I have used stamps from the Kingfisher Song, Sticks and Stones, and Silhouette Grasses sets; Aquatints, Distress Inks, silver acrylic paint, Versafine ink, white gel pen.
 

I normally stamp all the images I want to use onto scrap paper to work out my composition before starting work on the card.  For this launch I had the idea to stamp all the images from all the sets onto copy paper and roughly cut them out.  I could then use them individually to work out my designs, moving them or changing them until I was happy with it.  I then photographed the composition to have a template for the card.  This worked really well for me, and it was a lot of fun too! 

I stamped all the images onto white card using grey Versafine ink.  I then painted each image with masking fluid, and when dry I created the background.  I used Aqua tints for the sky, then added some hills and banks on the other side of the river with DI's and a stencil.  

I had stamped the Flag Iris' first and then added the large boulders on top.  I stamped the boulders image again on a spare piece of card and  cut it out.  I painted with Aquatints and set aside for later.



Using a stencil I added clouds to the sky by faux bleaching them.  I stamped, coloured and cut out a branch then added die cut leaves   

I took the masking fluid off the images and coloured them with Aqua tints.

I added silver acrylic paint to teal Aquatint for the Kingfishers top feathers to make them shine.  I blended grey DI around the edges of the panel and matted it onto black card.  I stamped some foliage around the edges of a white base card, then attached the focal panel.  I then attached the boulders in 3D over the Iris'.

I stamped and die cut a sentiment onto white card, sponged DI around the edges and added a ribbon before attaching it to the card.   

I'm really pleased with this card, the stamps are beautiful and I wanted to create a lovely summer riverbank scene with them.  I think this card would cheer up anyone's birthday, but it could easily be used for other occasions and male or female cards too. 
Thanks for visiting my blog today I hope you've enjoyed this post, and I hope you will pop in again soon  :)