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Stay Wild Nature Inspired Card

8th October 2024 | 2 min read

Stay Wild - Nature Inspired Card

Hi everyone and welcome to my latest design team make. The theme for our makes this week is "nature". I recently returned from our annual holiday to Rhodes and during our stay witnessed some amazing sunsets. One night in particular it looked as though the sky was on fire and I decided that when I got home I would use it as my inspiration for one of my card makes.

This was the stunning scene I photographed as we enjoyed one of our al fresco evening meals.

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And this is the card I made.

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Tutorial

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I pulled the photo up from my phone and chose the distress ink colours to re-create the sky. I used black soot, scorched timber, crackling campfire, carved pumpkin and mustard seed.

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I placed the circle mask from the stencil (you get this included in the bubbles and fizz set) over the top of a piece of 15cm square smooth white card as shown below.

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Starting with the lightest ink colour (mustard seed) I used a round ink blending tool to blend each of the colours around the circle mask. I then removed the mask.

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I placed the circle stencil where the mask had been and added a little mustard seed ink.

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By using the combination of the mask and stencil I could achieve a white "glow" around the sun to really make it pop.

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I then cut the background down to a 14cm square and stamped the horse with Nocture Versafine Clair ink and clear heat embossed it.

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I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment onto a small piece of black card and place it at the bottom right of the card. I also stamped 2 of the little horses and used the "splash" of the horse as an edge to the sun, which you can see in the finished card. I matted onto black card and then affixed to a white 15.5cm square card blank.

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I am always inspired by Mother Nature but I was so pleased that by making this card I was able to bring back a memory of a sunset meal on our recent wonderful sunshine holiday. Rather than a card you could also make something similar in your scrap book or journal to save as a holiday memory.

Products Used

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Stay Wild Stamp Set

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Bubbles And Fizz Stencil

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