Soar

Hello and welcome to my first DT post, a sneaky peak using the gorgeous new Time To Fly collection from Visible Image - which will be out later today!  It’s a very striking release of stamps and stencils with sentiments in fabulous fonts and styles.  All the stamp sets and stencils work so well together; it was such fun creating the samples!

To create the background for my 5” x 7” card, I used Distress Spray Stains to create a sunset sky and then added a little stencilling using Fingerprints and Dusty Concord Distress Ink.

For some distant bushes, I stamped the branches from Soar using Versafine Clair Morning Mist ink across the bottom of the panel, adding the small bird from this set and the one from Spread Your Wings.

Next, I stamped the large bird image using Versafine Onyx Black, adding a little gold embossing powder just along the edges of the head, wings and tail and heat-set.

I had planned on doing the same with the sentiment but it didn’t really pop so instead I heat embossed it in gold on black card.  The edges were dragged across the Versamark ink pad and heat-embossed in gold to finish them.

On looking at the whole panel at this point, it didn’t feel balanced, being too light at the bottom.  I stamped a few more branches, this time in black to help give depth the foreground.  I also added a little more stencilling using Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide.  The panel was backed with black card and mounted on a white card blank.  The sentiment was attached using black foam tape.