' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Scenic Stamping

Wednesday 12 April 2017

Scenic Stamping

This one has been in the making for a while now... First, it took  me a long time to work out the placement of the stamps for a reasonably realistic perspective, secondly, I dithered about the colours and finally, the finished painting waited for me to have time to blog it!

I love scene stamping and the latest stamp sets from Crafty Individuals are great for this and mix perfectly with a lot of the tree stamps sets I already have from them. Yes my favourite stamps must be tree stamps!
I chose a panorama layout partly because I wanted to fit more stamps and partly because it would be a complete change to my default setting of a square make!


Stamps sets:
CI-460 : I used all the stamps in the set
CI-449 : the figures
CI-450 : The trio of trees on the left and the trees directly in ahead of the figures.

Since I stamped this, Crafty Individuals added a stamp set with sheep that would have looked at home in my empty paddock... If only I'd known....

I have used Versafine black for all the stamping and used regular watercolours and brushes for the colouring.
The paper is watercolour card which I cut to size. (approximately 11cm x 30cm or 4.5"x12").

I quickly painted a bit of cardboard to mount the painting to take the photo whilst I decide if I want to frame this scene or work on another (better, obviously!)

So there you have it an English landscape and no drawing involved!
Do let me know what you think in your comments...

I am entering the Fashionable Stamping, Stamping Sensations and the Craft Stamper TIMI challenges.

20 comments:

  1. Utterly gorgeous Christine so realistic and definitely looks like an artist has drawn everything with paints, pen and ink but as you say no drawing involved. Love it.

    Thank you for sharing with us at Fashionable Stamping Challenges.

    Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x x
    ShirlsCards.

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  2. That was my FSC hat Christine but had to leave a comment from me ... an absolutely special make.

    Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x x
    ShirlsCards.

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  3. This is an absolutely stunning landscape!! You have also incorporated the children into it beautifully, the elements work together really well. Thanks for sharing, and I will definitely be 'borrowing' the image. Jean x

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  4. Wonderful stamping with a great choice of stamps for the scene

    Love Chrissie xx

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  5. Beautiful card and fits so well with the theme

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  6. Moi aussi j'emprunte bien sûr, pour mettre cette carte au format panorama sur mon board d'inspiration CI!!!!
    BRAVO ma "copinette", cette scène est magnifique et fonctionne super bien malgré la difficulté de la taille (très différente !) des tampons en avant-plan et en arrière-plan.. C'est superbe !!!
    Bisous

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  7. I love this Christine and I think that the perspective is absolutely perfect. I'm a great fan of Crafty Individuals and I think the stamps that you've used work together so well, you don't really need any sheep on there. Fabulous stamping, fabulous colouring and very inspiring too! Thank you for sharing this with us at Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Sandra x

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  8. It's a beautiful scene Christine and really like how you have placed the children in the foreground, it's lovely to see you at Stamping Sensations, many thanks for joining in.

    I had this stamp set for Christmas and eventually inked it up last week, lots of possibilities.

    B x

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  9. And I read FSC and then totally forgot to also thank you for sharing your lovely card with is there as well.

    B x

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  10. This is a lovely scene that you have stamped here Christine, I could live there very happily! You've done a great job here and the Crafty Individuals stamps are perfect (I've got these but haven't got round to using them yet!). Thank you for sharing this with us at Fashionable Stamping Challenges,
    Leanne DT.

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  11. quelle bonne idée d'avoir incorporé ces enfants en premier plan. la scène est superbe !! bon week-end de Pâques, bisous. Sylvie

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  12. Christine, You have done an outstanding job in creating this scene from stamps and your watercolor background is soft and unobtrusive! Congratulations on a job well done and thank you for joining us at Fashionable Stamping Challenge!

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  13. Fantastic project Christine. Fabulous stamping and great perspective. The mix of stamps work perfectly together. Superb idea.
    Have a lovely weekend. Happy Easter.
    Hugs, Flo x

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  14. Wow what a scene you have created Christine. Just amazing! Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations!

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  15. What lovely stamps - and you've created such a great scenic card with them. Beautiful perspective and subtle tinting of the images.
    Alison x

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  16. Just love this, it is such a pleasure to build a scene with stamps

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  17. This is stunning christine. Scenes are my fave thing. Beautiful. Hugs rachel x

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  18. WOW! What a beautiful scene .... great colouring too. Thank you for playing along with the Craft Stamper challenge xx

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  19. A stunning creation! Great colouring and what a beautiful combination of stamps - I LOVE it! Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations this month and good luck!

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  20. Awesome scene! Thanks for submitting at the Craft Stamper Challenge Blog!

    Majo - DT ♥

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