I used three colours of distress oxide ink pads and two bottles of Windsor and Newton liquid water paints or Brusho crystals dissolved in little water. These are optional.
I love these paints they have a pipette in the lid so it;s really easy to just add a drop or two exactly where you want it.
Then I lightly spritzed the card stock.
If you get the card too wet just wipe off the excess water with kitchen roll.
Lay the damp card stock onto the wet inks and lightly press the card down .Lift the card and allow the excess to run off onto an area of the baking sheet away from the remaining ink to prevent the excess mixing with the remaining ink and becoming a muddy mix.
Allow the card to dry completely.
Depending on how much ink is left on the baking sheet it is possible to colour a second sheet, but the second sheet will be paler.
You will need to clean off the baking sheet after colouring the second piece of card as the mix will be too murky to use.
I like to mix up lots of batches using different colours and colour lots of pieces of cards ready for stamping.
an interesting effect.
The longer you leave the water to sit the more colour it lifts off.
Leave to card to dry before you stamp.
The next step was to cut a circular mask for the sun/ moon. I used a two glue pen on the back of the mask and allowed the glue to dry before sticking it to my coloured card.
Using a sponge dauber with a tiny amount of lilac ink, I sponged around the edge of the mask to create a sun.
I also sponged around the edges of the card and drew in a couple of and lines which will be my horizon and contour lines.
The sun is revealed once the mask is removed.
It look pretty cool for such a simple technique.
The next step is work out your composition.
Be prepared to make last minute changes .
I have managed to get ink smudges on my card stock that I didn't plan or want.
The only way to salvage my work was to stamp over the smudge to conceal it. Sometimes this has meant doing quite a lot more stamping than I had planned.
I wanted to add some trees in the background. using the Stamparatus, I positioned the trees over the sun on the my card and picked up the stamp with the plate of the stamparutus. I inked up the tree stamp in the same lilac ink as I used on the sun and stamped the trees. 
I decided not to use the trees on my second piece. So I stamped willow branches hanging down and some wild flowers on each side in lilac with the hope that when I stamp them again in black they will get pushed back into the distance.
Knowing the fairy was going to need stamping at least twice, I used the stamparatus to enable me to repeat stamp the Fairy. Now my Focal point is stamped I can now stamp the foliage around her.
Some of the foliage I stamped in lilac then stamped it all again in black Versafine.
Once the ink was dry I applied some two way glue using the fine pen and then applied glitter.
All that's left to do is trim it to size and layer it before adhering it to the front of a card.
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