Masculine cards

I have been playing with inks again. Blending various colours of inks to create colourful skies  for the silhouette stamping. The die for the lighthouse is in the set that coordinate with the sailing home stamp set. 

Normally you would stamp the lighthouse and die cut the image with the matching die. But I needed the negative of the lighthouse die for a video tutorial, which meant the positive was waste. After some thought I decided to use it as a silhouette on my blended backgrounds.

But then  I decided there wasn't enough foreground on the die cut for what I had in mind.

 I didn't want my scene made up of lots of pieces.

So here's what I did.

I placed the die on black card leaving lots of space at the bottom of the die.

I placed the cutting mat over the die, leaving the base of the lighthouse uncovered and ran it through the bigshot.

This method cuts out most of the lighthouse but not all. Which means you can go in with a pair of scissors and cut the rocky landscape in a way that's pleasing to you.

To create the impression of the rocks, I blended patches of white craft ink into the card stock. and then blended a little black craft ink into the white until I had something that resembled  misty rocks.