Blended snowy scene

A couple of quick Christmas cards today. Just Blending and stamping so these don't take a lot of materials or time.

I used a blending brush and Starry night ink pad to blend in the night sky,  the snow and for stamping the trees.

I punched out a circle from the sticky edge of a post it note and placed it where I wanted my moon.

I loaded my brush with ink and started blending the ink along the top and downwards.  Blending over the post it to create the moon.

You want the most intense colour at the top, as you work downwards there will be less ink on the brush giving you a softer graduated  look, which helps to create depth in your scene.

Remove the moon mask and with a brush that has virtually no ink on brush  around the edge of the moon lightly. this will give the moon a more rounded appearance.

Stamp the trees using first and second generation stamping. Which means load the stamp with ink and stamp a foreground tree  ( 1st generation) then stamp another tree further back without re inking the stamp. (2nd generation stamping) The tree will be lighter in colour, this will push the tree into the distance.

 For the foreground take  a torn strip of paper and a brush with very little ink on it and lightly brush over the edge of the paper to form snowdrifts and shadows under the trees.

I used Pretty peacock ink on my second card, but I think you could probably use any colour to  create these scenes... well maybe not yellow and orange. Purples look great too and I'm on the verge of trying pink to see how it turns out.

To create the falling snow I took a white Posca pen and after shaking it well, I basically bashed the hell out of the barrel with a stick, while holding the tip of the posca over the scene until the paint splatters over the card front.

I also dotted on some stickles glitter glue on the trees for a little sparkle.