Tracy Evans Boutique Designs "Wilderness - TE52" Artist Trading Card

This is my morning Artist Trading Card (ATC), I think the muted colours reflect what is going on outside, the fog horn has been sounding all night and there is a thick mist/fog hanging in the air, obstructing my view of the sea and the breakwater.

The background design is a piece I made a while back using acrylic paint and bubble wrap to create the circles.  I used Versafine Clair 'Nocturne" black ink and "Morning Mist" grey ink for the stamping of two Tracy Evans stamp sets.  "Wilderness - TE52" for the deer and the sentiment and "On the wild side - TE50" for the trees.

TRacy Evans "Quirky Birds - TE10" Artist Trading Card

This is my Artist Trading Card (ATC) for the day, using three Tracy Evans Boutique Designs stamp sets.

I stamped the Tracy Evans "Quirky Bird - TE10" and the word "Tweet" from the same set in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink. I then used Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink to stamp the line of clocks from the Tracy Evans "Wilderness - TE52" stamp set and the line with dots from the Tracy Evans "Berries - TE55" stamp set.

I gave a wash of an aqua coloured water colour paint and then used a pink water colour paint on the bird. I needed it to be more vibrant so used a neon pink Posca Pen to add tiny dots to the bird to lift the colour.  Finally, adding some more black dots and a loose stitching detail round the edge using a black fine liner pen.

Tracy Evans "Wilderness - TE52" Tree in the dark scene

I kept looking at the antlers of the deer on the Tracy Evans "Wilderness - TE52" stamp set and thinking I'm sure they'd make a tree, so I decided to have a go, creating this scene.

I masked off the bottom third of the card and then added a vertical strip of tape in the middle of the white card, so that I had something to stamp up to.  I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the right hand side of the tree.  I then moved the central strip of tape over to the right hand side slightly and stamped the left hand side.

I, then popped a circle of paper over part of the tree as a moon mask and coloured the sky area using four shades of Distress Oxide Inks.  The colours I used are:  Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire.

I then moved on to the landscape using the torn edge of rough paper and two shades of Versaifne Clair ink.  I used "Nocturne" the black ink and "Morning Mist" the grey ink.

I used a black fine liner pen to draw in the tree trunk and add some grass tufts to the hillside.  I used a white gel pen for detail and a white pastel pencils to lighten the area around the moon.

Tracy Evans Boutique Designs "Wilderness - TE52" Christmas Card

I've used the Tracy Evans Boutique Designs "Wilderness - TE52" stamp set for this card with Staming in Versafine Clair "Twilight" and blending inRanger Archival "Bluebird" and Distress Oxide "Mermaid Lagoon inks for this Christmas card.

The sentiment is part of the Simon Says Stamp set called "Tiny Words - Christmas".