On Wings of Imagination

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share an encouragement card created for  January "Winged Things" Challenge #205 with the Edgar Allan Poe Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda and the Murder of Crows Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Stamps.

Here it is!

When I saw that January's challenge was Winged Things, I naturally had to create a card with some of my favorite birds. I love crows and ravens and magpies, which are all part of the Corvidae Family. Their plumage is usually majestic and they are really very intelligent birds. And when I think of crows and ravens, I think of Edgar Allen Poe.

I wanted to go greyscale with this card and am relatively pleased with the results.

I first stamped the Edgar Allan Poe Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda with London Fog Memento Ink onto a panel of Bristol Paper then used Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp three of the crows from the Murder of Crows Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Stamps. 

The images were all colored with Copic markers. A white Gel Pen was used to add the catchlights to Poe's eyes. A Black Glaze Gel Pen was used to add shiny eyes to the crows. 

I wanted to add a background to the image panel, so I stamped all the images again onto repositionable sticker paper, fussy-cut them, and placed the fussy-cut stickers  over their counterparts as masks.

A square die was placed facedown on the image panel and secured with low-tack tape. The die and image panel were run through the machine. The sandwich was flipped onto my work surface so the reverse was facing upwards. Low-tack tape was used to secure the die-cut image panel to the rest of the panel.

The panel was flipped again so that it was right-side up with the image panel still inside the die. Lost Shadow Distress Ink was brushed over the die onto the masked image panel die-cut. A stencil was placed over top and the Lost Shadow Distress Ink was sponged over the die and the stencil to add a subtle background.

The tape was removed from the front and the back of the die-cut image panel revealing a white-ish edge. The masks were removed to reveal the colored scene.

Black textured cardstock was cut with the next largest square die and used to mat the image panel.

The matted image panel was adhered to a white 6" square card. Sentiment stickers were added to finish the card.

You still have two days to join our January "Winged Things" Challenge #205 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!