Friday, October 22, 2010

Babushka'd

So my dog Walt got me up at 2am by sitting up on his back legs and grabbing at my face with his hand-paws, and once I had watched him run around the yard and drink an entire bowl of water he was exhausted and I was wide awake. So I decided to try my hand at the latest Color Throwdown Challenge: dusty durango [dark red], perfect plum [dusty lavender] and so saffron [dark yellow]. I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to play with my new Babushka / Russian Nesting Dolls stamp set, a birthday gift from my Baby.

One of my favorite ways to use these stamps to to hand-color them with Marvy stamp markers. It's relatively easy and I love the result. I used this method for the pop-out dolls on the top; after stamping them, I colored over it with yellow, which gave it a deeper effect. I stamped the border with dark red marker, and detailed with it plum and yellow. For the background paper I used StazOn ink and added more detail. Because these are wooden stamps, it was no easy feat getting things to line up. Finally, I colored the background paper with plum-colored chalk.
Inspiration:
Color Throwdown #115
(dusty durango, perfect plum and so saffron)
Stamp: Hero Arts LP158 / Russian Dolls

2 comments:

  1. Those sure are cute little doll images! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Color Throwdown!

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  2. Very cute card! Love all those Russian dolls! Glad you could play in the Color Throwdown!

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