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| Belated Father's Day Greetings |
| Stamps Used: Man, woman, cat and leaping deer (in the tapestry): Third Coast Wall: Visual Image Printery Pine trees and stream (in the tapestry): Art Impressions |
| How it was Done: I usually use Memories permanent dye ink because it gives a nice, strong black color that will not run if you color in your scene using watercolors or markers. 1. On a large piece of cardstock, print out saying ("How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is/To have a thankless child" - from Shakespeare's King Lear) on the computer, using the Papyrus font. 2. Stamp crying cat, mask 3. Stamp woman, mask 4. Stamp man, mask him too! 5. Stamp wall image twice (you might want to use a stamp positioner to help you line up those stone bricks); use a fine point black pen to draw a line across the bottom edge to distinguish between the wall and the floor 6. Stamp mini scene for tapestery on separate cardstock, as follows: stamp deer, mask. Ink part of the stream stamp and position under deer (a stamp positioner is helpful here, too). With deer still masked, stamp trees. Remove masks and color with colored pencils. Make a border around the scene with a pen, then draw tiny lines down the sides and across the bottom, to look like fringe. Cut out tapestery. 7. Color scene. I used regular colored pencils on the cat and people, then chalked the wall and floor. I added a bit of extra black chalk in the corners of the wall, and purposely left the floor lighter around the saying. 8. Glue tapestry to the wall. Using a metallic gel pen, add a bit of "dowel" on each side of the tapestry, and add little knobs, too, if you wish. Once the gel pen dries, go around the edges with a fine tipped black pen. |