Wild Places Scenic Art Journal Page

Hi and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge post. This week we have a Wild West and cowboy theme. Fun and something different! Be inspired by images, colours, wild west themes and more. Have you seen that we have got a new design team member, Emma Williams, I am looking forward to seeing all the gorgeous things she will create.

I have had fun doing scenic stamping in my small Dylusions art journal lately (check out this and this post) and for this week I used Darkroom Door stamps to build up a frontier/pioneer scene. The scene itself, the colours and the sentiments were all inspired by the Western theme. Most of the stamping was done with Potting Soil Archival Ink, which is my new favourite brown ink. I planned the scene on a scrap paper first to decide where I wanted to place the buildings and the trees. After stamping, the scene was inked with Distress Ink, with a relatively light touch.

 

I really like these rustic house stamps. The roof was inked with Watering Can and the house itself with Potting Soil. To add some life to my scene, I die cut birds from Simon Says Stamp Birch Wood Veneer paper and inked them slightly.

 

I love the tree line stamp in the background. After inking, the scene was splattered with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, to give some texture to the grass area. I covered the sky with a scrap paper since I didn't want any splatters there.

 

On the Home Sweet Home set there are some small flower and grass stamps, and I stamped them here and there, with Potting Soil and Saffron ink, to add detail to the scene.

The sentiments were stamped with Jet Black ink, to make them stand out from the background. Isn't this a great sentiment?

Join us in our Wild West challenge and you could be the one who wins the randomly drawn $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp.

Thank you for the visit!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Surface: Ranger Dyan Reaveley Small Creative Journal; Simon Says Stamp Birch Wood Veneer Paper

Stamps: Darkroom Door: Home Sweet Home, Trees, Wilderness Vol. 1, Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz: Mini Ornates

Ink: Ranger Archival Ink: Potting Soil, Jet Black, Watering Can, Saffron; Distress Ink: Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Gathered Twigs, Pumice Stone, Walnut Stain

Die: Impression Obsession: Bird Set