Forest Layout

Hello friends! I hope you had a great weekend. My family visited and we had a fun birthday party for Anton. He is getting so big. Spring is in the air and the first snowdrops have made their appearance. I am documenting it in the Signs of Spring notebook that I made last year.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, we have a Things With Wheels challenge. How fun! I hope you can join us, and don't miss the project by our February guest designer Lucyna Marynowska, with her blog u Luli. 

My favorite thing with wheels is the bicycle and I found this photo from a couple of years ago, from a forest bike ride. The forest in the photo was extended onto the background, using stamps and Distress Ink. I used almost only shades of green, with just the circles beting red, to repeat the red in the photo (his helmet and the bike). The journaling is on the back. 

The background watercolor paper was in my scrap paper box and had been colored with Distress Inks. I used various pine tree stamps by Tim Holtz and inked them up with four shades of Distress Ink. Mist about four times before stamping. Most of the stamps are from the fabulous Tree Line set.

Continue adding more trees to fill up the scene. I used four larger trees in the foreground, from the Just Believe set. This is a Christmas stamp set. Don't forget your seasonal stamp sets during the rest of the year, since many of them contain stamps that can be used for non-seasonal projects. Since the photo was going in the middle, I didn't stamp any trees there.

Next, I added texture with a splatter and a grid stamp, using Potting Soil and Fern Green Archival Ink. Add a branch tree here and there with the brown ink. I also stamped a bike and a bunch of sentiments.

The circles were die cut from red paper with the Simon Says Stamp Circle Loops die. The sentiment comes from Tim's Perspective set.

The bike stamp comes from the Purely Random set, and I used one of the great sentiments from the Nature's Wonder set.

The different shades of green makes the forest look alive and also adds dimension.

I used the Odds and Ends set and stamped a ticket and a sentiment on an inky paper.

The layout was finished with a Spinner Trail border die cut from dark green paper and some Clippings Stickers. 

I hope you will join us this week in our Things With Wheels challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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