First Post (listen to the bugles!!) - Joy!

Welcome!

As I have started accepting some of the challenges laid down by other crafters, I felt I had better make it easier to upload my work.  So here is my first attempt.  Probably should have taken more pictures whilst I was making it!  Ah well!

This is in response to the Indigo Blu challenge - Blue.  Keep it simple, I thought.  So I used my brayer with an initial layer of big and juicy ink to create a background, then distress inks to create a feeling of twilight.  And finally, before I finished on the background, I used a water brush to lighten the centre to create a sunset sort of mood.

I used the Dancing Children stamp, with chipped sapphire DI, and the trusty water brush to put them in silhouette, and to give them a shadow to ground them. There is a faint hint of cosmic shimmer watercolour paint around the children, to give them an aura of magic.

Finally, mounted on to dark blue card, to pull the blues together, with a Viva pearl pen to create the pearls.  Letters from Ideology, ransom, dabbed with gold and pearl adirondack dabbers.  Hey presto!  Joy!