The Sky is the Limit

Hello, I'm hoping you'll indulge me today as I use a stamp set called Sky Is the Limit, which retired quite a while ago. I bought this pre-loved set a few months ago as I knew that a very special person would get excited about the plane. He has such an interest in aircraft of a bygone era that he builds his own models, both static and radio controlled. I think when I asked, this isn't a real plane design but made up of parts of several, most we've seen at Old Warden and Duxford. This is for you Mr G, attempting to join two hobbies again. I hope the path becomes clear...

I think this set goes so well with Lovely as a Tree, which is still a current set as of writing. I decided to use Shimmery White cardstock to stamp onto as I wanted to do a watercoloured background. Although in the process of being discontinued, using plenty of water on my piece of card, I chose Soft Sky for...well, you guessed, the sky while the grass is Garden Green! I used the Basic Grey Archival ink to stamp the trees and plane as it's water resistant.

To colour the trees, I used Garden Green, Old Olive and Lemon Lime Twist and using a slightly damp water colour brush, dabbed the ink on to get the effect. As you can see, the paper buckled a little so once dry enough I put it on my desk with weights on top.

I wasn't sure which colour to use when matting and layering at first. I tried several colours that I'd used to colour the card before finally settling on a very narrow border in Garden Green. This was then mounted onto my base card. A simple sentiment stamped directly onto the card completed it.

I don't often create this type of card as I tend to prefer lots of white space on my designs but I really do hope you like it, nonetheless.

Bev🎕

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