The harvest guardian

 

 The harvest guardian

Something a little Spooky is coming your way (or not depending on which way you look at it) with my mixed media Halloween card for the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge this week.

I don't know about you but I am not a fan of walking next to or amongst the corn, I don't like the way it whispers and moves it's also much taller than me so you have limited vision. It is easy to get turned around to.

 So my guardian is doing a good job as I wouldn't want to be alone out there!

I used Distress inks for the background and Archival jet black for the stamping. I stamped the scarecrow twice once on the background so I could see where he would sit. Once on a separate piece of cardstock. This one I coloured using Distress watercolour pencils and coloured pencils for additional shading. I added a few highlights with bleed proof ink.

Sorry light on in this photo, here in the UK we are experiencing storms and the natural light is not so good. You can also see that I have added doodling to suggest more corn in the background with black markers and bleed proof white ink. The corn was coloured with Distress water colour pencils then high lights added with bleed proof ink. I have added mist too. Just to add atmosphere.

 I have had some questions on how to do this, well I guess there are lots of ways to do it. This is my way, I add a little Lost shadow oxide ink then using pan pastels on a cotton bud I blend the white pastel in the areas I want the mist. It is really not difficult at all and it is so effective. You could also try just pan pastel or pastel pencils?

A little close up of the moon created with Tim Holtz moon mask and distress inks.

 

I used the same technique to add a few wispy clouds. It was difficult to catch on camera but there are hints of sparkle from wink of stella on the leaves, moon, branches and crow.

 

The finished card has mummy cloth tucked around the base of the scarecrow coloured with black distress ink, he is propped up on foam tape for a little dimension. 

 

 The branches were painted then coloured with coloured pencils followed by stabilo all pencil and white gel pen. As mentioned before a hint of sparkle too. I added a little shadow here and there and that's my finished card. 

After I finished this blog a friend of mine asked me to submit it to another mixed media challenge at creative artiste mixed media challenge blog. (fingers crossed I have done it correctly, I am so new to all of this)

I hope that you enjoyed reading this blog post and got some inspiration for your projects. I would love to see your artwork if you were inspired to create. Happy crafting.

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