Day #4...Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Week and a Great Giveaway

Wow!
It's already Day 4 of Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Week and Giveaway

 here at my blog!

I've been having so much fun creating cards  with a great assortment of Blue Knight Stamps...
and am happy to share 2 cards with you today...

Both created with Blue Knight's COUNTRY LIFE stamp.

The cards are similar...but different.

The same stamped image...colored two different ways.

One with a brushed ink sky

and the other with a cloudy sky...

created with Blue Knight's HEIDI PETTIE CLOUD STENCIL

But...before we start looking at cards....
Guess what?
Blue Knight Rubber Stamps has a great discount code for my blog visitors
Buy 4 stamps...Get 1 FREE!
What a great time to work on your  Blue Knight Wish List!
To browse and order...go HERE

Okay...Now it's time to look at some cards!....Here we go...

The first COUNTRY LIFE card.
This card was colored by applying ink to the stamped image

with small eye shadow sponges.

I layered and blended an assortment of ink (pad) colors

paying special attention to adding some shading for depth.
When the image was colored...I cut it out...
at the top edge...along the tree line and hilltop edge.
I set the cut out image aside.
Next...on a separate piece of card stock...I stenciled the cloudy sky

using the Cloud Stencil...Clarity Stencil Brushes and blue ink lifted from an ink pad.
I matted the cloudy sky piece on gold metallic card stock
Trimmed the image piece to be the exact width of the cloudy sky piece

and positioned it over the cloud piece with fun foam.

Creating two separate pieces..

one for the image

and one for the stenciled cloudy sky...

allowed me to create dimension.

Here...in this photo...You can see the image piece in it's raised position...

over the cloudy sky piece
(The purple that you see is the fun foam)

I created a second card with this terrific COUNTRY LIFE stamp...

This time...the image was colored with a base layer of Copic markers

with shading and color blending added with Polychromos pencils.

The pencil shading was blended with a Copic Blender pen.

After the image was colored...
I used stencil brushes to add the fiery sunset sky

with ink lifted from sunset-color friendly ink pads.

The sunset sky that I created was inspired by the stamp packaging.

(Thank You, BLUE KNIGHT STAMPS, for the inspiration!)

If you are a person who loves to color...

or are just starting out with coloring stamped images...

Blue Knight stamps would be ideal for you!

The image kinda come with built in shading cues....
In other words..the images have details that indicate where shading and shadows would be.

This makes is REALLY easy to know where to shade and build color.

And now...

It's time for you to leave a comment below...

so that you'll be "in" on the giveaway!

(Bue Knight's "The Dirt Road" stamp...the Cloud Stencil...and a stipple Brush)

                          

You can also visit the blog posts for Days 1...2...and 3...if you haven't visited yet

and post a comment below each of those blog posts 

for additional giveaway chances.

The winner will be announced here at the blog

at the end of BLUE KNIGHT WEEK.

Thanks for visiting today, my crafty and creative friends!

I hope that as each day passes during Blue Knight Week

that you are feeling excited and inspired to create a Blue Knight Wish List

of your own

(Mine is very very verrrrrry long!)

And.... because I am a really good enabler...

I will say....go HERE...to the Blue Knight web site

to get your wish list started!

Looking forward to seeing  you tomorrow for Day 5 of Blue Knight Week!

Michelle