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it’s SCENIC SATURDAY with AMYBELLA!

www.stampingbella.com: rubber stamp used: SQUIDGY AND TEDDY card by Amy Young

Hello Bellas!

Amy here with a Scenic Saturday card that has all the feels. I figured it was a good time to show the Squidgies some more love so I grabbed my stamps to see which one would light that creative spark. To my surprise and delight it was a mash-up of two Squidgy cuties that got my wheels turning. Many of the Squidgies include two versions in the package, a large one and a small one and as cute as they are I had never actually inked up any of the smaller versions. That all changed when I noticed how adorable it would be to pair the larger Squidgy and Teddy with the small version of Grumpy Squidgy. I stamped Grumpy first then masked her off before stamping Squidgy and Teddy slightly higher and overlapping. That way when I removed the mask it would look like Squidgy is bringing a teddy bear to surprise and cheer up her grumpy little friend with. I mean seriously, how can she not cheer up when gifted with a teddy that is bigger than she is?! I colored these two friends into a simple indoor scene with a wood floor, base board and wall. This allowed me to add the sentiment above and frame it like an art print hanging on the wall behind them. Sometimes it doesn’t take more than a few simple lines to effectively tell a delightful story with your stamps.  🙂

Stay crafty my friends!

> SCENIC SATURDAYS with AMYBELLA
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It’s Scenic Saturday with Amybella!

Hey Bellas!

It’s Scenic Saturday with Amy and this one is kind of a special as it wraps up my year of flowers personal challenge featuring the Tiny Townie Garden Girls. Now when I looked up the flower for December there were two choices, narcissus and holly, neither of which are part of the Garden Girl collection. So instead, I looked outside the Garden Girls and found the perfect replacement with Tiny Townie Pamela the Poinsettia. Personally, I can’t think of a better flower to represent December and all of the holiday cheer that comes with it. For the background I wanted to play up her tiny fairy-like size so I ‘zoomed in’ real close and colored in a wood window sill for her to stand on with a snow-covered window directly behind her. Now this hot house flower is safe and warm inside while she can still enjoy the view of a snowy winter night. A simple and sweet message from the Holiday Sentiment set was all this needed to be complete.

 

With the completion of the challenge, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at all twelve of the cards in this series. It’s kinda cool to see the progression of the seasons when they are all side by side like this. Well, I hope you have enjoyed these cards as much as I’ve enjoyed creating them, I guess I need to figure out a new personal challenge before the new year arrives, LOL!  😉

Stay crafty my friends!

> SCENIC SATURDAYS with AMYBELLA
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it’s SCENIC SATURDAY with AMYBELLA- featuring our TINY TOWNIE GARDEN GIRL POPPY!

www.stampingbella.com: rubber stamp used: TINY TOWNIE GARDEN GIRL POPPY card by AMY YOUNG

Hello!

Amy here with a new Scenic Saturday card to share. Now that we are well into August it was time for me to ink up the next Tiny Townie Garden Girl in my personal “year of flowers” challenge. The flower representing this last month of summer is Poppy and since I have previously colored this beauty as my favorite California Poppy, now seemed the perfect opportunity to color her up in shades of classic red. The rest of her ensemble was kept very neutral and I even decided to simply shade her tights and shirt with light grey markers, forgoing coloring in a striped pattern because I really like the look of the narrow black stripes just as they are.

For the background I wanted to create the impression of distant hillsides covered in red poppies. My trick to accomplishing this was to color a base layer of light red, R20 and R22, at the tops of the hills gradually fading it into the green grass. This helped to make the flower fields look more lush and full of blooms when I dotted in R27 and R29 over top and the base was still light enough that I could go in with a bit of green here and there. I then continued extending the background into the distance with a little mountain range colored in more desaturated greens to take advantage of aerial perspective. To complete the card I inked up a large sentiment from the Love Sentiment set in a green ink that matched the grass down front.

Okay, have a wonderful weekend and stay crafty my friends!