Moonlit Meadow Scene

Hi everyone. It's Jen here and I'm back to share some inspiration with you for August. I don't know about you but scene making is not my forte. However with the right tools anything is possible! So I broke out the Land and Sky Stencils to create the most beautiful moonlit scene card!

Products Used

Land & Sky Stencils and Masks – LDRS Creative

Forest Animals 4x4 Stamps – LDRS Creative

Forest Animals Coordinating Dies – LDRS Creative

Trees 5x7 Stamps – LDRS Creative

Great Outdoors Postage Collage 4x6 Stamps – LDRS Creative

Banana Cream Pie – LDRS Creative

Dan-D-Lion – LDRS Creative

Olive Branch – LDRS Creative

La La Lavender – LDRS Creative

Four Leaf – LDRS Creative

Evergreen – LDRS Creative

Dark Wash Jeans – LDRS Creative

Stone Washed Jeans – LDRS Creative

Raven – LDRS Creative

To start this card, I cut down a piece of smooth white cardstock to 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 inches into a card panel. Then I trimmed some masking paper from my stash into four 3/4 inch strips. I used the masking paper to mask off all four sides of the card panel.

Once the panel was masked off, I used the the mask for the medium sized moon from the Land & Sky Stencils & masks and placed it in the upper right hand side of the card panel, allowing it to bleed off into the masked off borders. I also taped one of the rolling hills stencils onto the panel to seperate the sky from the ground. Then I lightly ink blended some Banana Cream Pie Ink around the edges of the moon mask fading it out to white. A top tip to avoid unwanted blothes or smears in your ink blending, is to start blending on the mask then gradually blend off the edge of the mask and onto your card panel. 

Next, I ink blended some La La Lavender ink and slightly overlapped it with the yellow ink. This creates a stunning glow around the moon. To finish off the night sky I ink blended Stone washed Jeans, Dark Wash Jeans and Raven Ink fading the colours from light to dark from right to left. Before removing the moon and rolling hills stencils I splattered on some white acrylic paint to add some stars to the night sky and set it aside to dry. When the splatter was dry I replaced the moon mask with the coordinating stencil and lighly ink blended the moon with Banana Cream Pie Ink, then added the details with some Dan D Lion Ink.

When I'd finished with the sky I moved onto the meadow and Ink blended a combination of Four Leaf and Evergreen Inks using the rolling hills ans grassy fields stencils. Then without re-inking my black blending brush I lightly blended on some Raven Ink to darken the meadow to give it a more nighttime feel. 

Once I'd completed the ink blended background scene I stamped 3 of the trees from the Trees stamp set in Raven Ink to create some silhouette trees. I used the same ink to stamp a sentiment from the Great Outdoors Stamp Set above the tree line. At this point the card kinda looks like a hot mess, because the edges of the card have all of your messy ink blending! So my favourite part is peeling back the masking tape to reveal your completed scene!

The main focal Image on the card is the largest deer from the Forrest Animals stamp set, I stamped, die cut then coloured it with alcohol markers. I stacked the image onto 2 plain white die cuts to add some extra stability and popped it up on the card front with foam tape for added dimension. The last step was to add the card panel to a card base to finish the card. 

I'm so pleased with the final result, the glow of the moon and silhouette trees really set the scene!

Bye for now and I'll catch you all again soon!