SFYTT - January Sketch

The Sketch For You To Try is going from weekly to monthly this year.  I'm sad because I love seeing a lot of Jen Del Muro's talent, but I'm glad because with a monthly challenge, I'll be able to play along a lot more regularly.  This months sketch is amazing {again}

I needed to make a birthday card for my dad so I used this sketch, turned it on its side and pulled out an old nature themed SU set - Natural Beauty.  I love the images in this set, but haven't used it for a while.

To make it a little more masculine I used the wood grain impression plate.  Its not only manly but gives a great texture element to the card.

I stamped the larger text background in Rich Razzleberry repeatedly to make the background layer.  I stamped the leaf on a scrap of watercolor paper and then did a wash over it (little ink lots of water).  after I got the wash look I wanted I went back in with more ink on my aqua painter and created the leaf vein details.

The sentiment layer was made using Fillable Frames #10 (die and frame image) and #8 (sentiment). I love how those sets are so mix and matchy .... any sentiment goes with any frame!  Awesome!  I finished it with randomly stamping the leaf image on the sentiment layer.  I stamped off twice before stamping on the die cut so it would be a very light silhouette.

Thanks for stopping by!

{Supplies - unless noted}
Stamps: Natural Beauty (retired); Fillable Frames #8, Fillable Frames #10 [PTI]
Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Watercolor
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso
Tools: Circle nestabilities [Spellbinders]; Fillable Frames #10 die, Wood Grain impression plate [PTI]; aqua painter