Golden Morning

Over at Splitcoaststampers the CAS Challenge is to use a jigsaw puzzle as an inspirations...here it is:

Summer Gold

I first cut a large circle with a Spellbinders Nestie from a large post-it-note, making sure that it was on the "sticky" end.  I stuck the post-it-note with the circle cut out of it on the card where I wanted the scene to be.

I cut some round slopes for hill shapes from post-it-notes and stuck them where I'd like the hills to be across the bottom.  I saved the negative bit, or the post-it-note which I'd cut the hill shapes from, for later use.

I cut a small circle with Nesties for the sun and stuck that where I wanted the sun to be, saving the negative bit, or the post-it-note from which the sun was cut, for later use.

I then took two cloud die cuts and used them to sponge the sky, placing them randomnly, starting at the top, and moving downwards, just sponging around the top edge so that there is plenty of white space for the "cloud" effect.

When the sky was completed I removed the sun circle post-it-note mask  and took the piece of post-it-note I'd cut it from and placed it exactly over the uninked circle area...I then sponged inside the circle with yellow and orange.

Time for the hills!  I removed the post-it-note shaped hills and used the negative post-it-note I'd cut them from, placing them exactly over the uninked area so that  the sky area was covered...then sponged inside the hills with two shades of green, darker at the top of each hill and lighter at the bottom. 

After removing all the masks...a perfect inked circle!

The tree was cut with My Favorite Things Sheltering Tree and Leaf Trio Die-namic.  It was cut from cream cardstock and then sponged with SU's Soft Suede ink so that the embossed bark texture is more visible.

For this tree only the two smaller sized leaves were used.

The sun coming up on a beautiful summer morning made me think of this sentiment from Verve:

"Morning by morning, new mercies I see."

Somehow it's easier to "see" the mercies on a sunny morning but they're just as real on a gray winter day like today! 

If my instructions aren't clear enough, please let me know...or if you think a photo tutorial would be helpful! 

Supplies include:

Papermill Shop White Linen cardstock

SU Lucky Limeade cardstock

SU Soft Suede ink

SU Yoyo Yellow ink

SU Cool Caribbean ink

SU Lucky Limeade ink

SUCertainly Celery ink

MFT Sheltering Tree and Leaf Trio Die-namic

Verve New Mercies

Versafine Black Onyx ink