Embossed Silhouette

Some fun playing with blended background and embossing folders today.   Group of Seven Cardmaker technique this month is

Dry Embossed Highlights over Ink Blending

Well I had an idea to use this technique to create a silhouette effect and chose this Cuttlebug Bird Call Embossing folder, but after creating the blended background with Distress Oxide inks I stupidly put the card in the folder back to front and resulted with a de-bossing image... well I figured whatever I'll try and brayer some weather wood DO over the whole and this is the result - it got messy in spots so I painted over the bird so it would stand out...

Then I repeated the process but used Distress Inks for a brighter colour effect and tried to mask off some area - half successfully....  but it worked

After weeks and heat wave temperatures the weather finally broke and Lows have been gathering off the coast, no cyclones have formed but we have been inundated with rain - 940mm (abt 36in) in the last 8 days, mostly in the last 5 days, so mix that with high tides and there has been flooding along the rivers in town, plus we have a large water storage dam which is being fed from catchment areas and that is currently having planned water releases to alleviate some flooding... we're ok but our yard has seen a lot of water - this pic was Friday with 30cm (12in) deep.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

keep safe - there are some awful disasters occurring around the world.

cheers Robyn