Complicated Background Stamps with the MISTI

 

Welcome to Team Tuesdays! This is Susan here on the blog. For today's card I am using the STAMPtember collaboration set between Simon Says Stamp and the Ink Blot Shop called Life is An Adventure. When I saw this set several designs came to mind but this one is my favorite. My son was a Boy Scout and I have saved his letters home from summer camp. 

For the background I used the Lined Paper background because my son often used this for his letters. Using my MISTI and Neenah Solar White 80 lb card stock I lined up the stamp carefully in alignment with the grid lines on the MISTI. First I inked the horizontal lines with Reverse Confetti Salsa.

I stamped the blue first and then keeping the stamp and paper in the same place, I used Reverse Confetti Salsa to stamp the red line. To make this look more realistic I added finger prints and splatters of Walnut Ink Distress Ink to the paper. I also added some Picked Raspberry to emulate the candy and jelly on his letters. 

For the focal image I stamped the little boy with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored him with my grandson's coloring but my son's orange Boy Scout camping uniform. I also used some of the back ground images from the set and a few other sets, Skyline Borders, Just the Months and Dateline to make a doodled letter like I used to receive. I had a lot of fun traveling down memory lane to make this card and I hope my son recognizes the uniform colors when his son gets the card!

Copics Used:

Hair: E50, E51, YR24

Orange: YR12, YR14 and YR18

Blue: B93-95

Red: E07 and E09

Skin: E11, E01, E00, E000 and R32

Tent: YG91, YG93 and YG95

Star: Y17

Thanks for stopping by;

Susan

Products Used: I am using compensated affiliate links at no further cost to you. My Sweet Petunia provided the MISTI used in this project and the Ink Blot Shop and Simon Says Stamp provided Life is an Adventure stamp set.