The Sun Queen

I love taking shots of the sun with my camera...(NB please remember you must never look directly at the sun).I walked down to Dotty's Teahouse with my latest cards on Friday and kept spying the sun through the autumnal tree foliage...sooo beautiful.

It's my weekly dose of Visible Image stamps inspiration today. The new stencils are back in stock here on the website  and I have been having fun with them.

A few weeks ago I shared my Blue Snow Queen card..if you missed her check out my post here.

I adore the Face it stamp set and inspired by the glorious sun that peeped out during my autumnal walk I made something with the eyes open stamps from the set.

I also decided to go from a cool to a warm colour palette and had the idea to create a Sun Queen as an art journal page. 

I worked with 3 of the fab new stencils too

strobes

 Distorted chess

 and 

Time tunnel

I often use the mask from the Face shape set but this time I decided to draw round it and make a separate cut out face which I could decorate first and then stick to my card to complete. I used masking fluid on her eyes and lips to protect them from the inks. 

I used some of my Italian cotton cold pressed artist card and made an inky background using some warm autumnal distress inks

Next I added some sun bursts using the strobes stencil

and then inked the inner parts with stamps from the 

rays of light  set

 which work perfectly with this stencil.

I then added texture paste through my time tunnel stencil using the first brown swirls as my guide.

Finally I stamped the perfect sentiment, one of the new quotes Your vivid colours

So here is my Sun Queen.

With some close ups

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £25 coupon to spend on the website.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are weekly stamp giveaways...open world wide!

And the shop web site is here; where all these gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

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I would like to enter my Sun Queen into the following challenges;

A vintage journey crazy for autumn colour

Creative Artiste anything goes mixed media

Frilly and Funkie 2/3 show us your stamps

Penny Black and More 1/3 close to nature

Stamping sensations 1/3 autumn glory

Noor UK fall colours

Stamps and stencils 1/3 autumn

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Enjoy the sunshine if you get some, smile at the"Sun Queen" 😎 if you see her and delight in the gorgeous colours of autumn. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x