Here is another one of my photos from the car window yesterday. The sunset was very pretty and when I shot it I had this bird stamp set in mind.

I opened the photo in Photoshop and adjusted the contrast and saturation. Then I applied the “Palette Knife” artistic filter. And before printing it on a color printer, I cropped it to an interesting portion of the sky, keeping in mind where I wanted to apply the stamped embossing effects.

After trimming down the sky I applied the stamps, using VersaMark and Stampendous’ “Midnight Black Opaque.” The bird and sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly, “Little Birdie.” And the branch is from Hero Arts, “Birds & Branch.” The Hero Arts branch is actually a 12? stamp, perfect for scrapbookers, one of my favorite finds from CHA in July.

The paper is the brand new “Ambrosia” from Basic Grey in the 6 inch card makers pad. I thought it turned out very appropriately for a masculine thank-you card and know just who I’ll be giving it to!

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