Step by Step by Nicole Jongkind
Hi Lavinians 🧚♀️ Nicole here with another tutorial for you named “Rufus Waiting for Mail”, let’s get started!
Step 1.
Cut some hot pressed watercolour card into a 10.5 cm W x 15 cm H rectangle.
Using a stencil brush, lightly colour two thirds of the card with Distress Oxide Mustard Seed.
Step 2.
Use a circle mask and position it centrally in the upper half of the card.
Colour around it with Distress Oxide Fired Brick.
Step 3.
Give your sun a little more depth with another layer of Mustard Seed blended in from the edges.
Step 4.
Stencil brush the bottom half of your card with Distress Oxide Crushed Olive.
Step 5.
Tear a piece of paper into mountain and valley shapes and place on the card to use as a mask, or for greater ease, do the same with a Mini Hill Mask. Use Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn to create mountain and valley shapes in the green background.
Step 6.
Stamp the Wishing Post LAV1023 in the left half of the card and Rufus the Fox LAV644 in the right half, looking up at the Wishing Post.
Step 7.
Stamp a small left-facing fairy from Fairy Foragers stamp set LAV498 besides the top of the Wishing Post.
Step 8.
Stamp the leafy branch from Winter Foliage Stamp set LAV1022 in repeated overlapping layers from the top of the card, with Versafine Clair Shady Lane and Rain Forest.
Step 9.
Give your mailbox and the fox a shadow using Elements Ink Graphite and a small Stencil Brush (Series 3) or a watercolour brush.
Step 10.
Color your mailbox with watercolour pencils to your own taste. I have used oranges, greens and yellows.
Step 11.
Add the magic dots with a white and yellow Posca pen and add highlights to the fox and the mailbox.
Use white Panpastel to add a touch of mist below the mailbox and fox, and, if desired, lightly colour the ground with a blue coloured pencil.
Finish your card by matting it onto a slightly larger piece of plain watercolour card.
