Stamp Off Blended Beauty of Friendship

 Happy Stamp Off challenge day!  Today, Susan, Buffy

and me will be doing a project that uses the Stampin' Up!

Blending Brushes, found on page 129 of the catalog.

I have to say that I am in love with these Blending Brushes.

They make it so easy to create shading, without lines.  

In the above project, I used some torn paper, to

blend in the Pear Pizzazz "grass".  Then I used a piece of paper, 

that I ran through a cloud die, to blend in the sky.  I added the

"sun", by placing a post-it in position before I started blending

 the sky.

For the images, I used the Beauty of Friendship set on

page 11 (it also has coordinating dies).  After completing the 

background with the blending brushes, I stamped the tree,

then the leaves and finally some Night of Navy splatter 

in the branches.  I left space for the sentiment, which was also

inked with Night of Navy.

I hope that my card has inspired you to use your Blending Brushes.

Now it's time to click on over to Buffy and Susan's blogs

to see their wonderful projects!!