Guess who I saw flying over London!

I thought I caught a glimpse of Mary Poppins flying over my rooftop recently, so I made this little picture!

I decided to create the background with bleeding art tissue, but you could easily create it with inks, paints or whichever your favourite medium is.

I wanted Mary to fly over London so I searched on google images for a solid silhouette of London's skyline. When I found just the right one I printed it onto card. Then I took my time to very carefully cut it out to create a stencil. There are many skyline images available of Paris, New York etc, so you can travel the world in your pictures!

I laid the stencil onto the bottom of the card, and used masking tape to hold it in place. I swept black ink into the stencil using a make up sponge. Then I lightly added a calligraphy text stamp to the background.

This background was the result.

The background was quite dark in places, and I wasn't sure if the Mary stamp would show up very well. So I stamped her onto a separate piece of card and then cut her out

I hope you enjoyed this short little tutorial, and may be inspired to create some skyline pictures. I think I will try flying to New York next....

There have been some wonderful entires into this month challenge Hearts with a Twist of Paper Piecing. There is still time to add yours!