I stamped the Daffodil Flowers first since they are the most foreground image.  I stamp the Daffodils again on a post-it note making sure that the sticky part of the post-it is on the side of those three flowers.  Over cut a little when cutting out your mask and this will help to avoid that halo effect when you stamp your next image.  There is no need to cut out the entire image on the mask, only the part that will be in the stamping area. 

With my mask on my Daffodils I can now stamp my next image which is Pan.  You can see that I use the acrylic blocks with the cling mounting foam so I can see the positioning of my image.  Press extra hard where the mask is.  The combination of over cutting the mask a little and the extra pressure has created a perfectly stamped image with no white halo around him.  Remember, I'm still stamping on all five pieces of card stock too.

My next image is not a foreground image but it is the main focus of the piece so I don't want anything covering it at all.  In other words, any foreground images stamped in front of these maidens will not be 'over' them so there will be no masking involved.  Because of that I can stamp them next.  First I stamped them on a piece of paper so I could move them around and figure out exactly where I wanted them.  You might be able to make out my tick marks on the side.  I have a 6 x 9" ad so I did this to help with my image placement. 

These women are perfect for this scene but they have a border included behind them on the stamp.  I don't want the border so I have two options.  One is to stamp them on a piece of paper and cut them out and paste that on the scene.  I chose to do the second option which is to take a black marking pen and color only the women right on the stamp itself.  After carefully coloring only the women I then breathed on the stamp to moisten all the ink before stamping them on my scene.

Now I can stamp my remaining images which are all foreground stamps.  Remember that I wanted nothing covering the women and since the remaining stamps are foreground there is no need to mask the maidens.  First I stamped the Toadstools.  Then I made a mask for them.   Remember to over cut the mask a little.

With the Toadstools masked I stamped the Fern in the Wind.  I just made sure that when I stamped the fern that I wasn't stamping over Pan or his rock, just right up against it.  Remember to put extra pressure where the mask is to avoid that halo too.  At this point I didn't want to clutter my ad with anymore stamps so I decided to just draw in the horizon line with a black pencil.  Now that everything is stamped I pick my best scene of the bunch and I can start coloring.  You can still utilize those extra scenes to try any questionable coloring on them before doing anything to your best scene. 

 I do my chalk work first starting with the lightest color.  Chalk is a great way to cover a large area in a small amount of time.  The chalk colors blend well which helps to create more realistic skylines.  I like to apply my chalk with a folded up piece of paper towel.  I rub the paper towel on the chalk and then rub that on my scene.  

Creating a sunset is very fast and easy with chalks.  I also do most of my ground and water coloring with chalks too.  You can see that I didn't even worry about getting chalk on the images either.  Just go ahead and color right over them.

Now I have taken my eraser and erased any chalk that has gotten on my images.  Any residual chalk left won't even show once I've colored in my scene.

Now that I'm done with the chalks I can start coloring in the remaining areas with my colored pencils.  I don't have just one brand of pencils in fact I probably have every brand there is.  Using multiple colors is the key to a realistic looking scene.  For instance on the Daffodils I used three or four different colors on them using the shading on the stamp itself to help with color placement.  Lighter colors in the white areas of the flowers and some darker colors in the shaded areas.  If I had just colored the flowers in with one shade of yellow they would have looked very flat.

The scene is all colored in now. 

Oh a scan is so much better than those dark pictures!

And here is our finished ad.