Beach Cards, April 2025

My beach panels were inspired by Jackie Bolhuis' Beach Themed Cards Here. I love the look she creates with the Stampin' Up! Oceanfront stamp set. But I don't have that set. So I tried to re-create it on watercolor paper cut to about 3 x 4-1/4 inches. I wet the paper first with a round paintbrush. Then I pressed inkpads directly onto my glass mat-the white section. Used a round paintbrush dipped in water and picked up color and added it to my watercolor paper. Card on left started with Gina K sea glass for the sky and ocean mist for the water. I changed to ocean mist for the sky and turquoise sea for the water on the center and right panels. Used Gina K sandy beach for the land. Used Stampscapes Gulls-302A, Cattails-016B and Reeds Lg.068D with Distress ground espresso. I forgot to add the sun like Jackie did. 

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Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's, November 3, 2022

 Lynette and I had a great time stamping and visiting on Thursday, November 3.  I fell in love with a beach card she made, like the 2 window cards above. She let me copy her design. It was very fun and easy to make because she had figured out the placement and the colors! The middle card was inspired by a card on Pinterest.

I made 2 beach cards because the first window piece that I die cut was not straight. 

Stamped all the images in Versafine Onyx Black ink. 

The main stamp is called Path to the Beach by Impression Obsession.

The bucket, shovel, shells & starfish stamp is an OLD foam mounted Stampin' Up! stamp from 1990!

Additional stamps: shell and starfish stamp with some sand texture, the sun and the clouds stamps.

Die from Gina K's Master Layouts 5.

Used SU's summer sun and ballet blue inks for the sun and clouds.

Used colored pencils to color the scene. For the sand, I also added some wavy lines here and there, just like Lynette's card.  

This card has a narrower white border around the window because my paper slipped when I cut it with the cuttlebug. 

The card was easy and fun to make because Lynette had all the details figured out! All I had to do was copy!

The second card was inspired by a Pinterest we found. Could not find the website source of the pin, however. I did not get a photo of Lynette's card, which was the same as this except no sentiment added yet.

We used an old Hero Arts square shadow stamp for the squares.

Inks: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, SU Barely Banana and SU certainly celery. 

The shadow stamp is from SU’s Just Because set. Sentiment from Lynette's stash. Both were stamped in Versafine Onxy Black ink.

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Peace and all good!

Watercolor Beach Scene Cards

Instead of using a blending brush and ink to make beach backgrounds, I used watercolor paints and also watercolor pencils (bottom right). I was inspired by Lindsay Weirich's YouTube Painting VS Stamping Card Making Showdown. I am not an artist; just having fun.  Below are the finished cards.

Supplies: 

Jane Davenport watercolors, Stampin' Up! watercolor pencils, Versamark Watermark inkpad, VersaMarker Watermark pen,  Stampendous Stampin Stuff white opaque embossing powder, 

Hero Arts CM317 Color Layering Sea & Sky, CM316 Color Layering Waves, CL342 Everyday Sayings, 

Inks:

distress-abandoned coral, tea dye, walnut

Stampin' UP! going grey, tempting turquoise, summer starfruit, hello honey, delightful Dijon

Versafine onxy black

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Beach Wave Birthday Card

 

Made this card about a week ago, using Theresa Momber's wonderful Sandy Beach Tutorial on YouTube. I was attracted to her idea of adding wave with white pigment ink! 

I got a lot of this wrong, but it was fun and relaxing...you know that sentiment that says "stamping is cheaper than therapy"...

Using plain white cardstock, I masked the horizon and used blending brushes for the background:

Gina K sea glass for the sky, distress salty ocean for the water and Stampin' UP! creamy caramel for the sand, leaving some white where the water would meet the sand. I also added some light brown Tombow marker, #977 for contrast and to dot the sand.

Once dry, I used a paintbrush dipped into a Gina K white pigment ink pad to brush on areas in the water that would look like waves and areas where the water meets the sand. Theresa Momber does a great job explaining how to do this in her YouTube.

Stamps: 

Hero Arts Color Layering Sea & Sky CM317-

clouds stamped in VersaMark ink and embossed with white embossing powder

chairs stamped in distress abandoned coral and SU tempting turquoise and fussy cut

Fiskars happy birthday stamped in Versafine onxy black

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More Inside Shadow Box Beach Cards

 

Here you see the fronts of two Inside Shadow Box cards that I made. I found a "new for me" Hero Arts Stamp & Cut set called Beach Please (DC238) at JoAnn's on clearance for $6. Used that on the card front.

I stamped the images with distress black soot and colored with coloring pencils. Here is a closer look at one of the fronts of the cards. You can always click on an image to see an enlarged view.

Here you see the inside of one of the cards. Both cards are the same inside-an Inside Shadow Box card. I followed Jennifer McGuire's instructions.  

For the water scene inside, I cut a separate panel, which goes behind the oval cut out. Used my Misti and stamped the waves (Hero Arts Color Layering Waves CM316) with Gina K's inkpads, stamping with the lighter blues and going to the darker:

ocean mist

turquoise sea

blue lagoon.

The cloud is stamped in distress broken china.

The islands are stamped in Stampin' Up! wild wasabi. I used the 2 smaller cloud stamps for this, stamping the bigger portion once and the smaller portion (for dimension) a couple times to make that a darker green.

For the sand, I applied oxide antique linen ink with a blending brush. Left a little white before I reached the waves. Stamped some dots in distress tea dye ink with a Judith peg stamp. Afterward, I noticed that the Beach Please set HAD a stamp of 4 tiny dots that I could have used!

For the boat, birds and sentiment, I used distress black soot.

I stamped the chair in Stampin' UP! peekaboo peach ink multiple times using my Misti. Then I fussy cut and glued part of it to the oval opening.

Footsteps are stamped in distress tea dye ink.

The "Thinking of you sentiment" is from an old (2012) Hero Arts set called Everyday Sayings, CL342.

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Beach Birthday Cards

I have been playing with my new (for me) Hero Arts Beach sets: Color Layering Waves CM316 and Color Layering Sea & Sky CM317. 

These cards were inspired by Nichol Spohr's video tutorial from June 2017. Using my new Gina K inkpads, I started with lighter then worked to darker blues: Ocean Mist for the bottom water stamp which is solid, Turquoise Sea for the next layer and Blue Lagoon for the uppermost layer of waves.  This worked out well in my Misti (thanks Grace!)  I cut my paper 3-1/2 by 4-3/4 inches so that the waves would extend all the way to the edge of my panel. 

I applied distress oxide antique linen with a blending brush, for the sand, leaving some white right before the edge of the waves. 

Brushed regular distress broken china for the sky. Nichol Spohr reminds us that because distress oxide inks  have pigment in them, they take longer to dry. So I used a heat tool.

I stamped the clouds with a Versamark Watermark inkpad, then used American Crafts Zing Opaque White embossing powder. Experimented with stamping the birds in distress Black Soot (above), and Memento Tuxedo Black (below). 

The Happy Birthday stamp is from an old Dimensions Clear Stamp set called Thoughts of Fancy. I used distress tea dye ink for the happy birthday and vintage photo for the footsteps on the card above. 

I mounted the layer on turquoise paper from my stash. The card base is kraft paper. The front side is dry embossed with Park Lane's Mini Heart embossing folder.

In the card above, the happy birthday was stamped in distress vintage photo and the footsteps in tea dye. I think I like this combo better.  I used a narrow border with black paper and then added that to a turquoise card base.

On this card, I left the sky plain and stamped the clouds in distress broken china. The birds and boat were stamped in Stampin' Up's Going Grey. Sentiment from Stampin' Up! stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black. Shell and starfish are from Michael Strong's Mini Cloisonne Creatures. They were stamped in SU's Pink Pirouette and So Saffron then fussy cut.

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Drawing a Little Beach Scene

I really like the Waterfront cards Lynette and I made at our Waterfront stampfest in June. Since I don't have the Waterfront set (by Stampin' Up!) I decided to try to sketch the scene. Used watercolor pencils by Stampin' Up, a set of 24. My dear neighbor Mary very generously gave this set to me. I really like the variety of colors.

In this card, I was hesitant to use an aqua painter after drawing it. I was afraid of messing up the drawing. But you can see another card below where I decided to give that a try.

I do not have a waves embossing folder like Lynette's so I used my "We are memory Keepers" TIDE folder. Also added crochet thread from my stash.

This card will be an anniversary card. It kind of reminds me of Hawaii. As you can see, it's pretty much the same as the card above. However, this time I used an aqua painter/water brush on the watercolor pencil drawing. The color became darker and more vibrant. I like it better this way. What do you think?

Used Hero Arts Stamp & Cut - Ribbon Messages for the sentiment in Versafine Black Onyx ink.

Used watercolor paper scraps from my stash.

Thank you for visiting! Wishing you a day filled with special JOY!

Aqua Painter Birthday Beach Cards

Inspiration for these two birthday cards was from Julie Gearinger's blog.

I used the same "faux" watercolor paper as on Thursday's post.

For the aqua painting:

Place distress inkpads directly on craft sheet.

Pick up color with aqua painter.

Use distress abandoned coral for the sky-mask the sun with a circle first,
 mermaid lagoon for water,

mowed lawn and frayed burlap for palm trees.

Trees were cut from Georgia Pacific 110 lb index paper awhile ago
with Lynette's Cutttlebug At The Beach die and embossing set.

Note to self: watercolor paper works better when aqua painting.

I ran the palm trees through my corrugation tool after the ink dried

because I had forgotten to emboss them.

Make "sand" from torn cream colored paper.

Stamp multiple times and with just parts of the Stampscapes Tonal Applicator 084E
with SU creamy caramel ink.

Stamp Michael Strong's mini creatures on scrap cardstock
gecko in mowed lawn
shell in scattered straw
starfish in wild honey.
Fussy cut, sponge color on edges and adhere with dimensional foam.
The blue card base is from my stash.

Using a kraft card base, I used a Woodgrain embossed layer in white
which was sponged in creamy caramel.
then a nestabilities die cut oval from my "faux" watercolor paper.

Aqua paint the coral and lagoon as the above card
but add aqua painted "sand" with Stampin' UP!'s creamy caramel.
Use Stampscapes Tonal Applicator stamp in Stampin' Up!'s creamy caramel ink

Stamp over the sand area multiple times
using parts of the toner stamp.
Stampscapes birds stamped in Versafine Black Onyx.
The Hero Arts birthday sentiment stamped in mermaid lagoon
on a separate layer that's sponged in lagoon.