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.

Thanks for visiting. Peace and All Good!

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.

Thanks so much for visiting! Peace and All Good!

Inside Shadow Box Cards

Recently, I ran across a 2018 tutorial for Inside Shadow Box cards made by Jennifer McGuire.  I just had to give this a try. This card was fairly easy to make and it fits into an envelope for mailing! I used these Hero Arts stamp sets:  Color Layering Waves CM316, Color Layering Sea & Sky CM317 and Seas The Day Seagulls CM276. I was happy to find these stamp sets 40% off JoAnn's!

The first card I made didn't fold quite right at first. However, I was able to press it flat and adjust the crease slightly to make it work. For the water, I played around with different inks, never finding a combo that I thought perfect. But the colors look better if I don't examine them too closely.  I've noted some of the color combinations I used:

* Distress soft sky, SU bashful blue, SU tempting turquoise (or Ranger Caribbean coast)

* SU bliss blue, SU ballet blue, SU tempting turquoise

* Distress tumbled glass, distress broken china, Ranger Caribbean coast

Jennifer used pretty colors that I didn't have, more in the "sea green" family.

Here is the outside of  one of my cards. The "thanks" die cut is from Hero Arts, Thanks Stamp & Cut DC152. Palm tree colored with Tombow marker green #177 and distress vintage photo. Birds stamped in distress hickory smoke. Clouds stamped with distress tumbled glass.

Here are the inside panels which will go behind the oval cut-out. Jennifer gives us the tip to use the back part of the cloud stamps to create the islands in the distance. I stamped mine with distress peeled paint. Then stamped a second time with right side of the cloud stamp using in the same ink to give the islands some dimension. I used blending brushes for the sky with distress tumbled glass ink and for the sand, antique linen ink.

Here you see the finished "inside shadow box". I added the fussy cut chair stamped in SU's groovy guava ink. Attached it with Gina K Connect glue which worked great.

The sand here was made by sponging distress oxide fossilized amber. The boat and birds were stamped with distress hickory smoke.

Here I switched to  stamps from Seas The Day Seagulls CM276, stamping the birds in versafine onyx black and the wood stump with SUs close to cocoa. I used markers to add red to the hat and scarf and wood stump.

I used the oval cut out from the inside part to make some cards with kraft cardstock.

I had a lot of fun with the Inside Shadow Box cards. Thanks to Jennifer McGuire for sharing her creative ideas!

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