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.

Thanks for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Time to Coast Cards

 

I had so much fun making these seaside cards with Gina K's Time To Coast stamp set and her cool window dies from the Master Layouts 5 die set.  

This was my first card. On a quarter sheet of white cardstock, I stamped the lighthouse with my Misti using Marvy #1 black ink for all 3 cards. The lighthouse, clouds and rocks are one stamp. 

I should have cut out a mask for the clouds and lighthouse before blending the colors of the sky!

I used sticky notes at the horizon line, to separate the sky from the ocean.  Using blending brushes, I added ink to the sky starting at the horizon and going upward with the following: 

distress spiced marmalade

distress scattered straw

Gina K ocean mist

Gina K blue lagoon

distress faded jeans at the top. 

For the ocean I covered the sky at the horizon using sticky notes, applying distress oxide salty ocean with a blending brush.

Then I colored the lighthouse red and the tops of the rocks grey using "Simply" Daler Rowney colored pencils. 

Used black cardstock to frame the lighthouse piece and then attached to a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" white card.

For this card and the next one, I made a mask to cover the clouds and lighthouse, so my clouds stayed white. I also used sticky notes at the horizon line to mask the ocean. 

Using blending brushes, I added ink to the sky starting at the horizon and going upward with the following:

Gina K wild dandelion

Gina K ocean mist

distress faded jeans.

For the ocean I used distress salty ocean (not the oxide this time). 

In addition to the "Simply" Daler Rowney red and grey colored pencils used in the previous card,  I also used a Jane Davenport colored pencil called "ink" to add shading to the clouds where there were "lines". 

I made the window using white cardstock and Gina K's faux woodgrain technique explained on  her  Sunset Window Scene with Master Layouts 5 - Stamp and Chat Live Replay. The woodgrain appears almost like magic! Love this technique.  For the window, I used distress pumice stone on a quarter sheet of cardstock to create faux woodgrain. Then I cut Gina's frame and rectangle from the Master Layouts 5 dies set. 

For the scene behind the window,  I used the same method for the sky previously described, except I used these colors:

distress dried marigold

distress scattered straw

Gina K ocean mist

distress faded jeans

I used a Faber Castell #152 colored pencil to add blue to the ocean. 

I followed Gina's Creating an Ink Blended Window Scene - Stamp and Chat Live Replay very helpful for details in positioning the window over the scene as well as Gina's blending ideas. 

Used Gina K's scalloped rectangle (3.85" x 5") from Gina's Master Layouts 4 die set to cut the blue layer behind the window.

Thanks for visiting! Peace and all good!