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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Gina K Time To Coast Kit

Made these cards with Gina K's Time to Coast Card kit. This is the first card kit I've ever purchased. I think it was a good deal. I always love making flower cards...and I think the water scene stamps will be very fun to use for a long time. I enjoy watching Gina K's videos and find myself wanting to try the techniques she shares. Also, it is inspiring to see cards made by members of Gina's Facebook page, Gina K & Stamp TV Friends. Gina has live videos as well as a library of them on her YouTube Channel that's called Gina K Designs.

This was a quick and easy card using Gina K's  Sketched Flowers and Enjoyable Greetings stamp sets. I love how the inside part of the flower is a separate stamp. 

Inks: Gina K blue lagoon, distress mustard seed, Stampin' Up! wild wasabi, Versamark (with white PSX embossing powder)

Scalloped layer is cut with a scalloped rectangle die in Gina K's master layouts 4.

This is my second frame card using Gina K's Master Layouts 5 dies set. Just to clarify, Gina K's Master Layouts 5 dies set is NOT included with the Time to Coast Card Kit. I am very happy that I splurged and bought it! 

I made the faux wood finish described in Gina K's YouTube: Sunset Window Scene with Master Layouts 5 - Stamp and Chat Live Replay.

The layer behind the window is about 3-1/8 x 4-1/4". I made a few pencil marks on it so I could see where the window layer sits. 

Working from the bottom up, I masked an area that would be water. Applied Gina K's blue lagoon with blending brushes. Then moved the mask to cover the blue, I applied distress dried marigold ink above the "water". That seemed too light, so switched to distress abandoned coral. Then applied distress shaded lilac; then Stampin' Up brilliant blue. 

Using my Misti, I tested out the placement of the lighthouse stamp before inking it with Memento tuxedo black ink and stamping. Added the two larger birds by stamping with an acrylic block. 

Using colored pencils, I added red to the lighthouse and side building and grey to the tops of the rocks.

Used foam tape to attach the window to the scene layer.  Used the scallop rectangle from Gina K's Master layouts 4 for the grey-blue layer. Used Gina K's connect glue to adhere to the white card base.

I stamped the lighthouse image with the misti before adding color on this card. This card layout is the same as the frame card above it. 

Used Gina K's tranquil teal for the water and distress dried marigold for the sky.

I made a "sun" stencil using the plain circle from Gina K's Master Layouts 5 die set. Placed that on the layer and sponged distress dried marigold through the piece cardstock with the circle removed. Then I tried to make rays by sponging next to strips of cardstock. I did not get it quite right. Need to take a closer look at one of Gina's video tutorials. I do not have her sunshine stencil...yet! 

As in the previous card, I colored the lighthouse and building red and the clouds and tops of the rocks with grey.

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Painted Blossoms Cards

My Gina K order arrived this week. This card is made with the free stamp set, Painted Blossoms. The scalloped layer is cut from Gina's die from Master Layouts 4. Used Stampin' Up's so saffron, certainly celery and wild wasabi inks. Used Tombow brown marker  #977 to color in the center of the coneflowers.

I saw Gina K make a card like this on her Stamp and Chat Live Replay for Sunset Window Scene with Master Layouts 5.  It was very fun watching the video a second time and working on this card with Gina! The faux wood finish is very easy to create. You can use whatever ink color you wish! Before cutting out the window frame, I started with a piece of cardstock, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. Scored it lengthwise about every inch. With direct to paper technique swiped with my distress weathered wood inkpad to give it a little bit of color and texture. Visit Gina K's video link above for more details.

I didn't have all the ink colors that Gina used. From the bottom up, I used blending brushes to apply these ink colors:

Stampin' Up-groovy guava then distress worn lipstick. I chose distress shaded lilac for the next color, but I was supposed to use Gina's turquoise sea-which I actually have! So, I bushed the turquoise sea over a lot of the lilac I had already applied.  Next I used Stampin' Up's blue bayou, but that was too grey. Switched to distress stormy sky. No,  that wasn't right either. Finally used distress faded jeans for the top layer. 

Stamped the flowers and leaves from Gina K's Painted Blossoms set. 

On the top area of blue I added some wink of stella for some shine, but it doesn't show on this photo.

The sweet friend sentiment is from Gina K's Enjoyable Greetings stamp set. I stamped with versamark then embossed with PSX white embossing powder. 

It was very fun playing with these dies and creating the multi colored background. Looking forward to playing with the rest of Gina K's Time to Coast card kit.

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And More Cards from Those Backgrounds

 

Day three of making cards using the wrinkle free distress backgrounds that I made on June 20.

Background ink: distress salty ocean, picked raspberry and abandoned coral

Circle stencil from a Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media kit sponged in picked raspberry

Flower stencil SA152 Flower Swirls Stencil Pairs from Hero Arts sponged in abandoned coral 

Stamps: Lonely Girl D1005 by Dina Wakely, Sentiment from a large wood mounted Dawn Houser/Inkadinkado stamp labeled 95241-Y 

Ink: Versafine onyx black

Stencils:

Flower stencil SA152 Flower Swirls Stencil Pairs from Hero Arts 

Circle stencil from a Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media kit

sponged with distress worn lipstick and broken china

Stamps and Happy die: Hero Arts Happy Stamp & Cuts

Used Versafine onyx black to to stamp the "happy" stamp. I had trouble matching up the die and so some areas were white. Decided to color that with a distress broken china marker.

Used Versafine ink to stamp the anniversary stamp. Then embossed with Stamp N Stuff white embossing powder. 

Used Gina K's ribbon die from Master Layouts 4 to cut the anniversary panel. I trimmed the edges by hand to make the panel shorter.

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