Summer by the Sea - Boating Lady

Another from the Stamping Up set Summer by the Sea.

This one is a lady just dipping her toes into the water a very relaxing image.

I stamped the image with distress inks, the background stamped onto the base card is a flourish from silent night Papertrey Ink stamp set a few pearls some die cutting with the Nestabilities and a spiral punched card stock and tied together with a lush green ribbon.

A closer view of the image the shading was done with a paintbrush and the same distress ink.

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This is such a sweet image that I thought you would like to make a card from it.

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Summer by the Sea - Girl with flowers

This is the 3rd card from the Stamping Up rubber stamp set Summer by the Sea.

I decided to work on navy coloured card stock and use bleach instead of ink.

I took a piece of kitchen towel folded it in four and lay it in a tray and soaked it in household bleach (I would only use this method on orange rubber stamps and wash them immediately after stamping)

Take the stamp and dab it onto the kitchen towel then stamp onto the card stock, it is fun watching the image appear after stamping in this case it turned the navy card a lemon shade.

I then took a paint brush and shaded parts of the image by painting with the bleach.

I matched up the bleach stamped image colour with card stock and layered shaped with Nestabilities dies.

I finished with punched flowers from the same card stock

A closer look at the bleach stamped image

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Stamping Up - Sand Castle

Summer by the Sea stamp set by Stamping Up was used to stamp the the little boy building a sand castle sketch and the sentiment both stamped with Chocolate Chip ink.
I also used a spriral punch to create the the notebook edges.
This is the second card in a set of 3 cards that I have planned

I used a Kraft coloured base card then cut a smaller cream square.

Using the Chocolate Chip ink I water coloured the image, I used the spiral punch down the edge of theis and 2 other papers one in a dark chocolate colour and the other a sepia script paper then tore all of the edges abd used the ink and sponged all of the papers I then layered it all together before adding the knotted rafia.

Summer by the Sea - Couple

Summer by the Sea stamp set by Stamping Up was used to stamp the couple sketch and the sentiment both stamped with brocade blue ink.

I also used a spriral punch to create the the notebook edge.

This is the first in a set of 3 cards that I have planned

I stamped the white base card with a dandilion stamp in the blue ink then cut a smaller blue square and used the swiss dots embossing folder and ran it through the Cuttlebug using a white ink pad I swiped it over the embossed dots then distressed the edges of the blue square.

Using the blue ink I watercoloured the image and layered it all together before adding the flower decorated with crushed glass glitter.

I used 3 Sakura Flower Punches by Carla and added crushed glass glitter to the edges before layering them on top of each other.

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Thank You Card

This is a stationary stamp set from PTI which at some point when I get a moment fully intend starting my own stationary and maybe a couple for gifts.

I made the thank you card by stamping the ornate black circle pattern in black ink then used a Nestabilities die to cut it out I used the next sized die to emboss a circle onto the card.

The red circle with the black pattern stamped on top was cut out the same way as the other one. I used the scalloped Nestabilities circle to cut the black scallop and used this to mat and layer using foam pads to build them up.

I stamped the single image in black ink at either side of the embossed circle on the base card I also added some black gems to the single images and on top of the red stamped circle although they don't show up in the picture they are there.

I finished the card by stamping thank you onto a scrap piece of white card and I used a word slot punch by Stamping Up to cut it out.

Flourished Sympathy Card

With Sympathy stamp set by Papertrey Ink is one of the newly released stamp sets and I have to say it has endless possibilities. I love the flourish and the sentiment.

I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat embossed using silver pearl embossing powder. Using Encore silver ink I sponged around the dark purple (almost black) base card.

I used the large label Nestabilities dies one for the silver pearl card and the smaler one in white to wich I stamped the sentiment on top in plum pudding ink.

To finish I punched out 2 holes at the side of the card and entwined a plum pudding and a silver ribbon through the holes from the front of the card and crossed them over on the inside then back out through the holes again.