You Arrrrgh...

-


Today I am sharing this treasure hunt inspired card using the Ahoy Matey stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

I started off by cutting a frame from my stash, then using an oval die, I cut a piece that I wanted to turn into sand from the frame.

I used Scattered Straw Distress Ink, all over my piece of card and then watered down some more Scattered Straw on my Waffle Flower Mini Media Mat and splattered it onto the card. I also used some of my Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Watercolours in gold from the Christmas set to add some sparkle splatters to the sand to add a little more depth and definition.

I next turned my attention to the sea and the sky. I ink blended some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink with a little Broken China for the sky and some Salty Ocean and Mermaid Lagoon for the sea. Then set all my background to one side whilst I worked on my images.

I stamped all the images with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink as I wanted to use my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers to colour them. I stamped out the tree from Ahoy Matey three times and I also used the Tree from Lawn Fawn's Critters from the Past I coloured these with the Earth Brown Blend and Light Green Blend pens using all the shades within each pen.
 For the characters I used the Bright Pink Blend and the Light Green Blend on the girl's clothes with the Fair Skin Blend on her skin and Light Yellow Blend with a little Tan blend for her hair. I used the True Blue Blend and Ice Grey Blend for the boy's clothing and Ice Grey Shade for his hat and shoe and the Earth Brown Blend for his hair and wooden leg and again his skin was coloured using the Fair Skin Blend.
 The remaining images were coloured using Dark Red Blend, Muted Brown Blend, Aqua Blue Blend, Light Yellow Blend and Ice Grey Blend. I added some white Gelly Roll Pen to the images for highlights and then as I unfortunately do not own the coordinating dies I set about fussy cutting them all which was very easy to do and pretty quite actually!!

When I had done that task my background was ready and so I took a piece of black card from my stash and cut it down to fit on my card base allowing a little border I rounded the corners and then using wet glue, attached the sky piece to the black card, then I placed the sand piece back in and used my bone folder to make sure it was well adhered.

I took the wave stamp from Ahoy Matey and did randomish! waves using Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink to show that the darker blue area was supposed to be sea!

I adhered all my images onto my card with wet glue and then I decided to heat emboss my sentiment onto black card using Wow Bright White Super Fine  embossing powder, which I die cut using Create a Smile Useful Banners and I added some foam pads to the this for some dimension.

I hope you like my card for today and feel inspired to try something similar yourself...
Happy Crafting and much love 
Sarah Louise
xXx

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Easter wishes dotty floral

-
Image
Today’s make Is a card made using product from several different brands... It has a 6 x 6 white card base which has been matted and layered with Tonic Studios Craft Perfect card stock in Aubergine Purple which I gutted using a large square die. The next layer has been embossed using the Dotty Floral folder from Apple Blossoms All Occasion Collection. I used Spectrum Noir marker PL3 to colour the flowers and added Simply Creative 3mm self adhesive gems to the centres. I next cut out the sentiment strip using Apple Blossom’s Spring Occasions set. The next step was to ink the sentiment which I took from Creative Stamps Easter Chicks and Bunnies set (which is where the bunnies came from also). The cute little bunnies have been coloured with Spectrum Noir markers... Left bunny - MB1 and MB2 Right bunny - RB1 and RB2 Both bunnies have AP1 for the insides of the ears and IG2 blended out with the colourless blender marker and these areas have also been covered with a Wink of Stella ...
Read more

Owlsome!!

-
Image
 Today's card features Time for Tea Designs products. To start with I took a 6 x 6 inch card blank and then using my nesting square dies, I cut a piece of red glitter cardstock from the Works, to make a layer. I next took another of the square dies and die cut a white layer, which I stenciled with the T4TD Starry Heart 6x6 stencil using Festive Berries Distress Ink and then placed to one side to dry. I then moved onto stamping the owl, branch and sentiment from T4TD Be Owlsome stamp set. I used Memento Tuxedo Black as I wanted to use my Tri Blend Alcohol Markers from Spectrum Noir. I used the following pens: Ice Grey (IG2, IG4 & IG5) Ice Grey Shades (IG8) Earth Brown (EB3 & EB2) Alpine Green ( AG1 & AG3) Dark Red Blend (DR1, DR3 & DR4) Coral Blend (CR3 & CR5) & Magenta Blend (MG2 & MG3). I used the coordinating dies to die cut the owl and the branch and then added some white Gelly roll pen to add highlights and I created a frame around the sentiment with...
Read more

Hmmm Coffee!!

-
Image
 Today's Card features Time for Tea Designs. This is a plain and simple card using the coffee cup stamp along with one of the cute little bears from the Time for Tea Designs Bearing Gifts stamp set. I started out by die cutting a piece of cardstock using a frame from my stash and then after placing the coffee cup stamp onto an acrylic block I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink to create a random background. I also stamped another coffee cup and the bear which I  used the coordinating die set to cut out.  My next task was to start to colour these little cups and for this card I decided to use my Spectrum Noir Tri blend alcohol marker Purple blend (PL2, PL3 & PL4) I also used the Ice blue (IB1) and Ice grey (IG2 & IG4) markers on the cups. I coloured the little bear using the Earth Brown blend (EB1, EB2 & EB3) Next I die cut a oval out of white cardstock which I stamped the sentiment on using Flirty Fuchsia ink by Catherine Pooler. I then used a white gel pen to add ...
Read more