Stamping the Cape

On the Horizon Inspiration

I keep saying you never know where inspiration will come from. Recently I saw this photo of a local beach posted on Facebook. It was right after a snowfall we had a week ago. If you follow me at all you will have heard how much I love snow and this picture is a classic Cape Cod photo.

Last evening I was about to play with some of our ocean/nautical themed stamp sets and when I looked at the On the Horizon stamp set, I remembered the bundle had a diagonal fence die and lightening struck and this was the result!

I'm not an artist and I'm definitely not great at watercoloring but I have to say I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out. Had I thought I would make it an art piece I would have matched it to the dimensions of the frame but it started off as a card project.

I can tell you what products I used. I can't honestly tell you exactly how to recreate this project other than PLAY because that's basically what I did and hoped it worked. Sometimes it did and when it didn't, I tried to figure out a way to correct it. That's the best part of the creative process - worse case scenario you waste a piece of paper and start again or you move on to something else. No harm, no foul! Just fun!

CLICK on the photos below to get a closer look of the sky, which was watercolored with Smoky Slate ink refill, and the ocean done in Basic Gray. For the beach detail, I colored just the tops of the trees from the On the Horizon stamp set using an Early Espresso Stampin' Write Marker and stamped multiple sets on either side of the watercolor paper. I used the medium tip painter and tried to blend it together. You should let each watercolored section dry thoroughly first. I didn't and the snow I was attempting to create on the shrubs became more of a gray when I applied White Craft ink with my water painter but I'm ok with it.

I colored the sand in Sahara Sand using the same method as the sky and also cut the fence pieces with the Horizon Dies out of another piece of watercolor paper I washed with Sahara Sand.

Once everything was dry I applied Embossing Paste with one of the Palette Knives to the fence and also swirled it onto the "sand" adding more where I thought it was needed. I dragged the knife in the paste trying to imitate the footprints. I let the Embossing Paste dry overnight and later cut a few thin strips of Adhesive Foam Sheet to add to the back of the fence and attach it to the piece.

The watercolor paper is attached to a 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" piece of Basic Gray cardstock then attached to what was going to be a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" Thick Very Vanilla cardbase. When I decided I was going to mount it, I cut a piece of woodgrain DSP from the In Good Taste 12" x 12" DSP pack and placed the artwork on it using Stampin' Dimensionals. I like the little thin black frame, as it just adds that minimalist black border to the whole piece.

What will inspire you today?

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ICS Blog Hop - SAB Sunshine & Rainbows

Hello and welcome to the first Inspire Create Share Blog Hop of 2022! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world who come to you each month with ideas that will hopefully get your creative juices flowing.

The new January-June 2022 Mini Catalog and the January-February Sale-A-Bration brochure went LIVE on January 4 and I am featuring products from each.

This fun Sunshine & Rainbows 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper is FREE with a minimum $50 purchase from any catalog, online kit, Paper Pumpkin subscription, and/or the Clearance Rack or any combination. There is a coordinating bundle for this DSP on page 18 of the January-June Mini Catalog called Rainbow of Happiness but my rainbow and cloud was fussy cut right from the paper. Add a 2-1/4" x 6" piece of DSP to your Stampin' Up! Medium Envelope flap for an added pop of color or even line your envelope.

The die cut "thank you" is part of the Amazing Thanks dies in the January-June Mini. The Amazing Thanks Dies not only cut out the detailed words, it also has dies that cut out the background layer.

Click the NEXT button below to see more SALE-A-BRATION inspiration by Cheryl Hamilton!

 

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MEASUREMENTS

5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Thick Basic White

4" x 5-1/4" Bermuda Bay

1-3/4" x 5-1/2" Bermuda Bay (words background)

1-3/4" x 5-1/2" Sunshine & Rainbows DSP (words)

2-1/2" x 3-7/8" Sunshine & Rainbows DSP

3-1/2" x 3-7/8" Sunshine & Rainbows DSP

Rainbow & Cloud (cut from DSP)

 

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Hoping your New Year has started off well and the days ahead will be good ones!

Flowering Flowers - CASE the Catty

Do you recognize this card from page 37 of the January-June Mini Catalog? It's not exactly the same but I used the original for my inspiration. The images are from the Flowing Flowers stamp set. However while still using the same stamp set, I changed the sentiment. Staying with the Hippo & Friends Dies used on the original, I selected a different shape die to accommodate the sentiment change plus added some additional embellishments.

The sentiment is stamped on Basic White and die cut with the middle-sized frame from Hippo & Friends. I used the same middle-size die and the smallest die of that shape to create the Old Olive frame. Some of the flowers are tucked between the frame pieces so I popped it up in between with Foam Adhesive Strips.

You need to do your stamping on the background first before applying the Embossing Paste. I used my Stamparatus and just moved the cardstock to stamp the flowers and leaves in different directions on the background. I didn't have the Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks but I did have the Basic Patterns Decorative Masks. I covered my stamped areas with pieces of sticky notes to prevent the Embossing Paste from getting on them. The addition of a piece of 3/4" White Frayed Ribbon under the whole sentiment unit and a few In Color Jewels finishes it off.

I still have the dies Stampin' Up! sold to create envelope liners so that's what I used but you can just decorate the outside flap of the envelope. Glue a 2-1/4" x 6" piece of the FREE SALE-A-BRATION Simply Marbelous DSP across the exterior of the flap and trim off the excess. If you really like the liner idea, I've created envelope templates by pulling apart an envelope, trimming away the center piece enough so that it will fit inside a sealed envelope then traced that piece onto cardboard so I have a template I can use over and over.

Using the samples in the catalog is just one more place you can start your inspiration. Look at what you have and figure out a way to reproduce the look with some tweaks.

MEASUREMENTS

5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Old Olive

2-1/2" x 4" Old Olive (frame)

4-1/8" x 5-1/4" Basic White (background)

3" x 11" Basic White (stamped pieces)

5" White Frayed Ribbon

2-1/4" x 6" (envelope flap)

 

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Click below to learn about my January Thank You Gifts. Get them both in addition to FREE SALE-A-BRATION PRODUCTS with your $50 or more purchase. Click HERE for full details.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this project, promotions, products, techniques, joining Stampin' Up!, or if you'd like catalogs. No pressure! I won't bother you with persistent calls or emails!!!

Happy crafting!