Sun Sea & Sand mid month WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Emma of  

Sun, Sea & Sand

 

I haven't got many stamps with the theme of the Sea, but sorting my craft room, I found a couple, the beach house was amongst the few. We have a beach not far from us that has quite a few beach huts, and I thought yep! That's what I will go for.

 

Firstly I found a cream pearlised card, I blended blue for the sea, and a mix of yellows and brown to get a sandy appearance. I then stamped the sea and embossed it in white, it wasn't my best stamping, but that's the sea, isn't it? Lots of frothy foam, so I went with it. I stamped the beach huts and coloured them with DI's. I also added a darker yellow to make a shadow under the huts. The sentiment was printed out and die cut. It was then added to yellow card and attached to the base card. 

 

sea stamp - Inkylicious By the Sea, Waves stamp set

 hut stamp -  docrafts Papermania, inside Simply Card and Papercraft magazine, a while ago

inks - Distress Inks

yellow card - stash 

sentiment - Gingers House 2016

sentiment die - Craft Making Magic

 

these are the colours, but I forgot to add the beach colours which are wild honey, antique linen, fossilized amber, tea dye,

 

 

More fabulous prizes for the Winner this time from -

Lisa Horton Crafts Petal Flourish bundle, embossing folder and coordinating stencils

 

These Green Woodpeckers were feeding on our lawn recently, just as I snapped them in a hurry, a magpie came in to shoo them away. I was mad, as the Dad usually stays about half an hour, and he brought his young to feed on OUR lawn, AW! I hope he brings it back again.  

 

 

I've just noticed I have had over a million views, WOW! Who would have thought it. Yes it took  15 years, but whose counting. hahaha A BIG Thank you everyone. 

Sun, Sea, Sand WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Me, Myself, and I, Yours Truly! -

Sun, Sea, Sand

 

We were asked to write a little about ourselves and our crafting, here is my story! A long post, so flash past and go to the card if you're not interested?

 

I started card making many, many years ago, my first love was digital and PrintMaster. Then I had a copy of Photoshop, which I used to make cards for my family, I loved the fact I could design, print and send a card I had made. There was a Craft Fair a few miles from me, and I decided to attend. I saw stamping and embossing demonstrated and was hypnotised by it, so I bought a few stamps, ink, and a stamping block and came home, to find that I was useless at it, more being thrown away than used. 

 

So back to digi. After a while, I gave my not used stamps away, Then I saw what, maybe? I could achieve on a TV crafting channel. This led to me subscribing to a magazine. A stamping platform was purchased after hearing good reports, and that is how I started stamping. However, not seriously until an offer to join the DT on We Love Stamping. I'm still learning, but loving it.

I have had this sea stamp for quite a while and haven't used it, I have to ask myself why? It gives a wonderful feeling of the sea.  Perfect for the theme this month. 

I blended the background with DO's, then stamped the waves, and embossed it with white embossing powder, that I had to buy, as I didn't have it in my supplies, can you believe it? 

 

Anyhow, after stamping and embossing, I added more bits of colour within the waves also some white pen to enhance some of the sea. Something I hadn't done before was to add a shadow to the waves and the sea edge, it certainly makes a difference I feel. I had watched the video, which helped me. 

 

After looking and finding some sea related stamps in my stash, I stamped the seagulls and painted them with white pen. The sentiment was stamped next, also in my stash, I felt it needed something else and found the sandcastle dies. They were coloured with DO's, and the flags with markers. Next, the scene was layered onto a blue background, which matched the sea. I hope you will join me in the Challenge. There are Great prizes.

stamp - Waves,  Inkylicious

all other stamps - Magazine Freebies 

inks - Distress Oxide, too many to list sorry.

white pen - Uniball White pen

dies - Mini Tropical dies, Cut & Make (The Range)

markers - Spectrum Noir

Don't forget, we now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Two prizes from Craft Stash, paper pads and stamps

 

Thank You card

 Hi Everyone, I'm hoping you have better weather than us today, we have had rain, although it stopped dried up and came down again, and it's quite chilly too, a real Autumnal day in this part of Wales.

I had a “Thank You” card to make for a lovely blog friend who helped me out with an image she stamped and sent to me for birthdays due next year. It was perfect for the men it goes to. Many thanks, you know who are you are.

I inked an embossing folder and, and as it had a heart die cut centre design, I put it at an angle, it wasn't as successful inking as I wanted. This is the best, the third time of trying. 

I had seen the sentiment stamp and bought it a while ago, because I thought it conveyed the thanks beautifully, in the lovely, twirly, special design. 

The embossing folder was inked with DO's matching the gold, I hoped, and as I said, placed onto the card diagonally, then I stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold, isn't it gorgeous? I added the layer to gold mirror card and then onto the base card. Quite simple, I wish it had been that simple to do, how do you ladies get such perfect inking on your embossing folder?  

embossing folder - Magazine freebie SC&P

ink pad -  Distress Oxide mustard seed

sentiment stamp - Inkylicious

embossing powder - Altenew Antique gold

gold card - The Range