Sailing Home CASE

My card today is a CASE from the very talented Narelle Farrugia. I’ve admired her work for ages and love her work and style.  It has a unique flair that is just beautiful. You can see her card here. 

Base card is whisper white. Firstly stamp the lighthouse from sailing home in basic gray. Using a sponge dauber, ink up with versamark and then pool party around the top of the lighthouse. Then again use versamark and now ink up with seaside spray and sponge around the bottom half of the lighthouse. The versamark gives a softer look and blends easily. 

Now using water painter with just water blend the lighthouse using only the already stamped image. 

Stamp the happy from the family party stamp set on a thin strip of whisper white and trim. Cut Birthday from night of navy from well written dies. 

From the smooth sailing dies cut the ships wheel from night of navy, stamp the anchor in basic gray. Layer both on front of card. Stamp the seagulls using night of navy. 

My second card is very similar, but instead of using sailing home stamp set I have used the High Tide.

Waterfront meets By The Dock stamp set

I’ve been playing with Waterfront stamp set and combined it with By the Dock stamp set and High Tide

Stamp sets: Waterfront, By The Dock, high tide

card:  whisper white, basic black

Tools: tasteful textures embossing folder, stitched rectangle dies

Waterfront on glossy card using Brusho Crystal colour and Rubbing Alcohol

Waterfront Stamp Set from the Occasions Catalogue has to be my favourite stamp set at the moment.

Here is a landscape scene I have created using glossy card and brusho for the background.

Step One:  Have your glossy card landscape and sprinkle yellow along the top (about 1/3).  Next sprinkle the Moss green along the middle and then the Prussian blue down the bottom. 

Step Two:  Spray with the alcohol. If you don't have alcohol just spray with water. 

Step Three:  Lay another glossy piece on top with glossy sides touching.

Step Four:  Run a brayer over the top which will distribute the colour over both pieces of glossy card.

Step Five:  Separate both pieces of glossy card. 

You now have two pieces of glossy card to work with.  

Step Six:  Stamp the sun in crushed curry in top left corner and the mountains across the top in marina mist.

Step Seven:  Using the mountain stamp still, overlap the mountain images with smoky slate.

Step Eight:  Stamp the long skinny piece in wild wasabi, overlapping across the base of the mountains.

Step Nine:  Using pool party, Stamp the triangular water image along the bottom  .

Step Ten:  Using island indigo,  add the detailed water image diagonally overlapping each image. 

Step Eleven:  Add the trees stamped in early espresso.

Step Twelve:  From the High Tide stamp set, add the seagulls stamped in island indigo.

Belair Creative Card Group - Saturday 25th February 2017

Belair Creative Cards is expanding!!  We now meet the 4th Saturday of the month at 2pm.  We would love you to come.

Here are the projects we will be doing this month.  You get to choose 2 of the 3 designs below.

Our first card uses High Tide stamp set using a monochromatic colour scheme.  The greeting is from Big on Birthdays stamp set.  Ink used is night of navy.

Card number 2 uses one of the free sets from Sale-a-Bration called Avant Garden.  The greeting is from Birthday Blast.  

Card Number 3 uses the stamp set Lift Me Up.  The papers are called Carried Away designer series paper are also from the Sale-a-Bration promotion.  I cased this card from Brandi Barnard from the Stampin' Up! home office.

Belair Creative Card Group meets at 130 Garden Grove Parade, Adamstown the last Thursday of the month at 7:30pm and the 4th Saturday of the month at 2pm