Wetlands at the Beach

I do like to be beside the seaside!  

This is our challenge for LIM this week, anything to do with the seaside or a nautical theme and of course clean and simple. 

I've gone with a Hardwood background in Sahara Sand on a Naturals card base.  I made my beach using Work of Art and So Saffron paired with Soft Sky.  Wetlands is stamped in Marina Mist and my little scene is also mounted onto Marina Mist. 

As it happens I was down at Aberdeen Beach today.  Took my daughter and her chum, my son, father and Jess (our dog).  It was a full car!  Sadly my father can't walk very well so we had a wheelchair for him and my son had his long board.  My daughter and her chum went off to meet another friend and go bowling.  So that left me to push the wheelchair and walk the dog along the esplanade, trying not to tip my father out of the chair by hitting bumps and avoid running over the dog at the same time against a strong wind. When we went for coffee at one of the cafes my back was soaking and not because it was roasty toasty!  However I have to say it was very warm at 5 o'clock when we headed back to the car.  I think all had a fun afternoon!!  

I hope you have had a good weekend too whatever you got up to. xx

Supplies Used

All Stampin Up

Card - Naturals, Whisper White, Marina Mist

Ink - Sahara Sand, So Saffron, Soft Sky, Marina Mist

Stamp - Wetlands, Work of Art, Hardwood

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Wetlands x 2 similar but different

I had such a fab morning yesterday in the middle of a rather hectic day.  What was I doing?  Crafting at a Workshop with the best bunch of ladies.  The card above is the one we made.  

I had great fun with this one getting all inky.  Sometimes not in the right places but we'll skip past that bit!  

We started off making the scene on the Glossy Cardstock panel.  First we stamped these gorgeous Wetlands birdies in Black Stazon.  Then we inked up an Acrylic Block by tapping it down the length of Marina Mist ink pad then spritzed it with a fine mist of water.  This caused hilarity whilst we tried not to spray each other with water!  We then pressed this onto our Glossy cardstock and carefully lifted.  We then used a Sponge Dauber to go over any white areas or to soften any hard lines.  Everyone achieved beautiful different effects.  We did the same with Crumb Cake along the top.  Then for a little added interest we stamped some of the grasses around one edge in Cajun Craze.  The panel was attached to a Basic Black mat which helps make the colours pop.  A White Gel Pen adds the flashes of white back into the birds.  

I stamped in Whisper White the sentiment from the set onto the Cajun Craze mat.  To finish off we attached some Baker's Twine along the bottom. 

This was a second sample to show how you could dress it up a little differently.  Some Cajun Craze was sponged around the the grasses edge and the panel was popped up on Dimensionals. The sentiment this time was stamped in Marina Mist and a ribbon tag was made by trimming round the sentiment and by using the Petite Curly Label punch at an angle.  A candy dot finishes off the tag.  The Adorning Accents Edgelit gives a lovely scalloped border and under that I tucked some Natural Trim Ribbon. 

My ladies all said they would have flicked past this set but they all loved using it and hopefully I've inspired them to look at in a new light. 

Supplies List 

All Stampin Up! 

Card - Marina Mist, Cajun Craze, Basic Black, Glossy

Ink - Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Black Stazon

Stamp - Wetlands

Punch - Petite Curly Label

Edgelits - Adorning Accents

Ribbon - Natural Trim

Other - Candy Dots, Dimensionals, Bakers Twine, White Gel Pen

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A bit of a Stampin' Up! Wetlands Experiment

A bit of an experiment indeed!  Let me explain.  First of all if you are a regular reader you will know that I love to join in at Less is More and this week's challenge is use a Rubber Stamp with a desert option of water colouring. 

Using the rubber stamp is no problem but my experimentation came in with the water colouring.  Which stamp set to use?  Well if we are getting wet then Wetlands seemed appropriate.   

I took the image of the goose (is it a goose?  I'm not sure!) and coloured it with my Stampin' Write Markers then spritzed the stamp with water before stamping onto Whisper White.  I then spritzed the paper too letting the colours run.  I coloured the stamp again with the markers and over stamped the image.  I coloured the separate grasses stamp again with a marker and stamped around the bottom edges.  To give my bird some definition I used the nib end of my marker and went around it's outline.  I then cut some notches into the edges to distress it a little and attached it to a card stock mat.  It's attached to a Whisper White card base.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set, aren't the fonts fab?

My daughter is off on her Primary 7 trip today.  She was so excited about going as she has been looking forward to it for so long and can remember seeing her big brother off.  Each year the Primary 7's set off for Loch Insh in the Highlands and I think the younger ones always look forward to when it'll be their turn.  A week of water sports, Archery, Skiing (dry slope), mountain biking etc.  No wonder they are excited!  For me it was another milestone, my little girl is now a big girl and this is her turn! 

Bye for now from a sappy Mum!  x 

Supplies Used

All Stampin' Up!

Card - Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant

Stamp - Wetlands

Stampin' Write Marker - Elegant Eggplant, Night of Navy, Cajun Craze, Garden Green, Always Artichoke

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