Sailing

This week's challenge on Less is More is to make a one layer card on the theme of "At Sea".  As I live on an island, I love anything to do with the sea and have lots of nautical stamps.  I particularly like the Hobby Art ones which you can use to create scenes.  I used smooth watercolour card and distress inks and markers to create my card. I stamped the rope border first which I masked with Frisket film before stamping and colouring the scene.

 

 

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:-

 

Shopping our Stash #252 - Sounds of the Sea

Just Add Ink#311 - masking



 

Materials used:-

Rope border - Clarity Stamps

Hobby Art "Coastal Wildlife" set

Inkylicious grass stamp from "Essential Grasses"

Sentiment - Stampin Up "Sheltering Tree" set

Inks - distress inks and markers; Archival Wendy Vecchi potting soil

Watercolour card - Daler Rowney (smooth)

Frisket film for masking the rope border

 

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Nautical card

This week's challenge on Less is More is red, white and blue which made me think nautical! This was the first time I had used the rope border and was pleased with the final result.

Materials used:-
Rope border - Clarity Stamps
Other stamps - Hobby Art Harbour and Far Away
Archival ink - cobalt
Distress ink - festive berries

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Santa and sleigh

I've made an early start with my Christmas cards this year! This one qualifies for the NBUS challenge as the stamps have been sitting in my stash for some time. I used an ink duster to apply distress inks to the sky and then spritzed this with perfect pearls for a frosty look. I tried to keep the card clean and simple but felt it need a little sparkle as it was a snowy scene!

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:-
AAA cards #19 Moon sketch
NBUS #2 - Christmas
Merry Monday #125 Transportation

Materials used:-
Hobby Art stamps "From our home to yours "
Sentiment - Stampin Up "Season of Joy" set
Distress inks - broken china and tumbled glass
Perfect pearls
Diamond sparkles "Angel Whispers" by Hunkydory
Clarity masks - moon and hills
Ink duster - Inkylicious


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Harbour tag

This is a tag I made recently using Hobby Art stamps to create a scene. I stamped the images on to watercolour card and then used distress inks to watercolour the scene. The background is from an old chart - I often use this in projects with a nautical theme. I am going to enter this tag in this month's Country View Crafts Blog Challenge which is to create a project with a nautical theme.

Materials used:-
Hobby Art stamps - Harbour Set and Coastal Wildlife Set
Distress inks and markers - various
Dies - Memory Box dies Parker Lower Alphabet

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By the Sea Watercolour

I was delighted by this week's challenge on Less is More which was to create a card inspired by the song "I do like to be beside the seaside!"  I have always lived beside the sea and certainly miss it when I'm away. This theme also gave me a chance to do some more water colouring which is Game 8 at AAA cards. I used Hobby Art stamps to create a scene which I then watercoloured with distress markers. The design is a CASE of a design I saw on the Jenny Mayes' blog. I used a Clarity Mask for the clouds, brushing the distress ink on with an Inkylicious ink duster which created a subtle effect.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-
Less is More week 187 - theme "I do like to be beside the seaside!"
AAA cards - Game #8 Watercolours

Materials used:-
Hobby Art stamps - Coastal Wildlife set, Harbour set (seagulls) and By the Sea set (sentiment)
Distress markers and inks - various
Clarity clouds mask
Inkylicious ink duster
Watercolour card

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Three flowers

Here is another water coloured card - I stamped and embossed the images before colouring them with distress inks. The hardest part was cutting out the squares and mounting them to ensure they were equally spaced. Hope they are! I am going to enter this card in this week's challenge on Less is More which is Watercolour. There are so many great examples of this technique on the LIM blog so do pop over and have a look.

Materials used:-
Stamps - Hobby Art mixed flowers
Distress inks - broken china, picked raspberry and seedless preserves

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Travel

I am submitting this card to challenge #40 on Addicted to CAS where the code word is transport. I used distress ink to watercolour the images. I then cut out a border to continue with the sea theme - hopefully the aperture looks like a porthole. I found the hardest part was ensuring that the eyelets were equally spaced!

Materials used:-
Stamps - Hobby Art Harbour set
Sentiment by Clear Choice
Distress inks - tumbled glass
Distress markers (for the boat) - festive berries and tea dye
Clarity clouds mask
Nestabilities circle dies