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

 

Thanks for visiting my blog - now pop over to Less is More and see how the other participants interpreted this theme.  Margaret

 



Don't lose hope

It's the one layer challenge this week on Less is More and Mandi and her team want to see the sentiment taking centre stage on our cards. I found this quite challenging - which sentiment stamp to choose? How much decoration to add? Finally I decided to mask and ink an area and added some stars using texture paste - this is the first time I've used this and was pleased with the result.

Materials used:-
Sentiment stamp - Lili of the valley Life's Journey set
Star stencil - Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine
Cosmic shimmer texture paste - gold pearl
DI - broken china and peacock feathers

Thanks for visiting - Margaret