Showing posts with label Lighthouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lighthouse. Show all posts

Monday, August 23, 2021

By the Sea

 Hello , thanks for stopping by to see what I have been crafting while at the lake, it seems appropriate to have a water realted csrd for the Seize The Birthday challenge #221 By the Sea is the topping. I was inspired by the surprise party guest Jenny, so in packing for the lake I added my lighthouse die and a scrap of ancient Stampin' up patterned paper, I'm sure it is the final piece. 


I love taking pictures on the breakwall overlooking the lake, although when I was there to take the picture the sun decided to hide. I smooshed the scrap of watercolour paper into distress oxide blues. making sure I had a darker spot for the water, My first pass with the die it didn't want to cut one spot, so I grabbed the waxed paper and gave it another try it was perfect. Now I didn't throw the first one away I used the top half and put the yellow between the two layers, the red I paper pieced. The die cuts the lighthouse out of a piece of cardstock but I wanted it to be a circle and used a postage stamp circle die to cut it out. I also cut two heavy cardstock circles to give the circle some elevation.  


Finished the inside with scraps of paper and a sentiment from Printworks. (I like this as I use it for Christmas as well) 

I'm entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Challenge #221 By The Sea 

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies.




Thanks for visiting and have a fantastic week. 






Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Shopping Our Stash #252 ~~ Sounds of the Sea

Welcome to a new weekly challenge at Shopping Our Stash, Sounds of the Sea ~~ we want you to make and ocean/seashore/beach/fishy scene.  I decided I would like to "kill" two birds with one stone and make a retirement card for one of the AM morning hosts that is retiring to PEI, Jeff Hucheson you can read about him HERE.  



The image is the lighthouse in Nova Scotia and one of a set of 4 lighthouses retired from Stampin'up. I used a lot stash on this card, the last piece of that very old patterned paper (SU) a scrap of silver paper, even the sentiment was printed on a scrap, nothing like conserving paper.


Close up of the image.


Inside sentiment was computer generated.

Thanks for dropping by today and get your thinking caps on and show us your Ocean/seaside, fishy, beach scene.