THE OPEN SEA MEETS MARITIME DSP, FOR DAD

My dear old Dad had a birthday yesterday.  I had a lot of fun making his card, using the beautiful new Maritime Designer Series Papers from Stampin' Up! - they're a perfect match for The Open Sea, one of my favourite stamp sets for masculine cards.

Although it's not really obvious in the photo, the main panel of white card was cut out using the new Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits.  Super-useful size for card fronts!

Stamps: The Open Sea, Four You

Card: Night of Navy, Whisper White

DSP: Maritime Designer Series Paper (available 1st July)

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Night of Navy and Sahara Sand stampin' pads, Real Red and Night of Navy stitched grosgrain ribbon, Project Life Cards & Labels framelits, Regals Candy Dot & Candy Dot Brad Base, 1 3/8" Circle punch, sponge dauber



JAI #173 : JUST ADD ..... WATER

The inspiration for this week's Just Add Ink challenge came from, of all things, a humble bottle of water! 

All of the Just Add Ink Design Team members who travelled to Brisbane for Stampin' Up!'s Convention in May, stayed in apartments that had complimentary water in the fridge on arrival.  Check out the bottle label - these waters were placed there especially for us (at least we can  pretend!).

 

So, our challenge this week is to Just Add Water, to your card or other papercraft project.  You may interpret this how you like - weather it be water-related stamp images, or watercolouring, or maybe even a Sweet Treat cup filled with water.  Let's see what you come up with!

 

Here is my card, using some beautiful "watery" paper from the Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper Pack, just retired.

 

 

..... and the inside of the card:

 

 

 

Stamps: The Open Sea, That's the Ticket, Up Up & Away (retired)

Card: Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede

DSP: Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper (retired)

Ink: Pacific Point stampin' pad and marker, Marina Mist marker, Soft Suede stampin' pad, Crumb Cake stampin' pad, Soft Sky stampin' pad

Other: 2 1/2" Circle punch, Ticket Duo builder punch, Basics Glimmer Brad, Crumb Cake taffeta ribbon, Pacific Point stitched grosgrain ribbon, sponge dauber, Linen Thread, Sea Charms dies (not SU!), stampin' dimensionals

 

 

Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team's samples. We hope to see you playing along with our challenge this week!

STB #16: STAMPIN' UP!'S THE OPEN SEA

Thankfully, the challenges at Seize the Birthday have gone to a two-week format, rather than weekly ... for the past week and a half, I've been meaning to play along, and finally have some time free.  I'm enjoying my Mother's Day treat, of time in my craft room!

During the week I had some friends over for a stamping day, and I showed them how to make gorgeous patterns on card, using the shaving foam technique.  Judy chose a colour combo of Night of Navy, Pool Party and Crumb cake.  The end result looked quite 'nautical' to me; it lent itself perfectly to being used on a card with The Open Sea stamp set (a GREAT 'guy' set).

Here's the sketch, to be used to make a birthday card:

 

 

 

Because of the swirly detail on my 'shaving foam' panel, I've left my card rather un-embellished; it was difficult to not add brads or buttons, but I think it works, for a male card!

 

 

Stamps: The Open Sea, Perfectly Penned

Card: Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pool Party Core'dinations

Ink: Crumb Cake stampin' pad and re-inker, Night of Navy stampin' pad and re-inker, Pool Party re-inker

Other: 2 1/2" Circle punch, sponge daubers, Argyle embossing folder, Crumb Cake tulle (retired), Blue denim ribbon, flag die (not SU!), shaving foam

 



DD #47 : STAMPIN' UP!'S THE OPEN SEA

This week's colour combo at Dynamic Duos really had me thinking! 

 

 

LOVE the combo, but the ideas I had in my head initially, did not transfer well onto card!  After abandoning my first couple of attempts, I decided to go with my favourite type of card to make - a masculine card.  I'm really happy with how the colours worked together on this one:

Stamps: The Open Sea, Itty Bitty Banners

Card: Crumb Cake, Pool Party Core'dinations, Very Vanilla

DSP: Be of Good Cheer Designer Series Paper

Ink: Crumb Cake stampin' pad and marker, Cherry Cobbler stampin' pad and marker, Pool Party marker, Versamark inkpad

Other: Ovals Framelits, 1 1/4" Circle punch, Bitty Banners Framelits, Chevron embossing folder, Argyle embossing folder, Natural Trim ribbon, Cherry Cobbler baker's twine, sanding block, sponge dauber, Basics Glimmer brad, Pool Party embossing powder, stampin' dimensionals, glue dots

 

 

Did you notice in my list of ingredients that I used a Basics Glimmer brad?  I find the gold glimmer brads a bit "brassy" for my liking, so I modified it to make a Pool Party brad for this card!  I dipped the brad in Versamark ink, covered it in Pool Party embossing powder, and used my heat gun to melt it.  I repeated this process for several layers, and ended up with a much more useable brad!   I hope this tip helps you to make use of those brads that you might otherwise cast aside. :)

 

 



STAMPIN' UP!'S THE OPEN SEA FOR STB #4

Over at Seize the Birthday, this week it's all about male birthday cards, using this sketch:

 

 

 

I've used one of my all-time favourite masculine stamp sets from Stampin' Up! to make this card:

 

 

 

Stamps: The Open Sea; Bring on the Cake; Up, Up & Away

Card: Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Island Indigo

DSP: Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper stack (retired)

Ink: Crumb Cake stampin' pad, Island Indigo stampin' pad and marker, Early Espresso stampin' pad and marker, Bashful Blue marker

Other: Apothecary Accents framelits, 1 1/4" Circle punch, Argyle embossing folder, sponge daubers, Linen Thread,  Naturals Designer Buttons, Natural Trim ribbon, glue dots, Stampin' Dimensionals, banner die (not SU!),, Color Spritzer tool

 

 

 

 

JAI #142 : STAMPIN' UP!'S THE OPEN SEA

It has been a while since I've used The Open Sea, one of my favourite masculine stamp sets, so decided to use it for this week's Just Add Ink challenge.

Mae has come up with this great sketch for us to use as a starting point for a card/scrapbook page:

I have used for my card base the fabulous new Natural Composition Specialty paper from Stampin' Up! - can you see the embossed horizontal lines on the card front?  LOVE this heavyweight paper.

Stamps: The Open Sea, Bring on the Cake

Card: Very Vanilla

DSP: Natural Composition Specialty DSP, Comfort Cafe and Be of Good Cheer Designer Series Papers

Ink: Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse and Cherry Cobbler stampin' pads

Other: Corner rounder punch, 3/4" circle punch, sponge daubers, Linen Thread, Cherry Cobbler seam binding, Midnight Muse stitched satin ribbon, Antique brad, blender pen, glue dot

 

 

 

The rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team have come up with some amazing cards using this sketch - you'll love the variety.  Be sure to check them out here, and play along with us, if you can!  We'd love to see your card based on this sketch.

 

 

 



JAI #138: A COLOUR CHALLENGE

This week at Just Add Ink, Kim has set us a GREAT colour challenge:

Summer Starfruit is one of Stampin' Up!'s new In Colors, and it is my favourite, because it's significantly different to any other colours in the core range. 

Somewhat predictably, I've made a masculine card.  I was inspired by last week's sketch challenge that we had, with divided panels across the front of a card.  My vertical panels were stamped with stamps from The Open Sea and Clockworks, in ink that matches the card.  Even though it doesn't show up clearly, the Whisper White mat has been embossed with Stampin' Up!'s Argyle embossing folder.  I did cheat a little with the colour combo, by knotting a piece of Basic Black taffeta ribbon around the white baker's twine; I think the colour looks closer to Basic Gray, so gave myself permission to use it!


Here's the end result of my play with these colours:

Stamps: Clockworks, The Open Sea, Bring on the Cake

Card: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Summer Starfruit

Ink: Basic Gray stampin' pad, Summer Starfruit stampin' pad and marker

Other: Labels Collection Framelits die, XL Oval punch, Basics Glimmer brad, sponge daubers, Argyle embossing folder, white baker's twine, Basic Black taffeta ribbon, glue dots

 

 

 

 

 

While I had these colours out, I had a little play, and came up with another card that I really love.  This one is for my nephew, who is a beautiful young man; very proud to be his aunty!

 

 

 

 

Stamps: Clockworks, Memorable Moments

Card: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Summer Starfruit

Ink: Basic Gray and Summer Starfruit stampin' pads

Other: Chevron embossing folder, Finishing Touches edgelits die, Labels Collection Framelits die

 

 

 

The rest of the Design Team have come up with some gorgeous creations with this colour combo - please take a look, and play along with us!

 

 





STAMPIN' UP!'S "THE OPEN SEA" FOR PAPER PLAYERS #73

Jaydee has set this week's challenge over at The Paper Players, to make a clean and simple card using this colour combination:

I don't use Night of Navy very often, so this was a little outside my comfort zone, but I had a lot of fun with this challenge! 

I have inked up my new "The Open Sea" stamp set, that is being released in Australia and New Zealand on 1st December.  I know I will get a LOT of use out of this fabulous stamp set. 

 I silver-embossed the anchor on Brushed Silver cardstock, before cutting it out.  The background DSP (that started off with a polka dot pattern) has been run through my Square Lattice embossing folder.  The exposure of the paper's white core is perfect for this colour challenge; that was a happy discovery!

Stamps: The Open Sea (out 1st December), For My Family

Card: Night of Navy, Brushed Silver, Whisper White

DSP: Night of Navy Patterns Designer Series Paper

Ink: Night of Navy stampin' pad, Versamark inkpad

Other: Silver embossing powder, White baker's twine (*new* - out 1st December), silver mini brads, silver jumbo brad, Word Window punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, rectangle & scalloped rectangle Nestabilities, sponge dauber