Hi Friends!
I hope you are having
a fabulous weekend so far! In honor of
National Lighthouse Day and the flash sales at Artistic Outpost and Our Daily Bread Designs, I wanted to create one more Mixed Media lighthouse card.
This card uses the Beyond the Sea and Grunge Elements stamp sets by the Artistic Outpost from
Our Daily Bread Designs - both of these sets complement each other so well!
I have incorporated a few
of my favorite online challenges into the design- the Pals Paper Arts PPA312 Sketch Challenge (I flipped the sketch over), the Paper Players PP307 “You Light Up My Life” Challenge, the
Splitcoaststampers’ (SCS) Dare To Get Dirty DTGD16justwritedesigns Challenge and the SCS F4A332 “Beach” Challenge (from July 1).
If you have not had a
chance to visit the above challenge galleries or the Artistic Outpost blog yet,
I encourage you to do so- wonderful inspiration from all!
To create this card:
Ink the lighthouse
along with girl on the beach, seashells, starfish and sentiment from Beyond the Sea with black
archival ink and stamp onto white cardstock (stamp all of the images by
themselves on separate pieces of white cardstock).
Die cut the girl on
the beach image with the ODBD Double Stitched Circle Dies, create a mask for
the girl image, mask the girl and stamp the lighthouse image over the girl.
Watercolor the
lighthouse as well as the girl/lighthouse and seashells/starfish images with
neutral distress inks, use a calligraphy marker to add the vintage watercolor
(see the Splitcoaststampers tutorial here for the vintage watercolor technique)
and a few white highlights to the starfish with a white paint pen.
Water color the lower
portion of the main background panel with the neutral distress ink , add a bit
of distressing with the large splatter stamp from Grunge Elements and use a clear
glitter pen to add a bit of shimmer to the sand.
Fussy-cut the
starfish and seashell images, shape a bit with your fingers and use a clear
glitter pen to add sparkle (hard to see this in the photo).
Hand tear the edges
of the sentiment and distress with your fingers, mount onto a piece of tan
cardstock, distress the edges with your finger, use the grid image along with
the large splatter image from Grunge Elements to add a bit of texture and add
the antique brass spiral clip.
Die-cut the main
lighthouse image panel with the ODBD Double Stitched Rectangle Dies (using the
largest rectangle), mount onto a piece of tan cardstock, trim and mount on a
piece of dark brown cardstock (it is hard to see in the photo but I distressed
the dark brown cardstock with a crazing medium).
Adhere the layered background
panel onto the white card base, add the burlap ribbon stands to the card front
(I used hot glue to adhere the strands), mount the die cut circle with the girl
(lining up the lighthouse image to the background) and the seashells with
dimensional foam.
To finish off the
card, add the sentiment with dimensional foam.
Again,
I hope I have inspired you with this card to take some time to relax this
weekend! I think this young lady has the
right idea- to explore along the beach and check out the nearby lighthouse and don't you think she looks very determined :-) I told my hubby that her boyfriend did not want to join her so she was giving him the "look"- lol!
Thanks again for
stopping by- hugs and have a blessed week, my friends!
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