The Occasional Card: Life's A Beach

Friday, June 28, 2013

Flourishes Friday Focus: Beach Sets!

Happy Friday Flourishes Friends! How is the weather in your neck of the woods? Is that summer heat getting you down? Well today the Flourishes Senior Design Team has a treat for you focussing on three beautiful summery sets: Beach Life, A Guiding Light and Seaside Life because we know that this time of year makes you long for those cool ocean breezes.
I chose to work with Beach Life for my simple 10 minute card.

I stamped out a shell from the Beach Life in Versafine Onyx Black ink, onto Classic Ivory cardstock and fussy cut it out. I used the Sweet Pea and the Dahlia Classic Copic Collections. Then I diecut out my cardstock with some Spellbinder dies. After that I stamped out more shell images from Beach Life, as a background, in Memento Desert Sand ink then I sponged Tattered Rose Distress Ink around the background.

Just a quick note, we seem to be currently out of Beach Life stamp sets at the moment, but we should be back in stock soon, though! :)

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Thank you for stopping by and enjoy your summer in the sun, hopefully at the beach!!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday: Summer Fun!

Good morning fellow Flourishes followers! How is your summer so far? My daughter's school starts in a month, so we are going to enjoy it while we can!
This week's hostess is Makiko and she is challenging us to create: A Summer Card or Project. Super simple and easy :)

I've been thinking about how to use Flourishes stamps to try to create pieces of art work. So this week I decided to use Flourishes "Life's a Beach", which is perfect for this challenge. I wanted the look of a vacation postcard from Hawaii in the 1940's, so I went with a really heavy color saturation.

I used Flourishes "Life's A Beach" set that I masked and stamped onto a 2 1/2x3 mini canvas. I sponged some "Scattered Straw", "Wild Honey" and "Dried Marigold" Distress Ink on it for the colors of the sunset. Then I colored the rest in with the following Copic Sketch Marker Collections: