Beach Buddies

Here is another card made using the free Sale-a-bration stamp set called Friendly Seagulls.

For this card, I was teaching the technique of water spray on sponged background. We started with a basic white panel 10.5 x 8 cm and used a blending brush to sponge on Azure Afternoon ink. Then we used a water spritzer to spray on one good spray of water. The spray creates fine water drops which you can’t see straight away but as the card dries it becomes apparent.

We then matted our panel onto Lemon Lolly card (10.5 cm square) with the top and bottom edges torn.

We cut a piece of Pecan Pie card for the wharf piles. 9.5 x 2.2 cm. We embossed with the timber embossing folding and sponged with Pecan Pie ink. We cut into two portions. One 5.5 cm long and one 4 cm long. Corner the ends and tied Crumb Cake baker’s twine around. Our Seagulls were fussy cut to sit on top.

Enjoy Every Moment

I had such fun today doing a online stamping class. I wasn’t teaching this time, instead I just got to play.

We made a variety of cards and today I will show you this one that has some blending and sponging to make a lovely sunset background. This was taught by Jacque Williams.

I used the Enjoy Every Moment stamp set. The lovely papers are new, and are called Blackberry Beauty Speciality paper. They have gorgeous gold foil accents.

If I was doing this again, I would stamp the images first and mask it before doing the blending as I don’t like the blending lines showing through the image.

I went ahead and coloured the images in. Have I made it better or not?
Here is another attempt. Again I believe the images should have been stamped first, then masked, then sponged but that’s what cardmaking is all about. Learning as you go.

Please leave me a comment if you have tried this technique and let me know how it worked out for you. Cheers!