Time for Adventure

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The card I am making today is for a retirement celebration.  It is designed especially for a sea loving guy.  He can hardly wait to enjoy sailing and traveling to exciting places in his new found free time! I am featuring the Pirate Ship, Ship's Wheel and Map & Spyglass dies.  

 

         Background Photo by FreePiks

Design Steps:

1.  Using the following dies: Pirate Ship, Map & Spyglass and Ship's Wheel cut out the following colors of card stock: red, black, yellow, Kraft, and gray (Pirate Ship) light blue, cream, parchment, red and navy (Map and Spyglass) Kraft (Ships Wheel)

2.  Shade the pieces and then assemble with a fine tip glue

3.  Using the 5th and 6th from the largest Pierced Square dies cut out 2 squares in white.  Using the 3rd from the largest Pierced Rectangle die cut out 1 rectange in white.  Run the pieces through an embossing folder and then blend with blue ink

4.  Arrange the pieces on the rectangle and squares and then glue down

5.  The base is an A2 Kraft card stock, followed by cream colored card stock cut 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 and the top layer is black card stock cut 4 x 5 1/4.  Ink the edges of the kraft and cream card stock and glue together.  Add the black layer on top of the cream card stock.  For a little added texture I dyed cheesecloth with some TH Vintage Photo ink and placed it on top of the black card stock

6.  I was able to attach the cheesecloth by placing a good amount of glue on the backs of the rectangle and square pieces.  Add the sentiment and your card is complete

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Monkey Hugs

Hi!

It's Anja here. For today's post I made a card using a monkey die.

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Pirate Monkey, Treasure Chest Island, Under The Sea),

- Distress Inks,

- craft card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (14x14 cm),

- black pigment ink,

- sentiment stamp,

- acrylic block,

- white pen,

- brush,

- paper glue.

 

First I cut and colored the monkey. 

Next I cut and colored the stones and the palm trees.

 

 

Next I did the background. 

 

And last I stamped the sentiment on the card.

 

 

And my card was done.

 

 

I wish you all a nice day and successful week ahead. See you again next Sunday.

 

Anja Z. 

 

 

 

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

 

Hello Hello Hello

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a simple card for you today.

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Pirate Ship, Lighthouse),

- Distress Inks,

- craft card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (14x14 cm),

- plastic stencil (clouds),

- sentiment stamp,

- black pigment ink,

- acrylic block,

- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the ship and the lighthouse.

Next I did the background. I colored the cloudy sky with a plastic stencil. I used Distress Inks for the sea.

I assembled the card together and added the sentiment for the finish.

And this is the finished card.

Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

Sail Towards Your Dreams

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a card of encouragement or congratulations for someone who is working towards fulfilling their dreams.  I used the Pirate Ship from the new Pirates and Sea Creatures release.  This ship makes a fun pirate ship but also a classic looking ship when made with white sails and no pirate symbol.

I started the card by cutting the pieces from white cardstock and coloring with Distress Oxide inks.

I then cut a panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches and used several blue shades of ink to blend an ocean.  I didn't bother to go all the way to the top of the panel as I knew I wasn't going to need that much.

I dry embossed this panel with a wave pattern.  It was a bit tight going through my machine which caused some cracking on the waves.  However, I found this added to the water feel.

I wanted to have my ship nestled in between waves so I used my paper snips and cut along some of the wavy lines.

The portion with the flat bottom will be at the bottom of my card.  I will position the other portion underneath and down to create layers.  My ship will go between.

For my background panel I stamped the sentiment in the upper right and used a cloud stencil to create the sky.  It was quiet easy to avoid blending over the sentiment so that it has a nice white background that blends into the clouds.

I added the ocean panels and tucked in the ship.  The last details to get added were the whitecaps and the sea birds.

Dies:

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Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!