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An oceanfront sailing card made using the Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets by Stampin' Up

Oceanfront Sailing

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I have been playing with my Oceanfront stamp set………I can’t help myself and this time I have combined it with the Sailing Home stamp set for an oceanfront sailing card.

Colours used in this project are:

 

To recreate the oceanfront sailing card, you will need:

Balmy Blue card base – 8¼” by 5⅝” scored at 4⅛”
Basic White card – 5⅞” by 3⅝”
Night of Navy card – 5⅞” by ⅜”
Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾” for the inside
Scrap Basic White and Pear Pizzazz

 

Using the largest stamp from the Oceanfront stamp set I stamped the sky with Balmy Blue ink into the longer, narrower panel of Basic White card. I added the sea in Misty Moonlight ink using the same stamp.

 

An oceanfront sailing card made using the Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets by Stampin' Up

www.crafty-rootes.com -The Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets used to make a pretty oceanfront sailing card

The panel was then placed in the Stamparatus. I wanted to make sure that my sailing boat was nice and dark and the Stamparatus allowed me to stamp it 3 times with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Whilst the panel was in the Stamparatus I stamped the birds with the same ink. Both of these images came from the Sailing Home stamp set.

 

An oceanfront sailing card made using the Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets by Stampin' Up

www.crafty-rootes.com -The Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets used to make a pretty oceanfront sailing card

I stamped the boulder in Crumb Cake ink onto scrap Basic White card and fussy cut them out using Scissors. The vegetation was die cut from scrap Pear Pizzazz card using a die from the Seas Dies. The boulders were glued down with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive and the vegetation tucked behind.

 

An oceanfront sailing card made using the Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets by Stampin' Up

www.crafty-rootes.com -The Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets used to make a pretty oceanfront sailing card

I added some clouds, die cut using the Rainbow Dies and glued them to the sky. The 2 strips of Night of Navy card were glued to either side of the stamped panel. The whole panel was then added to the Balmy Blue card front on Dimensionals.

 

An oceanfront sailing card made using the Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets by Stampin' Up

www.crafty-rootes.com -The Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets used to make a pretty oceanfront sailing card

The boat was coloured in using my Chalk Pen, to help it stand out. I also added ‘waves’ with the same pen and finished off by adding some Clear Wink of Stella to the water.

 

An oceanfront sailing card made using the Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets by Stampin' Up

www.crafty-rootes.com -The Oceanfront and Smooth Sailing stamp sets used to make a pretty oceanfront sailing card

Such a pretty card, I hope you like it.

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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The Sailing Home and Oceanfront stamp sets by Stampin' Up! used for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

Lighthouse card for the Crafty Collaborations Challenge Blog Hop

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Hello and welcome to the Crafty Collaborations Blog Hop where we have a sketch challenge to work with. I have made a card featuring a lighthouse for this challenge using the Sailing Home stamp set.

Colours used in this project are:

 To recreate the lighthouse card, you will need:

Cinnamon Cider card base – 8 ¼” by 5⅝” scored at 4⅛”
Pacific Point card – 4⅝” by 2⅞”
Basic White card – 4 ½” by 2¾”
Basic White card – 4⅛” by ⅞”
Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾” – for the inside
Scrap Basic White & Basic Gray

 

Using the Oceanfront stamp set I stamped the ‘sky’ in Balmy Blue ink. The sky was added in Pacific Point ink and the ground in Sahara Sand ink. The seagulls were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

 

The Sailing Home and Oceanfront stamp sets by Stampin' Up! used for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.com – A lighthouse card made using the Sailing Home stamp set for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

I added grasses using Mossy Meadow ink and glued the stamped panel to the Pacific Point layer using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

 

The Sailing Home and Oceanfront stamp sets by Stampin' Up! used for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.com – A lighthouse card made using the Sailing Home stamp set for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

The lighthouse from the Sailing Home stamp set was stamped in Cinnamon Cider ink onto scrap Basic White card and die cut out using the Smooth Sailing Dies and the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. I coloured the image with Cinnamon Cider and Balmy Blue Blends Markers and mounted it onto the stamped panel with Dimenionals. I added a couple of boulders stamped in Sahara Sand ink and fussy cut them out, they were added to the base of the lighthouse on Mini Dimensionals.

 

The Sailing Home and Oceanfront stamp sets by Stampin' Up! used for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.com – A lighthouse card made using the Sailing Home stamp set for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

The Basic White strip was glued to the Cinnamon Cider card base and the decorated panel added over top.

 

The Sailing Home and Oceanfront stamp sets by Stampin' Up! used for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.com – A lighthouse card made using the Sailing Home stamp set for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

The sentiment from the On the Horizon stamp set was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto scrap Basic White card. I trimmed it out using sharp Scissors and added it to the card front. The anchor was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto scrap Basic Gray ink and die cut it using the Smooth Sailing Dies. The anchor was added using Mini Dimensionals.

 

The Sailing Home and Oceanfront stamp sets by Stampin' Up! used for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.com – A lighthouse card made using the Sailing Home stamp set for the Crafty Collaborations Sketch Challenge Blog Hop

I added a trio of Peebles to complete the card.

Please continue to hop on to see what my fellow demos have to share with us today.


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If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours!  If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK, please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one.  To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you. To join my team either click on the link above or click on the contact me button above and I will contact you with more information.

Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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A masculine seaside themed card featuring a lighthouse and a blended background.

Masculine Lighthouse themed card

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Today I am sharing a masculine lighthouse themed birthday card made for my son’s birthday.

He has recently bought a house in a small fishing village on the northeast coast of Scotland, where incidentally a branch of my Mothers and a branch of my Fathers families lived from the at least the 1690’s. In fact, the house he has bought was owned by my 3 great aunts the last of whom died there in the mid 1990’s. Yes, family history is one of my passions……. My son loves the sea and as the house is about 50 feet from the harbour, he is a s happy as the proverbial pig. So….. his card had to be seaside themed. I got the idea for this card from a fellow demonstrator Priscilla – I adapted her design and made it my own.

Colours used in this project are:

To recreate the masculine Lighthouse card, you will need:

Balmy Bay card base – 8¼” by 5⅞” scored at 4⅛”
Misty Moonlight – 5⅝” by 3⅞”
Basic White – 5½” by 3¾” x 2 – one for the inside
Pacific Point – 5½” by 3¾”
So Saffron – 5½” by 3¾”
Balmy Blue – 5½” by 3¾”
Misty Moonlight – 5½” by 3¾”
Misty Moonlight – 3¾” by 2⅝”
Basic White – 3¾” by 2⅝”

I took the four panels of card stock measuring 5½” by 3¾” and cut them into thin strips, wider at one end than the other. Taking the strips, I added them to one of the larger Basic White panels using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive leaving a small strip of white visible between the strips. I trimmed off any excess when the whole panel was covered.

A masculine seaside themed card featuring a lighthouse and a blended background.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A striking lighthouse themed birthday card made using card stock scraps and blending brushes by Stampin’ Up!

The striped panel was then added to the Misty Moonlight layer with the same liquid glue and then to the Balmy Blue card base.

A masculine seaside themed card featuring a lighthouse and a blended background.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A striking lighthouse themed birthday card made using card stock scraps and blending brushes by Stampin’ Up!

Using the lovely new Blending Brushes, I added Balmy Blue ink to the top and bottom of the small Basic White panel. I added So Saffron ink to the middle of the panel.  I stamped the ‘sea’ image in Balmy Blue ink at the bottom of the panel and birds in Basic Gray at the top of the panel. Using the Stitched So Sweetly Dies and my Mini Cut & Emboss Machine I cut a scalloped rectangle from the inked panel. This was glued to the small panel of Misty Moonlight and added to the card front on Dimensionals.

A masculine seaside themed card featuring a lighthouse and a blended background.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A striking lighthouse themed birthday card made using card stock scraps and blending brushes by Stampin’ Up!

I used the Stamparatus to stamp the image of the lighthouse onto scrap Basic White card. I wanted the image to be quite dark and the Stamparatus gave me the ability to stamp multiple times to get the depth of colour I wanted.

I cut the lighthouse out using the Smooth Sailing Dies. I added light to the windows using So Saffron Blends Marker and used a Blender Pen to soften the colour of the lighthouse.

A masculine seaside themed card featuring a lighthouse and a blended background.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A striking lighthouse themed birthday card made using card stock scraps and blending brushes by Stampin’ Up!

The lighthouse was added to the card front with liquid glue.

A masculine seaside themed card featuring a lighthouse and a blended background.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A striking lighthouse themed birthday card made using card stock scraps and blending brushes by Stampin’ Up!

I love how this card came out. I hope my son likes it.

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If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours!  If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one.  To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you. To join my team either click on the link above or click on the contact me button above and I will contact you with more information.

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Thanks for visiting my blog today, I love to read what you think of my projects so please do let me know. In line with new Data Protection Legislation (GDPR), by commenting you do so in the knowledge that your name & comment are visible to all who visit this blog and you thereby consent to the use of that personal information for that specific purpose. Please stop by again soon.

Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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Lovely sailing themed masculine card using Stampin Up product.

Sailing Home for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop

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Thank you for joining me for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop where our theme this month is ‘Masculine cards’. If you have joined me from the lovely …….. welcome, my name is Mo Rootes and I live near Cambridge in the UK. Like many others I find making cards for the men in my life a bit of a challenge and I am really looking forward to seeing what my fellow blog hoppers have to share with us.

To recreate the Sailing Home card you will need;

Seaside Spray card base 8¼” by 5⅞” scored and folded at 4⅛”
Seaside Spray cardstock 5½” by 3¾”
Whisper White cardstock 5½” by 3¾” – for the inside
Whisper White cardstock 5” by 3”
Night of Navy cardstock 3½” by ½” x 2
Scrap Whisper White

I ran the panel of Seaside Spray cardstock through my Big Shot with the Subtles Embossing folder to give it a little texture before adhering the panel to Seaside Spray card base using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

Lovely sailing themed masculine card using Stampin Up product.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Sailing Home stamp set and Smooth Sailing dies makes a masculine card for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop

I cut a label using the Stitched Nested Label dies and stamped the sentiment in Night of Navy towards the bottom. The smaller boat was then stamped twice in the Night of Navy ink.

Lovely sailing themed masculine card using Stampin Up product.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Sailing Home stamp set and Smooth Sailing dies makes a masculine card for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop

The larger boat was stamped in the same ink onto scrap Whisper White cardstock and die cut using the Smooth Sailing dies and coloured using the Seaside Spray combo, light Balmy Blue & light Night of Navy Blends Markers.

Lovely sailing themed masculine card using Stampin Up product.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Sailing Home stamp set and Smooth Sailing dies makes a masculine card for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop

Using the 1” Circle Punch I punched circle from a PostIt Note and stuck it to the top of the stitched label. I sponged on some Blamy Blue ink using a Sponge Dauber then removed the punched circle and added some So Saffron ink again using a Sponge Dauber.

Lovely sailing themed masculine card using Stampin Up product.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Sailing Home stamp set and Smooth Sailing dies makes a masculine card for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop

I added the 2 strips of Night of Navy cardstock to the card front having flagged the ends. The Stitched Label was then added over the top using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive and the lager boat added on Dimensionals.

Lovely sailing themed masculine card using Stampin Up product.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Sailing Home stamp set and Smooth Sailing dies makes a masculine card for the Stampers Showcase Blog Hop

I stamped the larger boat in Night of Navy ink onto the Whisper White panel and added it to the inside of the card. The same image was stamped onto the front of the envelope.

Please continue to hop on and see what the lovely Deb Naylor has to share with us.

 

If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours!  If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one.  To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I love to read what you think of my projects so please do let me know. In line with new Data Protection Legislation (GDPR), by commenting you do so in the knowledge that your name & comment are visible to all who visit this blog and you thereby consent to the use of that personal information for that specific purpose. Please stop by again soon.

Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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Sailing boats for a masculine themed retirement card made with Stampin' Up! products

Smooth Sailing

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Here is a lovely card made using the Smooth Sailing dies, the Sailing Home stamp set and some more masculine colours.

To recreate the Smooth Sailing card you will need;

Blueberry Bushel card base 8¼” by 5⅞” scored at 4⅛”
Come Sail Away dsp 4⅛” by 3”
Poppy Parade 4⅛” by ⅜”
Crumb Cake 3¾” by 2⅞”
Whisper White 3 ½” by 2⅝”
Whisper White strip ¼” wide
Whisper White 5⅜” by 3⅝”
Scrap Whisper White

The Poppy Parade strip was glued to the side of the Come Sail Away dsp then stuck to the card front using the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

Sailing boats for a masculine themed retirement card made with Stampin' Up! products

www.crafty-rootes.com – Smooth Sailing dies and Sailing Home stamp set makes a cute reirement card

I die cut a stitched oval from the smaller panel of Whisper White and a slightly larger oval using the Layering Ovals dies.

Sailing boats for a masculine themed retirement card made with Stampin' Up! products

www.crafty-rootes.com – Smooth Sailing dies and Sailing Home stamp set makes a cute reirement card

A watercolour wash was added to the stitched oval using an Aqua Painter and the Blueberry Bushel ink. When the ink was dry the panel was added to the Crumb Cake oval using the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive and added to the card front on Dimensionals.

Sailing boats for a masculine themed retirement card made with Stampin' Up! products

www.crafty-rootes.com – Smooth Sailing dies and Sailing Home stamp set makes a cute reirement card

The boats were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and die cut using the Smooth Sailing dies. They were coloured in using Blends Markers. The boats were added to the oval with the liquid glue.

Sailing boats for a masculine themed retirement card made with Stampin' Up! products

www.crafty-rootes.com – Smooth Sailing dies and Sailing Home stamp set makes a cute reirement card

The sentiment from the Itty Bitty Greeting stamp set was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto the ¼” strip of Whisper White. The strip was trimmed down and the ends flagged before it was glued to the card front.

Sailing boats for a masculine themed retirement card made with Stampin' Up! products

www.crafty-rootes.com – Smooth Sailing dies and Sailing Home stamp set makes a cute reirement card

The Whisper White panel for the inside and the envelope were decorated with a boat.

This would make a fab retirement card.

If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours!  If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one.  To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I love to read what you think of my projects so please do let me know. In line with new Data Protection Legislation (GDPR), by commenting you do so in the knowledge that your name & comment are visible to all who visit this blog and you thereby consent to the use of that personal information for that specific purpose. Please stop by again soon.

Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

Supplies used: