Voyage on the seven seas

Hello crafters! Monday morning and of course a new challenge at Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog, this week our challenge is Nautical Nonsense. This can be a lot of different things, anything that has to do with the sea, be inspired by the colours of the sea, sand texture, boats, sea creatures and more.

I made two cards, using a favourite ship stamp from Tim Holtz, stamping on both watercolour and glossy cardstock. I used two of the colouring techniques that I shared in this tutorial.

I love this large stamp and how it looks almost as if the boat is coming out of the card, great perspective. For the first card, I stamped the boat on the smooth side of Ranger's new watercolour cardstock, which is great for detailed stamps, or stamps that have a lot of solid areas like this one. If you stamp a stamp with large solid areas on the rough side of watercolour paper, it picks up a lot of the texture of the paper. I smeared Distress Inks on my craft sheet, misted once with water and picked up with a paint brush. The sky was painted with clean water first. When dry, I added texture to the water with some dry-brushing.

The sentiment was white embossed on the hull of the boat and I splattered white Dylusions mist on the water and the boat, as water droplets. The sky and water was stamped with a boat ticket stamp, using Salty Ocean ink. I held the cling stamp in my hand and also stamped on a piece of scrap paper first, to get a worn and random impression.

 

The watercolour panel was mounted on navy blue kraft-core cardstock, which was embossed with a wave border folder and stamped. I layered a game piece on a stamped compass and tied a piece of twine around the card.

I love the look of Archival Ink stamped on glossy cardstock, as well as the vibrant look of dye inks on glossy cardstock. If you have never tried using glossy cardstock, I hope you will try it out. I use it for most of my scenic stamping. I coloured it with Distress Inks and a Colorbox Stylus Tool, which gives great precision. You can use any ink-blending tool. For the small areas, I used a Ranger Craft Nib. When using dye ink on glossy cardstock I almost always start with the lightest ink and gradually build up darker colours. This makes it easier for the darker colours to go on smoothly. Place a sticky note as a mask along the horizon line.

Highlights made with a white gel pen can really bring a scene to life. You can see the little dots better on this photo.

I dry-brushed a little bit of Colorbox Frost White pigment ink on parts of the water, especially where boat and water meet, to create the look of mist and foam. For this, I use a q-tip (ear bud) and tap it off on scrap paper first. The sea was splattered with water to create drops, first masking off the boat and sky.

I once used this stamp on Specialty Stamping Paper too, if you want to have a look, you can find it here.

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Thank you for the visit!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:
Surfaces: Ranger: Watercolor Paper, Glossy Cardstock; Tim Holtz Core'dinations Kraft-Core cardstock
Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz: Artful Voyage, Travel Ways, Mini Muse, Warehouse District, Simple Sayings,
Embossing folders: Sizzix: Travels Signs, Diamond Plate & Riveted Metal
Ink: Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass, Evergreen Bough, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans, Black Soot, Gathered Twigs, Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Barn Door, Fired Brick; Archival Ink: Jet Black; Colorbox Frost White
Mist: Dylusions White Linen
Embossing powder: Ranger Seafoam White
Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Game Pieces; twine
Tools: Colorbox Stylus Tool with Oval Blender Tips; Ranger Craft Nibs; Sizzix Big Shot