Stampin’ Up Lighthouse Sunset

This anniversary card features the Stampin’ Up High Tide stamp set.  My inspiration came from this great video tutorial by Tina Zinck–I just changed up some of the ink colors to utilize what I had on hand.

For the sky, I used Stampin’ Up Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry, Cajun Craze, Night of Navy, Basic Black and Ranger Archival Sunflower inks.

The lighthouse was stamped in Stampin’ Up Basic Black and Cherry Cobbler inks.  I used  Stampin’ Up Basic Black for the birds and Stampin’ Up Tip Top Taupe and Sahara Sand for the rocks. I heat embossed the rock section before coloring in the water with Stampin’ Up Night of Navy.  The water ripples were stamped with Colorbox Frost White pigment ink.

I created a reverse mask with the mountain die from Elizabeth Craft Designs’ Pop-It Up Western Edges and used Stampin’ Up Basic Black and a blending tool to “color in” the mountains in the background.

A piece of red and white baker’s twine finished off the panel which was then adhered to a red 5-1/2″ by 4-1/4″ card blank.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and will give it a try for yourself!

 

Watercolor Lighthouse

Watercolor Lighthouse Card

The main focal image was created with stamps from Art Impressions Watercolor Series and was colored with a combination of Marvy LePlume and Tombow markers on watercolor paper.  I used Spellbinders dies to cut a circle around the image and then adhered that to a slightly larger circle of dark brown cardstock.

I embossed a 4-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ piece of kraft cardstock with the Tim Holtz Texture Fade Woodgrain embossing folder.  I then used the direct to paper method to highlight the raised edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I adhered the focal image to this piece with foam tape, then adhered the Happy Birthday die-cut below the image with Tombow Adhesive Dots.  This entire piece was adhered to a 5″ x 7″ dark brown card base.

I attached a 4-1/2″ x 1-1/4″ piece of gold Magic Mesh below the embossed piece.  Then adhered a twine bow with a glue dot centered on the Magic Mesh.

Products Used:

Art Impressions Lg Lighthouse 12726

Art Impressions Cliff H2725

Art Impressions Fence F2719

Art Impressions Teeny Tiny Grass AAA1374

Art Impressions Jumbo Grass D3010

Art Impressions Lg. Foliage D1733

Stampscapes Gulls 302A

Elizabeth Craft Designs Happy Birthday Stand Up Helper die 937

Tim Holtz Texture Fade Woodgrain Embossing Folder 656644

Magic Mesh

Twine

Watercolor Paper

Tombow Markers

Marvy LePlume II Markers

(Lighthouse, cliff, and fence are from Art Impressions WC EZ Project B set.  Teeny tiny grass, jumbo grass, and large foliage are from Art Impressions Foliage Set 4051.)

Art Impressions has a wonderful tutorial on creating and coloring this project here on their uTube channel (project #3).