I've made another for Rebecca's Hope Floats challenge and this is also for Sabrina's Ways to Use It Challenge-symbols of hope. I started by stamping my ship image (which is larger than this) and then stamping my frame over it. I thought I'd just carefully place the sentiment to cover the excess image, but ended up cutting the frame out and layering it over a piece of work surface protector "dp" which has a bunch of spritzed and sponged stuff. I used ink pooled in pad lids to watercolor my image and frame. I used a grey marker around the frame to give more depth. My sentiment was stamped then punched. I then stamped off the anchor image and stamped it faintly (thought I was going to have a die cut anchor also, but it got excluded in the end...I probably have 3 more cards worth of elements on the "reject pile") I used a black marker along the edges of the punched piece and popped it for more definition. Added my metal corner pieces and layered on some blue and a black base and called it done.
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Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014 GMT Views: 1331
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131453
Thu, Oct 02, 2014 @ 3:01 PM
This is wonderful, Gail! The colours in it are really beautiful, I love that blue with the neutral tones. The route frame is so perfect for the ship image, and your worktop-saver background looks quite amazing. I'll be sure to come back and look at it tomorrow on a larger screen so I can admire it properly.
Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31084
Thu, Oct 02, 2014 @ 3:29 PM
Gail, this turned out quite stunning, I must say! Your work surface dp looks amazing! Maybe I should start saving mine, but somehow I just don't think it would look this nice! Beautifully colored sea and sky~
------------------------------ ~Roberta
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Registered: December 26, 2005 Location: Highland, Utah Posts: 1921
Thu, Oct 02, 2014 @ 6:37 PM
Your card and accents are wonderful and greatly executed. I really like the fact that you reused your paper as a background. Why didn't I think of that? Love the metal corner accent pieces, too.