This week the Tea Potters are send cheer Down Under to John, who loves reading and sailing among other things. My card is a mix of two cards: A couple weeks ago Faith, aka PeonySnail, made this cool card with the stack of books for another Tea Party MMTPT787 CC962 Friends by PeonySnail at Splitcoaststampers and I made a similar bg with the sailing ship for a Fan Club card a few years back.
I love Faith's stack of books that she personalized so I borrowed her idea. Found some free clipart of the books and added titles of novels that featured the sea.
I have 10,000 stamps (ok a bit of an exaggeration, but still a LOT) and only one ship and that is really a collage stamp. So I inked the boat and a bit of the surrounding collage elements with the Marvy Marker; masked the ship and then ink blended the sky and water.
Added the navy layer around the bg image and then onto the embossed brown panel and it's done. I really wanted the sentiment "Adventure Awaits" on the ship panel but no matter where I placed it, it looked off balance. So it ended up on the page of the bottom book.
For all my font buddies on this site, I used the following in order from top to bottom: Baskerville Old Face, Apple Braille. Verdana, Bernard MT, Corsiva Hebrew, Our Farmhouse and the sentiment is Dutch & Harley.
This week's Gallery is already filled with delightful images of carefree days on the sea. I hope John is transported and uplifted by all these wonderful cards. I Hope your day is carefree too. TFL
Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 GMT Views: 310
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Registered: January 19, 2014 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 90989
Thu, Sep 07, 2023 @ 8:59 AM
Nicely done incorporating boating and books. Love the coloring on the boating portion of the card. Really looks like it is headed in out in the setting sun.
Registered: October 23, 2011 Location: Western, NY Posts: 7505
Thu, Sep 07, 2023 @ 10:42 PM
Amazing and an eye-catcher! You my gal have a way with those fonts on the books. Clever and perfectly done. The inking on the boat BG is fantastic...
Betty
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132003
Fri, Sep 08, 2023 @ 11:46 AM
You did great work with your one boat image! The stack of books is great. I really enjoyed all of Heyerdahl's books that I read, and we even had a KonTiki board game when we were kids.
Registered: June 10, 2011 Location: Canberra, Australia Posts: 7372
Sat, Sep 09, 2023 @ 11:52 PM
Just perfect. Brilliant idea to give the books a nautical title. Very clever indeed. A fabulous was to combine some of John's interests in the same card.
Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83609
Mon, Sep 11, 2023 @ 5:08 AM
Wow, I love that you did sea related books (I have only read 2 of them - shame on me). Great sky and sea and boat too. This captured a bunch of John's loves - something you are so good at. Hugz
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