The basic sketch was a circle with a vertical panel behind it. I chose to step it up a notch and use the triple time stamping technique where you lay all your pieces out on your card's front panel (except the dark blue borders), then stamp and sponge your images. Afterwards, reassemble you front panel with the dark blue borders behind the vertical panel and circle so the images lined up.
I created the image by tearing Post-It Notes so that the sticky edge was on the part I wanted to use as my template for sponging the water/beach edge. I used two sticky sheets that I had taped together since my card in landscape mode was wider than a single Post-It Note. I sponged the entire area above the Post-It mask blue lightly with Marina Mist, then placed another Post-It to create the water/sky line(and to protect the "Sky") as I continued to sponge with the light blue ink to make the water a deeper blue. The beach was created by sponging Crumb Cake after removing the bottom Post-It. I just carefully sponged near the water's edge without another Post-It to protect the "water".
As soon as I saw this week's sketch that had the right-pointing arrows, I couldn't get the Wetlands stamp set's line of waterbirds out of my mind; so that's what inspired me to come up with this design.
Date: Monday, August 1, 2016 GMT Views: 2604
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Mon, Aug 01, 2016 @ 1:12 PM
This is fabulous! You did a fantastic job using post-it-notes to sponge this serene beach scene. Thanks so much for joining us at Sunday Stamps! Happy stamping!