This card was made for Try Stampin' on Tuesday Tic-Tac-Tuesday Challenge #4: https://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com I chose the diagonal that starts in the left lower corner and ends in the top right corner (sun-geometric-tearing).
Last month, Dianne Keough (a TSOT Design Team member) showed us various ways of using paper tearing for our cards. When I saw this week's Tic-Tac-Tuesday challenge, I just knew I wanted to combine two of her methods into a single card - regular paper tearing for the sky in sunrise shades, and paper tearing as masking for sponging to create the water and beach.
I started by creating my geometric sun, and cutting the Stampin' Up! So Saffron circle in half to form the morning dawn as my base, then I used a sequence of Hello Honey through Groovy Guava cardstock to tear increasingly larger arches to surround the sun. I overlaid each arch onto my card base, disregarding the card edges, and glued them one over the top of the other. Once they were all glued in place, I used my paper trimmer to cut the overlapped edges down to size to fit my card base (8-1/2"x 5-1/2" folded in half).
To create the water and beach, I trimmed a piece of Whisper White cardstock to 2-1/2"x 4-1/4" to do my sponging. Then tore a Post-It Note irregularly to be my mask for sponging. For the water, I started at the top of the white piece and sponged SU Island Indigo ink especially heavy on the top edge to form the horizon down to my torn edge. Then moved the Post-It Note down a little, and shifted it to the right before sponging with SU Marina Mist overlapping onto the first blue to blend them together. The third blue was SU Bermuda Bay, again moving the Post-It down and shifting to the left before sponging. The result is the torn edge created the appearance of waves in the water.
To create the beach, I tore another Post-It Note, and turned it around so the torn edge faced toward the bottom of the panel, allowing me to mask off a small area between the blues of the water and a little bit of the white panel to form an un-sponged area to look like the frothing water crashing on the beach. I sponged below the Post-It mask using SU Crumb Cake. Note that the sponging was darker nearest the torn edge. Then moving the Post-It I sponged the rest of the panel, again making the darkest area near the torn edge. This created the appearance of beach sand ripples.
The beach chair is a stamp from the SU "Colorful Seasons" set. I stamped the chair frame with SU Early Espresso, then using my MISTI, I stamped the canvas part of the chair with SU Island Indigo ink. Note the blue "stripes" along the sides of the canvas part. I created this by stamping in blue twice, each slightly offset left and right so that the center of the chair was double stamped (therefore darker), and the two sides were only stamped once (due to shifting the stamp), for a lighter blue.
The birds were stamped using my MISTI in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I knew I would need to re-stamp the birds a number of times because they would be crossing two layers of paper. I ended up stamping them three times to get even inking.
Finally, the sentiment from SU's "High Tide" set was stamped using SU Early Espresso ink.
Because of the more precise paper tearing for the sky, I am rating the difficulty level for this card as a "2" out of "5". To reduce the difficulty, you could create a similar look just doing sponging similar to how I did the beach. But I wanted to see what the effect would be with multiple layers of paper instead of ink.
Date: Saturday, June 16, 2018 GMT Views: 972
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