This is a card for today's Sketch Challenge, 155, for a very special friend who has a summer home on Cape Cod. It uses several old, retired stamp sets, but they are among my favorites. Can you guess what the sea turtles are stamped on? It's the lining from the inside of a security envelope! I thought it looked like sunlight reflecting on the bottom of the ocean, or maybe fishing nets. They are embossed with Green Pearl EP, with a sprinkle of Iridescent Ice EP, which gives them a lot of sparkle that doesn't show up well in the scan. The background panel is done in alcohol inks, and overstamped with Old World Map. The seagull on the piling is stamped on a piece of real weathered sea glass. Finally, on the base card, I used a Basic Brown inkpad and simply swiped it direct to paper to create a mottled, sandy looking background. Maybe someday I'll get some real decorative papers, but for the moment I don't have any, and so have to create my own!
Thanks for looking, and Happy Holidays Everyone!
Maddy
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Tue, Jan 01, 2008 @ 10:33 AM
Wow....beautiful!! I don't think you need to buy designer papers.....you need to go into business making them for all the rest of us to buy!! hehehe Great way to do the sea turtles!! Love ya!
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Wed, Jan 02, 2008 @ 3:24 PM
This is so beautiful. You've done a wonderful job with this challenge Maddy.
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Thu, Jan 03, 2008 @ 6:48 AM
Wow! This went straight into my favs. I love the security envelope bg for the turtles. This has so many wonderful elements to it, the Old World Map bg with the Lighthouse, the sea glass (very cool) and the layout.
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OMGosh! Maddy, this is gorgeous! The cut out lighthouse, stamped sea glass, creative base for the turtles, everything is fabulous! I took a break form SCS and now I'm really sorry I did!