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Cruising by

With the nautical theme at CYHTP, the travel theme at Inkspirational and an anything goes birthday at https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/ this card works for all 3 challenges. I can’t say it was planned that way initially but it evolved into this.

The EB is an older one from Couture Creations, the stencil and stamp are from Hero Arts and my sentiment is computer generated as I didn’t have what I wanted in my stash. First I did the embossing on a piece of watercolour CS and then I cut it down so it wouldn’t be too big although it is still bigger than a A2 card. I thought I could create a scene in the center but wasn’t sure exactly how until I remembered this stencil. I masked off all the embossed areas and then placed the stencil and sponged through it using inks that were still on the sponges. Then I stamped the sailboat several times to get a decent impression. The seagulls are from Inspired by Stamping and I use this little stamp a lot. I went over the porthole screws with some silver and also did the outer edge the same way. The little screws in each corner had silver added on top of the ink as masking them off was way too fiddly to do. After adding the entire panel to a card front made from Bristol CS I considered it finished.

I’m actually quite pleased with the end result and it is a good way to use this particular folder too. We may see some rain according to the forecast and by the look of the sky it could be an accurate one. We pray for some as it would help things a lot right now.

Thanks for taking a look, it is appreciated.

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  3. Amazing! When I saw the nautical challenge, I knew you would knock it out of the park. You always do this theme so well and you did not disappoint. Love it!

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    1. Thanks. I had planned to stamp some kind of scene in the center until I remembered this stencil. I actually think it works best with the stencil but at the time it was an experiment and I was glad it worked.

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  14. Johanna, even though you ‘intended’ this for the previous Inkspirational challenge, it fits with the current ‘Use Stencils’ challenge, so I’m keeping it in the gallery! Such a wonderful nautical themed card and, of course, the stenciled water and sky really complete the ocean theme. Thank you so much for joining us.
    ~carol

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