I was excited to be able to play with the new Beach Babe stamps from Rogue Redhead Designs - especially creating a card based around the sailboat stamp since sailing is such a part of our summers. It's one of my husband's favorite pastimes. My stamped circle is colored with watercolors, but my favorite and quite serendipitous part of this card is the background stamp. Shar created a cool sandy beach texture stamp, but if you color the stamp with a watercolor crayon, spray it with water and then stamp it onto watercolor paper you achieve a background that looks like splashed water - how cool is that! A perfect fit with a sailboat!Here's the background stamp just inked and stamped:
And here's how different the look is by using the watercolor crayon technique:
Check out the RRD blog for more information and samples using the new release (and it's even available at a discounted price until September 6th!)
Cool card, Penny! What a great idea for a guy's card. Love the colors too.
ReplyDeleteHi Penny
ReplyDeleteI left a comment at RRD but wanted to leave a comment here to say that your card has such elegance.
Love the texture you created for the background.
Wishes
Lynne
Great technique, Penny, and such a pretty card!
ReplyDeleteI love that card!! Your waterstamping is amazing too!
ReplyDeleteOh, thanks for sharing, friend, it's a great idea :-) The card look gorgeous!
ReplyDeletebeautifull, with the water and the boot, just beautifull. have a great day, love janine
ReplyDeletelove your card!
ReplyDeleteLove what you did with the background! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Off to look at the new stamps now,
ReplyDeleteLucy x