Simple Saturday Sailing Home card with Waterfront Background Scene Tutorial

Sharing a DL sized Sailing Home card for the sailors today.... 

And here are the step by steps with photos for how I produced the background scene using the fabulous Waterfront stamp set and a bit of ink...

This is also how I created the background scene on the Sailing Home Bridge U Fold card I shared here... for which I had a lot of people contact me for a tutorial... and for which you can find the card tutorial here...

And to finish that card... you just need to change the background scene to this Waterfront version for which I have shared the step by steps below... although if you haven't got Waterfront you could use the masking version described here...

Photo Tutorial for creating the Waterfront Background scene...

Sponge or brayer Balmy Blue all over...

Add Old Olive grasses (Enjoy Life)
NOTE that this step is not required on the Sailing Home Bridge U Fold card version...

Add Old Olive (Waterfront) mountain.... do not re-ink

Stamp shadow mountain to right and up a bit... then re-ink...

Repeat off to right...

Repeat off to left

Repeat behind/ in gaps with Gray Granite...

Stamp partial (Waterfront) fir trees in Shaded Spruce on horizon ( ie do not ink whole tree... just "short"part of top/fir part)

Without reinking, turn tree stamp over and stamp reflected trees... TIP... moving the stamp slightly up and to the left seemed to work best wrt positioning ... where for "up" I mean... using less of the inked stamp height than you do for the original trees

I forgot both of these tips when stamping this panel "at speed" as just for Tutorial photographic purposes!

Repeat across the width...with trees getting taller as you go... 

Partially ink up the Waterfront single line stamp using Sahara Sand... and stamp along the horizon to form the sandy shore... ie place the straightest edge of the line stamp onto the edge of your ink pad...

And voila... your scene is set...