Simple for Saturday - Grassy Grove & New Horizons meets Sailing Home...

 

Simple watery scenic perfection... for the sailing fans...

Combining the New Horizons papers... with a Grassy Grove die cut... and finishing off with a Sailing Home yacht... on a Simple Diorama Card 

Made in minutes... and I think this will be a very popular card for many crafters... and recipients... I know...

Card tutorial here...

Maritime Monday - Sail Away Home Card

Quick share today of a card with a maritime theme... using the Come Sail Away papers , Sailing Home stamps & dies bundle... and the Sail Away Trinkets...

Suitable for anyone... but particularly the guys!

Happy Fathers Day.... Sailing Home

So a few tweaks happened to this Sailing Home Bridge U Fold card along the way...

Yachts on acetate... as described in Saturday's post here...  SO SO much better...

Sandy land mass on horizon and lighthouse... looks so much better than more Old Olive green in the original... and done as my husband is a fair weather sailor... so this Waterfront scene is definitely in sunny Greece, Turkey or Croatia! And not the wonderful but wet Lake District... So it has to be sand...

Happy Fathers Day label from Geared Up Garage... as it was there... though personally this is a bit large for the card for me... but it says what it needed to say! And I did do a bit of colouring with my Smoky Slate and Night of Navy Stampin Blends...

Base panel from embossed Balmy Blue too... speeded up the process in class... and looks nearly as good...

Happy Fathers Day Dad!

My father loves his cars... particularly a convertible!

So it just had to be done... call it Geared Up Garage meets Sailing Home meets Waterfront!

Happy Fathers Day Dad!

Click here for how to produce the convertible car version...
Click here for the Bridge U Fold card tutorial...
Click here for the Waterfront Background Scene Tutorial...

And the yachts are stamped onto Window Sheets acetate with Staz On...

And stamped onto white card with Memento, then the sails and hulls coloured using Stampin Blends.... and just the sails and hulls quickly fussy cut

And then stuck onto the acetate version... and then die cut (or fussy cut)

And apologies to you eagle eyed viewers that have spotted my Very Vanilla lighthouse! But I had to finish this card off within minutes... and there just wasn't time for the production of a new lighthouse on white! And I know my Dad wont notice...

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...