ICS Blog Hop Guy's Night Out

Hello and welcome to Inspire, Create, & Share's June Blog Hop!  This month's theme is all about the Guys!  If you have landed here by way of Terri Takashige's awesome blog, then thank you for continuing on!  If you started with my blog, make sure you click the next button at the bottom of my post so you can continue on for some more guy card inspiration!

If you have followed my blog at all, you should know that I make a lot of Nautical themed cards so guy card's aren't hard for me at all.  Well today I went nautical with my first card and nuts with my second! lol

I was so happy that the awesome stamp set From Land to Sea was being carried over to the new catalog! Today's card uses a sponged background of a shore, sea, and sunset along with the stamped lighthouse from the awesome stamp set.  You may also notice a little bit of marsh stamped on the left side.  That is from the Wetlands Stamp Set.  Instead of using the window framelit I made a picture window by using the new Nesting Square Framelits.  I am really going to love those new framelits!  I also put a small 1/4" strip of the white between the black cardstock on the bottom of the card and the black from the Neutrals Collection DSP stack on the top of the card.  I used a piece of window sheet inside the window frame so that it really does look like a window.  It's a little difficult to tell in the picture that the window sheet is there.  The sentiment is from the Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set and coordinating Duet Banner Punch.  In case the scene looks familiar, I made a card on an earlier post that was the same sponged and stamped scene.  Lately I have been doing a lot of duplicate scenes when sponging but using them on different cards or in a different way.  If you want to see my original card using this scene click here.

For my second card.. yep, you'll see I really did go nuts and quite messy! 

I started with a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Sahara Sand Cardbase that was scored at 4 1/4".  I punched out some acorns in Sahara Sand Cardstock with my Acorn Builder Punch and then sponged them with Sahara Sand Ink around the edges.  I adhered them with Tombow Multipurpose glue to the front of my cardbase.  I used some Gold Thread to run around my card front three times and knotted it in the middle front.  In the middle I added a Gold Foil Doily and then a 2" circle of Sahara Sand that was also sponged around the edges.  I stamped my Nuts About You Acorn image with Versamark onto Very Vanilla Cardstock and then heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.  I then made some loops with my gold thread onto the front of the circle and kept in place with dimensionals.  I punched out my embossed acorn and placed in the center over the thread and dimensionals.  I thinned out some Tombow Multipurpose Glue with some water and used my aqua painter to splatter some of the thinned out glue onto my card and then sprinkled some Gold Glitter over the glue.  I used a dry brush to brush off the excess.  As you can see quite a bit of it stuck. :)  I added a strand of Gold Sequin Trim in the upper left corner to finish this one off.  So this was a little nutty and a little mess but still super cute I think! 

Next up on the hop is my friend, Megan Thompson, just click the next button to continue on to her blog!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #44 Inspiration with Land and Sea

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  I hope you're week is going good so far!  I always feel once I survive Monday, I'm good to go! lol  Well since today is Tuesday, I'm sure you know it's time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge!  This week we have a Fabulous Inspiration Photo!

I love my nautical cards so I was all about this one!  I wanted to try something a little different this time.  Here's what I came up with!

Yep, I decided to make it a window card and why not make a shaker if you have a window, right?? lol

Tip:  For the Chair Rail, I used a strip of Whisper White Cardstock and scored it on my Score Board to make it look like wooden trim.

Here are the Stampin' Up! products I used:

From Land to Sea stamp Set

A Dozen Thoughts Stamp Set

Hearth & Home Framelits Dies

Night of Navy Cardstock

Coastal Cabana Cardstock (retired)

Real Red Cardstock

Whisper White Cardstock

Nautical Striped DSP (retired)

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Marina Mist Ink

Real Red Ink

Crushed Curry Ink

Mossy Meadow Ink

Metallic Button

Other Products used:

Pretty Pink Posh Sequins

Foam Tape

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

OSAT Blog Hoppers Thank You

Hello!  Hope you are having a wonderful week!  It's so hard to believe this year is almost over!  All of the Bloggers at One Stamp At a Time want to thank you for hopping along with us this year!  We've had some fantastic hops thanks to some super talented Bloggers and it's been a ton of fun!  If you have already been hopping, well then of course you landed here from my friend and partner in crime, Andrea Tracy-Tucker's blog!  Isn't she super talented??  I love Andrea's work!

Here is my card and project for you, I used some of my favorite sets on these... from Land to Sea, Wetlands, and Traveler.  Yep, if you know me at all, you know I LOVE these stamp sets!

I had a hard time photographing the sponging well enough that you can see the colors that I used.  Here's a close up of the card that is a little better.

For my card I started out with a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of Night of Navy cardstock that was scored at 5 1/2" for a top fold card.  I layered on a skinny layer of Real Red cardstock that measured 4 1/8" x 5 3/8".  My top layer was Whisper White and I started by first stamping the Light House from the From Land to Sea set in Real Red.  Once I had the lighthouse in place, I cut some scrap pieces of cardstock to mask off sections for my rolling seaside hills.  I masked both the curves of the hills as well as the lighthouse itself.  I used Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip for the hills. Once I had the hills the way I wanted them, I masked them off to sponge on the water in Lost Lagoon.  I used a straight piece of cardstock to separate the water from the sky.  Once I had the water sponged, I masked the water and sponged the sky.  I started with some Blushing Bride closest to the water, and then Soft Sky.  I sponged some yellow around the lighthouse to represent the rays of light coming from it. At the top section of the sky and on the sides of the sky, I sponged Night of Navy closest to the edge and some tempting turquoise blended into the Soft Sky.  On the bottom of my scene I stamped some Sea Oats from the Wetlands Set in both Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip.  I then tied a piece of 1/2" Real Red Cotton Ribbon across the bottom and tied it in a knot.  My sentiment from the Happy Notes stamp set was stamped in Red Red Ink on Whisper White cardstock and cut out with the Lots of Labels Framelits Dies.  I also cut a larger Lots of Labels Die in Night of Navy for a mat and glued the sentiment on the mat and then adhered the mat with Dimensionals onto the upper right portion of my card. 

I found an awesome little Lighthouse notepad at Michaels that I thought matched my card so well that I decided to make a cover for it to go along with the card as a gift.  The notepad measured 4 x 8" and was 1/4" thick, so my measurements for the cover were 8 3/4"  x 8 1/4".  I scored the 8 3/4" side on my scoreboard at 4 1/4" and 4 1/2".  I used tear tape to adhere my pad to the interior back panel.  I then ran a piece of 1/4" cotton ribbon in Real Red and adhered it to my cover with tear tape on the front as well as the back of the cover.  My Real Red Panel on the front measured 3 3/4 x 7 3/4".  I positioned it in my scoreboard diagonally and scored every 1/2" for some interest to the cover.  Over the Real Red Panel, I made a port hole by using circles cut with my Little B Circles Dies in both Night of Navy and Red Red.  The Little B Circle Dies are super cool in that they can just cut circles or you can use a separate piece to cut the outer circle as well cut the holes inside the circle.   My ship from Traveler was stamped in Night of Navy on Whisper White Cardstock and punched out with a 2 1/2" Circle Punch.  The ship circle was adhered with multipurpose glue onto the Red Circle, and the Red Circle was adhered with dimensionals onto the Night of Navy circle and then glued with Multipurpose Glue onto the Front of the Notepad Cover.  

Here's a look at the inside of the Notepad...

I hope you've enjoyed my projects.  Next up on this hop is my friend Megan Thompson and I know she'll have something awesome to share with you.. she always does!  Just click the next button!

In case you've lost your way, here is a list of all of our talented Bloggers..

1. Ginger
2. Maggie
3. Elizabeth
4. Martie
5. AJ
6. Raquelle
7. Wynne
8. Marisa
9. Justin
10. Renee
11. Dena
12. Andrea Tucker
13.  Tina Riddle - You are here!
14. Megan Thompson
15. Kim Smith
16.  Lori Mueller 

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non Stampin' Up! Products Used:

Little B Circle Dies (Joann's)

Note Pad (Michaels)

Thanks so very much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina