By the Tide Birthday

It's Friday!  That means the weekend is beginning, and I'm definitely ready for that! :)  I've also been enjoying the warm weather we've been having here in Michigan.  I hope it will be nice and stick around for a few more weeks since I'd like to enjoy Art Prize in some mild weather.  Here's hoping it's warm toward the end of it when there won't be as many people around (I hope!)  Since it's Friday I also have another card to show you for the Friday Mashup challenge.  This week's fun challenge is from Avery...

Create a project with "Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry & Basic Black". 

Create a project with the "Ink Blowing Technique".  Link to technique here.

or Mash it Up! and create a "Project using the colors above & the Ink Blowing Technique".

I'd say everyone went a little more modern with their cards that I did, but I don't have any stamps to do that.  Instead I pulled out By the Sea and decided to "color" my fish using the blowing technique and put it in the background too.  I did have to put some Crushed Curry behind my fish to make him stand out just a little bit since my colors are kind of dark.  I was happy with how it turned out since I wasn't sure I'd get anything I liked at all! lol

Make sure you head on over to the Friday Mashup HERE to check out the other neat cards for this week's mashup.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Supplies used for this card:

Straw :)

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Masculine One Layer Card

Today's card is a little different than my norm, but it was actually really simple to make.  It's a one layer card, and that's what we need for this week's Friday Mashup challenge.  This week our challenge is from Lisa and here is what it is...

Create a project using a "Nautical Theme".

Create a "One Layer Card".

Or mash it up and create a project with the "One Layer Card with a Nautical Theme".

Since I've used The Open Sea Set so much lately I decided to use By the Tide for my nautical theme.  

Click HERE to check out the other designers' cards on this week's Friday Mashup.  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Walk in the Wild

Card Stock:  Crumb Cake

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Crumb Cake, Soft Suede,

Cherry Cobbler & Night of Navy

Stampin' Write Marker:  Crumb Cake

By the Tide Birthday

Today's card is for my son's 20th birthday.  Wow, where did the years go!  I sure love him though, so I had to make him a special card (I must love a lot of people because it seems like I'm always making special cards. lol).  He's definitely an outdoors man, and enjoys fishing, so I figured some sort of fishing card would be the way to go.  I used this week's Paper Players challenge #173 "Any Shaped Card" to come up with this idea.  It could be any shape except the normal rectangular card so I used the Deco Labels Framelits to make this card's shape.  Instead of layering behind the card to get a dark background I sponged around it instead.  I think that was faster to do than cut and stack the layers to get them to look just right.

I had to take a few close ups so you could see the pieces I cut out to add dimension. :)

When I make a "shaped" card I don't like to have a piece of it missing, so I never fold a piece in half and leave part of the shape off the card.  All you have to do is cut two of the same pieces, score the back piece where you want the card to flip at, and put your adhesive on the top part of the back piece of the card. :)  Here are a couple of pics in case what I wrote doesn't make sense.  I'm definitely a visual person so pics help a lot!  

This is the back of the card and you can see where I scored it and attached it to the front piece of the card.

This is what the inside looks like when you flip it open.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Naturals White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Not Quite Navy, Island Indigo & Garden Green

Framelits:  Deco Labels

Sponges

TSoT - By the Tide

Today's card is my design for this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  I didn't really flip the card, just decided to make it horizontal instead of vertical since it suited the set I was using a little better.  It's also the second masculine card for this month's stamp a stack.  After I figured out all of my cards I realized they are all white with blue or blue and green on them except this one. lol   Yup, it's the odd one out. :) 

Just a few quick stamps on the inside of the card too.  Don't forget to check out what the other designers made HERE, and you can play along too if you'd like. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Soft Suede, Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Soft Suede & Crumb Cake

Sponges

By the Tide Birthday

It's Sunday so it's time for another Red Hot Stampers' sketch challenge card.  Since I need a couple of masculine birthday cards I decided to use By the Tide for this week's sketch.  Don't forget to check out what the other Red Hot Stampers made over at their blog HERE.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  By the Tide

Card Stock:  Early Espresso & Crumb Cake

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Early Espresso & Crumb Cake

Punch:  1" Square

Framelits:  Square Collection

Linen Thread

Sponges

By the Tide Birthday

 Since I have a couple of stamp a stacks coming up next week I figured I'd better get busy planning my cards!  Of course I love to use sketch and color challenges for them, and that's never been more true than this week!  Since I need a couple of masculine cards I thought the colors over at the Colour Q challenge and the sketch at Try Stampin' on Tuesday would be perfect to use with my By the Tide set.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Express Yourself (hostess)

Card Stock:  Early Espresso & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Island Indigo, Pacific Point & Pear Pizzazz

Embossing Folder:  Square Lattice

Framelits:  Ovals Collection

RHSSC - By the Tide

Happy Father's Day!  Not sure how many of you that read this are Father's, but thought I'd send it out just in case. :)  It's also Sunday so you know what that means...another Red Hot Stampers' sketch challenge card.  I haven't used the set By the Tide in a while, so I decided to pull that one out for this week's sketch.  Other than cutting out the fish this was a quick and easy card to make. :)  Don't forget to check out what the other Red Hot Stampers made HERE.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Garden Green, Island Indigo & Very Vanilla

Classic Stamp Pads:  Garden Green & Island Indigo

RHSSC - By the Tide

Well, I've been saying that I needed to use challenges to help me out with my stamp a stack cards for this month, and this card is no exception.  I used my Red Hot Stampers sketch challenge for this card.  I did cheat on the sketch just a little though.  I didn't put four squares on the card...oh no! ;)  Don't forget to check out the other cards made using this sketch challenge.  Just click here. 

I thought I'd take a pic at an angle so you could see that I actually did something on the inside of my card for once! :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Night of Navy, Island Indigo & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Night of Navy, Island Indigo & Baja Breeze

Punches:  1 3/8" Square, 1 1/4" Square & Word Window

Sponges