Canopy Crafts: high tide

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Misty Mountain Top PP388

Hi friends! It's another fun week with my pals at The Paper Players. The lovely LeAnne has a beautiful color combination for us to work with...take a look:

Oh my, that field of lavender is gorgeous isn't it? Beautiful colors and I had the idea that I wanted to make some misty mountains with these colors using the Waterfront stamp set--similar to this card from a couple weeks ago. Whenever I need a kickstart of inspiration I always head to Pinterest and a search for "mountain perspective drawing" yielded this fabulous photo and my idea was born:

It took several tries on scrap paper to get the look of the mountains the way that I wanted--dark in the front and fading out in the distance. This really gives depth to the image without adding any extra layers. This is just one panel of cardstock! The front row of mountains is stamped full-strength in Elegant Eggplant--overlapping the mountain image to make the mountain larger. The second row of mountains is full-strength Wisteria Wonder, again overlapping to make it appear larger. The third row is Wisteria Wonder stamped off once and the final row is stamped off twice. Tranquil Tide stamped off once or twice with another image from Waterfront created the forest floor . The trees were stamped full-strength in Tranquil Tide. Finally, I added soaring birds from the High Tide set and a sentiment from Flourishing Phrases both in Elegant Eggplant. The whole front panel is popped up on a thick Whisper White base.

Thanks for peeking in on my card today...I hope you liked it! Be sure to check out the rest of the loveliness over at The Paper Players. My teammates have outdone themselves with LeAnne's colors this week! Perhaps you'll be inspired to play along with us before the challenge closes on Friday, April 13th at Noon (PST). Have a great week!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Elizabeth Stewart

Sunday, July 30, 2017

A Birthday at High Tide - PP355

Hi there, friends! Isn't it amazing how fast we roll back around to Sunday?! The good thing about that though is it's the start of another week with The Paper Players! This time, our wonderful Joanne is hostess for a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge...take a look:

I continue to work my way through my newest SU stamp sets with a new-to-me set...High Tide. I'm not a huge fan of the nautical look but I love all the creative elements in this stamp set. The shoreline that fits right under the lighthouse, the swaying beach grasses, the gorgeous sentiments and those birds! Oh my, what's not to love? Oh yeah, and it's photopolymer (clear) too...bonus! For the Tic-Tac-Toe board I worked diagonally with blue, enamel dots, and birthday.

I've seen a lot of cards made with this stamp set that feature a sandy shoreline for the lighthouse. Since this card is destined for my FIL, I needed to give it a grassy base...just like the Cana Island Lighthouse they see from their front window on the shores of Lake Michigan. I've stamped the lighthouse to look like the Cana Island one too which is all white. The Smoky Slate color is similar--it could be a white lighthouse shaded with the setting sun. The lighthouse is a two-step stamp and I used Smoky Slate for both layers.

You might remember a tip I shared in this post about using the backside of our photopolymer stamps for a solid image. I used that technique again here to stamp the background of the water in Marina Mist ink and the ripples of water in a darker Dapper Denim. It adds a fabulous depth and dimension to the water.

On the inside, I stamped a setting sun over the water. The water is stamped again in Marina Mist--this time using the "right side" of the stamp. The sun and sun rays are also part of this set and stamped here in Crushed Curry. Love that this triangle stamp can be used either as a beam of light (as on the front of the card) or for a ray of sunshine! The birthday sentiment is from another stamp set--Best Birds--in my stash.

I made a second card with a Very Vanilla base (love that new thick vanilla cardstock!) and changed the inside for a different purpose. The sentiments in this set really are wonderful--with a trendy look of mixed fonts and heartfelt thoughts.

I hope you've enjoyed today's card. We would love for you to play along with us at The Paper Players. Be sure to check out all the other inspiration from my teammates and then play along before our challenge ends on Friday, August 3rd at Noon (EST).