Nautical theme for Crafty Boots!

Hello everyone - can't believe I had to turn over my calendar's yesterday, April! Scary.

Anyway it means it's time for another challenge over at Crafty Boots and the theme chosen by the lovely Emma is Nautical, so come on, dig out everything and anything you can relate and join in!

For my DT cards (I got carried away so made more than one!) I used one of the new Sheena Douglas stamps 'Destination' and combined it with distress inks, H2O's and Tim Holtz Kraft paper. Boy did I have fun.

 For this first card, I had great fun tearing the stamped image and paper before inking, splashing with water and generally distressing. I used Centura Pearl card for the base and also I used the reverse of it to print background paper on to from the Sheena Douglas Paint Fusion CD and then stamped on to it as it's very good and works well with ink and water. As you can see I painted the sails with the Pearl Blue H2O paint.

This second card is more simple, and was a case of stamping the design and distressing with ink and splattering with water. Again I painted the sails with the pearl Gold H2O. A spot of simple matting and layering finished it off.

Both images were stamped using distress ink and I used a water brush to bleed out some of the lines.

I think both of these cards can be used for any occasion and though I've used masculine colours, I think this stamp could be used for a more feminine card by altering the colours to suit.

I see I've now achieved 100 followers on my blog - wow! Thank you so much, I love sharing my work with you all and reading your comments. To celebrate I will be sorting out some blog candy shortly so keep popping back!

Take care Zo xx