Sea Street Card

Today's card features on of my favorite carry-over stamps: Sea Street. I love this happy little octopus and the extra little stamps. I used this card as part of July's stamp club projects. Everyone really loved this card. I can be for a boy or girl and used for many different occasions. It's the perfect all-around card!

• Stamps: Sea Street
• Inks: Coastal Cabana (retired); Real Red; Night of Navy
• Cardstock: Fresh Prints DSP (retired); Whisper White; Night of Navy; Real Red
• Accessories: Denim Washi Tape (not SU)
• Tools: 1" Circle Punch; 1 3/8" Circle Punch

SSINKCC18: Under the Sea

One of my resolutions for the new was to do more card challenges. It's now February 7th and I haven't done a single one. Shame on me!  Thankfully our great friend sent a little challenge out to our demo group to participate this week. I came home from class this morning and knocked this card in 15 minutes!

Orange and turquoise (Tangelo Twist and Coastal Cabana) is not my favorite color combo. Mainly because I am not a huge fan of orange. But that's why the challenge is so great. It made me reevaluate my aversion to certain colors. I own them, why don't I use them more often.

After looking at the colors, I immediately grabbed for my Sea Street stamp set. I envisioned something nautical but in non-nautical colors. Although now the orange is reminding me of life vests... Anyway I grabbed the set, but realized that I needed more texture, more layers, but I didn't want to actually add a ton more paper. Enter the Work of Art stamp. The chevron matched almost perfectly with my piece of Fresh Prints DSP (retired). From there I added the starfish, octopus, and greeting. And topped the card off with a few Bermuda Bay sequins taken off the thread. I just may use this color combo again sometime...

• Stamps: Sea Street; Work of Art
• Inks: Tangelo Twist; Coastal Cabana
• Cardstock: Tangelo Twist; Fresh Prints DSP (retired); Whisper White
• Accessories: Bermuda Bay Sequin Trim
• Tools:

Unite and Excite Swaps: The Rest of the Pretties

We had a great swap time at the Livermore Unite and Excite event on Sunday.  Here are the rest of the great swap cards I received:

Sara Grafton @ 1200 Some Miles

Vinnie Cespedes

Margery Chen

Alicia Valdez

Janet Smith

Deidre Wong

Denise Zachariah

Sarah Camarillo

Patti Mizutani

Paula Frieders

Maria Esther Fennelly @ Maria's Creative Place

Jeannie Barron

Raberta Gannon @ Inkabella Crafts

Carrie Vermazen @ Crafty Carrie

Cary Farruggia @ Cary's On Your Case

Colleen Becker

Sharon Tong-Robinson

Sea Street Non-nautical Colors

Two more cards from Friday night's crafting session.  These two I CASEd directly from the source.  I really enjoyed the design and the non-nautical colors.  Both cards feature paper from the Moonlight DSP stack.  Really loving those color combinations.  And I was excited to use the Sea Street stamp set with something beyond red and blue.

Card #1

Card Inspiration from Creations Habsgirl22

My version

I love how this one turned out.  I CASEd the card, but slightly changed the placement of the pieces, the patterns for the banners, and the octopus ink color.  I love the appearance of water with the Lost Lagoon patterned pattern and the Hello Honey fish add just the right about of visual interest for the octopus.

• Stamps: Sea Street
• Inks: Blackberry Bliss; Hello Honey
• Cardstock: Lost Lagoon; Whisper White; Moonlight DSP
• Accessories:
• Tools: Circle Framelits; Banner Punch

Card #2

Card Inspiration from Natalie Bradley

My version

For my second non-nautical color card, I loved the clean and simple look of the original card so much, I had to CASE it.  I changed up the sentiment and didn't add the background stamped image.  Overall I adore this card.  I love the combo of Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey, and Basic Gray.  Very cute and easy!

• Stamps: Sea Street; Kinda Eclectic
• Inks: Lost Lagoon; Hello Honey
• Cardstock: Whisper White; Moonlight DSP
• Accessories: Basic Gray Twine
• Tools: Banner Punch

Sea Street Classic Nautical

Last Friday I went to our (area demos) monthly crafting night and crafted up a storm.  I ended up only making 6 cards, but I'm really loving those six cards.  Today I'm sharing two card featuring the Sea Street Stamp Set in classic nautical colors.

Card #1

Card Inspiration from Michele Reynolds at Inspiration Ink

My version

I ended up CASEing this one directly.  I loved her design so much, I wanted a card just like it.  I did change the DSP paper as I don't have the Maritime DSP (must rectify with next order!).  And I didn't have her "Happy Day" stamp, so I just wrote "Hi" on my little flag.  Still turned out really nice!

• Stamps: Sea Street
• Inks: Night of Navy; Real Red; Coastal Cabana
• Cardstock: Real Red; Night of Navy; Coastal Cabana; Whisper White; Fresh Prints DSP (retired)
• Accessories:
• Tools: Journaling Pen; Banner Punch

Card #2

The second card was just me playing around with the Fresh Prints DSP stack (still have so much leftover!) and seeing what I could pair with the same classic nautical colors.  I used one of the circle framelits but thought it looked too plain by itself.  Add a starburst framelit layer in a red pattern and suddenly the card is complete!

• Stamps: Sea Street; I Like You
• Inks: Night of Navy; Real Red; Coastal Cabana
• Cardstock: Real Red; Night of Navy; Coastal Cabana; Whisper White; Fresh Prints DSP (retired)
• Accessories:
• Tools: Circle Framelits; Starburst Framelits

CCMC310: Coastal Cabana, Real Red, and Night of Navy

Today's card came from a color inspiration from Create with Connie and Mary.  I realized that my SU Fresh Prints Stack (sadly retired) had two of those colors in the mix.  Score!  I have almost that entire pad left unused so it's nice to break it out once in awhile.

Color Inspiration

My version

Somehow this card ended up being very nautical and I absolutely love it!  I never realized how the Sea Street and Perfect Pennants stamp sets match perfectly for me.  I love that little octopus so much!  After pulling out my ink colors, I started grabbing papers and tools and went to town.  This process of making this card was very organic.  I didn't think too much and yet I'm pleased at how the colors and patterns all flow together.

• Stamps: Sea Street, Perfect Pennants
• Inks: Night of Navy
• Cardstock: Real Red; Fresh Prints DSP (retired), Whisper White
• Accessories:
• Tools: Starburst Framelits