Darkroom Door Surfboards Stamp - Bizzy Becs DT

Hi there everyone, where does time go? Now the 15th, so halfway through month - that means a Design Team post. 😊

Today I'm sharing another card with a Darkroom Door Surfboard Photo Stamp .. do love these great red etched cling foam mounted stamp. May use them in stamping tools like a Misti although really after you've stamped off once, and have re-inked well, they stamp well.

Here is peek of my card... loved the result, like a lot of cards I had some ideas and these governed the way it took shape.

As planned on water colouring part of it, stamped about four images in mixture of waterproof Archival inks, Jet Black, Sepia + deep blue - Cobalt. Stamped one in just Cobalt, which used for main image then the others were in mixture of black, sepia and blue swiped over the stamp.
Next chose Cobalt inked image to do the sky + sand. Used a mixture of Distress Ink pads, on the sky and sea, Salty Ocean, Denim Blue, Stormy sky. For sand - used Antique Linen, Mustard seed, + little vintage photo, especially around all the corners of the image, to give it depth of field to the image.

Intended to 3D the Surfboards. As many of you know I live by the beach here, and see fair few surfboards, so when saw all cards made with this image were mostly beige surfboards I was puzzled. Mostly they've some sort of colour on it, but there are quite a few neutral ones too. Anyway these were calling for colour 😊 So that's why they have some!

Added the cut out Surfboards, shaped then glued with silicone, and front two were added on top of first lot. Once it was dry, I added glossy accents to the Surfboards, they looked like the real thing then.
I really loved this image, it was so much fun to play with it. To finish the image I dusted it lightly around the edges with DI Vintage Photo, to age the edge of card which was stark white. Then took a snippet of DP with sea words on it in lovely turquoise colour.

The corners are cut out pieces from a discontinued set from Cuttlebug called Vintage corners. I've cut the die cut done to make photo corners, as shown in image.

Stamped the Happy Birthday with Lawn Fawn stamp Set -  "So much to say" on cream card in Onyx Black Versafine Pigment ink pad, and clear embossed. Hand cut a greeting banner and backed in black card.
Wanted to make a gatefold card. Was going to do it in usual portrait style, but  the image was landscape - so made it landscape. Embossed a sheet cream, similar to greeting banner, with a favourite folder for male cards, Sizzix Dot Matrix embossing folder. Needed to extend my embossing folder - to see how to do it, look here. This was smooched with Distress ink Antique Linen, use this colour a lot. Then took a snippet of turquoise and embossed it with large embossing folder, by Embossaliscious Swirls folder. Added it to bottom and then top added image. Three black small brads on the side finished the card off.

To close here are photos from Oz yesterday, seen on our icecream drive.
 It was hot here, 39C yesterday, over 100 F, but thankfully it's cooler today and last night's storm (you can see the beginning of it in the second photo, top right) really helped.

 

Seaside summery sunset by my brother in law.

If you have time, would really appreciate a comment on my DT post here - thank YOU! 

Well, that's it for today... dont forget to pop over and join in Bec's Anything Goes January challenge .. you might win the prize :D

May the LORD bless you and those you love, wherever you might be. Thanks so much for popping over for a peek and a chat. 

Shaz in Oz.x

"Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:" Psalm 103:1, 2

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