Faux Stitches in Sailor Blue

 Ahoy, Blogging Mateys! lol I'm feeling a bit full of myself today. That Beta storm is gone from my area, finally! Sadly, the usual places in Houston flooded with a vengeance. I would not live there if you paid me to. It was fun in 1978-83 when I was young and single and there was much less concrete. I'm keeping Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi in my prayers as Beta moves on.

And another reason I'm feeling chipper is, I'm posting my entry for the current Sunday Postcard Art theme! On time! Not late! This week the theme was chosen by my old online friend Marion Bockelman (bockel24) and it's Faux Stitches. I used more of the deli paper stitched clouds I die cut the other day.

The story on this postcard is only that you'll likely be seeing a few more ships from me in the coming months. I stamped and die cut several ships and have a little box I need to use up now. The stamped ones are all fussy cut so that means they gonna get used, lol. I'd die cut these Impression Obsession sailboats, actually cut 2 sets of the trio dies. I thought they would go great with the Flair waves paper that was originally 12x12 scrapbooking paper from wayyyy back. And I bought tons of this paper as well as tons of fishies papers. This was when I'd fall in love with a sheet and buy up a bunch. Still struggle with the urge to this day and it's truly dumb.

  

    

I added a sky stamped with a Technique Junkies Van Gogh stamp and then adhered the Poppy Stamps Whittle Cloud stitched die cut deli paper cloud up top. I used a blue Sakura metallic gel pen on the cloud outline and a lighter blue Sakura Glaze gel pen on the stitches. Had to, because it was down right invisible otherwise. It looks super cool in real life.

Okay, so while this would be great on its own as framed wall art, I decided to use it on a greeting card. I am always needing guy cards and this made into quite a nice one. The sentiment is computer-generated and I made 2 of them. The other one is longer so I may use it with the other set of sailboats in a landscape orientation and a different sky. 

I cut a A7 card base out of Recollections card stock and added another different scrap of very old Flair patterned paper to mat my post card art. Then it was all just a matter of adhering the postcard and then the sentiment which is cut with a Lawn Fawn Everyday Banner die.

A ridiculously simple card but one that packs a huge color punch, I think. I love it.

For the inside, still more patterned paper scraps. I haven't decided who this will go to, so I will add sentiments then.

  

You can see the cool paper that I used for the card front mat here on the back. I used a siggie from a new Hero Arts Stamp and Die set and stuck it on a punched circle leftover from something, with a little of the waves paper behind it.

That's all for now. Thanks for docking at my pier and I hope your day goes swimmingly! {HeeHee}

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1. Sunday Postcard Art: Faux Stitches -- faux stitches on the clouds

2. Try it on Tuesday: Use Your Scraps

3. Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #107: Man Cave  

4. Outlawz Festive Fridays 9/18-10/1 -- Monochrome or Anything Goes themes

5. The Male Room #142: Travel  

6. Classic Design #9: AAG  

7.  MAWTT #122: Create a Scene

8.  TTCRD for 9/22-9/29: AAG

9.  Crafty Calendar Sept. Challenge: AAG

10. Use Your Stuff #406: Sports

11.Arty Divas #29: ATG

12. Aud Sentiments #260: Sentiment + AG

13. The Creative Crafters #32: AG