Sea You Soon

Hi. Design team member Koren Wiskman here. I hope that I can inspire you to create something fun with all of these awesome T4TD supplies. Today I am using the Time for Tea Designs Boat Buddies Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies to create this project. My favorite place in America is Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina. My parents are lucky to live only a short drive away from it. I however live 400 miles away. So, I made this card in hopes that I will see it again soon. Oh yeah, and it lights up! If you press gently on the rocks below the lighthouse, the EZ Lights will turn on. 

The card size is A2 (4.25in x5.5in.) The front panel is cut to 3.25in x 4.75in. This is my favorite size card to create. I have tried so many others but this size is the one that keeps my heart happy. My card bases are typically made using a neutral gray cardstock. These two details about my cards rarely change. 

Background

I started with a piece of heavyweight blueberry colored cardstock. I ink blended some darker blue and black ink towards the top. Clearly, Cape Lookout misses me too. It's pretty dark and gloomy there, according to my card. I punctured a square hole in the ink blended panel exactly where the lighthouse was going to sit. This is where I will mount my EZ Lights underneath. I used a ray of light stencil that I had in my stash to ink blend the light rays coming from the lighthouse. 

I cut the rocks from dark gray cardstock using an abstract background die and I embossed some circles on it. After a little ink blending, it totally looks like rocks! Or at least the best I could do. 

The waves were cut from a wave die using dark teal cardstock. I tried to ink blend white pigment ink on the tops of the waves but it wasn't what I was looking for. So I heat embossed some puffy white embossing powder on the tops of the waves instead. 

The cloud, well, it's just a black cloud with a little white ink blending. 

Focal Image

I stamped the imaged of the lighthouse from the Time for Tea Designs Boat Buddies Stamp Set using black alcohol marker friendly ink. I then added a few lines in the design to make it look more like Cape Lookout. Alcohol markers where used to color the image. I used various dimensions of foam squares to adhere everything in place onto the ink blended panel. 

The Light

The battery and the light are adhered on a second panel mounted with glue dots under the ink blended panel. Strips of foam tape connect the two panels giving the battery and switch the space it needs. 

Sentiment

The sentiment was heat embossed onto black cardstock using white embossing powder. I love that the sentiments have coordinating dies as well in the T4TD Boat Buddies Coordinating Dies. 

I hope that I've inspired you to create something today. Check out the Boat Buddies Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies in the T4TD shop. 

Koren