I love these red Adirondack chairs on this Anniversary Card On the Waterfront. The card could be for anything, but adding a little red heart to match the chairs makes it into a card for someone special.
I think I decided to use the red chairs, die cut with the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies before I decided on the rest of the card! I love red and I love those chairs! I was envisioning the chairs on the shore of our favorite little lake in Michigan, where it is a lot cooler than here in Houston. I could have sponged in some sand and water, but I got out the Waterfront Stamp Set and used that. I think instead of a lake in Michigan I created a beach in the South Pacific or somewhere!!
This stamp set, Waterfront, is a real sleeper if you ask me. I didn’t even pay much attention to it in the past Occasions Catalog when it came out until I saw what people were stamping with it. It is a tremendous stamp set to use to make yourself look like a true artist!!
The card base is Crumb Cake Cardstock layered with Shimmery White, probably my favorite kind of paper. It is good to use with anything close to watercoloring if you don’t have official Watercolor Paper. You might be able to see the tiny bit of shimmer in my photograph from the paper. Even in person, it is very subtle but when you see it, it is beautiful!
I started by stamping the sand with Crumb Cake ink, stamping off sometimes, other times full strength. The water is Coastal Cabana Ink and the mountains, I think, are Crumb Cake and a bit of Early Espresso. For the sky, I just used my Aqua Painter to paint in some Balmy Blue ink and then added a little yellow and orange to look like a sunset. I also used the Aqua Painter just a little bit on the water and mountains to smooth them out a bit and make it look more watercolored. I really was thrilled with how it all turned out! You can do it, too!!
The little heart is die cut from Stitched Labels Framelits Dies. You could also just cut out a little heart by hand or draw one in the sand! I thought about doing that, too. I didn’t put a greeting on the front, but you could, for whatever occasion.
If you are looking for an interesting stamp set, I would try the Waterfront Photopolymer Stamp Set and just play with it! In fact, you can purchase a set of all the products to make some notecards! It’s called the Waterfront Cards (149037). You get the stamp set, a Clear Block, small note cards, two ink pads, and Nature’s Twine. This Waterfront Stamp Set was designed by a Demonstrator who reached $1 Million in sales!
Try out this stamp set so you can make artistic cards like my Anniversary Card On the Waterfront or these cards that I made previously.