More Old Meets New – The Open Sea and Sense of Time

Hi Stampers, welcome back.  Today I'm playing with a new stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog called THE OPEN SEA, combined with my Most Favorite Retiring Stamp set, SENSE OF TIME, page 127 of the catalog #113804.

I decided to make a Father's Day Easel card and I'm sure with all the embellishments, it will cost me $5.00 to mail it, but oh well right.

I Stamped the clock first, (without hands), in Crumb Cake, Then added the ship in Chocolate Chip.  I'm using Soft Suede to distress the edges

I used a Q-Tip and the lid of my Not Quite Navy to add a little "water"  – I have a big mess going on in the studio right now and I could't find my blender pen, tee hee….

Next I used another retiring stamp that I have used a lot with my "vintage" style cards, this is a big background stamp called SANDED, #109294 pg 142.  It gives a nice "bent up" vintage feel, without actually bending up!…..I kind of laughed at this point, this now looks like a "dime"

I gold embossed some pieces to use as embellishments, here, I used the fine tip end of my Real Red Marker to color in part of the compass.

Distressed and layed it so it looked like this.

I added two layers of Early Espresso behind the ship, the second I pierced and added gold brads to give the whole thing the look of a "porthole"

My sentiment is from "WORD PLAY" page 147 I stamped one in Night of Navy and one in Cherry Cobbler, cut out and distressed the pieces I needed and layed it.  Added an anchor, and some rope.

Card base is 5 x 5, score at 2.5" and 5", second front piece is 5 inches square, attach at the bottom,

Not quite Navy mat, 4-3/4" on both pieces

Designer paper – Nautical Expedition – 4-1/2" on both pieces.  I used scraps of "First Edition" designer paper as well.

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Ok, time for me to get back to work, catalogs are here, and I'm addressing envelopes…..whoo hoo!…..

Hugs and Happy stamping

Thanks so much for stopping in, hugs and happy stamping