Today's card is small, compact and includes lots of my favourite elements. I love creating a pattern and stamping with ink that matches the cardstock. The background is a series of Night of Navy compass images all lined up in a grid on Night of Navy card. Admitedly, the majority of the images are hidden by the additional layers, but I love the way the compass image breaks up the Night of Navy border. Stamping this way is a great alternative to using Designer Series Paper (although I do love using DSP for backgrounds too).
Stitched edged elements are my absolute favourite, and I am so pleased that we now have so many dies that feature stitched edges. The Stitched Shapes were, I think, the first ones to be introduced and they are definitely my most used. I have teamed them up with the stitched label from the Smooth Sailing dies into which the 1 1/2" circle punch nests wonderfully.
Another thing that I have done lots of recently is to use a range of shades of the same colour. By stamping off on to scrap paper before stamping the actual image on your project you can create a series of shades that fade progressively lighter. Beautiful ombre effects can be created with just ink pad - so versatile! The faded lighthouse image was stamped off first.
The final piece of the jigsaw for today's card is to use the coordinating elements from the suite. The bakers twine is a mixture of Night of Navy and Sahara Sand, which prompted me to use these colours for the card base and layers. The trinkets are adorable - the pack contains both anchors and ship's wheels - and they finish of the card so well.
So, by combining some of my favourite crafting ingredients I created this square card - it measures 9.9cm x 9.9cm. This size card is actually another favourite of mine - and you can make three bases from one sheet of A4 card!
I hope you like today's nautical themed card. If you want to purchase the items used for this card, or any other supplies, please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.
As always, happy crafting,
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