Another month and another grid for you to play with over at Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe - #JOSTTT018. I've chosen to do the top row of Nature, Summer and Animals. I started off with the Waterfront set from Stampin Up - nice to see this remaining in the current catalogue. The sun is from an old set Kinda Eclectic and the birds are from Wetlands.
The little sheep and the sentiment are from Clearly Besotted called Kiss Me Quick.
An inspirational challenge for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments - inspired by these lovely images:
Now I don't have any of the lily stamp pads or the flamingos so I really had to think outside the box for this challenge. I took my inspiration from the water and the birds and used Stampin Up's Waterfront and Wetlands for my card.
I used a cloud stencil I have in my stash to make the clouds. All my inks are Tim Holtz Distress Inks. I stamped them mountains and the grass and the watery reflection using Waterfront. I added the ripples from the water from SU High Tide. I then created a waterbank with some of the tufts of grass from Wetlands and stamped and cut out the goose. I just used a water brush to colour in part of the bird just using the ink he'd been stamped with. The sentiment is from Wetlands and I added some linen thread and used a tag framelit.
Our challenge this week for Sweet Stampin is Pirates/Nautical theme. I don't have any pirate type stamps and didn't really fancy doing a punch art card so went with the nautical theme. I decided to try the Retiform Technique as I haven't done that in a while and used two retired Stampin Up sets - High Tide and Wetlands.
For my inks I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Salty Ocean and SU Night of Navy. The retiform technique is quite fun as it can be different everytime you try it. There is a touch of glimmer on the water as I added some Glossy Accents to it to make it shimmer.
