Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Lighthouse It's Your Day

Hello, everybody!  Today I'm sharing a lighthouse card that I made for Brian's sister.  She adores lighthouses so I think she'll like it. 


This peaceful image is a precoloured digital from Doodle Pantry, but sadly they are no longer in business. I die-cut the image with a cross-stitched tag and then hand-cut black cardstock to use as a matte. I decided to create an extension of the lighthouse scene as the background. Using a handmade cloud stencil, I sponged some Hero Arts Unicorn ink. I masked off the cloud area and inked the ocean with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. It didn't show up very well so I drew a line to represent the ocean, sort of continuing it from the image on the tag. I die-cut the grass from green cardstock and stamped the sentiment.

I would like to support these fun challenges: Cardz TV 60 AG 2/3; Crafty Creations AG 2/2; Crafty Friends AG 2/3; Creatalicious AG Optional Under the Sea UE; Creative Craft Cottage No Patterned Paper 2/3; Creative Fingers AG 2/3; Crop Stop Link Party 42 (Distress Inks can be purchased at Crop Stop here) 4/5; Die Cuttin' Diva's Birthday Wishes 1/3; DL.ARTAugust AG Linky 1/d; Double Trouble (1) Dog Days of Summer (I like to go to the ocean to cool off in the summer) and (2) link up to heARTful Stamping challenge 1/4; heARTful Stamping Dog Days of Summer 2/2; Jo's Scrap Shack AG 2/3; Mod Squad Water Element 2/3; Pammie's Inky Pinkies AG 2/3; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Distress It 3/5; STAMPlorations Summer TAGplorations UE; Through the Craft Room Door AG 1/2; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment wk2 4/5



Thank you for looking at my card! Wishing you a joyful day!

25 comments:

Gail said...

A wonderful make here - I have to see if I have that pre-colored doodle pantry image in my stash - this layout is beautiful! TFS

Linda Simpson said...

Gorgeous, love the design and wonderful lighthouse.
Hugs
Linda xxx

Esther Asbury said...

Such a beautiful card! Love the way the background goes along with the scene in the tag! Gorgeous design! Thanks so much for linking up to the Cropstop blog with this!

Bunny said...

Beautiful tag card. Love the beautiful blue background. [Bunny]

jimlynn said...

It's beautiful and I love the way you continued the scene in the background too. I LOVE lighthouses and sadly have never seen one! One of these days maybe I will though. Love your card.
Lynn

Scrapper69 said...

Ooh, how pretty! What a beautiful image/Card!

Theresa

KraftyKoolKat said...

So gorgeous Kitty & very peaceful looking.
Hugs
Cathy
xxxx

cotnob said...

A super card, such a lovely image and fabulous background scene.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
x

Verna Angerhofer said...

That is awesome. What a great scene with the lighthouse image.

Liz said...

Great design, Kitty. I love how you've extended the scene with the background. xx

Lisa Lynn said...

Kitty this is gorgeous! Love your scene.

debby4000 said...

Fabulous Lighthouse card, love how you matched the sea line with the tag.
Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
luv
Debby

Hetty said...

Such beautiful coloring, Kitty and what a great card.
i am sure she will love it!

Donna said...

What a stunning light house card, I'm sure she will like it! You can't go wrong with lighthouses!

papercraftingprincess said...

I really like how you did the background, it really accents the lighthouse tag.
Thanks for joining us at Double Trouble.

Lisa said...

Absolutely stunning!! I love the gorgeous lighthouse!! It's such a beautiful scene!! The background is fabulous, too!! Love, love it!! Have a great day!! Big hugs :)

Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts

Evelyn said...

I love how you continued the grass, sea, and sky from the pre-colored image onto your background!

Thank you for joining us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week!
Evelyn
http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Oooohhh... It's delightful, Kitty! Such clever idea you had! LOVE the extension of the lighthouse scene on the tag, your card remembers me a hall painting, I'm sure that also Brian's sister will LOVE it!! The puffy clouds are so sweet!!

(AJ) ArtJypsy said...

Fabulous make. Love the lighthouse and CAS approach. Thanks for playing along with us this week at Jo's Fun Friday. AJ DT JSS

Suzanne Reynolds said...

Great job in creating another background for your lovely pre-colored tag. Very cool card. Thanks again for sharing with us at Double Trouble.

Donna Ellis said...

Kitty, what a magical design idea to use a precolored digital (in a tag) and have it flow with cardstock in the background! Your scene is fabulous Never would I have considered doing that, and it is ESPECIALLY EYE CATCHING with the white and black frame. Lovely creation! Wishing you a great week-end! hugs, de

Fikreta said...

Its so nice card!
hugs

Melanie R said...


Great idea to match the pre-colored image with your own background. Excellent card! Thank you for joining us at the Double Trouble Challenge.

pst said...

Great card, thanks for sharing your creation with us at Crafty Friends, we hope to see you back again.

Kate 'Rijacki' Ledum said...

Gorgeous make!

Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to seeing you again next challenge.
Regards,
Rijacki

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