Hello lovelies. I recently purchased the Love Like Jesus stamp set from Erin Lee Creative. It has lots of wonderful sentiments including the Waymaker sentiment. The song Waymaker is one of my favorite Christian songs and I had to have it! The sentiments are large and I wasn't sure which direction I wanted to go. Ultimately, I decided to freehand the scene that you see below. Honestly, it was much easier than I thought and I'm confident that you can do this too!
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My idea was to use my wide mint tape to mask the lower portion of my card panel before ink blending the upper section. I also trimmed out a half sun with the mint tape to mask a sun shape.
I used my Ranger distress oxide inks in Kitsch Flamingo, Fossilized Amber and Carved Pumpkin for my top colors.
Next, I masked off the top section and sun with mint tap and grabbed my Ranger Distress Oxide ink, Prize Ribbon. I decided to swipe my ink across the panel sideways, leaving some white space in the middle where the sunlight would bounce off the water.
Next, I filled in the white space with a little bit of ink blended color using the pink and yellow ink still left on my blender brush.
I also swiped in some white acrylic paint using a flat tipped paintbrush, to make some waves. I had no plan folks, I just swiped from side to side. Sometimes you don't know what you're doing, you just give it your best effort, haha!
To finish my water scene, I felt like I had too much white, so I used the paintbrush to swipe lines using the Prize Ribbon ink. I pressed it onto my craft mat, spritzed with a tiny bit of water, then dipped the tip of my flat paintbrush in the mix and swiped in random places on the ocean. This really helped give a little more depth, I think. Finally, I ink blended the lower corners and sides of my ocean water with Ranger Distress ink in Prize Ribbon, not the oxide. I wanted a little darker look on the outside with lighter water on the inside. Does that make sense? I'm not always the best at explaining what's in my head!
For my sentiment, I initially stamped it with black hybrid ink using my Misti stamp positioner. However, it just wasn't dark enough, even after stamping multiple times. I decided to use clear emboss ink to stamp over my black ink, then did some heat embossing with super fine black Ranger embossing powder. Now, the sentiment really stands out.
I opted not to add any additional embellishment. After all, the sentiment is very large and the star of the show. My background is nothing more than a compliment to those amazing words. Less is more, in this case.
I want to congratulate you for sticking with me through all those details! It probably took me about 30 minutes to complete this card, only because I'm thinking it through as I go. I think you could easily accomplish it in about 20 minutes. Give it a go!
If you'd like to purchase this stamp set or check out the other products that I used, I have convenient affiliate product links provided below at no additional cost to you. Thank you for popping in and I'll see you next time!
Terri
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