This beachy card is so easy and so fun to make with the Oceanfront stamp set. This was one of those stamp sets that I didn’t think I needed. I live in land-locked Colorado so I don’t get to the ocean much. I’m more of a lake girl (my Minnesota roots). Ha!
But I fell in love with the New Horizons designer paper and saw all sort of cards online that used both this gorgeous paper and the Oceanfront stamp set. It was time to make the purchase.
The Oceanfront stamp set makes it so easy to create a beach scene. There is one stamp for the sky, one stamp for the ocean and one stamp for the sand. On my card I stamped the “sand” three times to give it a little more texture and depth. I used Balmy Blue for the sky, Coastal Cabana for the water and Crumb Cake for the sand. Easy Peasy!
This stamp set is one of Stampin’ Up!’s DistINKtive stamp sets which is why there is so much texture and shading in the water and the sky. Stampin’ Up! sure does make it easy for us to create a lovely scene like this.
Thank you Tracy for the inspiration. The simpleness of this card is what first caught my attention and I knew I wanted to recreate it.
When you compare the two cards you can see that I added a some more of the grasses and left off the sentiment. I also added the birds from the On The Horizon stamp set as I felt the upper portion of the card needed some type of black element on it. I also made my layers slightly smaller. You know me, I don’t handle white space very well. 🙂
Of course looking at this card while writing this in frigid Minnesota (although the weather is actually very mild right now) makes me want to head to the ocean. How about you?
Have a great day! Take care and happy stamping!