Happy Birthday Dad!
This week's sketch challenge on SCS gave me the opportunity to play with a beautiful new stamp I received from Innovative Stamp Creations. The nature inspired stamps they have are simply beautiful!! I definitely will be picking up the Serenity stamp from the latest release this week - it's just stunning and reminds me so much of the boardwalk up to the beach at my parent's house.
Tomorrow is my father's birthday (and my mother-in-law's - how funny is that?!), so I thought this beautiful stamp would work well for a masculine birthday card. The stamp set is called, Birch Tree Paintings. I stamped the image using on Watercolor paper and used ink pads to color the tree. I sort of forgot when I was coloring that tree was a birch tree - oops. So I took my Fresh Snow & Vintage Cream ink pads and colored over the tree to mute the browns and make it look more birch-bark like. I think it worked pretty well.
Check out the Innovative Stamp Creations blog to see all the lovely samples their design team has made with the newly released stamps - truly inspiring!! :) A huge thanks also to ISC for being such a great supporter and donor to Stamping Around!!
Cardstock: Ripe Avocado (Papertrey Ink), Watercolor paper (SU!), Patterned Paper: Kate Collection (Crate Paper), Stamps: Birch Tree Paintings (Innovative Stamp Creations), sentiment from Father Knows Best (Papertrey Ink), Ink: Stazon, Accessories: Copper brads, aquapainter & ink pads
This is gorgeous, and what a wonderful birthday card for a dad! I will have to check out their stamps !
ReplyDeleteReally nice Julie! Totally looks like a birch tree to me. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteOhh...this is fantastic! Beautiful card and tree...love it!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great card! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHey, Awesome Card!!!
ReplyDeleteI just ordered the berry set we used in CT.
I have been dreaming about that stamp set since I got back.
I have to have it LOL
Hope you are doing well!!
What a pretty card! I like all the embellishments you added -- not too much, not too little -- especially the ones either side of the stamped image.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! At first I thought you used flower soft as it looks so real. :) Love how you used the brads, too.
ReplyDeleteFabulous card Julie! Love that image and the colors. TFS!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful 'manly' card!
ReplyDeletewhat a beautiful card! i love that stamp! thanks for your votes!
ReplyDeleteYour tree looks awesome, Julie!! I love that image, and this is a perfect masculine card!!
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