Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts

Sunday, August 6, 2017

I Brake for...Crabs!

Hello, Sunday Readers!

I am SO excited today!!! Our very own Design Team Member, Renee, designed a line of stamps for I Brake For Stamps and today is the first day I get to share one of my cards using her designs! Renee actually designed two different sets.

The "Animals Complete Set" contains 22 stamps, a cow, a tiger, a hippo with a bird, a sheep, and a dog. All of them have associated sentiments and each one is cuter than the other. The dog set has several additional stamps to accent it. The "Sea Critters Complete Set" comes with 14 stamps, a crab, a whale, a turtle, and an otter. All of these critters come with several sentiments to accent the figures.

You can buy each complete set and get EVERYTHING that comes with it, or if you prefer, you can order the animals a 'la carte. Each individually purchased animal comes with their related sentiments. Either way, you purchase you can't go wrong with these super cute sets.

I have the Sea Critters set and have created today's card with it, next week I will be sharing another card I made with the turtle in the set. I can not wait to get the Animals set!


One of the great aspects of Renee's sets is the line weights, she used thick and heavy lines. Thick lines are especially great for people who are first learning to use alcohol based markers, like Copics, and to help further this effort her animals have large areas in them which REALLY makes them friendly for learning to blend markers. While they are VERY friendly for those first learning, they are also an incredible amount of fun for those who are more experienced.

As you can see in the image of the rubber stamp, part of the background of the sand is included, I extended those lines to the edge of my card panel with a Copic Multiliner. Again, the thick line weight made this task a dream as I didn't have to worry overly much on keeping a clean looking thin line.

I finished this card off with embossing the sentiment in copper embossing powder. Here is a more clear picture of it:


Amazing additions, like Renee's recent release, is just one of the many aspects of I Brake For Stamps amazing service. They have SO many fabulous stamps to choose from, they also offer a quick turn around and very reasonable flat rate shipping!








Saturday, July 29, 2017

I Brake for Sea Critters!!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing two cards made with my brand new set of stamps available over at I Brake for Stamps!

We've been sneak previewing them on Facebook all week but in case you missed it...they're here!!

These are my first attempt at stamp design and I hope you like them!!


There are 4 images (Sea Turtle, Otter, Whale and Crab) and 10 sentiments.
I just love animals and cute little verses and puns to go along with them.
Hope you do to!



I have two new sets.  This one and another called ANIMALS.


A lot of the verses can work together for an inside/outside deal on a card.


My second card features the little crab and two more verses from the set.




The Beachy Keen sentiment will work with any of the images.




Wednesday, July 26, 2017

I Brake For...Joe Surfer!!!!

Hello stamping friends! Nancy here today and  I have a real hunky card for you!!!  Take a look at this guy!



This hunky guy is called Joe Surfer and can be found on the I Brake For Stamps store here.

  He is also one of the many Humorous Seniors stamps available at IBFS.  You can see the entire senior collection here. 

Don't you just want to see him on your local beach!!   I stamped him in Memento ink and colored with copics.  I built a little scene behind him with a pierced circle sponged with some distress inks and added the sand with a curved border die.  Since I live in Florida I tend to have a lot of beachy type paper packs which sometimes will include a few stickers - I've added those along the left side.


I hope you will hop on over to the IBFS site to take a look at all the stamps available.

Thanks for stopping by today!


Saturday, September 6, 2014

I Brake For Hula Girls!

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I'm sharing a super fun birthday card with you!
I LOVE this gal!
Her name is Ghost of Hulas Past 

On the front I used the verse called Go Bra-less.


On the inside I used The Secret and
Happy Birthday (to you!) from Every Day Phrases.




Happy Hula-ing to you this weekend!





Saturday, July 12, 2014

I Brake For Longfellow and Lighthouses!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing a friendship card with you.  It's not secret that I love lighthouses.  I own several different ones from I Brake For Stamps.  This particular one comes in two sizes (I've used the smaller one) and it's called SMALL CAPE HATTERAS.


The verse I paired it with is called HEART OF A FRIEND.
I thought it was such a pretty quote (from Longfellow) and that it went well with the lighthouse.


I always like using some sort of rope or hemp on a nautical card.





Saturday, May 24, 2014

I Brake For Beach Weddings!

Hello and Happy Saturday!

As you're reading this I'm in sunny (HOT) Florida!
My wonderful Sister-in-law is getting married TODAY!!

She's having an outdoor wedding and her color is aqua so this is the card I created for her.

My verse from I Brake For Stamps is called HOLD ONTO EACH OTHER.
Although it's not a wedding specific verse I really liked it for a wedding card.  This is her second marriage.  She lost the love of her life, her high school sweetheart after 32 yrs. together to a heart attack about 7 yrs. ago.  We're thrilled that she's found love again!


On the inside I used Congratulations from EVERY DAY PHRASES.



Saturday, July 20, 2013

I Brake For Hot Flashes!

Hello everyone! 

Today I'm sharing a really funny card with you.  I Brake For Stamps has a very funny line of stamps called Humorous Seniors.  There are a bunch of equally entertaining verses to go along with them.  On my card I used Sunning Sadie.  She's enjoying a little shade under the palm tree while trying to get through another Hot Flash


The verse inside is from Half Sheet #052.




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Saturday, June 15, 2013

I Brake For Beach Themes!

Hello everyone!
Today I'm sharing my dad's Father's Day Card.
This image is just so versatile! (It's called CRAB SURPRISE)
I purchased it with my friend's sister-in-law in mind. She lives in N.C. and has a beach house. 
My friend is always asking for birthday or thank you cards for her.  My dad is a big time "cruise/beach" person though so I thought it would work good for him too!



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Saturday, March 30, 2013

I Brake For Beautiful Lighthouses!

Hello everyone.
 Today I'm sharing a sympathy card with you. I sell a lot of my cards and take orders locally. My second biggest request behind birthdays are sympathy cards. I sold 3 last week and when my sister called for one she was upset to learn that she had missed out on this one.  I'll make her another one of course but I couldn't get it done in time for the person she wanted when she called.

The beautiful image is from I Brake For Stamps and it's called LARGE LIGHTHOUSE.
I colored it with Copics.  Since there's minimal coloring with this image and it's so large this card came together very quickly...always a plus.



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