The Stamp Review Crew: The Open Sea

Welcome to another Stamp Crew Review Blog Hop!  We share our take on a selected stamp set every first and third Monday.  This round we are looking at the masculine set The Open Sea.  This is the first stop from the top, but if you are hopping around in a circle, you have just come from Betty's blog.  She is just so creative!

To kick us off, I started with a Father's Day card.

Following Mix-Ability Challenge #35, I created the interesting textured paper by gluing tissue paper to a card base, then painting with a mixture of blue and white acrylic paint.  To highlight the wrinkles, I brayered with Midnight Muse ink.  I also rubbed the wrinkles lightly with oil pastel crayons for a little more highlighting.  This card uses Sweet Sunday Sketch #206.

Stamps: The Open Sea, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Very Vanilla Core'dinations, Tissue paper; Ink: Marina Mist, Midnight Muse, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso; Accessories: Sweet Sorbet Accessories, Aquapainter, Brayer, Sponge, Adorning Accents edgelits, Bitty Banners framelits, Circles Collection framelits, Big Shot, Acrylic paints, Oil pastel crayons, Sewing machine, Thread, Dimensionals.

Searching around for some 3-D inspiration, I came across some book binding ideas.

I created the covers by adding Epic Day paper to chipboard, after stamping with The Open Sea and World Map images.

After mitering the corners and wrapping and gluing the cover edges, Epic Day paper was also added to the inside of the covers.  I also sponged the edges for an aged look.

I found card stock to be too bulky, so I used vanilla-colored copy paper.  This binding process is called coptic stitch bookbinding. I followed this tutorial.

I have to say, that was pretty fun to make!  It brought me back to my cross-stitch days.

Stamps: The Open Sea, World Map BG; Paper: Epic Day DSP, Chipboard, Copy paper; Ink: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Versamark; Accessories: Linen Thread, Gold EP, Sponge, Needle; Font: Vivaldi.

Come back on Friday; I'm going to have another Open Sea card for the Friday Mashup challenge.  ;)

Make sure you check out the next stop to see what Cindy at Stamps, Paper, and Ink put together with the set.  Her projects are always amazing!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

The complete hop list:

1. Heidi Baks  runningwscissorsstamper.blogspot.com
2. Cindy Beach stampspaperandink.typepad.com/
3. Tanya Boser   tinkerin-in-ink.blogspot.com
4. Mike Funke    stampin-style.typepad.com/
5. Shana Gaff   stressfreestamping.blogspot.com
6. Holly Krautkremer  rubberredneck.typepad.com
7. Yapha Mason   yaphamason.com
8. Mary Rindal   maryrindal.com/ 
9. Dawn Tidd   tiddbitsfromdawn.typepad.com
10. Lisa Young   addinkandstamp.blogspot.com/
11. Kerry Willard Bray  kerrywillardbray.com
12. Paula Wright  paulastamps.blogspot.com/
13. Rita Wright  ritascreations.blogspot.com/
14. Jill Coleman  jillstamps.com/
15. Betty Traciak  kittystamps.blogspot.com