Adirondack Card

Three Cards, One Design – Cape Cod Resilience Fund

Posted on by Lynn Hill

Hi everybody! I am exited to share today’s cards because even though they are all basically the same, they have three completely different looks. This is Day Three of my four (or maybe five) day blog posting project to generate interest in an exclusive set of Cape Cod themed photopolymer stamps.

This isn’t just any stamp set though. Jenn Shurkus, an artist/crafter who lives on Cape Cod, created the stamp set as her contribution to help raise funds for the Cape Cod Resilience Fund. Jenn sent the stamp set to me and asked me, in exchange, to make at least three projects and share them on social media with the opportunity for my viewers to purchase the stamp set for themselves. Each time someone purchases one of these stamp sets Jenn will donate $10 to the CCRF (through July 1, 2020). So, whether you buy the stamp set or simply share this post with your friends who might choose to purchase the set, you are helping to fill the coffers that will give financial assistance to the small businesses of Cape Cod who have been experiencing difficulties due to Covid-19.

Cape Cod Stamp Set ($20 – includes shipping)

I love the Adirondack chairs in Jenn’s stamp set so I decided to make a card featuring them. For each card I placed three Adirondack chairs within the My Favorite Things Tall Tag die. Both chairs in the die set are attached but I snipped them apart to make stamping easier. I aligned the two stamps within the tag die, stamped the image, then moved one of the chair stamps to the top portion of the tag shape and stamped it before cutting the die from my cardstock.

For the first card, I used watercolor paper and stamped with a VersaMark ink pad. I used black embossing powder to give the Adirondack chairs a raised appearance on the surface of the paper. I then dabbed a swatch of Catherine Pooler dye ink in the lid of the stamp pad and added enough water to lighten the ink. I chose Rockin’ Red, Grass Skirt, and Fiesta Blue to dab across the surface to give each chair a colorful background of its own. I then used the background color and swiped my brush across the ink pad undiluted to fill in each Adirondack chair. I got this idea when I saw a watercolor tutorial that Sandy Allnock did on her blog. Hers was much more fluid than mine but I wanted to give the idea a try and I thought this stamp would lend itself well to the technique.

I completed the card by adding a yellow ribbon a the top of the tag and a strip of the same ribbon near the bottom for balance. The background paper is from My Favorite Things Fun in the Sun paper pad. The rainbow sparkle rhinestones by Trinity Stamps came from a goodie bag I received when I participated in Sandy Allnock’s fundraiser for the World Central Kitchen.

For the second card I wanted to give the project more of a Cape Cod feel so I used traditional colors that associate with the air, sea, and shore. I used Memento tuxedo black dye ink to stamp the images and colored the background the same way as the first stamp except this time I used Copic markers (YR01, G00, and BG01). I then used a slightly darker, coordinating tone of Copic marker to fill in each of the chairs (YR02, G02, and B02). I thought these color combinations were much more successful than the colors I had used in the previous card. I added a sentiment from Jenn’s stamp set by stamping a piece of Lawn Fawn Spiffy Sprinkles paper with VersaMark ink and topping it with Ranger white super fine embossing powder. Since I was using the same color of paper for the background of my card I decided to lift the sentiment just a bit with adhesive foam dots. The “explore” metal embellishment came from my long-time stash of embellishments. I think the company was All My Memories. To tell you the truth, the metal piece was stuck to the bottom of my embellishment box and when I saw it I thought it would be fun to use it. The paperclip is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology.

For the third card I again used Memento tuxedo black ink for the stamp and then colored the background of the tag with a rainbow of Copic markers from top to bottom (R01, YR02, Y00, YG11, BG000, B21, V20). I then coordinated the colors of the chairs with a darker shade of the same Copic colors (R05, YR04, Y02, YG63, BG01, B26, V09). The striped background paper is from the Fun in the Sun paper bad by My Favorite Things. I used the “Sunnier days are coming” sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Greeting Mix 1 stamp set. I just love the fonts included in that stamp set. It has lots of fun sentiments too. I propped the sentiment up using foam dots and finished the look with three red enamel dots. I originally had a red border around the tag die but didn’t like the way it looked so I sliced the border off and my trio of cards was finished.

Of the three cards, my favorite is the rainbow-colored card. It makes me think of summer and the sun. I really like the colors in the second card because they are muted and relaxed. The first card, to me, was basically a throw-away but since it was the first attempt at this design I wanted to keep it so that I could check on my design progress as I went along. Which card is your favorite?

Tomorrow I am planning on doing a project “how-to” using Jenn’s Cape Cod stamp set. I haven’t finished it yet but I think it is going to be really fun so I hope you will come back and check it out.

Don’t forget, $10 of the purchase price of Jenn’s Cape Cod stamp set sold between now and July 1, 2020, is being donated to the Cape Cod Resilience Fund. This morning Jenn sent me an email saying that she has already donated over $700 to the fund through the sale of this set of stamps. That is so fantastic! Congratulations Jenn – and hooray for the fund! To visit Jenn’s site click here: https://shurk.us/CCRF.

Products used:

I have attached links where you can buy some of the products used in today’s project. I do happen to be an affiliate of My Favorite Things so if you click to purchase MFT items from my blog I may receive a small residual from your purchase. I am not an affiliate with the other companies and receive no money or products in return for your click; but, I wanted to make it easy for you to purchase any items you might have gotten inspiration for on my post.

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