The One with the Cape Lookout Lighthouse

Hello everyone.

Today I have another design team project using Time for Tea Designs products. It features the Boat Buddies Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies. This card lights up when you gently press the rocks below the lightouse. I used Pear Blossom Press EZ Lights, cause they are easy.

If you see anything that inspires you here today. Check out the Time for Tea Designs Blog for more inspirations. You can visit the T4TD shop and use code T4TDKOREN10 for 10% off of your purchase.

Background

I started with a piece of heavyweight blueberry colored cardstock. I ink blended some darker blue and black ink towards the top. Clearly, Cape Lookout misses me too. It's pretty dark and gloomy there, according to my card. I punctured a square hole in the ink blended panel exactly where the lighthouse was going to sit. This is where I will mount my EZ Lights underneath. I used a ray of light stencil that I had in my stash to ink blend the light rays coming from the lighthouse.

I cut the rocks from dark gray cardstock using an abstract background die and I embossed some circles on it. After a little ink blending, it totally looks like rocks! Or at least the best I could do.

The waves were cut from a wave die using dark teal cardstock. I tried to ink blend white pigment ink on the tops of the waves but it wasn't what I was looking for. So I heat embossed some puffy white embossing powder on the tops of the waves instead.

The cloud, well, it's just a black cloud with a little white ink blending.

Focal Image

I stamped the imaged of the lighthouse from the Time for Tea Designs Boat Buddies Stamp Set using black alcohol marker friendly ink. I then added a few lines in the design to make it look more like Cape Lookout. Alcohol markers where used to color the image. I used various dimensions of foam squares to adhere everything in place onto the ink blended panel.

The Light

The battery and the light are adhered on a second panel mounted with glue dots under the ink blended panel. Strips of foam tape connect the two panels giving the battery and switch the space it needs. (CLICK HERE TO SHOP THE LIGHTS)

Sentiment

The sentiment was heat embossed onto black cardstock using white embossing powder. I love that the sentiments have coordinating dies as well in the T4TD Boat Buddies Coordinating Dies.

I hope that I've inspired you to create something today. Check out the Boat Buddies Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies in the T4TD shop.

Koren