Double Easel Ocean - Kitchen Sink Stamps

This first Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card is a simple and fun double easel design using images from the newly released Tropical Fish Multi Step Clear Stamps and the Giant Coral & Seahorse Multi Step Clear Stamps. It is easy to make and looks awesome standing up on a table or windowsill.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations - July Challenge - All Creatures Great & Small

Creative Friday - Challenge #260 - Tropical

Cardz 4 Galz - Challenge #126 - Sea Shells



This first view of the card is what it looks like when it is closed and ready to insert in an A2 envelope.

This view is what it looks like standing on any flat surface.

The stamped images were all stamped with Stampin' Up Inks and fussy cut before they were attached to the card. The color recipes posted below were the colors I used on this design.

The background was created with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink brushed over the Pinwheel Scroll stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and then splattered over with more blue oxide inks. 

The sea grass, starfish, and sand dollar are Cuttlebug die cuts.

The sentiment was stamped with SU Brilliant Blue.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I am a true believer in this idea since I am a very visual learner. The pictures below should make it very easy to understand the construction of this card.

The basic construction takes two pieces of paper.

The white cardfront is 4.25 inches  x 11 inches scored at 5.5 into a standard A2 card.

The blue panel is 4 inches x 8.25 inches scored at 1.5 inches and 3 inches.

 Here I have folded the panels on the score lines.

Here I have glued the large portion of the blue panel to the cardfront. See how easy that was!

I am including a second card which I made yesterday and really love so I wanted you to see it. It is a masculine get well design using images from Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps and Tiny Norway Pine which was a limited edition and no longer available.

The clouds and bushes were created with the Cloud Edger stencil also from A Colorful Life Designs.

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

For those wishing to purchase Kitchen Sink Stamps, click SHOP HERE. It will take you directly to the store as well as let Maria know that you are a fan of my work! Thanks so much!!