Hello and thanks for stopping by my blog today! I’m so happy to be sharing my project with you today and to show you my Slimline Let’s Set Sail Oceanfront Thank You Card.

I’m participating in Kylie’s monthly International Blog Highlights contest and the top 10 vote winners get to participate in an International Blog Hop. I would be so grateful if you could consider taking a moment and voting for my card? I’d really appreciate it!

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The theme for the International Blog Highlights is “Thank You”! 

I love to send positive messages to my team as well as standard sentiment thank you cards and this month I chose to combine two very popular stamp sets that we used in a recent gathering. This is just my way of thanking them for being so amazing!!!

Slimline Let’s Set Sail Oceanfront Thank You Card

I love love love the Oceanfront stamp set for simple stamping! You can create wonderful seaside scenes in just moments.

For this card I decided to create a river scene complete with a beautiful sail boat sailing down stream! Doesn’t it just scream relaxing times?

This card is so simple to make

The sky, hills, sand and dunes have been stamped using the same image and is just switched up to fit.

Adding some some of the dotty stamps to the dunes just adds some perfect little details. I also double stamped the birds without re-inking to create same depth to the scene

The sail boat has been stamped and then the sails have been punched in Coastal Cabana card and attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals to create a billowing sails effect

Tips for Batch Making cards

You won’t believe how quick these cards were to make and I have some great tips for batch making cards, which work for me when I want to create lots of cards at once!

• Cut all the card stock for all of the cards first and set each element in a pile left to right in front of you so you can work through the process efficiently
• Stamp each element on all of the cards in turn so you are only working with one colour at a time and don’t have to keep cleaning your stamp to change inks.
• Punch all of the sails from any scraps of card you might have before using whole sheets and then lightly curl each sail with a bone folder
• Add the Stampin Dimensionals to the back of each sail Finally assemble your cards working though each element methodically.

Its a great way to create Christmas/wedding/invitation cards and this system really works. I was able to create 24 of these cards in just a couple of hours!!

Measurements Slimline Let’s Set Sail Oceanfront Thank You Card

• Base: Thick Basic White– 21.0 cm by 20.0cm scored at 10.0 cm
• First Layer : Coastal Cabana- 20.3 cm by 9.3 cm
• Second Layer: Basic White – 20.0 cm by 9.0 cm
• Sails – Coastal Cabana Scraps

Voila!

I had great fun making these cards and I would love to know what you think? Please do leave me a comment.

If you would like to know more about any of my projects please do get in contact and I would love to help you.

Thanks for looking

Stamping Hugs

Sara

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List of products used to make this project