Purple Onion Designs, Stacey Yacula Charmed by the Sea Collection

 

Hi friends!  I'm excited to be sharing a couple cards today featuring the new Charmed by the Sea Collection by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs.

I'm a huge Stacey Yacula fan.  Her images are just so sweet.  Her collections really shine for folks who are good at creating scenes.  Me, I'm not so good at scenes, but I love her images because they make the perfect little vignettes.  I really think her individual images stand alone and can carry a card.

My first card today features Thaddeus.  He's the first image from the collection that I picked, I was just smitten with him.

He was stamped with Gina K Black Amalgam ink and then colored with Copics.  I used C0, C1, C2, and C3 for Thaddeus himself, B00, B01, B02 and R22 and R24 for his shorts, and G00, G02, and G03 for the bucket.  For the sand I used E40, E41, and E42.  Finally, to give a little hint of background/sky, I used BG70.

I did extend the sand around Thaddeus just a bit to better fill my frame.  

For the mat, I used an older wave stencil and one color of ink (Simon Says Stamp Morning), inking and moving the stencil down along the panel to create the background.  I die cut an oval from the center of the panel, and then popped the panel up over my colored image.

The sentiment is from the Seaside Sentiments set.

This next card is probably as close as I get to scene building.

This card features Taylor, the little bear playing in the sand, as well as one of the fences from the Beach Fences & Boardwalk set and another of the Seaside Sentiments.

The images were once again stamped with Gina K Black Amalgam ink and colored with Copics.  I used R22, R24, and R29 for Taylor's outfit, and he was colored with E23, E25, and E27.  I stuck with E40, E41, and E42 for the sand, and the fence was colored with E42, E43, and E44.  The sea/sky were colored with BG10 and BG11.

I added a bit of sand, trying to mimic the lines/dots that are part of the images themself to ground the sentiment.

That's all for me today.  Be sure to head over to Purple Onion Designs to check out the entire release, you are going to love all the cute image.  I'll have some more cards to share featuring this release next week.