Sunday, August 10, 2008

New Sets Sneak Peek!!

I am very excited to announce that Artful Inkables will be releasing 4 new stamp sets this week! That's right, in just 4 days, four fun new stamp sets will be available for purchase at our store. In the mean time, the design team and I thought we'd tickle your creative tastebuds with a few sneak peeks! Today's set is called Paradise Island and features some fun tropical themed stamps.



This set is great fun to color and has some cool decorative elements like the bamboo piece and the palm leaf. The card above was stamped on water color paper with Stazon ink and colored using a combination of SU! markers and a water brush. The palm tree part was mounted on a bit of Olive cardstock. For the bamboo frame piece, I stamped the bamboo segment on the watercolor paper and then 'washed'' the background with some summer sun re-inker mixed with water. Then I went back and colored the bamboo pieces in with marker and a water brush. After it dried, I highlighted with a white gel pen. The card itself is a piece of celery cardstock which was all over stamped with the palm leaf and olive ink. I used the same coloring method for the islander as I did for the palm tree, but cut it out after it dried and "popped" it up on dimensionals over the previously mentioned pieces. The sentiment was stamped in black stazon.



My second card also uses only stamps from the new Paradise Island set. This time I chose the tiki hut and the fish drying on a pole. This card was colored using traditional watercolors on WC paper with a paint brush. The pole is stamped on the background with the fish added 3 dimensionally over top. The water is accented with glitter.

Now if you've had fun checking out my samples today, be sure to go and visit the design team girls' blogs as well. They have some super samples to share!! (links are at the top of the right hand column) And be sure to come back tomorrow for a peek at another new set that we will be releasing for sale on Thursday.

7 comments:

Sharon said...

Adorable Kristin!

Julia Aston said...

Super cards Kristin! I love the Tiki hut scene with the fish on the pole - what a super fun set this is!!

Beth Thomas said...

This is wonderful, Kristin! You are so artistic! Truly rocked it when you created this set!

Marion Smith said...

I love this so cute!

Michele Kovack said...

These all look adorable!!! Love these sets!

Dorinda said...

It looks like I will have to get this set from you Kristin, it looks just too cute!! Great idea!

pammyrn said...

Now these stamps are so much fun to work with. Love the fishing pole and what you did with it.

Hugs Pam