There are two new challenges, both for Clean and Simple cards, that inspired me to pull out a never-before-used stamp set from Simon Says "Your Light." The first is CAS on Friday where the challenge is SUMMER. The second is CAS Mix Up and the challenge there is Watercolor/Beach.
This lighthouse image reminds me of two lighthouses on Nantucket. One, the Brant Point Lighthouse, sits on the beach as you approach the island, so the setting is similar to the stamp. The other is the Sankaty Lighthouse which has a very similar shape, and I watercolored it in red and white to resemble the Sankaty Lighthouse. This is the first summer my daughter-in-law has missed a summer vacation in Nantucket since she was a little girl. Thanks to her and her family, we've enjoyed several vacations there over the last few years. It represents summer for sure, and spending time on its multiple beaches is one of the great pleasures of a vacation there.
After watercoloring the image with Daniel Smith watercolors, I die cut it with an Essentials by Ellen circle. I die cut another piece of watercolor paper with the smaller Gina K Master Layout die, and a piece of Dark Indigo paper with the larger of those dies.
I adhered both layers to a cream colored card base, after stamping the sentiment in Dark Indigo ink. The focal image was adhered with dimensional tape. It's odd that in the flat layout, the focal image looks inlaid rather than bumped up!
I decided to leave it all very CAS--no embellishments, no additional images. I'm adding this to the NBUS blog as well--glad to have this set out of the Never Been Used Stuff category.
