We are thrilled to have Tina Krauer joining us for a special series featuring the Sea Friends stamp set. Tina will be sharing a different way to use the Sea Friends stamp set over the next 4 days. The best part is, one lucky commenter will win the set!

Leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts on the YNS blog or Tina’s blog by 5/9/19 at midnight est for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on the YNS blog on 5/11/19.

Let’s start off by learning more about Tina, then we will get on to her smile filled card.

Tina Krauer

Blog: Papierlisi

IG: @teenaleee

My name is Tina, I was born in 1977. I am living in the heart of Switzerland, near Lucerne, together with my awesome husband and my little daughter. Ah yes, we also have two furry friends in our family – Candy and Vodka, the best cats on this planet 🙂

During my pregnancy in 2013, I came across with the Big Shot machine and the adventure of paper crafting and card making began. I am hooked to it ever since 🙂 I really love coloring, especially with my copics. But all kinds of coloring media have my heart, I barely can resist when I discover new colored pencils, markers, or watercolors  :-))  My style of cards is not a particular one – I love everything, except overloaded cards. I hope I can inspire you with my passion for card making!

For this card I used the stamp set “Sea Friends“ and colored them with aqua marker pens. I grabbed a piece of mixed media paper and heat embossed the sentiment (from another stamp set called “So Mush Fun”) right in the middle of the panel.  Then I  sponged it with distress oxides (salty ocean and blueprint sketch for the sea and ripe persimmon and candied apple for the sky). A strip of painters tape helped me to separate the ocean from the sky . A few spritzes of water for some texture created more interest on my panel.

Then I die cut a fun foam and a paper piece with the “So Many Squares Panel” die and cut off one stripe in the middle to create a little space for my sentiment. I glued a piece of acetate in between of those two die cuts since I wanted to create different little shaker windows. I filled every compartment with micro beads (blue ones on the sea part and orange ones on the sky part) and adhered the background panel onto it. After that, I just had to place my critters on top and pop the panel onto a card base and voilà, it was finished.

Now head on over to Tina’s blog for a close up look at her card. Plus leave a a comment there too for another entry in to the Sea Friends giveaway. Then, stop back here tomorrow for card #2 featuring the Sea Friends stamp set.

Happy Stamping!