True North

Hi and welcome to a mini blog hop to announce another stamp release for STAMPlorations.

This time it's a set by our very talented leader Shery.

Here is my card 

and this is the complete set.

When I first received the set I immediately thought of portholes and it was an easy design to come up with. 

I stamped the lighthouse from the set on a square of white card then masked it off before adding the sunset/sunrise using DIs. After completing the sky I removed the mask and used Copics to colour the lighthouse and on an other panel of white card I stamped some wood effect in Weathered Wood DI. An aperture was then cut in the stamped wood grain panel and to reflect the brass style portholes of old ships, I made one using diecuts. This was then placed over the aperture and glued down.

I thought the scene needed something else so added a few sea birds circling with a black fine liner.

I stamped one of the sentiments onto a strip of card and attached it to the bottom left of the top panel.

So this is how the mini release hop works:

• Comment on the main blog post.
• Visit each of the designers' blogs and comment on their featured project(s).
• Commenting closes on Friday, October 16, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-7).
• We'll randomly select a winner of the stamp set from comments left on all the blogs and announce it on Sunday, October 18.

Want to increase your chances of winning?

• Share the link to this blog post on your Facebook status. Make sure to tag your post with #truenorth and #stamplorations
• When you visit the designers' blog posts, pin their cards to your Pinterest board. Again, make sure to tag your pins with #truenorth and#stamplorations
• Leave a second comment on the main blog post telling us that you've done the above (include a link to your FB profile/page and/or Pinterest board).

By the way, True North is now available in the shop and for one week only, it's 10% off!

And another by the way...if you haven't visited the shop lately, you're missing out on one awesome change we did: lower minimum orders for free shipping to our non-US customers! Now orders of at least $25 (previously $35) get free shipping to Canada and orders of at least $35 (previously $50) get free shipping to all other countries. Free shipping coupon codes are found on the shop's checkout page.

Happy hopping!

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