Oceans of Love

I love to make Valentine's with less than traditional images. This time I am sailing away on the romance of the waves!

For this card, I used two tones of Distress Ink - Victorian Velvet and a hint of Spun Sugar.  To give this a more guy-friendly feel, I reached for my Beach Babes plate and decided to make this sailboat my main image.  I added a hint of color by using a water brush to apply some ink to the watercolor paper of the main image.  I added the sentiment from the same set.

The background was made by applying Victorian Velvet distress ink, using a direct-to-paper technique, to some glossy paper.  I misted my new Bubble Wrap background stamp, from the newly released Behind the Scenes collection, with water.  I then pressed it into the glossy paper and pulled it up to remove some of the ink.  I let this part dry and over-stamped the result with the Sandy Beach background also from Beach Babes.

Stamps: boat, sentiment  and Sandy Beach background from Beach Babes;
Bubble Wrap background from Behind the Scenes (Rogue Redhead Designs)

I am entering this card in the following charming challenges:

Lexi's Creations - Valentine

Scrappy Frog - Pink or Red

Anything Goes Challenge - Monochrome

Hope your day was rosy!