May 30 2009
Sand Castle Kind of Day - Tutorial #217 and Blog Candy
Is it time to hit the beach? I love beach scenes. But, since I live in Ohio I don’t get to see the ocean and sand very often. I have found I can create one when I want to escape. So this morning I took a trip to the beach for a little R & R in stamping.
I also have a bit of blog candy for you. I am giving this Card away along with the Beautiful Inkadinkado Sand Castle Stamp I created it with.
To throw your hat in the ring for a chance to win this card and stamp, please leave me a comment on this post telling me to enter you. If you are getting this blog update via e-mail you will need to click this link and then leave a comment on the post: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/05/30/sand-castle-kind-of-day-tutorial-217-and-blog-candy/
I will select the winner on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 using a random number generator. Good luck everyone!
Now let’s go to the beach!
Supplies:
| Stamps: Inkadinkado Sand Castle |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pacific Point & Creamy Caramel |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Creamy Caramel, Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Close to Cocoa |
| Accessories: Versamark pad & Marker, Prismacolor markers, White Gel Pen, Post it Note, Brayer, Clear embossing powder, heat gun, Sponge, Ribbon, Red Brads |
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Stamped the Sand Castle on a 3.5″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White card stock by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then Creamy Caramel ink before stamping it.
Heat embossed the image using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Colored in the castle with an Eggshell Prismacolor marker.
Added Blondwood Prismacolor Marker to the darker areas of the castle.
Getting darker yet I added Walnut Prismacolor Marker to the right side of the shadow areas.
Added a touch of Deco Peach Prismacolor Marker to the shells.
Colored in the flag with a Crimson Red Prismacolor Marker.
Colored over the castle and the shells with a Versamark marker and heat embossed the images using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Now that my images are heat embossed I can brayer my back ground in and the embossing will resist the ink.
Brayered Baja Breeze ink at the top of the card stock.
Brayered a bit of Pacific Point ink at the top of the card stock.
Brayered Creamy Caramel ink at the bottom of the card stock.
Masked the sky area of the scene with a Post it note.
Sponged Pacific Point ink at the post it note edge and onto the card stock to create a horizon line.
Wiped the ink off of my embossed images using an old cotton towel.
Sponged a bit more Pacific Point ink at the top of the card stock to create some interest in the sky area.
Sponged a bit of Close to Cocoa ink under the castle to create a bit of a shadow.
Added white gel pen dots at the water edge to create foam.
Used my Big Shot and the dot Texture plate on my Pacific Point Panel.
Sponge a bit of Not Quit Navy at the top of the main image panel. Also sponged Not Quite Navy around the edge of the Textured Pacific Point Panel.
Assembled the card, added ribbon and red brads.
Here it is finished measuring 5.25″ square.
May your day be filled with relaxing scenes. If not, make one!
Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Huge Hugs,
Michelle
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Great escape for a Saturday morning!
Love, love, love your cards and tutorials.
When I grow up, I want to be just like YOU!
Thanks for sharing.
Love the sand castle card! Makes me think of all the summers I spent at the lake while growing up. thanks for the opportunity to enter the drawing!
Such a fun looking card. you can almost feel the sand between your toes. you can enter me into the draw.
Beautiful!!! I really love the colors on the ocean water especially. The stamp is cool, I’m going to look for that. I’d use that a lot, I’ve been doing a lot of beachy themed cards myself.
WOW! What a fun card! I absolutely LOVE your tutorials you do an incredible job explaining the steps to making your gorgeous creations! Your talent is amazing and it is awesome that you choose to share it with all of us! I hope you come to Iowa sometime to put on a brayer class, it would be a lot of fun to see the brayer master at work in real life and stamp with you! Thanks for the opportunity to win your art!
What a cute card! I’d love to win. Thanks for offering the candy.
What a great stamp. Born and raised in Southern California, I love the weather and the beaches. Summer is the best season. I would love to win this blog candy.
What a gorgeous card! I love your techniques.Thanks for the chance to win the stamp!
Just came in from playing in the dirt and what do I find??? Inspiration for playing in the sand! This is absolutely breathtaking! Yes, please add me to your potential winners list as I would love to have this card and the stamp you used! Thanks again Michelle, what a beautiful scene to carry on with my day!
Wow…I look out the window and its a nice sunny day here finally. then I see this card and wowzers…its fabulous! I feel like Im on vacation. Thanks for the chance to win.
Enter me into the contest.
Thanks!
Oh how I’d love to see one of your works of art in person! Thanks for the chance to win!
Wow - this card is gorgeous!! I love that stamp. Thanks for the chance to win.
Stunning beach card. Love every one of the cards you do. You are so talented. Please enter me for a chance to win. Thank you for your tutorials also.
Wow, Michelle! You really bring the right artistic touch to every one of your creations! Can’t tell you how much I appreciate the time you take to document the process — so helpful to wanna be artists like me!
Please do enter me for a chance to win your wonderful blog candy!
thanks again! and Happy Saturday!!
Sherry
Another beautiful winning card — thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy on the day before my 62nd birthday!!
Oh Michelle, your artwork is always stunning! I’d be tickled purple to receive one of your creations!! Please enter me (and pick my name) into your giveaway!! Thank you for all that you do making these tutorials!
Put me in for this beach scene and stamp. Really nice. I absolutely love the scene you just showed for the brayer class. Awesome scene!
It’s gorgeous! I love the way you do your ocean scenes. And I would LOVE to win this card/stamp set.
Have a sand castle kind of day!
Nancy
I love that card. It brings back memories as a kid I built sand castleusing old plastic cups
Another true masterpiece. Love the sandcastle stamp! Keep ‘em coming
Love this card. I love sand castles, didn’t get to build any as a youngster. Please enter me in this blog candy and thanks for the opportunity.
gorgeous card, Michelle. I love sandcastles. So much work to make them though,
just to see them washed away. I would love the chance to win an “authentic”
Zindorf card. thanks for all you do.
carolyn s
ceashark at aol dot com
I just started getting your blog… And I think your cards as so amazing. The beach card is terrific. I would love to win the card and the stamp set.
Thank You for shaing your talent.
Have a great day
Cheryl
I am amazed at the beautiful work that you do. Your cards just come to life and this one is no exception! I’d love to win this as it’s truly a winner in my book!
The scene looks so real - beautiful job. I would love the sand castle stamp. Thanks!
Dear random number generator - pick me, pick me!! This is beautiful Michelle, as always!! Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
What a beautiful card! Please enter me in your contest!
Thanks for the great tutorials.
Annie
I wish I wish upon a star that I lived near the ocean..but winning a stamp set would kind of work for me
as always..a fab work of art
hugs
JoAnne
Wow, so nice with those shades of blue…. I want to leave for the summer holidays ! Love your card, love the tutorials which help us to re-create some of your beauties.
I would like to join in for winning your card and the stamp!
Enter me, please!
I have some beach pictures that are screaming for this stamp.
I would love the sandcastle stamp. the card is lovely and evocative. Thanks for your wonderful blog.
Donna
Sandcastles bring back winsome childhood days of the shore at the Jersey shore!Love all your tutorials, also. Thanks for all your inspiration!
Helen
Please Please enter me! My favorite place in the world is the beach! I’m from Tampa and I miss it soooo much. I can’t lie…I actually live ON the beach right now…but it’s Kuwait and just doesn’t count.
Anyways, lol, your card is just gorgeous!
Michelle, I look forward to your tuts everyday - and they never fail to entrance me! I love your techniques! cna’t wait for you to come to AZ!!!! thanks for putting me name in tha hat!
Lorene H
Wow! I so enjoy looking at all the gorgeous cards you make! thanks for sharing your talent!
Hugs,
Elizabeth
Love the beach scenes we spend half of our life in Florida. The beach cards seem to make me smile more, I don’t know if it is the colors used or my imagination taking me to the shore and hearing the sounds of the water, birds, etc. Love the card, Linda
Michelle,
I’m with you on the beach and relaxation. Luckily, I live in the South and am not to far from the beaches that I love. Thank you so much for this one today and taking the time to set out the process step by step. I was actually able to come up with a reasonable facsimile of your card thanks to your detailed instructions. I would be thrilled to be entered for the Blog Candy.
Thanks,
Denise
Please enter me in the blog candy give away please. I use to spend a week down at the New Jersey shore every September with my mom so this would mean a deal to me to win this stamp. Mom is gone now but this would sure bring those memories alive more often when using this stamp. Just adore the card as the blues are my favorite color and it does make me fly away to the shore. Have to try and make your card. Thanks so much. God bless. ekc
Another fantastic work of art! Love the colors used and the soothing feeling created.
Hugs
Heather
Beatiful card! I love the restful colors! I keep trying to win one a Zindorf original!
I love this scene. It reminds me of making sand castles with my grandson. Beautiful as usual.
Cindy
I love the beach and I love sandcastles. I would love this card and the stamp. Thanks so much for making such a beautiful card and giving it to a lucky person, which I hope will be me.
What a great card! Love the rich ocean color. Thanks for entering me into your blog candy offer!
Another beautiful creation Michelle. I would love to be making sandcastles at the beach today. Please count me in for the blog candy. Thanks.
Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorial - I have been wanting to learn how to do a beach scene! We live about 20 minutes from the beach and don’t enjoy it nearly as much as we should! Thanks for the inspiration : )
OMG!! I love this card!! It makes me wish I was at a beach right now. That’s kind of hard to do when you live in CO. LOL!! Thanks so much for entering me into your blog candy.
you have such beautiful work. I have tried some of your cards. will never have you skills. but they still turn out nice. Me and my sister get together and try them we have also printed them out and have a book of your techiques , that we practice. thanks for inspiring me.
Hi Michelle
As usual your card is magnificient. I’m in love with everything related with sea and beach. So please count me in!
Have a nice weekend!
Hey I would love to be entered to win one of your beautiful cards Yippy !
thanks Diana
I just love your brayered cards. I would love to take one of your classes, but I live in metro Atlanta area and not much happens here in the card making field.
Love this card. I love the way you use layers to make the backgrounds, there so real looking. I’m playing with a brayer now and although not getting the results I see here…I keep plugging along and will hopefully master it soon. Thanks for sharing all your hard work. It’ truly inspiring!
Michelle;
another beautiful card. your work is sooooogreat…today is our 50th Anniversary and it sure would be a great card to have.
enjoy the sunshine and keep up the fantastic work.
This card, framed, would look quite lovely on display in my house! It reminds me so much of vacations we took with the kids to Cape Cod and the Florida Keys. Thanks for the memories!
Michelle, I would love to win this card and stamp. I’ve always lived in Kansas and dreamed of living close to the beach since I was a little girl. My husband is giving me that opportunity as soon as our house here sells and he retires (hopefully before winter hits again) we’ll be moving to Florida. This would be a perfect stamp to use for my “we’ve moved-new home” cards. I love all your awesome creations, if only I had a smidgen of your talent. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’m your lucky winner!
Michelle, I love this card! Brings back memories of building sand castles with my daughters when they were little on the beaches of NC. Thanks for a chance to win!
Welp, I can’t afford one of your classes so I guess I’ll have to settle on winning your card & stamp! Thanks for the opportunity!
Michelle: Thanks for the wonderful “escape” to the beach this morning! After the winter we’ve had here in the Pacific Northwest, the weather is finally turning the corner into summer-like weather and dreams of hitting the beach! Lovely card, great stamp, and I would love to have a chance to win your blog candy!
I would love to be making a sand castle now. There is nothing like playing on the beach in the beautiful sunshine. Thanks for the chance to win your blog candy. Deonna
Cool card and stamp, I’d love to be entered to win these. My daily routine is to check out your web to see your wonderful creations.
Christine
Your card made me smile this morning! After a long winter here in NE Montana I really needed to see something summery! I would love to win one of your cards and of course, this great stamp!
It’s always amazing to see what you can do with stamps and a brayer!! I love the card. Thank you for the opportunity to win both the card and stamp. We should all take time to build a sandcastle
What a great card! I love the sand castle stamp and I have been looking for one for a long time. I’ve got my fingers crossed for this blog candy!
Trish
Wow- Love the colors in this one. In So. Cal. at this time of year, the sky is covered with “low clouds” and it is cold at the beach. I love this card because it reminds me of what the beach CAN look like. Hawaii . . . **sigh**
I love your artwork, and this is no exception. Please enter me into to generator for the blog candy draw. Thanks.
Michelle, you have made yet another stunning card. I was born and raised in San Diego on the beaches so I especially love this card and would consider myself so lucky to be able to win it. I check at least once a week to see if you have added a brayer class near me.
Good morning Michele. Please enter me in for a chance to win this fabulous card. I hope all is well with you and yours.
Wonderful card! The Brayer tech is perfection. Please enter me to win this fab card and stamp.
Thanks!
Sandcastles and little boys go together. Would love to win this stamp.
Doris
I have sand but not the kind to build a castle and I miss the water,
so this card covers both, beautiful-
Beautiful card. Looking forward to your class in CO.
Sandcastles and the beach… This has to be even God’s special joy. I, too, would love to be there this morning. Your card took me there. I would love to win this wonderful card. You truly inspire…..Thanks, Vicky
Absolutely a beautiful card……love your brayer work. Please enter me in the chance to win this beautiful card and stamp.
thanks, Louise
Gorgeous beach scene. When I was young, we vacationed in Florida every year. My sand castles didn’t look quite like that one! Thanks for the chance to win the beautiful card and stamp.
Such a beautiful card. The card alone is a fantastic prize.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Oops! Forgot to say please enter me in this giveaway.
Love the beach scene! I’ll toss my hat into the ring for a chance at winning. Thanks, Joanne
My friend Jill and I just used this color combo last night! Of course the card we made wasn’t as cute, but I loved it! I also like that you embossed with creamy caramel! It gives instant shading on the focal point and I would never have thought of using that color but I love it! I am stuck on black - will have to make a change to try this great card!
Thanks Michelle for another beautiful piece of inspiration! I’m send you some long distance beach thoughts from Florida!
another lovely card!!!! thanks for another wonderful tutorial!!!
Beautiful card. I have never been to the beach or even seen the ocean. But I so love pretending I have. I’m in please.
thanks much
Gorgeous as always! I sure hope when I get back from Buffalo, I can make these wonderful creations, too! Kathy Eddy
I also love the beach. I am so lucky these days since my two daughters are now living within 10 minutes of the beach. One in Florida the other in NC. I wish I could visit them more often though. As I always say, someday. I would be honored to win the card and stamp. Please put me in for a chance.
Kathy
This is great! The beach is my fantasy escape — or “happy place” as I like to call it. Thinking I’m on the beach puts me in a calmer, happier mood.
This sandcastle reminds me of playing with my little brother, now deceased, on a family vacation to Florida when we were little. I was 8 and he was 3. We had so much fun that summer!
Thank you for bringing back that happy memory and allowing me a chance to win.
I love the beach too! My favorite place in the world. Love the stamp.
What a beautiful summery card. I would love a chance to win.
Thanks for the chance to win!!! I just love your cards!!!
Happy Stamping
Please enter me ! I love this card and the chance to CASE it witht he image would be fab …or would it? Would the difference between your perfection and my “good try” cause me to torch my stamp collection? Oh well, gotta give it a try !!
Another great card and you make it look so easy which we all know it isn’t! Love the foam effect - mine would just look like dots. Please enter me for a chance to win the card and the stamp set so I can practice! Thank you
This card is just too pretty. I have such admiration for someone who has such creative talent.
I live on an island surounded by water, but I never tire any kind of beach scene.
This is gorgeous! The beach is my favorite place to be and blue is my favorite color—-perfect! Please enter me in the drawing for a chance to win—-thank you for your generosity. Now I want to be at the beach!!
I live near the beach so this stamp would be very appropriate for cards I make. Thanks for the opportunity to win it and the card that I would CASE! Love your work.
So beautiful a card and what a lovely sandcastle image! Thanks for the opportunity to pay with the castle.
Please throw my name in the drawing, I would be THRILLED to own a Zindorf Original!!!
Amazing card … WOW …. please enter me in your drawing. Got my fingers crossed.
What a beautiful card Michelle! Thanks for the chance to win it and the stamp.
Summerfeeling! Yeah!!!!
To win a card from you would be a dream!
Hugs
Susan
SALEM, OREGON???? SALEM!! You’re coming to SALEM!! the WEST COAST!! ****jumping up and down in my chair**!! Very cool!! I sure hope I can come!!
If I win this card and stamp, I can practice till then!!
Thanks for the chance!!
squirrellyshirley
What a beautiful card. I am new to your website and WOW what a beautiful card and step by step instructions too! I just recently moved close to the beach and I do not have any stamps to fit the theme this would be a great one to start with. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Wow….now I want to go to the beach and play. Such beautiful colors and so real. Thanks Michelle for making my day, Becky
I love the sandcastle, and want to win the card. Gives me a good idea to help me with a lighthouse card I’ve been wanting to do. Pick me!!
What a terrific, relaxing scene! Thanks for sharing the techniques on how to get more depth from the card!
I am always amazed by your creativity! I just stare at your blog for hours! You really are awesome! Thank you for sharing all of your techniques and amazingness with all of us!
This may be the best candy yet. I am super excited to attend your workshop in November in Indiana. Great card, once again.
Love what you do with a brayer,oh such talent.Would love a chance to win.
Keep the creative juices flowing.Love coming to your blog.
Jocelan P
Would love a chance to win this card and stamp, please enter me. This color blue is my favorite and it looks so nice with the sand castle.
Just when I think “what else can she do?” - you come up with this scene. Amazing! The depth you created is great. Thanks for sharing and please enter me in your blog candy.
Please enter me in your contest for blog candy. Since I am from Ohio also I have to settle for pictures of the beach and your card makes me feel like I am there. ALL of your cards are OUT OF THIS WORLD! I just found you a week ago and have been in awe ever since. Thank you for sharing your work!
Please enter me for a chance to win your beautiful card and the cute sandcastle stamp. I love all of your great tutorials. Thanks for all of the wonderful inspiration you provide to card makers!!!
Please enter me in your giveaway contest!
And thanks for the very detailed tutorial — I’m new to ink-stamping and not overly familiar with a lot of the techniques. I know I’ll be referring back to this post now and again!
What a wonderful scene! It brings back memories of childhood, building fantasy castles in my sandbox–no beach nearby.
Please include me in the blog candy drawing.
I love your card Michelle!! Sand Castles remind me of the good childhood days that I had, growing up in Monterey CA. I loved to go play at the beach and go tide pooling and digging up sand crabs and making castles. They were so in to it down there, that they would have the big contests that would blow your mind. Thank you for all that you do to inspire us. I’m not worthy. hehe.
I love this card, thanks. Please enter me in the contest.
Im looking forward to you coming to Columbia, MO
Another fabulous tutorial! How you manage to make ink and stamps look like sand is beyond me, but you certainly do!!! Love it!!!
Hi Michelle, another gorgeous card! Thanks for the entry, have a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful card and stamp. Would love to wine!
Absolutely beautiful, Michelle! As in ALL of your work..but this one really glows and I can almost smell the sea air! Thank you for all the time and work it must be to share the photo tutorial of your incredible artwork. I really appreciate it! Jan
o pleze ad me to the list to win i am locing forword to c ing u next wec ind here in mn yor wurc iz just butful thanxs so much for shareing it with al of us
I love the beach and sand also Michelle. Thanks for a chance to win your card and stamp. Your cards are so inspirational!
Love the tutorial, like always! Thanks for the chance to win the card and for including the stamp! Fitting for me since we’re moving to So. CA soon - making me miss the chance to take your class in No CA, which is a bummer, but probably wouldn’t be able to go anyway since it’s right after I deliver my second son!
Hope you were able to relax as much as you needed!
As always another wonderful card. Please enter me in your Blog Candy give away.
Hugs
Please enter me! I would love to win a card made by you and of course i would like the stamp to play with. Another great card today, makes me wish i was there. Thanks so much for sharing.
Beautiful effect! I want to go to the beach . . . wait, I have to go to work instead. Bummer!
I really like your combination of the blue (my favorite color) and the reddish (at least it looks like red on my screen) and white ribbons. Very cool . . .
Thanks for the great tutorial!
This is beautiful! I tried the Daisy tut the other day. I will definately have to try this one. I love the beach, but it is so very far away!! 1500+ miles!! So this stamp and card would let the memories seem more realistic!
I love all your tuts. You must have a ton of patience to create them and share them all. I know you have a ton of talent!! Thanks so much for sharing them! Beth W
I would love to win one of your beautiful cards.
WOW! Great scene. Now I really want to go to Hawaii to visit my daughter! Thanks for your great creativity.
Hi Michelle,
Love ALL your tutorials. Please enter me in your contest. Would love to win that stamp and beautiful card! Thank you.
Michelle,
HI I would love to win the sand castle stamp and card! You do Beautiful work and have given me much Inspiration! Thank you so much for sharing!
WOW! I can smell the salt air. You are amazing:)
This is a great way to go to the beach when the real thing is just out of reach! I love beach scenes anyway. I would love to win this card and stamp!! Thank you for the opportunity.
BettyAnn
I would love to throw my hat in the ring for a chance to win the card and stamp from Tutorial 217. Your beautiful card is amazing and as beautiful as all your cards!
Nora
Hi Michelle - Another beautiful creation. I love the beach also and this card looks so real that you can almost smell the salt in the air. Please enter my name in the drawing and thanks for all your creative talent.
LynneZ
Thanks for the chance to win (especially a chance to win one of your cards)! I love those beach scenes too!
I LOVE your work but am very afraid of brayering… I would love to be entered in the drawing for the card and stamp! Thanks so much!
kathy
Please enter me in the draw for a chance to win this wonderful prize! I just ADORE your card and love the sand castle stamp. I have many of your cards stored in my computer to try and imitate and have recently learnt some brayer techniques that I love trying out. Any chance you might take a trip Down Under some time?
Every time I open your emails I am completely blown away by the beauty of your cards…they are absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for the opportunity to win one of your cards and the stamp.
Would love to win that card! And, I’m always ready for the beach - oh, how I miss it.
I am new to using the brayer. You have inspired me to keep trying. Thanks so much.
Love the card, love the stamp, and would like to throw my hat in the ring to win both!!! What an honor it would be to have a stamp that YOU used. Maybe some of your talent would rub off on my hand!!! Wishful thinking, huh? Crossing my fingers here…Rockin Robin
beautiful as always. I bet your local customers are thrilled to take classes from you.
….all the beautiful blues and that dash of red makes this card glow. Thanks for the chance to be in it to win it (your lovely Sand Castle Michelle).
You have captured the beach! Another beautiful card! It would be such a thrill to win one of your works of art - and the stamp you used to make it. marcia m.
Until I found your site I wasn’t sure how to use that stamp. Of course, I’ve done it in copper and also on cork. But I like your idea better.
Thanks for always inspiring me to do better. I visit your site everyday.
Sylvia
what a cute card and stamp! Just in time for beach days. thanks for the chance to win
Thanks Michelle for the chance to win such a lovely card and the stamp used in it’s making. I must admit being far from the beach is what keeps me from moving far inland. As it is the Ocean is almost 2 hours away
Have to add to that Sandcastles have always been a special image for me. My friends in Southern Oregon tease me since I have a few of the real things preserved and pictures of them too. Have you seen the Sizzix sandcastle die cuts? They’ve a couple of fun ones.
Hugs and blessings and thanks as always for sharing your talents and inspiration - Jean
Hey Michelle, Thanks for the chance to win… I live in Colorado and there is NO sand here! I love this card. It makes me want to travel!
Love this - as I do all of your work. Thanks for the chance to win!
Your brayered background is lovely as always but I am blown away by how beautiful the coloring on the sandcastle is! And you make it look so easy in your tutorial!! This is an awesome card and would love a chance to win it!! Sand? Have a yard full of it but have to travel about an hour to get to the ocean or the gulf…halfway between the two!
Lynnor
Love this card!!! But, then again, I love all your stuff!!
Kathy
My favorite place to be at the ocean. Live 1 1/2 hrs. away, but don’t get there as often as I’d like. Love the card, and would love the stamp as well.
Please enter me in the chance to win your beautiful card and stamp.
Thanks!
I love all your cards, and would love to own one. Please enter me.
Another FABULOUS card…I just love your creations and I’d love a chance to win the blog candy; please enter me. Thanks so much!
Oh, I would love to win one of your beautiful cards!! You are really very creative and I love your work! sandy
Gorgeous card as always, Michelle! And I love that stamp. Please enter me in the drawing, and thanks much!
Hello Michelle,
Since I have discovered your tutorials, I have had a renewed enhusiasm for card making. I really appreciate the time you take to document each step. If a Canadian can win blog candy please enter my name..otherwise just many thanks for the tutorials.
Anne
Hi Michelle
I would love to be the owner of that card and stamp. thank you for the opportunity and your wonderful tutorials.
Your blog is such an inspiration to me! I just bought a brayer so I could try out some of these techniques. The sand castle reminds me of summers that my sister and I would spend at the beach.
I’m in Oklahoma…land locked…with only lakes that don’t have sandy beaches….so I would LOVE to have this card and stamp!!! Love the beautiful BLUE and the delicate sand castle. So throw my hat & flip flops into the pile and hopefully you’ll pull one of mine out.
That castle is too cool! Well done! At least this castle the tide cannot wash away! Thanks for the sandy candy!
This is a beautiful card and image. The depth you give the sand castle is amazing. I would be thrilled to win this card and stamp to attempt the same results.
I’d give it a 10……PERFECT!
Michelle, You’ve done it again. Wow. I can’t believe my eyes this card is soooo gorgeous. Do you ever get tired of hearing that? I really can’t believe it. Talent must ooze out of every inch of your body. This card is amazing.
I would love to win it and the stamp. Thanks for the inspiration!
Dana
Sooo excited to meet with you on Friday in Buffalo, MN! I’m still in shock that your coming to see us what a TREAT!!! Please include me in the drawing for for the card and stamp set!
Some of my favorite memories are of walking the beach in Hawaii the summer we visited our son there. Thanks for the beautiful artwork. I would love receiving this card (or any of yours for that matter).
I would love a chance to win this card and stamp. The card is beautiful. You do amazing cards. Keep them coming and thanks for all the tutorials.
Beautiful, I could definitely use a day at the beach. Moved all day, up 3 flights of stairs. UGH! hehe
A simply amazing card as always! I love the stamp, I hope I win. Keep up the great tutorials, I love when I see a new one posted.
Adorable…………………I Love it, please count me in! I also love the beach but don’t get there often enough, I live in Northern Idaho, not much beach to be had here!
I’m in Michelle. Love your work. Thanks for the chance to win this gorgeous card and stamp.
WOW what a great castle to go with Just Beachy! Thanks Michelle for all your inspiring tutorials! I love them!!
What a delightful card and gift you are sharing! Thank you! Please enter me in your drawing.
Jennifer
I love the card, and I love the beach. Thanks for all your inspiring ideas!
Charlotte
This card makes me want to hit the beach - and so does the sunny weather! Would love to win the card AND stamp!
Wow Michelle! Having just returned from a week in rainy Florida, beach time time was at a minimum!
Please enter me in the drawing as I would love to have a Zindorf original! I love your tuts and appreciate all the effort you put in them to share with us. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
I love all of your work and a chance to win one of your cards and a stamp also. Thanks for all you do for all of us. Thanks again.
I have been to the beach the last two weekends and you just want to make a beautiful sandcastle after seeing this card. As always beautiful and fun.
Please enter me in your blog candy. I love how the castle grabs your attention on this card and just says it all!
Michelle,
Your art is so inspiring! You make it look so easy!
Thanks for taking us to the beach…..today’s going to be a day when I definitely need to go there!
Elaine
You always have such wonderful ideas!! I love the red in this castle card:)
I look every day to see if you have a new card. I press my (Favorites) and go to your website. I am always in awe to what you see to make the art you create. I thank you for your talent. It helps to make my world go round.
In Awe,
Lynette
I just love all your wonderful cards and I’m thinking of trying it myself.
What colours do you recommend I start with?
I’ll go to the beach with you any day! Your card makes you feel like we are right there on the warm sand. Thanks so much for sharing all your fantastic works of art to inspire the less artistic among us.
Hi Michele,
Beautiful card as always. Please enter me in the blog candy drawing. Love this stamp. Thanks.
Jane
Another great card! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely beautiful, as usual! Would Copic markers work on this technique? Thank you for the opportunity to win. :^)
Gorgeous card and fantastic stamp! Elena
Ahhh….looks like the view out our front door! BEAUTIFUL card…I am an avid stamper, but color challenged—could never create something like this! Blessings, Sharon
Love the sand castle - both the card and the stamp. Great candy.
Oh, please, please I can feel the sand between my toes and the sun in my face! Besides I can see even better my niece having a blast making sand castles!
What a gorgeous card! The colors are just beautiful. I’d love to have the stamp and sample and maybe I could try to make my own. Thanks!
Beatiful card! I would love to win a Zindorf original!
I just love your card it feels happy. The colouring technique is fabulous and just brings the castle to life.
Love the card! Thanks for the opportunity to win the card and stamp set and I look forward to seeing you in August in Lynchburg, VA.
‘Shore’ luv to see your brayering techniques. This beach scene is lovely - here in sunny Florida we get to see the water and beaches every day. Sorry you have to wait till you get to time to go to the beach….wish we could share some w/you everyday. As you say, stamping is a great release into that special arena - just stamp whatever scene you are in the mood for.
Hi Michelle. I live in Virginia Beach and this card makes me yearn for summer and the beach. Sitting on the beach with a good book (or stamp magazine) is one of my favorites things to do in the summer other than stamping!!
Please enter me in your drawing. I love the Sand Castle card!!
I am registered for your June 13 workshop and am REALLY looking forward to it.
Lisa
Thanks for the day at the beach and the chance to win a piece of an Ohio sandcastle. Your tutorials are one of my most fav stops on the internet and stamping highway.
I would absolutely love to win this card.. you’re one clever lady, and living here in the UK I only have the tinterweb to rely on to try to follow your wonderful techniques!
Drawn 3rd June? That’s my birthday too.. lol..
Love Jo x
so cute!
This card is just lovely, and I love the stamp! Please throw my hat in the ring.
I can’t wait until your workshop in Dayton on June 13–I get to come!!! Hooray!!!
Looking forward to learning some of your magic on June 13…
Hi Michelle,
Love your blog and your tutorials! I love the beach too, and coming from the Midwest (Missouri), I don’t get to the beach very often. That’s why creating a beach of our own is so important! Love what you do every time and thanks for letting me have a chance at your blog candy!
Your stamping friend,
Gillian
Wow, what a beautiful card. l love the sand castle image. Please enter me in your blog candy drawing.
Thanks so much.
Wow! Great colors on this card - the sandcastle is darling - Hope this is the winning entry! Your work is awesome…
Betty in KY
Thank you again for sharing such wonderful talent and for giving us non-talented folks some inspiration!
Wow, what an awesome card!! I love all your cards a try to make a brayered card often!! Love following you techniques,
Thanks for all the inspiration!
Lourae in UT
Please enter me for a chance to win the stamp and card. I would love to see one of your cards in person. I love how you use the beautiful blue colors. The sand castle looks so real.Thanks! Laura
Everything you make is gorgeous! I would absolutely love to own a piece of “Zindorf” art! This sand castle card is beautiful. Thank you for all of the wonderful tutorials.
Wow! How beautiful! Liked seeing how you used the prismacolor markers as well. I would like to catch you at a workshop!
This reminds me of visiting my daughter who lives in Florida only a little way from the beach. We spend so much time there relaxing, watching the children play, and the wildlife. Your card brings many happy memories to mind and makes me wish I were there. Thank you.
You have created a beautiful scene! I love the beach and find it very calming. Winning this card and stamp would be such a treat! Thanks for all your tips, Janet
Wow - amazingly generous to gift someone this card. They’re always so lifelike, it’s incredible. Thanks for this chance.
I used to live right on the beach for four years in California… Your tutorial makes me miss that life! Another beautiful card!
A really lovely scene, I like sand castles like a little child
Greetings from Slovenia, Kitty
What a gorgeous card! It makes me want a beach holiday!!! Fabulous tutorial, as ever, thanks so much. Lisa
Beautiful card, love the castle and love going to the beach. Now i just walk the shore but remember fondly building sandcastle with my children. thanks for the opportunity to win, your cards are amazing and would love to be able to touch one. Barbara
Oh, what an AWESOME card!! I live in Florida, just a few miles from the beach, so I can appreciate this card even more. Thank you for the inspiration!!
Absolutely beautiful card!!! I loved how you included the ocean foam behind the gorgeous sandcastle. Thanks for sharing your card with someone.
Every morning I look to see if you’ve posted another gorgeous card - I can hardly wait to see the next one. I thank you for sharing with us and for giving such a great tutorial for each of them. I would love to have a chance to win this card and stamp.
Yet another beautiful card….and a chance to win blog candy. You are awesome!
Love the sandcastle - you have great ideas. Thank you for sharing them.
OMG!!! I love the card. I love the stamp. I love your stuff. Am I gushing yet? I really wish you were coming to a town near me because I would love to meet you in person and get tips from you on how to do what you do. I try, and it comes out nice, but not like this. I guess practice makes perfect huh?
Gorgeous card!! Please enter me in the drawing.
I WANT TO GO TO THE BEACH NOW!
Michelle, I really liked how you did the Ocean horizon! Thanks for the idea!!!
Cute card - Love the beach also. Try to get to the Jersey shore as often as possible. Would love the chance to win!
Thanks, Melba
I love this card and techneque you used on the mounting backgroud paper. I would never have thought to do that. It’s a great highlight. THANKS for the idea.
The beach is my favorite place as well! Love to follow your work, you are amazing!
Love your blog, thanks for a chance towin!
Beautiful! I would love to win both!!!
I love this card! Since I do live at the beach, I get to see it all the time, I just can’t get enough. Please enter my name for the blog candy.
Michelle-
I love this one. It instantly brings joy and happiness to mind. It creates images of little kids making sand castles, ocean, sunshine. It made my day.
Thank you, Olga
Blog Candy, Yummy! Count me in.
I can smell the salt water and feel the warm sun. Love it!
Gorgeous card! So realistic, it almost looks like a picture!
Love the card and would love a chance to win that stamp. Lots of uses for it since I live in Hawaii
HOW gorgeous! Gets me in the mood to go to the beach; which, by the way, I am going to in 17 days!!!
Please enter me in the drawing for the blogcandy stamp. I love the beach and if I could I would live closer to it. However with kids in school and hubby work, that is not going to happen anytime soon. So I have to dream about sand castles!
Thanks!
Jen stuck in MO
Thanks again for a great tutorial!
Can’t wait to see you in Webster!
Beth
Such fun! The sandcastle just puts me in the mood for summer!!
What a great card and great stamp! I would love to be a winner! Thanks for your continued inspiration!
Debbie
OMG…..that is a BEAUTIFUL card! I love the sandcastle stamp and your brayering for this card is gorgeous (as always!). Thanks for all you hardwork and inspiration!
Love the card - and it reminds me that winter will finish!! count me in the draw - again - one day I may win something
As always, another beautiful card. Your art mesmerizes me. Please enter me to win the blog candy which would be so cool! Thanks, Jo Ann
you do such beautiful work…My sister and I saw you last fall in Ft Wayne, IN and I’ve been a regular blog visitor ever since! Please enter me in your drawing… Thanks!
Wow! Thanks for another great card idea. I just got a brayer and can’t wait to try it out. I think I will attempt this card idea for my first try!
Stunning card! You are so talented and creative. I look forward to each new tutorial and finished card.
Hope to win some candy. so I can try it myself.
Love this card.. and stamp! 3 more days ’til Michelle comes to Buffalo, MN!
Ohhhhh, I’d love to have the sand castle stamp! Thanks again, for all the great ideas…I keep trying to make my cards look like yours…not happening!
Have you ever made a sky with wispy clouds? I’d love to be able to do that with ink! Now, I just take pictures and use the photo for my sky!
Donna
What an awesome summertime card!