I wanna go to the beach blog hop day 4- with a up of coffee

WELCOME  
TO MFP STAMP SHOP

I WANNA GO TO THE BEACH
 BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, Jan. 26-29 FOR SOME SAND CASTLE SHELL FINDING FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the Jan. 29th POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop Beach related STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Feb. 13, 2016 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop Blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. ( HINT: The more you comment the more chances you have to win. And comments on the MFP blog count twice. ) The deadline for commenting and posting pics of your projects is Friday Feb. 12, 2016 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
Jan. 27- Finger Paint Book Marker by Sandy
Jan. 28- Water Background by Pat

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
MariLynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Shirley

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day and let us take you to the Beach. We hope to inspire you to start your own Fun in the Sun.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Feb. 12th and check back on Feb. 13, 2016 to see if you are a winner. 


For my card I used MFP set - Island Life 
I tried a new technique called coffee painting, where you actually paint with coffee. I stamped the image with Vintage Photo distress ink. I then started painting. I used white prisma colored pencil on left side of the light house tower and on the sails of the boat. I wanted to make sure that they stayed white and I was hoping the wax from the pencil would resist the coffee. 

 What I learned from trying this technique, is I lack patience. To get shading, I had to add layer upon layer drying in between each layer.

 When I do this technique again, I will have several projects going at once so I can rotate between the different ones while the coffee dries.

 I stamped this as a sample for this week's splitcoaststampers mixability challenge. With the ink, coffee and colored pencil, that would have been 3 different mediums, but I decided to add more.

 I decided to add black ink pen. I just traced over the lines from the stamp, but I didn't do everyone. 

I like the way that one step made it look. Probably the most CAS mixed media card I have ever made. It was fun to try this new technique.

Mix-ability Challenge 157