At the seaside

And back to crafting!

This is a birthday card for my friend Jo.

The card is a lovely speckled cream which I think is from my paper mill stash.

The background images are stamped in memento london fog ink using a lovely set from inkylicious.  I have stamped, cut out and added 3D foam to the shells for some extra dimension.

The beach scene is a Michael Powell stamp from DOCrafts.  I've coloured this using pan pastels for the sky, sea and sand which I haven't really used before (funnily enough the idea for this card wasn't how it panned out at all!).  I've also used copics for the beach huts.

Many thanks to Tracy who very kindly let me borrow her Stampin' up sentiment from the label love set as I 'tidied' mine at the weekend and it is currently residing in a safe place!!  I've punched it out using the matching punch (which I do have to hand) and punched another one to layer behind for contrast and to match the layering on the main image.

Creativity Club Day Out

What a great day we had yesterday at DOCrafts HQ for their first ever Creativity Club Members Day.

Thanks to Karen for getting us there - although we did have a little inevitable postcode fun on arrival, quite surprising some workers in the area didn't know where the largest building on the estate was!

After some play-time when we arrived with all the goodies on our table we had a workshop with Sheila Halliwell where we made this lovely Michael Powell card.

The image is stamped twice, the second one is partially coloured and cut out to 3D on to the first image.  We used DOCrafts aqua glass paints which I wouldn't of thought of using before.

The image is layered on to capsule card stock, the yellow layer was also cut with the looped fringe border punch.

Sentiment is cut from a Michael Powell A4 toppers set & layered.

The pinwheels are made from red card stock and placed on mini card springs (this picture doesn't give you the 3D effect of them).

Whole card then finished off with a selection of adhesive dew drops and we were all quite pleased with ourselves so went off to enjoy the BBQ for lunch!

More of our day out tomorrow .....