On the Beach

On the Beach

Hi There!

Hope you like our new topic

expect many of you are beached!

If you are on holiday - have a

great time, don't get sunburn

and come home safe

We have Louise Thomson here

today to start us off with a

delightful greeting card:

"You'll have to forgive me as I got all the

 shiny things out for this card and totally 

forgot to keep taking photos as I went 

along (oops!)

 Always have been easily distracted!

I started with a few distress oxides in 

shades of blue and green, smooshed onto 

my craft mat and spritzed with water.

 I repeated a few times to get the desired effect

 and made a tag while I was at it too... 

(waste not want not and all that!)

I placed the kaisercraft stencil over the

 blue and used a damp cloth through the stencil 

to remove some of the ink. 

Then I replaced the stencil and added grunge 

paste through it to create streams of bubbles.

 I also stamped some 'seaweed' in peeled 

paint distress oxide. (Technically the stamp is from

 Card-io's backyard blooms set, but I was using

 creative license) 

At the bottom of the card I added texture 

sand paste in quite a rough formation, 

then coated it in some yummy glitter and beads.

From this point onwards I basically went nuts 

adding every shiny thing I could find

 (which was quite a lot!)

Included here are metallic gel pens, 

stickles glitter, liquid pearls, wink of stella,

 glossy accents, and alchemy wax.

I also stamped parts of blue ferns' seaside 

stamp around the edges to add a border.

Next I cut some sea themed shapes using

 an impression obsession die set. 

Ever since I saw Helen Chilton use enamel 

accents on die cuts I've been wanting to try it

 - now seemed like the perfect opportunity. 

I used the enamel accents on some, 

and liquid pearls on others.

Time to add some text using some

 'ink-smooshed' card strips and a fine liner 

before mounting inside a card base. 

(I used a square die to cut the aperture 

from an ordinary blank card)

And that was it! 

Such a lot of fun to make, I hope it inspires

 you to get messy in the craft room 😃"

Materials;

Distress oxides

Card-io Backyard blooms

Blue fern studios stamp – seaside memories

Kaisercraft 12x12 mini mix stencil 

Grunge paste

Impression Obsession mini nautical dies

Stix 2 Seed bead mix

Stickles – diamond

Alchemy wax - Silver

Mister spray

Wink of Stella

Liquid pearls

Enamel accents

Sakura gelly roll pen – metallic emerald

Micron fineliner

A lovely card Louise - thank you
You did seem to be having a
lot of fun making this - I love
your embellishments


Amazing what you can do with
a die cut and some Enamel Accents
Nothing like making your own
embellishments!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx