On the Beach

On the Beach

Hallo Everyone!

Hope you are having a good

time and continue to enjoy the

holidays

If you are having to have an

indoors day do take a look

at Craftyfield's delightful

scrapbook page - it is sure

to inspire you to make a

page or two..........

"What better way to get in the holidays

 spirit than to look back to our last beach outing... 

Forever late in my scrapbooking, it was 

high time I documented it. The small photo 

immortilizes the day my men went into the mud 

flats and came back with what we named 

"Shrek's feet". I can't remember why, but at 

the time it provoked much hilarity...

Apologies for the main photo, the printer ran out of ink!

I'm using some masking tape to isolate what 

will be a sea impression, made with 

Distress Oxide in Faded Jeans, 

applied with a brayer

I applied the sand (DO in Fossilized Amber) and 

stencilled the sun with regular Distress inks 

in Squeezed Lemonade and Scattered Straw.

Using the masking tape I extend the sun rays.

Kaisercraft have some great washi tape 

but as I didn't have any to hand I made

 my own with some sticky labels and a stamp. 

I stamped with Archival inks and gave a wash

 of colours with DO. 

I then cut pieces from these as I needed.

 A bit of stencilling with a Carabelle stencil

 and DO in Walnut Stain.

 Using gel medium I add shells, sand 

and micro beads.

At this stage I was sorely tempted to turn

 this into a painting, as the DOs did such a great

 job at illustrating a beach, effortlessly...

A bit of stamping with Impression Obsession 

Create-A-Card Canvas. 

I am using it without the acrylic block to 

add small areas at a time. 

I also add some stamping with the same 

Kaisercraft stamp I have used for the "washi tape".

To finish I added some Kaisercraft flourishes 

(Life's a beach pack, of course) and die-cut words.

 Here are a few close up pictures."

Supplies:
Distress Oxides:
Brayer:
Distress Inks:
Stencil:
Archival inks: 
Kaisercraft texture stamps:
Carabelle stencils:
Gel medium:
Micro beads:
IO Canvas CAC:
Memento dye inks: 
Kaisercraft flourishes :

Looks such a simple page Craftyfield

but on closer inspection there is 

more and more to see.  Thank you

for the inspiration.  Those Oxides

are a fantastic addition to the 

range aren't they? 

I only ever scrapbook odd memories

and I just love that

you can do as much or as little as

you feel and still have a great page

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx