Good Morning everyone
Gosh the months are flying by, its time for a new challenge We Love Stamping with the theme this month chosen by me is
SUN, SEA &/OR SAND
So plenty of options there but if thats not for you we always have the anything goes option as long as you use stamping
I dug out a very old chocolate baroque stamp set with these fab seagulls which is very apt as as the seagulls which nest on my roof spend most of their time sat on the washing line posts in the garden. In the heat the chicks have fallen off the roof so inhabiting the back garden so its a no go zone for now unless you like being dive bombed😁
6x4.5" card. I first stamped the seagull image onto white card and then the poem beside it using dark blue ink. I die cut into a fancy rectangle, this is a very old spellbinders die but i thought the edge had a bit of a rope effect look to it. I then watercoloured the scene with distress inks. Once dry i stencilled on the sun with lemonade distress oxide ink, keeping it soft around the poem. I stamped the seagulls a 2nd time, watercoloured and cut out the posts and seagulls and decoupaged onto the base image with pinflair glue gel for a little dimension. Added a few white gel pen highlights.
Then adhered to a kraft card base card, I went with kraft card as once again felt it picked up on the theme.
The poem reads
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be dented; and all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, and the flung spray and the blown spune, and the sea-gulls crying.
Items Used:
Chocolate Baroque stamp set 'seashell collage'
Spellbinders die set S5-217 'Valiant honor'
Sheena Douglass 8x8 stencil 'sunrays'
Distress Inks tumbled glass, salty ocean, chipped sapphire, vintage photo, wild honey, aged mahogany
Distress Oxide 'squeezed lemonade'
Kraft card
This month we have these beautiful set from Lisa Horton as the prize so do hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and be in with a chance of winning
Thank you all for stopping by once again. I hope you all have a good week whatever you get upto. Emma
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Absolutely beautiful Emma,a brilliant seaside scene
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ReplyDeleteA fabulous card Emma, I also have seagalls on my roof. Ginny x
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It's a lovely Ocean scene for your theme Emma, always liked those CB sets.
ReplyDeleteOnly recently did I learn more about Seagulls from one of our sone who likes on the south coast. He has the same problems as you and I was amazed when he said they can live to 30 so once installed in the roof hard to shift. And said he's lost count of the number of crying children who lose their ice creams to them.
B x
Stunning scene Emma, fantastic watercolouring on your background and lovely soft sun stencilling xx
ReplyDeleteA beautiful perfect summer scene and great sentiment!
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That is such a perfect card Emma, from the frame to the image and words. Brilliant!
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