Thursday 19 June 2014

I do love to be beside the seaside!


It's still sunny here beside the sea on the north Cornish coast today although a breeze is making it deceptively cooler, but a great day for sailing! My DT card for this week's Cute Card Thursday seaside challenge features the cute LOTV lad with his sail boat and I wanted to create a scene with him using the sail boat from the Marianne Design Don & Daisy summer scenery set.  I've coloured with my Copic pens and added touches of glitter for the waves.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Whimsy Stamps - always a great prize!

And here is my card, a different picture to the one on the CCT blog - I took another this morning so there are less shadows, but the colours don't look quite as bright - ah well!

My papers are from the Maya Design Life in the Country pad, Happy Birthday is cut with a Joy Crafts die from red SU! card and I've decorated with punched fronds and die cut shells using Marianne Design dies.  The numbers are also MD - and my original plan was to make a birthday card for my grandson to give to one of his friends .. .. but I couldn't think if they would be mostly 5 or 6 years old so cut each number, then saw how they both looked together and turned it into a 65 year old birthday card, perhaps for a keen sailor that's about to retire and spend a bit more time at the beach! The numbers are only fixed with a single foam pad each so if necessary I can do a bit of tweaking .. .. that's the joy of making your own cards.

The shells are MD LR0230 with a touch of chalk ink on the embossed areas.  The numbers are MD COL1347 and the set comes with a couple of stamps to add pattern - I left mine plain.

Moving Along With The Times blog challenge is also beside the sea side so I can enter with them, and the ABC challenge is up to the letter 'N' for nautical, so I'm in with them too!

9 comments:

  1. Another brilliant creation Annie!! Love it!! Dorset is bathed in sunshine today and could actually do with a bit of your sea breeze so please send some up!! xx

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  2. Absolutely gorgeous Annie, so love those sea shell dies, they are so realistic looking! Such a gorgeous image too!
    Debxx

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  3. Great card, fits the MAWTT challenge perfectly. All the accents are superb, the Happy Birthday is stunning and I love the addition of shells and seaweed. Cx

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  4. I adore your gorgeous card Annie.
    Sue x x

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  5. Aawww such a lovely card Annie! I adore the image and fab background and love the shells too :)
    Kelly.x

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  6. Absolutely gorgeous and adorable too.
    luv
    Debby

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  7. Oh this looks really wonderful. Thank you for joinig us at ABC Challenge. Hugs! Mojca

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  8. A beautiful card, love the shell embellishments. Thank you for sharing with us over at ABC Challenges. Take care, Ann-Marie xxx

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  9. Just gorgeous.

    Love that birthday die behind the image, and the lovely shell diecuts.


    Thanks for joining in with our Nautical challenge

    Lin
    ABC

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