Beachcombing Card - Boy with Sailboat At the Seaside

I'm home with a sick little guy today,

so while he's coloring and resting his voice, and we wait

for his brother to get home from church so we can read all together,

I thought I'd try to catch up on posting some cards that I made before

the unexpected vacation last week!

 

This particular one was a lot of fun to make,

as I was thinking about beach-combing and the hodge podge of discoveries

to be made in tidal pools and along beach walks.

These treasure-finding expeditions by the sea enchant children and adults alike.

 

 

With the stitching, I like to sometimes mix it up between zigzags and straight lines,

or only stitch a part of the design.  This way it doesn't get too boxy or simply look

like an outline--it gets to be part of the layout in a more meaningful way.

 

 

You can see here how I used clear Gloss on the ocean and tidal pool

to accentuate the water.

In general I try to never cover the entire surface, as that ruins the interest

and also tends to cause a lot of buckling.

 

 

I can almost feel the salt air blowing.

 

 

 

 

Here are the challenges:

 

 

That's Crafty #27: Sea Challenge

 

Tuesday Throwdown #295: For a Child

 

Craft Addicts #16: ATG / Bling

Now I know I haven't used gems.  I wanted to go for a more natural sparkle on this

card with the glass gems and idea of sparkles on the water in summer sun.

 

Creative Knockouts #143: ATG

 

 Aud Sentiments #156: ATG + sentiment

 

Really Reasonable Ribbon #141: Vintage 

 

Word Art Wednesday #233: ATG / Family Friendly 

Suffer the Children to Come to Me

 

 

Pile It On #109: Tic Tac Toe

I've used Twine, image, and a circle tag

 

 

 

Materials Used on this Card:

Cardstock {Kraft, Ripe Avocado - Papertrey Ink}

Patterned papers {Making Memories, K & Company}

Vintage image {The Graphics Fairy}

Glossy Accents {Ranger}

Sentiment and circle frame stamps {Papertrey Ink}

Circle nestabilities tag dies {Spellbinders}

Palmetto Stamp {Stamp Museum - this rubber is 14+ years old}

Distress and pigment inks - for palmetto and background

Shell and coral stickers, wooden spool {The Paper Studio}

Wooden button trim, burlap ribbon, cotton twine, glass gems {stash}

 

 

A view of the finished inside:

 

Stamped onto 220-grit sandpaper for some very interesting texture.

Fully-lined 5x7 card with cream-colored calligraphic parchment

for lots of writing room.

 

 

Thank you so much for visiting!

I hope you will take just a second and

enter for my Spring Giveaway before you go!

Inlinkz is so quick and I've opened the giveaway to both US and

International crafters as well.

Picture and link are on my right-hand sidebar. :)

Take care and

Be well,

 

--Kathryn