Watching boats

   I recently bought Faye Whittaker's paper pad and this is one of the cards I made using one of the pages from the pad.
   I wanted a light weight card since it had to be posted and therefore used designer papers from two old Papermania pads that I had in my stash, rather than card for the matting and layering. To embellish the card I added a bow and card candi, the latter tying in with the dots/spots on one of the papers.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   ABC - L is for lots of layers
   Incy Wincy Designs - birthdays
   Papertake Weekly - pretty pastels
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - picture inspiration (the anchor reminded me of the sea)
   Through the Purple Haze - anything goes

Balloons

  My twin grandsons have their birthday on Friday and are going on their first beach holiday, so I thought I would reflect that in the cards I made for them. I generally make similar ones for them, then there can be no argument! This is one of the cards.
  This image is from a stamp called 'sailing boat' from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker  collection. I coloured it with Promarkers, cut it out and decoupaged it onto a background formed from various layers of mulberry paper. The two large balloons are made from honeycomb paper and are tied together with a label.

  I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
  Joanna Sheen - boys will be boys
  Dream Valley - summer days
  Cute Card Thursday - beside the sea
  Eureka Stamps - anything goes
  Incy Wincy Designs - birthdays and balloons

  And so that one twin does not feel favoured over the other here is the other card. The image used is from the same collection and is called 'sandcastle'.

An evening stroll

  This image from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker All Our Yesterdays is called 'Little Dog'. I coloured it with Promarkers and then framed it with two colours of core'dinations card from the neutrals pack. The paler card, however,  is a little more creamy than the photo would suggest. I stamped and coloured some sea creatures from folia's variostamp maritime set and attached them to the frame with glue gel.

 I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:
 Eureka- hitting the beach
 Wednesdays creative inspiration - at the beach
 Allsorts - fur and feathers 

Three Little Maids

 This stamp is from the Seahorse stamp set from Joanna Sheen's All Our Yesterdays range.  Coloured with Promarkers and distress ink it was then mounted onto mirri card cut with a Spellbinder die. The backing paper from JS's Faye Whittaker Collection CD Rom had distress ink added to the sea and edges. Blue and yellow ribbon was threaded alternately through this at the base and mounted onto core'dinations card stock. The swirls were cut using Marianne Creatables dies.