Oh, To Go There!

I do miss the beach, just to walk in the surf, hear the waves crashing, the gulls...ahhhh. For now, I'll have to settle for pictures!

I have 2 cards to share today for the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast. I got to sit in for the regular hostess as she headed up to be with her daughter and the birth of her first grandbaby!! Congratulations Rox!!

  

I used Picturesque, by Innovative Stamp Creations, and watercolored it with reinkers (I heat embossed it first with Distress Black Soot ink and clear embossing powder).

You can see I flipped the sketch for this one. It's layered on DCWV's Travel Stack.

I added a little Hawaii Beach Mudd Puddles. (I'm trying to talk Dave into coming to Stampaway in August in Cincy! So all of you in the area that want to see this stuff, could!)

I added some white gel pen to the waves and a little to the sea grass too =) 

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Then for my second card, I used two sets from Our Daily Bread designs, Mom and Scripture Collection 4.

You can see I left off the optional doodad. The flowers are watercolored with reinkers, then I used my craft knife to cut away the top portion for the "out of the box" look.

I gave it a good dose of Glimmer Mist Honey Dew. It's all layered on Basic Grey Kioshi. I liked the Martha Stewart Loops punch, but it needed just a little something extra...so I put the piece of Anna Griffin ribbon across, tucked it behind and used a piece of gold embroidery floss to scrunch the ribbon in two places!

Hope your mid-week is going great!!

thanks for stopping!

Dawn