Sandcastles

In the UK, today is Father’s Day.  I love this Beach Life set from Colorado Craft Company and we have photographic evidence of my sister and me burying Dad in the sand when we were kids.

I debated whether to position the sandcastles in front or on top of the mound and opted for in front, although the masking process would be the same.  I stamped and clear heat-embossed the sandcastles first as I was going to use alcohol markers to colour the image.

After stamping and sandcastles onto the sticky part of a sticky note, I trimmed it and positioned it over my prior stamping.  The mound was then stamped over the top.

Using a selection of alcohol markers, I coloured the image, adding a little sea in the background plus a few birds drawn in with a fine liner.  I like to have a scrap of card available so that I can test my colours as the lids aren’t always very accurate.

For my Dad’s card, I used Happy Happy Happy by Lawn Fawn for the sentiment.

For the second card, I used the sentiment from the set. I’d used a smaller piece of card for this panel so I used the small images from the stamp set to decorate a piece of blue card to mat onto a DL card blank.