Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

Hello there!
Although it is actually raining at this moment,the theme for this weeks "Less is More Challenge"   is a lucky dip and the lovely team has picked a seaside them!
Here is what they say:

We have another song theme which this time is... 

I do like to be beside the seaside!

Anything with a reference to the sea or the beach or things nautical will be fine as long as your creation is Clean and Simple!

So here is my seaside card,and I now feel like a holiday as I haven't managed to get away this year.

I masked off the card to create the beach and sea,with distress inks of tumbled glass and wild honey,with a gentle edging of the blue for the sky. The stamp was one I had in my stash stamped with black archival ink,and I coloured in the stripes and spots with red gelly pens so they have a lovely glaze.
Hope you enjoy it!
I wish you all a happy and creative week!
Alex
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Where did nearly 2 years go?!!!!

Well I just can't believe that nearly 2 years has passed since my last confession.. post ;) . Well Scleroderma,operations and life in general took over. So I am claiming back a little bit of me time. And thank you to the team at  'Less is more'  for dragging me out of my cave..with a simple sketch challenge!
Here is the challenge:

We haven't had a 

SKETCH

for quite some time so here's a simple one for you to have a play with!

So I have had a lovely time playing with this layout and produced 2 cards! I am like buses,nothing for ages and then 2 come along at the same time !

Here is the 1st one:

On a plain white piece of card I blended distress inks wild honey and tea dye,stamped a lovely meadow scene in sepia archival ink and sprayed with cosmic shimmer 'Sunlight mist'. I then stamped a butterfly in versamark and embossed with bark WOW Embossing powder. I then added a little bleach to some water and 'removed' some of the colour from the butterfly to make it stand out. The Sentiment was embossed in bright white WOW powder onto a remnant of the second card which followed exactly the same process but with distress ink in Peacock Feathers.Wild Honey and Peeled Paint. So essentially I swapped over the sentiment from each card.

I hope that made sense,it has been a while!

Here is a close up for you....

And here is card number 2!

and a close up!

So I wish you all a happy Sunday and I look forward to looking at everyone's cards. With lots of love

Alex

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