Take me to the Ocean by Brenda

Good morning and Happy New Year to you all.

Today I am sharing some of my creations made for Lesley's recent Hochanda show which showcases some lovely sea and beach inspired stamps.

Although it didn't occur to me when I made the card at the top, when Lesley mentioned on the show that it reminded her of the postcards which were always on sale in seaside resorts I could see the resemblance. I used various elements from Seashore Dreams and Seaside Scenes stamped in Versfine black coloured with pencils and the backgrounds added with Pan Pastels. 

This litter box had been sitting in my crafts room for a few weeks since one of my daughters in law 'donated' it to me and I thought the Kraft colour lent itself to the beach inspired stamps. All were stamped using elements from  Seashore Dreams and Seaside Scenes stamped onto card which I had colooured with Mica sprays, then cut round to add to all four sides of the box and a further panel on the top. I stamped the lighthouse several times onto shrink plastic, cut out and punched a hole in to top of each piece...............do remember to do this before shrinking as once shrunk it's impossible to punch and cut through, then tied the pieces to the box with twine.

The top of the box

For this one I stamped the main image from Seashore Scenes again using Versafine Black and coloured with pencils and Pan Pastels and fixed behind a circle aperture, added a border round the aperture and a die cut anchor.

This one is a fairly quick and easy card, stamping the image from Seashore Dreams with Distress Ink and dragging out some of the colour, then added some tiny shells collected from a beach in Majorca a year or two ago. The sentiment is from the same stamp sheet.

As always my thanks for popping in today and I hope I have given a little inspiration to get you stamping and thinking ahead to warmer days by the beach.