Feeling beachy keen

Hello, crafting friends!

There's a brand new challenge at Addicted to CAS today and our lovely hostess Ceal has chosen just the right code word to get you relaxing!

Blue skies, sunshine on your skin, warm sand between your toes...don't your shoulders immediately go down when you imagine the scene? Mine did when I was making today's card! 

I masked off the edges of a card base and stamped the beach scene from Scene it More by Clearly Besotted. I sponged in a sea/sky and some sand then added colour and detail with  coloured pencils and a Posca white acrylic paint pen.

The sentiment was stamped below the beach in the non-inked area and I made a wide frame for the scene with two stitched rectangle dies from Heffy Doodle and attached it to the front of the card.

I highly recommend making a peaceful beach scene so do come and play with us! You'll find loads of inspiration at the Addicted to CAS challenge blog and we have the amazing Jen Mitchell as our special guest this week! The Linky Tool will be open for two weeks so that you can share your own creation. Have fun won't you - and don't forget to keep your card nice and clean and simple with plenty of that all important white space!

CHALLENGES

I made this card for my son who has just finished a pretty difficult year at university so I'm linking up with Heidi's Masculine challenge at Watercooler Wednesday.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

My daughter has been visiting us and I've been making the most of her delightful company, so apologies for not being around much this week. Now that she's gone home, there's a very sad golden retriever in our house, so I'll be busy cheering her up with long walks and some of her favourite games.

Sending hugs,