Sunday 25 August 2013

On the beach

This week's challenge at CD Sundays is "On the beach".

I was surprised to find, on searching through my CDs, that the only beach related images I had were on the Viva La Divas CD which I used last week, so didn't want to use again so soon, and on The Best of La Pashe 2012 - and one of the DT had already made a great card with that one.

So I searched through the images on the Hot Off The Press CD "5,400 Tags & Art" and found quite a few beach-y ones, but rather than print out all the tiny tags and images and try to assemble them into something, I took the sunbathing ladies image and blew it up to the size of a topper before printing out that and a complementary smaller image.

Then I picked out a piece of kraft paper I'd been avoiding because the colour wasn't quite right for most things.... too "sandy"...... and made a 6" square card blank out of it. I stamped the shells down one edge in Versamark then matted my images onto black card and added them along with a few pieces of black Candi.

We were in Cornwall the week before last and we didn't get any sitting on the beach weather - so I'll just have to look at this and daydream!

9 comments:

Marina said...

I love this - great idea to blow up the image and the base card is the perfect sand colour. Marina

Linby said...

wow Jane this is great work, I love the composition.
Lnn x

sue-b said...

Great card Jane and very cleverly compiled too, the images are lovely. thank you for joining us this week at CD Sunday.
sue-b xx

Jocelyn said...

Fab card! I love the image you have chosen and the colour is perfect.
Jocelyn x
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Sue's Crafty Corner said...

I love this card Jane, it's so different and perfect for this weeks theme. Thanks for joining us at CD Sunday this week.

Sue T x
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Beryl said...

Well done for seeing beyond the image as a tag and blowing it up to a good size. It's a great image and a super card. Thank you for joining us again this week.
Beryl xx
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Wynn said...

This is beautiful Jane I love the scene and the colour combo. Hugs Wynn xx

starcyl said...

I really like this one Jane, a very clever design.
Jenny x
CD Sunday DT

Cazro said...

A lovely created card, clever ideas. Thanks for sharing with us at CD Sunday challenges. Caz