June Elemental Cahllenge

 

Hello! 

Welcome to my little crafting place! 

Still trying to catch up with crafting and blogging - I do have quite a few makes to share(!) but today is Daring Cardmakers Day  I've my card for the June Elemental Challenge to show you today 

Nat said

Here's hoping June will have less of the torrential showers, and more of the flowers and other summer delights!

For this month's elemental inspiration image I chose something quintessentially reflective of British summertime (come rain or shine!).

Yes, the seaside!

Choose 3 elements from the image to interpret on your card (remember the colours count as one element) and share your wonderful creations with us!

 (Image source)

I recent;y bought a few sets of digtal papers with a seaside/nautical theme as I needed to decorate a new visitors book for our holiday rental flat in Southwold, so was happy to have another excuse to use them.  They are super-fab and as well as having background papers there are lots of clipart elements too.

So my card is a real hybrid with digital papers and elements, die cuts and 'real' things like charms, shells and twine

 

My three main elements are the yacht, anchor and lighthouse from the picture on the blue background, but the theme is obviously the same seaside one and I used a few different background papers including one like the blue striped one.

I resized and printed 3 pieces of paper to create the background, arranging and overlapping them until I was happy with the layout then adhering to my card base. 

 

 

 

 The lighthouse, beach hut and seagull are all clipart, resized and printed onto white card, then cut out, I added some chipboard nehind to add extra dimension

The anchor, seaweed, shells and the palm trees are die cut using

Coastal Escape View Etched Dies  

I added some tiny real shells, twine, a timy wooden fish and a pretty starfish enamelled metal charm and made a nautical style knor to the space at the top.

 I had such fun putting this together!, I hope you like it!

 

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Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx