Ice cream and Gelatos

A couple of weekends ago we enjoyed a visit to the beach with Daisy and her Mummy and Daddy. This time our destination was Stoke's Bay and Pebble Beach. We had beautiful weather and Daisy loved picking up pebbles and putting them in her little bucket

 The view across the bay is to our beloved Isle of Wight.

The light on the sea was really magical. My daughter and I sat and chatted on the beach mat and smiled watching Daisy pottering around with her Daddy and Granddad. She kept bringing things up to show us.

Her little red bucket and spade was bought last year on the Isle of Wight when we were all on holiday there.

Such a busy little soul.

We decided an ice cream was in order and en route we watched the kites flying.

Daisy is not yet a huge fan of ice cream but she likes the cone part so she had a non ice cream ice cream ;0) 

The following week a package arrived which I had considered buying for a long time...yes Gelatos. These are big in the mixed media world and I have considered buying them for months. I found a good offer and bought this set of bright colours.

I scribbled some onto my art journal pages and then got rubbing and misting with water.

I added some white paint to soft gel to try to get the same shimmer on the waves we had seen at the beach. I rubbed this onto my pages with a palette knife,

I also made some drips to represent our ice creams melting in the sunshine

I die cut lots of shells and edged them with gold using a marker. I also die cut some Memory Box crabs in gold card.

Here are my finished pages. I added the red kite to represent the kites we saw and Daisy's red bucket. 

I wrote my words with a micron pen.

Here are some close ups.

I would like to enter my art journal pages into the following challenges;

Pixie's Snippet Playground week 192 here I used some tiny snippets of card to die cut my leaves and gold crab

Love to create anything mixed media #18

Anything but a card celebration mine is a celebration of summer

That Craft Place Mixed media, anything goes

The craft barn animals mine are crabs

Simon says stamp Wednesday make it colourful

Frilly and Funkie a touch of gold

Creative Inspirations warm colours

Papertake Weekly anything goes

Rubber Dance celebration use any previous colour board I have chose the June board

September has now arrived and I have noticed the trees are beginning to look very autumnal. Today is my non work day and I have some crafting planned as well as some other bits and bobs. I have started working on some autumnal pieces including something for a GD post coming up next week which has been such fun to make. Watch this space.

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Bye for now,

Jane