Seaside memories

Hello welcome to August, our hot summer continues and it is time for our next challenge over at Country View. The theme for this month is very apt and is called "Sun, Sea and sand" . We would like to see anything summer or holiday related.   As always you can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. Your make can be anything creative! You may even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.

All the details can be found here.

I decided that I would make a holiday journal to remember the recent family holiday we enjoyed with our daughter and her family in Majorca. The beach there was delightful and I had such fun making sand castles with Daisy, something I have not done since my own children were tiny. I have already shared a page I made for my journal here

Today I am sharing the covers of my finished holiday photo journal. These photos are some of which are contained within.
The colours at the beach in Puerto Pollesa were so mesmerizing.

Jack (my grandson) had fun sitting in the sea and playing with (and eating) the sand.

Daisy and I both made holiday journals, you will be able to see the page I made to include in her one in my 2nd CVC inspiration post on 15th August.

The colours just took my breath away, the sand was more cream than yellow and this carried into the shallow sea as you can see in the photos above.
I decided to  use the background of this photo as my inspiration for the cover

and to try to recreate the colours using paints and inks.

I stamped these Visible Image words from their Express yourself set onto watercolour card and added some cream Paperartsy fresco paint for the clouds.

Next I added some texture for the sand using Decoart texture sand paste. 

I then dabbed on some blue fresco paint.

I masked off the sand with a torn sheet of paper and started blending some sea coloured distress inks

Out came my Visible Image fibres stencil and I added some more salty ocean distress ink through it

 this added  little more depth to my cover and brought everything together. A spritz of water and a dry finished it off.

For the back cover I made a distress background and stamped the sentiment from the Capture the moment Visible Image set.

I also added some stamps from their dare to swim set

I made an edge using Tim's amazing Mini provincial 3D folder and highlighted with some gilding wax

and here are my finished covers. 

Front

and back.

Here is a page from inside

I used cord to bind my journal and a spotty blue ribbon to tie it shut with.

It contains lots of holiday photos and memories. 

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

A vintage journey get sentimental

Simon says stamp Mondays wild things

Crafty sentiments 1/3 anything goes

Love to create anything goes

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Creative fingers 2/3 anything goes

Little Miss Muffet 2/3 anything goes
Crafty catz 2/3 anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I might have inspired you to make something for our August sun, sea and sand challenge. All the details can be found here.

Have a fabulous August, we seem to be continuing with our heatwave here in the UK and 2018 looks set to be a record breaking summer.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

*********PS Today I am also over on the Country View Crafts shop blog promoting the brand new Visible Image Wonderland release which is on sale today!  If you would like to see what I got up to with the new dark hearts stencil do check out the post here too.**********
Here's a sneak peek

Jx