Swim deeper

Good morning, I am here today with my 2nd design team project for our current August challenge over at Country View Challenges

The theme is a very apt one for summer, it is Oh I do like to be beside the seaside and you can find all the details here. So obviously we would like to see all your seaside themed projects.
I love collecting shell as I walk along the beach and have lots around my house and in my studio.
One of the best places I find shells is down at my daughter's, Lee on the Solent, the beach is literally full of them.

They regularly get put on the sandcastles.

 I just love shell hunting.

For this project I used another of my favourite seaside themed stamp sets.This one is by Visible Image and is called Dare to swim. The seashells are from their Mythical mermaid set
I added some sand texture paste to card and when  dry sprayed with some fossilized amber distress oxide.

 I used the Visible Image fishnet stencil and added salty ocean distress ink.

to make this background

I then stamped the large jelly fish onto a left over piece of acetate and coloured with alcohol ink. When dry I added some glossy accents and a sprinkle of glitter.

I stamped the shells onto mop up card and the sentiment and fussy cut everything out.
Here is my finished card.

and a couple of close ups

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

Gem of a challenge 3/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
A bit more time to craft 3/3 anything goes
The artistic stamper 3/3 anything goes
Crafters' castle 3/3 anything goes
Love to craft 3/3 anything goes
Crafty calendar 3/3 anything goes

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our August "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside" challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! Once again all the details for the August challenge can be found here.

I will be back very soon with the winner of my recent 10th bloggerversary giveaway.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon

Bye for now

Jane x