Keeping holiday memories alive

Good morning, it is time for my 2nd design team inspiration post for Country View challenges. The current 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.

If you missed my first post, sharing my holiday photo journal  you can see it here

Today I am sharing the page I made to add to the holiday journal that Daisy made whilst we were away.

There was so much to inspire us. Daisy and I bought a postcard everyday. I used mine to record the day's highlights. Daisy stuck her's into her journal and then dictated to me what she would like to remember. I wrote this on a record card for her and she often added little illustrations like this one. 

We also took an Instax photo every day

 and some days she added stamping, stencilling or some of the die cuts I had packed.

I decided for my page I would use a stamped postcard as my focal.

I used the brilliant rubber dance one.

I also used another of their stamps from their seaside sets.

I made then more vintage with my distress inks. All the other stamps I used are also Rubber Dance

I decided to make a masterboard.  I started making my inky seaside background, I created a splattered background with my distress ink.

 and added lots of stamping

I also made some die cuts from Tim's amazing new 3D impresslits

as well as other seaside die cuts including some fun Memory box flip flops,

which I then altered with inks. 

I cut a piece of my masterboard and then put my design together,

 I would like to enter the page I made for Daisy's journal into the following challenges;

Rubber dance 1/3 colour palette or nature

Penny Black and More 2/3 I spy something beginning with B My Bs are beach, branch (die), brown , buoy (stamp), borders (for my 2 focal images)and blue

Pile it on 1/3 new technique mine is using these 3d dies for the border and branches. The texture and depth they give is awesome.

Lil patch of crafting friends 2/3 anything goes

Simon says stamp Monday sprinkles and splatters

Happy Little stampers use dies cuts 2/3  anything goes

Happy Little stampers watercolour 1/3 anything goes

Here are some close ups

 Here is the page inside her journal.

With the off cuts and spare elements from the masterboard I made a couple of pages for my own journal too...shown below, fondest memories of such a fabulous holiday. It also links our 2 journals together.

We hope to see lots more lovely entries to our sun, sea and sand challenge over at Country View ..and you may even win the £20 voucher! Here is the link. Good luck.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

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

Crabs in hiding

Good morning it's time for my Design Team Monday Make for Visible Image and today I am sharing an art journal page I have made for my holiday journal I am putting together after our recent wonderful Majorcan family holiday.

Daisy and I loved collecting shells from the beach but most were tiny. I did spot some bigger ones in the sea. However we soon found that all of them had brilliant hermit crabs in them...so we left them be and made do with small shells to decorate the sandcastles we built.

 We even built a moat which Daisy filled..but bless her she could not understand that no matter how many buckets of water she collected, no water stayed in her moat..bless!

But how about this for a castle, she was so proud.

So my journal page had to feature crabs and the sea. I reached for the brilliant crabs stamps from the Zodiac cancer set to work with.

 I used some "blue sea" distress inks and blended them onto some watercolour card as well as adding some "waves" and shafts of light using the ever versatile fibres stencil on its side.

 I stamped fibonacci

to remember the shells by and of course knew just the right sentiment to use. 

Good times from the No regrets set

We also saw lots of shoals of fish swimming in the sea so out came my fish stamps and bubbles from the dare to swim set

I also stamped and fussy cut the amazing camera from Capture the moment

So here are my crabs and camera ready to add to my page

and here is my finished page.

and as Daisy  loves to add wobbly eyes to things whenever she crafts with me I thought they would make a really fun addition to the crabs.

Here are couple more photos. I added some white pen highlights.

and one last one;

I would like to enter my art journal page into the following challenges.

Creative Artiste 2/3 anything goes

Simon says stamp Monday summer fun

Crafty Catz 2/3 anything goes/think summertime

Fashionable stamping 2/3 use those inks any way you want to

Simon says stamp Wednesday fun in the sun

Not just cards 2/3 anything goes
Studio 75 1/3 summertime
Crafteezee summer

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely to see you. You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £25 coupon to spend on the website.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are weekly stamp giveaways...open world wide.

And the shop web site is here; where all these gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

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If you follow Visible Image on Facebook you will have seen that there is a very exciting re release coming..with a slight twist.

Yes the characters from Wonderland are coming back with new sentiments and some additional little stamps. They are available for pre ordering from Friday...keep watching for all the sneak peeks and info over on the Facebook page here . I have been very busy over the last few days working on some samples and all will be revealed on the Facebook Live which is being aired on Friday.

Thanks so much for stopping by. The heatwave here continues and the heat over the weekend was quite incredible, it reached 36c on my patio and was far too hot to sit out in. I'm not sure how they managed to play tennis at Wimbledon!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x