This month's challenge on the Crafty Individuals blog is Sun, Sea & Beach. I have the CI beach hut set but there have been so many beautiful examples using this set that it was hard to come up with something else. I decided to use the colours the theme conjured up - yellow, blue and beige. I used pastels to scribble the sky, sea and sand. CI's Alice Palace British Bulldog was stamped on a piece of scrap card and watercoloured. I made a sun hat with a small rolled flower. The letters were cut from Tim Holtz's Alphabetical die. I added some tiny shells from CI's beach hut set.
Edited to add: It struck me that non-Brits may not fully understand the sentiment. There are several elements in a traditional British seaside holiday of days gone by - a stick of rock (hard candy I think it's called in American), fish and chips, the weather (usually wet and windy with the odd glorious day in between that makes it all worthwhile) and a 'kiss me quick' hat which was always available to buy in the seaside shops. This was basically a sun hat with 'kiss me quick' written on it.
An original way to represent summer!! I love your dog with hat!!!
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Wonderful seaside background, love the added sunny coloured sun hat.
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Love your interpretation for this Challenge - great 'kiss me quick' image with the British Bulldog! Thanks for joining us at CI this month. Jean x
ReplyDeletelol, loving his kiss me quick hat, Annette x
ReplyDeleteA lovely fun card, the sunshine 'kiss me quick' hat really suits that bulldog lol
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I have only two CI sea theme stamps in my stash and I used them.NO other ideas came to me. And now I see this, very very inventive and funny! Brava!
ReplyDeleteThat was my problem Gio. I figured that most people would have the beach hut stamp and would use it for this challenge, I couldn't think of an original way of using it so I tried to think outside the box a little.
DeleteWhat a wonderful, holiday mood creation! Love everything about it, especially that dog with the marvellous hat! Thanks for stopping by and looking at my Dictionary Page! Julie Ann xxx
ReplyDeleteA very lovely card !! Your dog with his hat makes me smile too! :-)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous work. Coco xx
Love your card for summer sunshine..I love this stamp too and he looks fab with the sun hat! Thanks for visiting my blog earlier, Carole Z X
ReplyDeleteLove your card very amusing not sure I want to kiss the dog though adorable or not! Thanks for your comments on my blog7
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Haha, thats funny. Well done
ReplyDeleteMy first thought when I saw this was: witty! And you're right, in a sea of beach huts and girls by the seaside (yes I'm one of those), your card stands out.
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