Guest Designer at Michelle Perkett Studios

Good Morning from a sunny Birmingham. I cannot tell you how happy I am to see some sunshine, goodness know we have had some miserable weather in the UK!! Hopefully I will be able to shake this cold I am saddled with at the moment too :)

Today I am delighted to be a Guest Designer at Michelle Perkett Studios. They have a challenge at the moment of Let's Go To The Beach. I would love to go to the beach, shame we live so far away so I will have to be satisfied with making images of the beach instead.

I used a gorgeous little digi 'Olive' to make this card and coloured her in with Promarkers.

I used a Kraft base, layered some paper from DCWV which has been inked around the edges to knock it back a little. I mounted the image on some more Kraft and using one of the DCWV papers cut the waves out in 2 layers to emulate the sea. These are mounted on a thin 3d foam and I curled the edges forward to make it look more tactile. These were very fiddly to cut out but so worth it.

I had been following the sketch from Card Patterns #125 and up to this point everything was going well but with the trims and mats my image became too big for my card base and looked out of proportion so I 'fixed' it by moving it over towards the right hand side and added a strip of paper from the ribbon sheet that the waves came from. Last but not least I dug a little shell embellishment from my stash and added it to the sand.

There is a freebie available with the current challenge so no excuse not to take part, hope this little spell of sunshine will have you enspired :)

Card Size - 5 1/4" square

Sketch - Card Patterns #25

Image - Olive by Michelle Perkett Studios

Paper - DCWV (ALL SCRAPS!!)

Embellishments - resin shell

Tools - 3d Foam pads and good old scissors

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical order) :-

• Bizzy Becs - Borders & Frames
• Bunny Zoe #14 - Fun in The Sun
• Card Pattern's #25 - Sketch for layout (please see my blurb above!)
• CCEE Stampers #1130 - Make a seasonal card
• Cheerful Stamp Pad #22 - At least one Circle
• Clear It Out Tuesday - Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge #126 - Kids
• Craft Your Day's Away #25 - Summertime
• Crafty Calendar Challenge - Under The Sea/Water Theme
• Crafty Purple Frog - Take a Dip
• Creations by Gill M #12 - Beach Scene
• Delightful Challenges - Summer
• Digi Doodle Shop's Best #69 - Anything goes
• Digistamps 4 Joy #24 - Image of a child
• Divas by Design #7 - Summer
• Do It With Digi's #15 - Summer Fun
• Easy Craft projects #43 - Summer
• Floweret Stamplar #5 -Vacation
• Fussy & Fancy #41 - Summer
• Hot Spot Challenge #6 - Vacation
• House of Gilli - Anything Goes
• I Love Promarkers #76 - Anything Goes
• Jules Crafty Snippets #29 - Card all made with scrap papers
• Kich N Bleus #4 - Summer or Outdoors
• Little Darlings #4 - Girlie
• Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
• OOh La La Creations #85 - Circles
• Papercraft Star #55 - Anything goes
• Paper Cutz #101 - Anything Goes
• Paper Playtime #51 - Summer
• Paper Shelter #24 - Anything Goes
• Phindy's Friday Challenge #64 - Doubling up (2 rows of waves)
• Pile It On #30 - Fun In The Sun
• Pink Elephant #109 - Fun in The Sun
• Shelly's Images TTT - Summertime
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes
• Squigglefly #108 - Kraft
• Stampavie & More #148 - Summer
• There's Magic in the Air - At least 6 layers
• Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes