HUGS

It will be my 33rd Wedding Anniversary in September and I have been thinking of a card for hubby. One of my favourite retired sets from Stampin Up is called Summer by the Sea and stupidly I got rid of it when it retired all those years ago - 2006 I think!  Browsing ebay (shh) I spotted one which didn't cost the earth and was lucky enough to win the bid.  It was just the image I wanted for my Anniversary card as hubby and I are going to Wales (our home) for the weekend to celebrate and spend some time on the quiet beaches.

So I dug out my sponges and some inks and created a sunset theme - inspired by the wonderful Dawn Griffith.

I used Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody and Rich Razzleberry to create the sunset scene.  The water was a piece of whisper white inked with Pacific Point and torn.  The sand scene is some crumb cake inked with a non SU dotty stamp I have and then some images of grasses from the Autumn Days set.  I then stamped the image of the pair onto the Crumb Cake in Early Espresso and coloured them in with watercolour pencils and the ink using a blender pen.

The birds image is a Tim Holtz one.  The Hugs was a RAK to me from one of my members of my Facebook Group Joy of Sets and I'd been looking for a great project to add it to.  I love how this card turned out and hope hubby likes it too!

I am going to add this into the following challenges:

As You See It #182- loosely following their Divided challenge
Cards in Envy - New Product - the cut out wording and the stamps are new to me
Global Design Project - #GDP151 - Take Me To The Sea
The Paper Players #405- Colour Challenge ( I have added the touch of blue which may not be allowed )
Sunday Stamps - Colour Challenge #SSC185 - Summer Splash
Watercooler Wednesday #WWC183- Masculine Challenge - this is for hubby!
TGIF - #tgifc173 - Beach scene

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