MEMORIES

A step back in time on my blog today to a very old set from Stampin Up called Summer by the Sea - one of my favourites and one that hasn't been used in a long long time.  I think it dates back to 2005!!  As you may know if your read my blog regularly I am all about retired sets - that's why I started my Facebook Group The Joy of Sets - to celebrate stamps old and new - particularly Stampin' Up as they change so often.  It's such a shame I think for demos to buy the stamps and not always get a long time to use them - on my Group you can still share your products made with retired stamps!

I was inspired by Dawn Griffith to do a step card.

I wanted to keep my card with the muted colours of sand and so used Very Vanilla for my cardstock base.  I then used some SU  DSP Wood Textures for my backings and some of the papers from Kaisercraft Beach Shack which has the lovely sand on the boardwalk paper.  

I stamped both the image of the boy playing in the sand and the little girl looking out to sea possibly and kept the colours muted.  I used some old SU inks here including More Mustard, Daffodil Delight and Creamy Caramel for the sand, together with Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso and Soft Suede.  There is also a touch of Flirty Flamingo inked off to make it very pale for the skin.  All the edges were sponged with More Mustard.  

The sentiments are from a small little set I have from Papermania and I thought they went perfectly with the imagery.  The little butterfly just finishes off the card as well as a touch of Wink of Stella on the sand to make it glisten.

I loved doing this card - it really took me back to when my children were young and a particular holiday we spent in Mexico when we lived in Houston.

I'm putting this card into the following challenges:

TIME Out Challenge - and their word prompt of Sand 
SUO Challenge - Babies and Kids 
Global Design Project - #gdp153 - Colour challenge 
Retro Rubber #rrcb94- Anything Goes