Lazy Days of Summer

Greetings! It is good to be back online after a hiatus of sorts.  My dear husband and I had a lovely trip to Austin, Texas and my dear standard poodle, Josephine, is recovering well from a serious surgery.  I thank you to each of you who expressed concern for Josephine and wished me well on my travels.  My first post in returning is for the newest challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenge where we are challenge to create a project around the theme of Summertime, in soft ice cream colors.  For my piece, I chose to finally ink up this gorgeous stamp by Crafty Individuals (CI).  I began by spraying Dylusions Inks in Turquoise and London Blue on Specialty Paper. (My ice cream flavor would be Blue Raspberry!)  The bathing beauty was stamped over top.  To soften the image, I matted it with a torn paper from a CI Summer Paper Pad.  The card base was stamped with some beach huts, seagulls, a sentiment and postmark, also from CI.  The huts were watercolored with Distress Markers and the edges of the card base were distressed with Salty Ocean and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.  Some gauze flowers, by Idea-ology with pearls added, tiny sea shells from my stash, and a repurposed ribbon from the Funkie Junkie Boutique complete my card.  I hope you check out the inspiration pieces created by the rest of the Design Team at FSC.  Their work is simply second to none!  And, I hope you will consider submitting your own project for our viewing pleasure.  Please remember we are a stamp challenge so digis are not permitted.  Full details can be found at FSC and as always, there is a wonderful prize for the top winner.  Good luck!  Best wishes, Yvonne