At the seaside

We've got a lot of birthdays and anniversaries coming up in the next month or two, so, yeay, lots of excuses to make cards. : )  I've taken my 3 girls out yard saling a couple times this summer.  Usually, one at a time, but this week I had all three.  At one yard sale, there were several old SU! sets for $3 each!!  I got three and my 7-year-old got one, but we are going to share.  This seaside set was one of the ones I bought.  Unfortunately, it didn't have the name on the box, so I don't know what it is.  Anyway, I wanted to try the smackin' acetate challenge from Technique Time Tuesday and I thought this set would be perfect to create a beach scene.  It was a bit tricky since I didn't want the colors to be where the chair was.  So, I stamped the image on my Stamp-a-ma-jig sheet then flipped it over and pressed it against a scrap piece of cardstock (had to have the reverse image so it would work out right when I flipped the acetate over).  Then I laid my piece of acetate over the image and used it as a guide as to where to color with the markers.  Spritzed it with some water and then flipped it over onto my square of cardstock and there it was: a cool watercolored scene with a blank white space just perfect for stamping my chair onto.  I added a little bit more green to the grass with my marker after I stamped the image to define the grass a bit more.

Challenges:
Technique Time Tuesday--smackin' acetate
Viva La Verve August week 4--sketch

Raisin Boat--Hooray for Summer

Supplies:
Stamps: unknown SU! stamp set (chair and seashells); "Sweet n' Sassy Stamps "Anniversary Innies"
Embossing Folder: The Paper Studio "Quatrefoil"