Life's a Beach

Well, Hello!  It's time for another What If? Wednesday challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  This week is a Designer's Choice and Deonna has chosen the challenge of using at least 2 stamps.

This week it feels like summer is hitting us full swing!  Yeay!!  Last night I went for a walk on the sea wall with my good friend and today my sister and I took my three girls on a "field trip" to walk on the Cliff Walk, so I definitely have the beach and ocean on my mind.  This time of year is the best time to live in/around a beach community.  Anyway, I digress.  I started out by using my clear block and some aqua mist ink with a spritz of water to create my "sky".  I did the same with Creamy Caramel ink for my "sand".  Then I stamped my sandcastle with a dark brown and used the Creamy Caramel with my SU! blender pen to watercolor the sandcastle.  I used Grout Gray to stamp my clouds in the sky.  I used the aqua mist again to sponge around the edges of my second layer to tie in the colors and then distressed the edges for a less perfect feel.  I ended up using 4 stamps: Sandcastle, clouds, sand dollar and sentiment.  Thanks for stopping by, I hope you get a chance to play along.  Hop on over to The House blog for all the details and to see what the rest of the DT has done with this challenge.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Sandcastle", "Clouds", "Sand Dollar" and "Life's A Beach"

Inks: SU! Creamy Caramel; PTI Aqua Mist; MFT Grout Gray and Chocolate Brown

Challenges:

Where The HeART Is #10--anything goes

The Paper Girls #105--the great outdoors

Mojo Monday #451--sketch

Hiding in My Craft Room #253--summer colors (the colors of the sand and sea)

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps #333--summer

Sweet Stamps--anything goes

Crafter's Cafe #150--vacation