And here is the card I created:
At first this was a very challenging challenge for me! I can barely remember what happened yesterday, never mind during my childhood! But as I was looking through my Repeat Impressions stamps to see which would work best for this challenge, I came across these beautiful Sea Urchin images and just knew they were the ones! My grandparents used to spend the winters in Puerto Rico when I was growing up and we were blessed enough to be able to visit them several times. They lived just a few houses down from a nearly deserted beach and we always had so much fun down there. There were so many shells, sand dollars (you could walk along in the water and feel them just under the top of the sand), and sea urchins. I have a small collection of sea urchins and they have always been my favorite. The white ones are so elegant and simple, but the green and purple ones are so gorgeous! My mother used to have the giantest purple one and it was just stunning! So, that is what I came up with--I created a pattern of purple and green sea urchins for my background. Then, I heat embossed two of them with a really sparkly gold embossing powder. And finished everything off by adding some dots with a gold paint pen to both tie in the gold sea urchins and fill in the pattern a little bit. You can see the sparkle and shine of the embossed images in the photo below.
Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo. And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.
Supplies:
Challenges:
Double Trouble #46--something, anything, everything (Thing #1: anything goes)
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #120--anything goes
Double Trouble #46--something, anything, everything (Thing #1: anything goes)
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #120--anything goes
8 comments:
I love your pretty card Heather, and it was fun to read about your memories of visiting your grandparents in Puerto Rico!
Beautiful card and memories of your grandparents, like the layout and colors you used and the touch of gold! Happy New Year!
OMG, Heather, I love hearing about your summers at the beach! This has been such a fun challenge - I'm learning a lot about my team mates! Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing, and Happy New Year!
This has been so much fun to read about every ones childhood memories, and love your purple and green sea urchins - to spend time on the beach in Puerto Rico. You are right I can't remember what happened yesterday but my long term memory is intact and I often remember childhood experiences. Great job on this challenge.
What a fun memory and I bet it was a blast playing on the beach in PR. Wonderful take on this super fun challenge.
Fabulous card! I just love the memory of your childhood with your grandparents. You truly were blessed! Thanks for joining us and good luck with with your entry!
Hugs, Joy
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Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, Owner/Coordinator
Hi Heather, a wonderful memory of your childhood holidays in Puerto Rico with your Grandparents, love the repeated sea urchins in the beautiful colours. Thank you for sharing with us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, my apologies for running late with commenting... Megan DT LPoCF
What a lovely memory for a beautiful card. Love the sparkle and the soft purple of the sea urchins. Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble.
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