Tuesday 28 January 2020

Seaside Bucket and Spade Gift Cards

Iris and Bertie are off to Ladrum Bay in Devon for Easter, it's Bertie's most favourite place in all the whole wide world and I decided to make them a little card each to put their ice-cream money in.
The cards measure 10cms x 7cms and are pre-scored from Papermill Direct (pack of 50 with envelopes, but don't quote me!)  I don't usually gravitate to making this shape or even size of card, but on this occasion they lent themselves perfectly to the Jolees stickers that I must have had for a million years, they are real blast from the past as I started off my card making "career" using them or similar, until they got stupidly expensive online, but hey ho, I have finally used them!
I created the background creating a basic beach scene.  I tore strips of the blue papers to give a ragged white line effect that  looked like waves, which I then accentuated with a white gel pen.
The sentiment was hand written to make it more personal, but if I were to do something similar again, I might perhaps be tempted to use my Dymo label maker.  Goodness knows where the metallic effect seaside embellishments originally came from, another pack of something I have had forever, but when I dug them out they were in perfect proportion to the buckets.  I just love the crab!
The little boats in the distance were from Paperchase, again, in perfect proportion for the scene.  A few doodled seagulls here and there and clusters of three dots, using a black fine liner pen complete the design. Now to find two crisp £5 notes to put in with them!