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!
