Have A Sunny Day!

Woohoo!!  I had the chance to make a card just for the fun of it on Monday!!  I used lots of the stamps from the new Magnolia kit to create this beach scene pop up card.  As I had lots of time on my hands I also decided to have another go with the distress inks - it takes me so much longer than colouring with copics, and the result is far from perfect, but I loved it and it was so relaxing and that's what it should be about, right!?  I'm going to enter my card into the Colour Create Challenge which is yellow, blue and white and  Midweek Magnolias which is anyhthing goes.

 Here's a closer view without all the reflection in the foreground.  (Ihope it doesn't look as fuzzy for you as it looks on my screen!!  I don't know what is wrong with my photos just lately!)

 How cute is MiaMia the Flamingo!?  She has been painted with fired brick, worn lipstick and festive berries distress inks.  I've used the fence doohickey die for my beach fence, the shells are from Hobby Crafts and the flower is from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I also added some tulle behind the shells to represent a piece of fishing net washed up on the beach.

 I masked Tilda with one of the shell stamps, I think she looks so cute sitting on it!  I added dots of white gel pen to her shoes.  I love her shoes I used to have some just like it and loved them!  I added "sand" with some embossing powder that I glued on instead of embossing and made little pebbles with liquid pearls in mushroom.

 For the background I have used the setting sun and the mini Tilda from the set.  The rest of the background I have drawn myself.  It is all painted with distress inks and I added some stickles to the sea to give the effect of it glistening in the sun - love that when you're at the beach - I could look at it all day!

 Here's a close up of mini Tilda.  Oh my was she hard to paint - I need to get some smaller brushes!!  I don't think she turned out too bad though considering I don't paint often and how tiny she is!  Her hair seems too big for her though or is it just me??

 I added some doohickey clouds at the top of the background and added the sentiment from the kit which I've cut into three for added interest.  The edge around the image was cut with some itonic scissors and the dots are mushroom liquid pearls.

 Here's a view looking down onto the beach.  I added some more fencing, lots of shells and a rose from Wild Orchid Crafts.

 Lol, sorry about all these photos, I just loved all the different angles of this card :)!

 The card folds flat for posting as the back panel slides down into the bottom section.

 If you want to make a free standing pop up card yourself you can find the tutorial I used here.  I hope you like it and thanks for looking! x