Bears don't Surf? Monday 23rd June 2014

Hello Friends!

Some of you may have noticed that the title of this post is  a bit of a take on a well known quote from one of my favourite movies, Apocalypse Now...okay, maybe a bit too obscure if I had to explain it, lol! I studied it in depth at Film School, so it will always have a place in my top 5 movies and when I see it I will forever have to analyse every scene :)

Anyway, this card is one of two similar cards I made - one as a request from someone and this one for my friend's son's 16th Birthday. They love Cornwall and the beach, so this card is just a bit of bright, summer fun!

  I have no idea what made me choose this bear stamp by Sam Poole for my focal image...I do love this image so much that I will find ways for it to pop up in cards - be warned - ....I wanted the card to be a bit of fun and to include something that you wouldn't expect to find on a beach...now one of you is going to tell me that you have seen a bear on a beach aren't you??

 I do need to make one for one of my cousins in California, after all the  bear is their State emblem and as he surfs most days and has a wacky sense of humour, I think he'd really like it!

I used blue card to layer the front of a 7x7 card blank and mat and layered with ice cream paper by Pink Petticoat   - the little beach huts are also from Pink Petticoat.  The yellow sun/ star paper with amongst my paper stash. The surfboard is one of three digital stamps downloaded from MacMahon Five designs...just click on my sidebar link to visit. I thought the design on  this particular board could pass as paw prints!

The bear, huts and board are coloured with Promarkers and although you can't see it in the photo, I painted the board with glossy accents to give it some authentic shine. I think that the bear really has a look of 'What am I doing here, when I should be up in the mountains catching fish from a river"!!!

To finish I stamped the '16' using black archival and then heat embossed with a black glittery embossing powder. The stamp is part of a numbers set I got at Ally Pally a few  years ago and is by Darkroom Door...a very useful set as the individual stamps are quite large   The greeting is computer generated.

For the inside of the card I coated the base with yellow card and then printed off the fish paper from Pink Petticoat, I also printed the greeting from Pink Petticoat. I tore the paper to place across the centre and added another surfboard.

I also made a little gift card holder with paper from the same pad:

Did you all have a good weekend? I spent a few hours Saturday with some of my volunteers from work, at the Chipping Sodbury Festival Day, it was a very hot  day, but our stand was right outside my friend  Amy's shop and she very kindly brought us out a very welcome cuppa! Yesterday I spent the afternoon finishing off my old desk...all will be revealed for WOYWW this week.

Last Friday, Amy and I had our Festival Workshop, where our group made cards using Lavinia stamps. They all seemed to enjoy it and made some lovely cards. I have a few photos to share, but some of the group had left before I got my camera out and sadly some of the photos were really blurred when I downloaded them, which was rather a shame...here are some of the finished cards...

That's it for today...I will be back tomorrow with my weekly post for Sam: I have had such fun creating this weeks post. I love creating 'seasonal' home decor, so I've been making some items for the summer using Sam's nautical stamps...please check back tomorrow and thank you for visiting!

Love and Hugs,

Carole X

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