A Day At Zombie Beach

Hello Nomad friends.  I hope you are having an awesome day.  I spotted the new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and it finally made me sit down and make this special beach scene.  Welcome to Zombie Beach.  It's a bit like Bondi, just more un-dead..........

Bwahaahahaaaaaaaaa!  

I couldn't resist these Art Gone Wild Zombie Beach characters when I spotted them a little while ago at a shop in Norway.  I blended distress inks blue, yellow, blue on a slimline textured base card.  The sign is DRS Beware of Zombies stamp.  I used Cheery Lynn dies for the zombie hands, stars and nuclear bottle and sizzix dies for the sentiment and black crosses.  The fish is a magazine die.  I stamped, fussy cut and coloured my Art Gone Wild zombies with distress markers and gel pens.  I also used a white galaxy marker to add some 'waves', since the zombie hands were too busy to wave LOL. 

Hope you enjoy my Zombie Beach as much as I do.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge 213 - Z is for Zombies
Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero June Challenge - By The Sea
De-Egel Juni Challenge 144 - Strandkaart 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Something Beginning with S sea, sand, stars
Country View June Challenge - Seeing Stars
Double D Challenge Beach Time
Scrap the Rainbow - Moodboard

 

Secret Sea Horses

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some inspiration for the Under the Sea Challenge.   I hope you are loving all the undersea adventures the team is sharing with Lost Coast Designs sea themed stamps.  If you haven't checked them out then do hop over and enjoy the teams fun, gorgeous and quirky makes.  

I love the sea and the mysteries beneath and I've used the beautiful Doodle Seahorse stamps to make a picture.

I made a subtle background with baby blue embossed small Doodle Seahorses and distress inks.  I've also used Lost Coast Designs Bubble Background and Cracked Grass stamp and

most of Carmen's Veranda Live In The Sunshine sentiment.  Hop over to the blog for all the details and more piccies.

 

Don't forget to check out all the awesome makes from the team and link up your stamped Under the Sea makes for a chance to win. 

Thanks for dropping by. Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge Week 625 - Happy Bright Colours

Bubbles

Hello.  Welcome.  New stamps at Lost Coast Design and I have had fun making a bubblicious underwater scene with the lovely Doodle Seahorse.

Hop over to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for all the details and to link your stamped makes to the Anything Goes with stamps challenge.  There be prizes!!

Lost Coast Designs is sponsoring the Allsorts Tags Challenge this week so for another chance to win Lost Coast Designs stamps hop over to Allsorts and link up your taggy makes.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Seahorse is joining the fun at
Cards und More Challenge 26 - Sea Creatures
Country View Challenges - Sun, Sea and Sand
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Wild Things
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make Your Own Background
Passion for Promarker Challenge 455 - Spots and/or Stripes Seahorse coloured with Promarkers 

See Horse

Hello.  Welcome.  Feeling taggy and all at sea still so came up with this bright delight

Well, I did say bright!!

I cut my tag from teal card, stamped the nautilus shell tone on tone and the starfish collage in black.  Both from Rubber Dance Retro Beach set. 

I added some glitter glue and neon wool, cos I thought it looked like water weeds, and a couple of mdf seahorses from Things to Alter.  The sentiment is from Rubber Dance En Liten Hilsen and is Norwegian for 'to a friend'.  We'll have you talking bi-lingune in no time!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Fashionable Stamping Challenge 113 - Under The Sea
The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Challenge - All Things Bright and Beautiful
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Texture
Hjerteboden Juli/August - Alt er Lov 

All At Sea

Hello.  Welcome.  I'm going to say it in pictures cos I falling asleep at the keyboard.  What do they say?  Don't drive while tired.  Ah well.   I've been working on my APC for Claudine's challenge.  This is week 7.  See Claudines cards HERE.  

Card 11  I applied various blue distress inks to my card base, dripped some water and dried.  I embossed a piece of old packaging with Sizzix Cirque ef.  

I decided to stamp my sentiment on the background.  And messed it up.  Then I decided it need something else and hi-jacked the turtle that I had stamped for another project.  The stamps here are all Crafty Individuals.  The gold edge was created using my Pilot gold marker.  The seahorse and leaves are Sizzix dies.

The seahorse was cut from gold corrugated plastic from an old chocolate box.  I coated it with crackle paint, which crackled and started to fall off!!  So I added some copper acrylic and then covered the whole lot with glossy accents.  Hopefully everything will stay put now!!

Card 12  I used VersaMagic chalks for this card.  Blues for the background and brick red for the stamping on the background.  The stamps are all Crfty Individuals, except the lady with the ship on her head.  That's a PaperArtsy stamp.  I used some paper tape to mask the center of the card before applying the inks, so I'm sorry, but I will be taking the love away.  Hugz

 

There she is, lady with a ship on her head.  The compass is a CI stamp covered in glossy accents, and a finger print!!!! LOL  Impatient crafter at work again.  The metal do dads are from Korthobby and maybe CI as well.  I did a knot with some twine and the CI seagull was stamped on vellum and fussy cut.  

 

My seaside duo.  And that's me up to date, at least for a few hours......

Joining the fun at

Korthobby Utfordring Oktober - Alt Er Lov

Thanks for dropping by.  Big hugz and crafty wishes.

Out of the Closet

Hi Nomad friends.  This week I realised that I have been hiding in the desert for too long.  I must out and make myself known.  Twice this week I have been addressed as Iona.  Now, I think that's a great name.  I have no problems with that but it did make me realise that my profile is verging on the non-existant.  I am going to own up and stand tall.  Check it out.   Maybe I'll go wild and include a photo. 

OK, so a while ago Von over at Artful Times challenged us to use at least two embossing folders.  Now I was all excited cos I love embossing folders.  They are my friends and make me look good.  That said, it was the New Year and I was all excited about a lot of things so I am only just answering the call.   Hi Von.......

I made a pair of tags.  I am so pleased with my new embossing folder Spellbinders M-Bossibilities Sea Beauty.  I used both sides.  I embossed some white card then used Sizzix Framelit Die Frame Ironwork to cut my tags.  This is pointed both ends so I cut the bottom square.   Then I fussy cut the shell shapes and die cut the seahorses with Sizzix original die.  I coloured with Distress Inks - Broken China, Pine Needles, Shabby Shutters and with Brilliance Dew Drop Rocket Red.  Brum brum.  The weeds in the background are Sizzix Flowers and Vines #3 which I embossed with Sizzix embossing folder Regal Flourishes and coloured with Shabby Shutters.   On the seahorse tag the RHS shell and the front seahorse are mounted on sticky pads.  The LHS shell on the second tag is also on sticky pads.  I was working on fish but couldn't find any that seemed to fit and then whilst looking through Crafty Individuals background book Seaside I found this perfect quote.  Happy dance.  I finished the tags with a clump of wool, embroidery thread and gold thread which I thought looked kind of like seaweed rising through the water.  Too much poetic blurb?  

I am entering these for Artful Times Challenge 20 - Embossing

I have doubled checked my spellings but please forgive any errors.  My new computer and I aren't quite seeing eye 2 eye.  I hit the keys but the letters don't always come up, or I get doubles.  I think the mouse pad is more sensitive as well cos occassionally I end up typing half way up the page so maybe I am brushing against it accidentally.  Or maybe the machines are trying to take over the world.

Take care friends.  Off to add a bit to my profile.  Maybe at least a name.  Don't want to get too carried away.