Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 July 2017
Summer Revisited
The current Addicted to CAS challenge is :
One of my favourite summer memories from childhood involves warm Ontario days spending hours in an Adirondack chair (aka Muskoka chair) under a tree reading a book. I did a variation on this card a few weeks ago evoked by the fir trees at the cottage we used to go to, but wanted to do one in memory of the Adirondack chairs we had at home under the deciduous trees in our backyard.
Friday, 16 June 2017
Deckchairs in the Sand Dunes
Time to remind you to come and join us at CAS Watercolour for our June challenge!
The card (see this blog post) I made for the opening of the challenge was inspired by the part of my childhood spent in Ontario - it depicted a Muskoka (or Adirondack) chair. Today's card depicts the canvas deckchairs of my English childhood (I was born and raised in England until the age of 10 when we moved to Canada).
My grandparents lived on the south coast of England and I spent many summer days on the beach with them. They would always carry their deckchairs down to the beach as they didn't like sitting on the sand. The chairs are quintessentially English - rarely seen in North America, but Ikea was selling them one year and I just had to buy one in memory of my childhood.
My good friend, Christine (of It's a Card Day's Night and fellow CAS Watercolour DT member), has this wonderful stamp and die set so I borrowed it from her to continue my theme of summer memories for the CAS Mix Up challenge. She grew up in Wales so the deckchairs are no doubt part of her childhood too!
I stamped and watercoloured the row of chairs, and then used the matching die to cut them out. On another piece of watercolour paper, I thoroughly wet the lower half and dropped in lots of sand coloured paint. When dry, I randomly wet the upper half and dropped in just a bit of blue paint. When that was dry, I stamped my sentiment (the card is going to an English friend who has a summer birthday).
The die cut chairs are glued down along the bottom edge but popped up with foam tape along their upper edge to give some dimension.
I did a second version using the same stamp but without die cutting the chairs.
This one will go to my cousin in England who still lives in the small town on the coast where our grandparents lived.
Please come and join us at CAS Watercolour. There is lots of inspiration from the rest of the Design Team. You have until June 24th to link up your clean and simple watercolour card on the theme of Summer.
The card (see this blog post) I made for the opening of the challenge was inspired by the part of my childhood spent in Ontario - it depicted a Muskoka (or Adirondack) chair. Today's card depicts the canvas deckchairs of my English childhood (I was born and raised in England until the age of 10 when we moved to Canada).
My grandparents lived on the south coast of England and I spent many summer days on the beach with them. They would always carry their deckchairs down to the beach as they didn't like sitting on the sand. The chairs are quintessentially English - rarely seen in North America, but Ikea was selling them one year and I just had to buy one in memory of my childhood.
My good friend, Christine (of It's a Card Day's Night and fellow CAS Watercolour DT member), has this wonderful stamp and die set so I borrowed it from her to continue my theme of summer memories for the CAS Mix Up challenge. She grew up in Wales so the deckchairs are no doubt part of her childhood too!
I stamped and watercoloured the row of chairs, and then used the matching die to cut them out. On another piece of watercolour paper, I thoroughly wet the lower half and dropped in lots of sand coloured paint. When dry, I randomly wet the upper half and dropped in just a bit of blue paint. When that was dry, I stamped my sentiment (the card is going to an English friend who has a summer birthday).
The die cut chairs are glued down along the bottom edge but popped up with foam tape along their upper edge to give some dimension.
I did a second version using the same stamp but without die cutting the chairs.
This one will go to my cousin in England who still lives in the small town on the coast where our grandparents lived.
Please come and join us at CAS Watercolour. There is lots of inspiration from the rest of the Design Team. You have until June 24th to link up your clean and simple watercolour card on the theme of Summer.
Friday, 2 June 2017
Summer Memories
The year is flying by and it's already time for the June CAS Watercolour Challenge. This month the theme is "summer".
I lived in Ontario from age 10 to 14, and we used to go to a summer cottage for a couple of weeks each year. I have such a strong memory of hot days (so hot the sky seemed to go very pale from the heat), some large fir trees near a patch of lawn with Muskoka chairs (what Canadians in Ontario call Adirondack chairs) on it, and me curled up in one of those chairs reading my book in the shade of a tree. That memory was the inspiration for this card:
I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and chair, then watercoloured it and the grass and sky areas with my Gansai Tambi paints . I die cut the tree out of a leftover piece of green smooshed watercolour paper, and went over it with a bit more green and also some brown for the trunk.
The panel is popped up on fun foam with the tree added on top but slightly extending off the panel.
You have until June 24th to bring your summer-inspired watercoloured cards to CAS Watercolour - and please remember to keep them clean and simple!!
I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and chair, then watercoloured it and the grass and sky areas with my Gansai Tambi paints . I die cut the tree out of a leftover piece of green smooshed watercolour paper, and went over it with a bit more green and also some brown for the trunk.
The panel is popped up on fun foam with the tree added on top but slightly extending off the panel.
You have until June 24th to bring your summer-inspired watercoloured cards to CAS Watercolour - and please remember to keep them clean and simple!!
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