Summer is here

I hope my post heading is correct, it certainly feels like it as sit here typing this.  It's Team A's turn to provide the inspiration over at The Crafty Pad Challenge this week and this is my card:

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Joanna Sheen

 

 who is offering one lucky winner 

a £10 voucher to spend in their online store!

 Thank you Joanna 

and our challenge this week is:

#172 - Colors of your Country's Flag 

or Sketch 

or Both

I flipped the sketch and also loosely followed the theme with my card. The image is The Crafty Pad - Beach Hut and the papers are NitWit Collections - Tour London and Aye Aye Captain. I used my Spellbinders Nautical Frame and Accents border die to create the wave border at the bottom using the same Core'dinations Whitewash that I have used throughout the card. I made my own bunting and the buttons and raffia are from my stash. The letters have been in by stash for as long as I have been card making so it felt really good to use them at last.

I have distressed the edges of the card stock, sanded the border and kept the colours muted to try and create a shabby, seaside feel.

The inside of my card has also been decorated:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenge 40 - Vintage/Shabby Chic

Papertake Weekly Challenge - True Colours

Creative Craft Challenge - Distressed!!!!

Charisma Cardz Challenge 20 - No Flowers Allowed!

PaperPlay Challenge Week 21 - Summer Lovin'

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner Challenge 11 - Show us your Distress

Love to Create Challenge 16 - Song Inspired (Summer Holiday)

Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 69 - Vintage or Shabby Chic

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge 80- Anything Goes at Penny's

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 77 - Dig out the Old (I have had the SUMMER letters in my stash since I first started crafting - it was so good to finally use them)

Make sure you pop over to The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog, check out the other DT inspiration and have a go at this weeks challenge, don't forget you can either follow the sketch and/or the theme.

Thank you for visiting today, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think, I do enjoy reading them all.

Pauline
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