Summer By The Sea

It's Monday, Lovelies! My day was sunny and warm, and since I'm retired the only stress involved is me getting this posted, lol. Hope yours is going as well or better! I've actually had a pretty awesome day. Catching up on my blog email subscriptions, and I learned my art was a winner or Top 3 in 4 challenges!!! WooHoo! I don't usually comment (I do always list them on my sidebar!), but finding out about 4 in one day is something I'd call a rarity! Like I always say, some folks play the Lotto, I play the blog challenges! A BIG THANK YOU to PaperBabe Stamps, Di's Digi Designs, The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up and Stamplorations!

Well, I must have been on a Deco-Roll because I made another one. This 8x8" piece has been sitting in my UFAPs (Un Finished Art Projects) for almost 2 years, can you believe? I only know this because back then I had taken a photo of the "dry run" (the collage before glueing it down) and saved it to a folder on my computer for when I got that Round Tuit, lol. Thank goodness, for had I only had the collage elements I would not have remembered how to arrange them.

 Let's see: All of the vintage images except the fish and clouds (they are punched and die cut) and the birds (stamped) are from Gecko Galz collage sheets. I have listed the sheets below under Challenges. The base paper is Graphic 45 On the Boardwalk collection. I darkened the lower half with Distress Inks to be sand and have accented this by using strips of German foil scrap I inked with Brilliance Galaxy Gold. The blue top and bottom border strips were cut with a wave border punch and then stamped with border stamps and heat-embossed.

 This is the back. I adhered another G45 sheet of ladies on the beach and water. I always like to cover the back first in case I end up with a lumpy front.

Here's some close-ups and final view before listing the challenges I've linked up to:

CHALLENGES:
1.  Gecko Galz June Customer Challenge: Good Old Summertime - I have used images from the following GG Collage Sheets: By The Sea, Splish Splash, and Monthly Sheets for July 2016, July 2017 and August 2017.

2.  Scrapping4Fun Challenge #142: Summer
3.  Art Journal Journey: Words To Live By
4.  Use Your Stuff Challenge #362: Vintage - I have used many vintage-style collage sheet images.
5.  Crafty Creations Challenge #391: Always AG
6.  Love to Scrap Challenge #122: No Rulz 3
7.  Moo Mania Challenge #192: Things with Wings
8.  Saturday Paper A La Mode Challenge June 8 - June 21: Fish or Owl - I have fish at the bottom.
9.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #27: AG with a Critter - I have fish, pelican, birds and a seahorse.
10.  Time Out Challenge #137: Nature - location is the beach and the sea

11.  Crazy 4 Challenges C4C487: Add Sand  - I used inked paper and border scrap to represent sand.

That's it for me! Thanks so much for visiting. Have an awesome evening and week! xoxo