I do love to be beside the seaside ...

... I think that's what this little chappie is singing!

This card is based on sketch 225 on Sketch Saturday, which this week for sketch 264 was asking us to choose any sketch from 216 onwards:

I've used a mixture of offcuts of spots and striped papers and a blue wood print behind the image, which is from the Nutcrafter sailor boy digital stamp set (I cut and paste the two images to go side by side)  which I chose as my prize for winning Nutcrafters 44. I coloured the image with a mixture of copics and Marvy le plume alcohol pens.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Nutcrafters 46: show us texture (the woodgrain paper)
Red carpet studio 42: going digital
My heart pieces: use a digi stamp
Bloggers challenge: at the beach
Mark's finest papers speedy fox & friends 165: beach
Corrosive 177: summertime
Eureka 45: summertime fun
Lexi 93: summer  holidays
Take time for you 95: sun, sea, vacation
Make my Monday: create a summer scene
Melonheadz friends: it's a summer challlenge
Deep ocean 54: welcome summer
Paperminutes 275: summer, sun, sunshine
Aud sentiments 83: summer
The house that stamps built DCC619: summer
MilkCoffeee: summer fun
Brown sugar: summer
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: summer
Pattie's 70: summertime fun
QKR stampede 44: summer fun
2 sisters: summer fun
Di's digi: show us summer fun
Mema's crafts June: father's day, graduation or summer/vacation
Scrappy frogs June: summer vacation
Stamp and Create June: summer fun
Designed to color 14: summertime
Creatalicious 52: all about summer
Dream valley 59: father's day/male theme
Joanna Sheen: father's day or male card
Little Claire 34: male theme
Here come the boys 54: let's go dotty
Crafts 4 eternity R129: spots and stripes
My time to craft 227: spots & stripes
Simon says stamp and show: stripes
The sisterhood of crafters: stars and/or stripes
Get inky 7: red, white and blue
Delightful: red, white and blue
Paper playtime 13: red, white and blue
Going grey with scrap-creations: patriotic - red, white, blue
Perfect sentiments 85: red, white & blue
Whimsical: getting patriotic - red, white, blue
Clearlyistamp: colour: red, white & blue
Simply create too 40: use the colours in your country's flag - red, white, blue
Pink gem challenge 85: male birthday with sentiment
Fashionista 17: wedding or birthday
Fairytale 70: happy birthday
Totally Gorjuss 189: happy birthday
A and T 25: happy birthday
My Sheri 113: birthday
Lacy sunshine 11: anything goes
Inky chicks 7: anything goes
Pause dream enjoy 13: anything goes
Platypus creek 35: anything goes
Party time 126: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Crafts and me 138: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Sister act 12: anything goes
DL.ART June: anything goes
Inky linky 20
Make it Monday 146
Inspire me Fridays 108
52 card pickup 2.25

Summer surfing

For this card I've used the colours for Annaeblle 165:

The orange paper is Basic Grey offbeat and the main paper is Basic Grey obscure.

Both of the sentiment stamps were inked with memento rich cocoa.

This is also for:

Flourishes timeless 226: make a splash
Bastel-traum: water
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): water fun
A gem of a challenge 85: male birthday with sentiment
Pumpkin spice 25: anything to do with a sport(s)
Cards for men 13: let's get sporty

Pink and green should be seen

This is for the 'pink and green' Charisma challenge 24.

The spotty background paper was a magazine freebie. The white panel was splattered with a spray of shabby shutters distress ink, water and perfect pearls powder. The green ribbons are part of a Docrafts tea house set, green silk flowers from Create & Craft, butterflies from Poundland and sentiment 'it's your birthday' from Craftwork cards.

This is also for:

Crafty ribbons 49: flowers galore
In the pink 22: pink with flowers
That craft place: flowers
Polka doodles 25: summer birthday
Creative inspirations 220: anything goes + option: ribbon
Dutch dare 222: things that begin with the letter B - butterflies, birthday
Desert island 56: I chose: patterned paper, gemstones, ribbon, spray mists, sentiment

Have bicycle, will travel ...

This one layer CAS card is for the colours for CAS colours and sketches 30:

Also for CAS(e) this sketch 33 (I flipped the sketch to stamp on the left instead of right)
:

I masked off part of the scalloped edged card blank, swiped with shabby shutters distress ink and stamped part of the Debbi Moore's Travel stamp inked with memento rich cocoa. The sentiment stamp is from a free magazine set, inked with fired brick distress ink.

This is also for:

CCEE 1325: CAS masculine
CASology 50: free (free to travel wherever your dream takes you)