Summer Days (and showing the mistake from recent beach card)

Happy Saturday! It's time for my new Allsorts challenge card share and since several of my blog readers wondered what the mistake was that my dear hubby fixed for me (on one of my last Allsorts challenge cards) I decided to show you the original card LOL. But first let's talk about the new Allsorts challenge, it's Sarah's turn to host and her optional theme is "Summer Days". This is another 2 week challenge for the summer. If you are done with summer crafting then please do share all your other new crafty makes (Anything Goes) for a total of 3 entries. We have Prizes from Stampendous, two beautiful stamps and one set of stamps.

For my card today I used the beautiful palm trees from Just for Fun Rubberstamps. I'm not sure what happened to the company but it appears that they are no longer in business. I used to be on their design team many years ago.

I started out by inking up the sky, masking off the bottom third. I used Antique Linen, Victorian Velvet, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress inks/oxides. When this was finished I used Black Soot to ink up the bottom portion. The trees, boat and birds (both from a retired Hero Arts stamp kit) were stamped using Versafine Onyx ink. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Tiny Text sentiment set. I also used a MFT cloud stencil for a few clouds.

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I'd like to share with these challenges:

• Classic Design Challenge - Summer Vacation
• Crafting Happiness Challenges - Hot Hot Hot
• Crafty Calendar - AG
• Creatalicious Challenges - Summer
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - AG
• Little Red Wagon - Masculine
• Sweet Stampin - Summer Fun
• Stamping Sensations - AG Option
• The Crafting Challenge - Summer
• The Paper Funday - Summer Vacation

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Ok, so now here I am sharing one of the card I had made for the last Allsorts challenge which my husband decided to fix for me or it would have ended up in the recycling bin.

I won't be offended if you laugh, I can't believe I didn't notice how wrong everything was until I uploaded it to the computer. 

As you can see, the proportions are so off and the palm tree looks like it's growing right through the girl who seems to be sitting by a small wave (without water!!!) in the middle of the sand collecting a sea shell. So wrong LOL!!

Above my husband first used white paint (gesso?) to cover up part of the tree trunks and the bottom portion of the sand, then used his watercolor pallet paints to add a little more water in that area as well as sand to where the tree tunks used to be. And that is how this project could be saved :)

Thanks so much for visiting!

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