Maybe I'm ready for a trip to the beach!

It is happening on July 16. It will be the first time in about 12 years that I really got down in the sand, although I've gone for walks above the shoreline in Coronado, Long Beach, Santa Monica (numerous times), San Diego and Catalina, and on short-hop cruises involving the latter two of those places since then. So these beach stamps get plenty of use, except for the lighthouse one that caused my husband Don to buy these stamps for me a few years ago. I made this one for World Stamping Week at Two Peas as well. Some things I did were create a water color background with water pencils (ask me more if you want), and add to the large micro-beaded starfish sticker I already had by glueing a starfish from my starfish stamp on top.

San Diego

One of the places I really like to go is San Diego. Don and I have probably been four or five times now. Our most recent trip was shortly after my cousin Jodi moved to Coronado. But that was only for a few hours. It's usually for a weekend. I hope we can do that again in the not too distant future.

Here is a card I just made with a left over photo of San Diego. Blue and purple is one of my favorite combos for beach photos. I used red here because of a color challenge on the World of Stamping Week challenges going on June 11-18 at Two Peas In A Bucket. When I did the layouts, I used blue, purple and orange on one, blue purple and grey on another.

Both the tree and the shell border are stamped in two colors. The key is to stamp the second color over the first as close as possible, but a little bit of shadow is OK. This is another challenge on WSW at Two Peas.

You can do this if you have clear stamps - or wood stamps with a stamp positioner. I used Marvy Uchida markers in blue and violet to ink my stamps. You could use ink just as well. If you have white ink, try it as the first color. There are some samples at Two Peas that do it this way.

This card actually meets five challenges in WSW. If you want to know more, check out www.twopeasinabucket.com

I feel like posting again

I see it has been more than a year. I was going to share the stampy projects on this, because I had an idea to sell stamps. But that didn't work out. I got discouraged. I even started another blog, more about real life. I can't remember the last time I posted on it either.

But you know, I still do some decent things with stamps. So, I'm going to share one with you. I stamped an entire background on this layout, with some outtake photos of my nephew's wedding. Enjoy.