This was a class project, a 12 x 12 beach page using the Waves of Inspiration bundle and the Friends are like Seashells bundle.

The focus was on getting creative with water. We used our aqua painters to wet the edges of our Balmy Blue card, then with the card wet and soft we were able to curl the edges and they stayed that way once they were dry.

We also used water to stamp on one of our tags. We cut 3 of the largest tags with the straight edged top. One in crumb cake, one in pool party (this was the journal box) and one in white. We also cut a curvy edged top tag in white. The straight edged tag we sponged with pool party ink, then stamped the background stamp (sprayed with water) onto the sponged tag. The water lifts up some of the sponged colour and allows the original white card to show through. We also flicked on some drops of water with an aqua psinter. When dry, we stamped shell image on top.

We used a black stampin’ write marker pen to colour in a portion of the stamp that we wanted for the words on this page. Original words were – “Love you to the beach and back”.

Some of the group wanted to do a second page, so here was my mock up. It isn’t complete as I needed to order more Pool Party 12 x 12 card for my base. I needed to add more journaling to the pool party tag. And I was going to redo my water tag using the large shell image… but you get the idea.

I decided to make the wave come up to the sand for my second page and I used from pieces of white card left over from the wave die cut to make foam in the sand.

We are just coming into our beach season here in New Zealand, so doing a page like this makes me excited for summer. I hope this layout inspires you to get out your beach photos and try something creative with them.