Oh to be relaxing

....on a beach just like this one. Just off the South of Phuket lies an island called 'Lone Island' and we used to love going there for the day. Just the two of us to a very private beach, no tourists, a picnic lunch and our own boatman. Total bliss! So, when I recently won some stamps from Flonz, one stamp in particular stamp jumped into my shopping basket right away - thank you again Hazel! I do think they have some unusual stamps at very good prices, even though they have to travel from New Zealand. Lots of vintage ones too girls!

This week's challenge over at Less Is More is to use a coloured card blank, and it's one layer at that - bit of a double whammy there for me but I think I got there in the end:

I used:

- SU 'Tempting Turquoise' card stock, cut to A6 size in a tent fold, with the left hand corners rounded

- the stamp from Flonz is called 'Landscape with Palms, Moon and Lake' - looks more like the sea to me, stamped using Memento 'Tuxedo Black' with some colouring on the moon and white gelly roll ink on the breaking waves

- sentiment is by Stampendous called ''Feel Sand', also stamped in Memento 'Tuxedo Black'

- before stamping (me not totally stoooopid) I embossed the square frame and then pricked round the frame right at the end of making the card - using a Dovecraft ruler with pricking holes in and my lovely TH Tonic Studios paper pricker/pokey tool (thank you again Sam, I love it!)

And here's one of the beaches on 'Lone Island' which I did find on the Internet for speed rather than search through our own photos - in fact, that could even be our little 'long tail' boat :) I sure feel Thailand calling to me this year.

 

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