two recent makes

MMM first one was quite hard to make, not physically but emotionally as it was for a relative for their dad and with losing my dad this year i'd wanted to avoid the whole father's day thing.... selfish, I know..  

Anyway I used one of Sam Poole's amazing stamps... the lighthouse and the sentiment .... I also used an Andy Skinner stamp for the birds in flight.  Distress inks were used and then a brush with a touch of water.

I wanted some texture hence the hessian, the bottle was a bargain buy in a set of six  from 'the works' for 99p!!  For the driftwood and bleached effect seaweed I cheated and used some of a pot pourri set from Asda.  Nothing is safe when it comes to crafting lol.

The next make was a quickie using a Papermania kit from Do-Crafts which I got via Create and Craft at a ridiculous price...  It was just a matter of deciding on a lay out and adding a sentiment stamp in a colour to match the papers.  Of course I just had to e-mail in a piccie of the card to one of the  Do-Craft shows on Create and Craft.