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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Seaside Ted

Today's card features this little cutie, 'Seaside Ted' from Chocolate Baroque. I don't often use teddy stamps but I couldn't resist this little chap, I love his outfit and the background stamps with him are fab too.


I stamped Teddy with memento ink and masked him before I stamped the background and coloured the image with promarkers. The top bp is made with shell stamps, again from Chocolate Baroque and the buttons are from my stash.

I wanted a vintage 'deck chairish' bp but didn't have anything in the right colours so I had a bit of a brainwave and used the side of my acrylic block to stamp the blue stripes (using tumbled glass distress ink) and the edge of an acrylic block to stamp the fine red stripes (fired brick distress ink). I used my clear ruler to space the blue lines and just guessed the spacing of the red lines. I used part of the bp at the bottom of the card and used the scraps, crumpled and pleated to create the border and the 'pelmet' at the top of the image. I'm really pleased with this idea as i can have stripey bps to match any ink pads I'm using now :-) 

I'm entering Seaside Ted in the following challenges
Allsorts: Free and easy
Cardmaking Mama's : summertime
Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight challenge: Masking
Crazy 4 Challenges: Summer
Lexi's Creations: At the beach
Pollycraft: The Great Outdoors
Sentimental Sundays: Inky fingers
Sweet Stampin: Cute and Cuddly
Totally Papercrafts: on the beach

thanks for visiting today
Claire xx
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19 comments:

  1. Chrissy12 July 2011 at 20:15

    Lovely card Claire, a very good idea with the stripes and I love the ruffle..fabulous image.
    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  2. Zw@@n12 July 2011 at 22:11

    Hi Claire, what a cute card. Love the paper.
    Love, Wilma

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  3. Beryl K12 July 2011 at 22:24

    Great card Claire, and very clever to use the side of your block to make your own deck chairish paper.
    Beryl x

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  4. TLC DESIGNS, LLC13 July 2011 at 06:44

    Boy! You really got it right for the Inky fingers challenge at Sentimental Sundays, thank you for your entry, just beautiful!
    Hugs
    Tammy Louise

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  5. brenda13 July 2011 at 07:35

    What a very pretty card Claire and love the ruffled papers, it sort of fits the beach theme beautifully.

    Thank you for sharing with us at Allsorts this week and good luck.

    B x

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  6. Tracey T13 July 2011 at 12:15

    This is just gorgeous and so clever - I love the way you've created your background paper. I wish I had so much patience! Thank you for playing at Sweet Stampin' this week. Tracey x

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  7. Stressed Stamper13 July 2011 at 12:45

    love how you have done the paper - great effect- Great card
    Thanks for joining us at TPC this week - Good Luck
    Sarah

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  8. Stacey G.-2 Craf-t-4u13 July 2011 at 22:04

    So cute! Love the ruffle! Thank You so much for joining us at Dutch Dare this week! If you have not already done so, you may want to check out my blog as I am hosting a no strings attached blog candy with several prizes to win. Just scroll down to the blogoversary giveaway post. (Not the blogoversary post) I apologize if I have already given you this invite!

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  9. Jane14 July 2011 at 07:43

    Beautiful card, love the ruffled paper with string and button.

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  10. Asia King (aka Joanna K)14 July 2011 at 13:22

    Gorgeous card, hun! Love the acrylic block stamping, must try it myself - just perfect sea side them. Love, love, love!!!! And well done for getting the right feel of the challenge lol; ))) Ps. Thanks for joining us for our unconventional inky challenge at Sentimental Sundays! ;)
    Hugs
    Joanna xx

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  11. Emma (metalicbutterfly)14 July 2011 at 14:16

    Great card!!!

    Love the crumpled edges to the paper strips...

    Thanks for playing our free and easy challenge at Allsorts this week...

    Emma xxx

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  12. Unknown15 July 2011 at 06:26

    Awww, this is gorgeous and so cute and cuddly :) Love the crumbled paper, great idea and thank you also for joining us at Sweet Stampin this week. Good luck xxx

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  13. Jennifer15 July 2011 at 23:14

    Awww....thanks for sharing your cute & cuddly creation at Sweet Stampin this time! xx Jenny xx

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  14. Cazro16 July 2011 at 00:26

    Firstly thanks for your recent comments, I'm so pleased to be back in the world of crafting. I adore your cute teddy, the masking is perfect, overall a wonderful seaside card. Thanks for joining us at CCM's Spotlight. Hope all is well for you. Caz

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  15. An Occasional Genius16 July 2011 at 19:32

    Gorgeous summery/beach card & so impressed with your papers! They do say necessity is the mother of all invention...

    Thanks so much for playing along at Sweet Stampin xx

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  16. Tameko17 July 2011 at 04:23

    Such a cute card. Thanks for joining the Sentimental Sundays Challenge!

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  17. Unknown18 July 2011 at 00:33

    WOW how awesome!! I love the stamped block look!! Thanks for sharing it with us at Sentimental Sunday's
    Hugs
    Karen
    xxx

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  18. Unknown18 July 2011 at 23:38

    Wow, this is a lovely card Hunnie! Love those papers it's gorgeous!
    Thank you for joining our Beach Theme this week at Lexi's Creations!
    Hugs Kobie

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  19. Juls19 July 2011 at 19:23

    gorgeous!!! love how you have roushed the papers!! Hugs Juls

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