Treasure Hunters

We had a wonderful day at the beach a couple of weeks ago - lots of sun (especially for early April!) and interesting sights. There were big windstorms a couple of days prior and quite a few boats were blown onto shore as a result. There were 3 wrecked on just our stretch of sand. The kids thought it was pretty cool and we all decided to play the parts of old-time pirates & beachcombers and search the beach for treasures. All we found were shells, seaweed and bits of wood but the boys figured they had discovered treasure anyhow. I created this layout to remember the day.

The pirates are digital stamp images from Mo's Digital Pencil. The sitting pirate is actually a girl but I trimmed off her pigtails and now I think it looks more like a cute boy. The barrell is a free digital stamp from Dustin Pike. The images are coloured with Copics. I created the chain by cutting apart a border strip, colouring it with Copics and then linking the pieces together again. The pirate-themed stamps are from Inkadinkado and I used Distressing Ink to give a weathered look. And in honour of the recent Earth Day, I made the shaker box (holding some of the boys' treasures) from packaging on its way to the garbage!

Recipe:

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  Reminisce "Lighthouse" patterned paper
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  Captain Hugh digital stamp, Mo's Digital Pencil
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  First Mate Kate digital stamp, Mo's Digital Pencil
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  Barrell digital stamp, Dustin Pike
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  Copic markers
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  Border strip, stash
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  Inkadinkado, miscellaneous stamps

I'm submitting this layout for a few challenges, as follows:

• Digital Tuesday Challenge - anything but a card
• Mo's Digital Challenge - masculine image
• Hand Full of Stamps - look what I got (show off something bought in the last wk - PP and the Inkadinkado stamps yesterday)
• Cute Card Thursday - make your own (the chain and the shaker box)
• One Stop Craft Challenge - anything but a card
• Oh, Alice - little people, big wonderland (create for a child)