Hello and a very happy Sunday to you - thanks for joining me today.
I went to the beach today. I normally do not go to the beach, because I hate all the sand that is very hard for a walking impaired person, like myself, to walk in. I don't like swimming in the ocean either because of all the animals (though they are adorable on film) that swim or live in the water.
But I went to the beach today to get some good pictures of my latest project.
I was very much inspired by my last project when making this - because I thought the Beach house was laking a boat, so my first impulse was to make the cute 3d Rowboat from the new
Grab the Bait kit.
I made this in AC Cardstock in Dark Kraft, Bayou, Mint and Pool and decorated it with patterned paper from Prima Marketing Inc "Seashore".
It's a very straightforward project to make with a great
tutorial from Jodi the Designer. I inked all the edges with matching chalk ink pads also from Prima and tied a bit of hemp onto the front of the boat as a hawser.
But I didn't stop here because I have had my eye on the adorable 3D Birdhouse Gable Style from the
Liberty Lane Kit and now I knew what to do with it :-) My initial idea was to make it as a housewarming gift for my Mother who just moved but now all I could see was…..a Boathouse.
It's made from AC Cardstock in Vanilla, Bayou and Dark Kraft and decorated as the boat, with Prima Marketing Inc. "Seashore"
I did make a few changes on the Birdhouse/Boathouse.
First of all I deleted the small hole for the perch pole. Then I added a hole for the door on both the house and the panel. Then I created a kinda entry way around the door (just downsized the backpanel) and made hole for the door. This was done using my cameo and the make/release compound path features. The door is made from a rectangle and a circle I welded together on the Cameo and the large and tiny window I snatched from Cyndy's "Cabana Milk Carton" from the
CG Under the Sea kit. Then I tied some hemp rope around the entry way, added some bling and a seahorse to the front of the house. And of course a tiny door handle.
I embossed the roof tiles with a Darice Wood Grain Embossing Folder and used three different papers for the raised panels on the side of the house. Finally I added some vellum behind the door and the top window and left out the bottom reinforcement piece, so it was easy to put in a LED tealight. Now it looks like somebody's home a night.
And then I went to the beach and took a couple of great shots of the whole project.
I really hope you like my version of the Birdhouse - now Boathouse and the little Rowboat. Both projects are downsized to 75% of the original and are now a wonderful reminder of my hometown of Grenaa located right out to the ocean. Hmmmm….. Sonja's lighthouse would be awesome next to these.
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