So who's been on their jollies then?

 Good evening blogland

It's time for the August release for All Dressed Up Stamps and this time we have a mermaid and a young lady off on her jolly holidays.

I have to admit I wasn't entirely sure what to do with this image - whether to keep it all together, cut the extra clothes off;  cut the extra clothes up individually, so many options!  In the end, as I'm on a bit of a shaker streak - I decided another shaker card!

This, then, is what I made:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Holiday Girl

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles

Creative Craft Products - Notched Edge Supersize Nestables

Anything else:

sequins and seeds for the shaker

an extremely old pre-printed / foiled sentiment from Craftwork Cards

That's it really - it is, in essence quite a simple card but it does look (even though I say so myself) quite an effective card.

Also if you get time, why not pop on over to the Facebook Group and have a look at the my Teamies lovely examples for this months' two new releases.  If you are more a blogger sort of person - my blogging Teamies have made some wonderful cards as well.

And completely off of cards - Chez Sarah has been off on our jolly hollies.  Thought to be fair not all of it was jolly - we went off to Inverness for a week, and it was a bit of an eventful week! Started off with a fault on the car, which meant that we were stuck in Dunfermline for nearly a whole day so missed a trip on a preserved railway on the way up to Inverness.  We were eventually on our way with the help of a wonderful AA man, after we had been let down by the AA on the phone.  So got to Inverness, found the block of flats, but had a tense time trying to find which flat was our one!  Rest of week went well saw lots of lovely places - Inverness itself with the Castle and Cathedral, Loch Ness, Dunrobin Castle by train, even the trip home was good - we got re-booked onto the missed train journey.  But right as we got home we hit traffic and roadworks, still got here eventually!

And on that cheerful note, I'm finishing my waffle and heading off to bed!

Be back soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Allsorts Challenge: Colours of summer / AG - I think mine is probably (although a bit of a Summer theme) more AG

Polkadoodles Challenge: Anything Goes

All About Papercraft: Challenge #8 - Frames (there is a frame around the shaker window)

Just Us Girls: #835 - Die week