Charter Your Own Course

 Hello! Samantha here today and it is sadly my last post here as a member of Susan's design team. 

I've had a great time. Thank You Susan for the opportunity.

You may have noticed that March has been a month of mixed media pieces. My last make was a tin and for this make I've painted and decorated a canvas. The canvas is a deep edged/box canvas and the front is 4 inch x 4 inch. I used the Sail Away stamp set which has become a firm favourite of mine!

After painting the canvas blue I stamped the boat and waves 3 times on white card and coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils. I then cut out the images and glued in place.

I added white dots and some glitter for glistening waves. (Glitter always seems so hard to photograph but I hope you get the idea!).

The sentiment was stamped on white card using an alphabet set I had lying around. 

As I mentioned earlier it is a deep edged canvas. This gives the opportunity to take your design around the sides and on top. This is why 3 sets of waves were needed. (The 'compass' stamp is by Stampotique Originals and I had wrote the N E S and W).

The Sail Away stamp shown below set can be found at Unity Stamp Co by clicking right {here}

I love the message of this. Charter your own course. Life is what you make it!

I sincerely hope that you have enjoyed having me on this lovely blog and that I may have inspired you. If only a little.

Wishing you a lovely day

Samantha Read

Susan K.Weckesser Design Team Member