Summer Beach

This was made last year for a summer-themed challenge, just before the heat arrived in full force. Think of a hot, sizzling day, and what song comes to mind? Hot enough to melt roads..!! Of course, you have to be knocking on a bit to remember this one. When I think of a hot summer, it calls to mind the song by Bobby Goldsboro, "Summer, The First Time", which was forever on the airwaves when I was about 18 during the hot summer of 1976. The lyric 'it was a hot afternoon' was the first line.

I used watercolour panels for the background (slightly splattered and doodled stones on the 'sand', and with some random glitter on the 'sea').. Impression Obsession beach chair die, Memory Box flying gulls die, Sizzix Tim Holtz thinlits die for the sun (trimmed off the outer ring), alphabet dies, also Sizzix Tim Holtz thinlits, some tiny snippets of white card for sails and a computer-generated banner.