Beach hut basking by Julie Dandy

The current challenge is "oh I do like to be beside the seaside..." and what do you find beside the seaside??? Colourful beach huts so I decided to get a little bit creative with one of these cute mini birdhouses, Artistic Outpost "Beyond the sea" stamps and some Tim Holtz ideaology :D

I removed the dowel perch and then cut pieces of lightly striped pattern paper, stamped them with coffee archival ink and distressed them with a combo of Frayed Burlap and Fired Brick distress ink pads.

I glued a TH metal corner to the top of the house and the glued the paper in place with a little bit of glossy accents covering the holes, its fabby for glueing paper to this kind of project as it dries quickly.

I made the door by taking a lollipop stick that came with some rub-ons and cut it to the height I wanted with my TH scissors I then cut the three pieces length ways to make it look like old wood.
I coloured them with TH Broken China distress stain and when dry glued them to a smaller piece of paper.
When dry I glued them to the front of the house and coloured the base of the bird house with wild honey distress stain.
I didn't have any sand so I added some distress embossing powders (unmelted) inside my bottle before tying it to the house with garden twine.
To complete the project I added more seaside themed charms and Timmy embellies :D

The houses are so cute and could be used for so much more than just a cute birdhouse - I'm thinking little new home gifts, gingerbread houses, or something cute and Alice themed :D

Here's a few more pics of my ickle beach house :D

If you want to be in with a chance of winning a £15 voucher with free P&P in our August "Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside" challenge you can enter in one of 3 ways:

• Blog your entry and use the Linky widget in the Blog post HERE
• Load to the Happy Daze Facebook Page
• Sent a pic by email to info@happy-daze.net

Closing date is midnight 31 August.

Thanks for looking,
Hugs'n'snogs,
Julie xx

Mr Carrot goes on Vacation by Annette Goatley

We have a special Guest Designer with us this month - Annette Goatley.   She has made this piece for our current challenge ''I do Like to be beside the Seaside''........great fun.

So here we have ''Mr Carrot goes on Vacation'', but he doesn't like to go alone so he asked Mr Octopus to go with him, well he would wouldn't he...........

This is how she created the Hanging.  First Annette alcohol inked a sheet of photocard, then while that was drying she did the same with the bottletop.  She I used Stampotique stamps for the images, coloured and then cut them out.

Other products used: Acrylic paints, Glossy Accents, Sepia Accents, The Ultimate Glu, Micra Beads (which are like Bedazzles) Pink Shells and

Corrugated and Black Card.

If you want to be in with a chance of winning a £15 voucher with free P&P in our August  "Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside" challenge you can enter in one of 3 ways:

• Blog your entry and use the Linky widget in the Blog post HERE
• Load to the Happy Daze Facebook Page
• Sent a pic by email to info@happy-daze.net 

Closing date is midnight 31 August.

Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside by Ruth Philps

This stunning Layout features papers and ephemera from Pink Paislee's Butterfly collection and some divine sequin trim.

"Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside" is the theme for our August challenge.  You can enter in one of 3 ways:

• Blog your entry and use the Linky widget below to link to your blog entry
• Load to the Happy Daze Facebook Page
• Sent a pic by email to info@happy-daze.net 

The current challenge ends at Midnight Wednesday 31 August 2011. Any type of work based on the theme is fine. One entry will be drawn at random to win a £15.00 Gift Voucher plus free P&P for the Happy Daze shop. Maximum of 3 entries per person. Entries must use at least one product which can be purchased in the Happy Daze shop.

A Winner is Announced

Congratulations to Sarah Engels-Greer whose entry was drawn at random and wins our July "Dangly Things" challenge.  Sarah could you drop me an email with your email and I'll get your £15,.00 Gift Voucher on it's way to you

Summer grass by Joanne Wardle

This was my piece for the Stampotique challenge this week. The theme was to use orange, yellow and red. So I used distress inks sponged onto a masked off shape, with Jo Capper-Sandon's Grass stamp.

In a Purple Mood by Moira Sutton

I have been playing with purple things, no idea why just seemed to feel in a purple mood.  Firstly there is this set of drawers.  Painted with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints, Purple Palette and Painterley Pink,  then touched up on edges with Inka Gold Paints in Violet and Old Silver.  I stamped a floral image onto tissue paper with StazOn and attached it using Matte Multi Medium, it sort of dissapears into the wood and way easier than stamping onto wood, especially where there are little knobs as the drawers have .

This pendant fits just nicely in one of the drawers and is made using a Bow Bezel charm which has been coloured with Inka Gold Paints, a cabochon and a dangling charm ade by filling a small bezel with stickles and then creating a resin dome.

The mirror is also paintedwith Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints,in Purple Palette ,  then touched up on edges with Inka Gold Paints in Gold and Copper. A cabochon is used to decorate the corners along with ephemera from the Flora and Fauna Ephemera Pack

Wizard of Oz Pencil Box By Carol Fox

I love these wooden pencil boxes in the shop and I have altered this one using the Artistic Outpost Wizard of Oz stamps.
I wanted the box to look really battered as if it had been in the tornado with Dorothy, So I first of all gave it a coat of Claudine Hellmuths Dash of Red and when dry I crackled a coat of Tan over the top. When it was dry I then roughly sanded it to give it a very aged look.
The images are all stamped in versfine ink. I have used a backgound stamp to fill in any blank areas, there are a great selection of stamps to choose from in the shop.
I have used gold embossing powder to edge it. I finished it off with a large gold button from my ever growing stash of these.