Bathing Beauties

This is the card I made to send with my Down by the Sea ATC as a thank you for the friend who bought the stamps for me.  I had a lot of fun coloring the beach houses.  For the sky I blended about four different distress inks before lightly stamping the Atlantic City seal for added interest.  The beach was created with an embossing folder and more distress inks.

I think I like the images in the Boardwalk set by Artistic Outpost because they remind me of some pictures in my friend Kathy's scrapbook.  The photos were of her mother and father in the early 1920s before they married.  They lived in Wisconsin along Lake Michigan and they spent a lot of fun days at the beach with their friends.  The main difference is that Kathy's mom and her friends also wore knee-high socks to the beach!  Here is one of my favorite snapshots of Kathy's mom and her girlfriends, true bathing beauties in their wool suits, caps, and socks.

It's another rainy, gloomy day here.  No trip to the beach for us today!  Thanks for popping in.

Supplies:
Black and ivory cardstock by Bazzill; very vanilla cardstock from Stampin' Up; stamps from Artistic Outpost; black Stazon ink; Prismacolor Premier pencils; odorless mineral spirits; distress inks: antique linen, old paper, tea dye, vintage photo, pumice stone, tumbled glass, salty ocean, stormy sky; Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls embossing folders; EK Success border punch; pop-dots.