My goodness - I get to go on camp along with everyone else for today's Summer Camp Tickle a Teapotter challenge brought to us by Faith - and I'm not even late!
We've been having sunny weather here recently which is a) too rare to miss, and b) sends the temperature in my attic soaring into the 80s with no way of cooling it. Today is cooler and grey, and I ran most of the way from work to the bus stop and got an early bus home which gives me a little more time before I have to go out again!!
I've attended many camps in my day - mostly as a cook. At Easter camp, we always climbed a nearby mountain and had a midnight bonfire on Saturday night, but I just made a card representing that for the last VSN. (Almost inevitably the person driving up as far as possible with the stuff to cook on the fire got lost, rolles eyes). I remember one year we brought along some origami paper and books, and some of the boys had great fun making leaping frogs and racing them. The Scripture Union adventure centre here is set in my home county where I grew up, in a valley with a river for canoeing, a good beach nearby, woods and mountains...so Fred Bear is representative of one of the adult camps I used to cook for - Wet, Wild and Windy weekends in October and November, where I got to stay in my nice warm kitchen and everyone else faced the mountains and perhaps the cold river too. I always loved the music at those camps, - though it wasn't always easy to combine kitchen duties with playing piano I always made it work because there were always some wonderful musicians who gave their time to come along, including one of the two best drummers I know.
At summer camp, we always had a banquet one night - a full three course meal when the team served the campers, with everyone preparing small acts for the entertainment. Gosh - now I want to pull out my camp photo album and recover some more memories!!! I could go on writing about them for a long time...
Fred Bear stamped and masked. Trees stamped, then coloured with pencil. Foreground and sky sponged in, then I coloured Fred with pencils and added the sentiment from ODBD and a doodled border. My clear Sakura Glaze pen, which used to make a wonderful resist layer, seems to have dried up so I had to fix the snail's eyes with Liquid Pearls and a black Sharpie.
I know the current ODBD challenge is sponging or stencilling, and since I used an ODBD sentiment and sponged my background I'm submitting this for that challenge also.
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 GMT Views: 2892
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Registered: May 23, 2009 Location: sunny california Posts: 9825
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 7:28 PM
Such a fun card and a great story. I love your bear and the stow away snail. You always doodle such terrific borders. Your oloring of the ground looks great. All said,this is one tertific card.
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Fri, Aug 01, 2014 @ 4:20 PM
What a sweet scene, Sabrina!! I just love your pine trees, the sponging and the sweet bear with the great quote!! Such an uplifting card that is sure to put a smile on someone's face!! Thanks for sharing with us at ODBD this week!!