Weekends at the Lake--#tgifc265

This week's TGIF Challenges theme challenge is: Travel.  As I thought about this theme, I started to realize how much I missed our long weekends spent on our sailboat Vahevala, a 30' Catamaran. We had her in a boat slip at Harbor Point at Lake Martin, Alabama, a 2-1/2" hour drive to get there.  The trip was worth it though.  Lake Martin is a beautiful lake and great for sailboats.  The yacht club at Harbor Point had races on Sundays which we watched from our boat.  Although we should have been racing--we could have beaten some of those other boats--Vahevala sailed nicely!  Herb and I met 46 or so years ago at a Sunday Regatta at Shawnee Yacht Club in Topeka, Kansas, so we were no strangers to sailboat races, just not motivated.  We were there to relax and enjoy living on the sailboat for long weekends. My favorite time on Vahevala was with my first cup of coffee at sunrise.  I'd sit in the cockpit and watch as the lake came alive.  Sometimes I'd  spy a great blue heron take flight. 

Fortunately, there's a stamp set to recreate this memory!  The Lilypad Lake stamp set (#146496) and the coordinating Lakeside dies (#146351) are retiring the end of this month, so I enjoyed using it for this challenge.  I colored the bird like a great blue heron, and created a regatta with the sailboats:

For the background, I did a soft Blueberry Bushel wash on a piece of Shimmery White card stock and stamped the ripples in Mint Macaron on the bottom two-thirds of the sheet.  The sailboats were stamped in Blueberry Bushel, colored with Blueberry Bushel and Poppy Parade Stampin' Write Markers, die cut and adhered to the "lake".  The top Mint Macaron layer was embossed with the new Old World Paper 3D embossing folder (#153200, available June 3).  Then an oval window was die cut out of this piece using the largest oval in the Layering Ovals die set (#141706).  The great blue heron is watching from the shore amid the water plants die cut from Mint Macaron, Soft Sea Foam and Shaded Spruce card stock.

Be sure and check out all the travel projects this week at the TGIF Challenges Blog. There's sure to be a lot of fun inspiration!

Hope you enjoyed my travel memory today!

--Sara Nell