Exhausting Being This Fabulous

Hello!!!

Well, it's starting to get warm and feel like summer so I figured it's time for a summer card!! AI has several clear sets that were available at Micheals and now available at artimpressions.com! My card today uses Beach Babes!

I started by stamping the three ladies image on some white card stock and used my Spectrum Noir Markers to color it. The majority of these colors are the newest colors available! I used: AP1, AP2, AP3, BO1, BO2, BO3, DP1, DP2, DP3, GY1, GY2, GY3, MB1, MB3, IG1, IG2, IG4, IG6. I used a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die to cut them out.

For a beachy feel, I found some pretty sand and shell pattern paper and added it to a white card base. For the sentiment, I die cut a smaller rectangle and stamped it at the bottom. I adhered it to the back of the ladies so you could just see the sentiment below them. Then I added it directly to the card base.

I got the pattern paper from a paper pack collection and inside was also a sticker sheet, which I found an anchor sticker. Since I didn;t need it to be an actual sticker I added some baby powder to the back so it wouldn't be sticky. I added a little twine to the anchor and from my stash, I found a wooden circle anchor. I added both to the corner of the ladies rectangle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies

Stamps: Art Impressions - Beach Babes

Spectrum Noir Markers

Carta Bella - Ahoy There Collection Pack

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Coffee Lovers Summer Blog Hop

Hello!!

I'm sharing a card I made for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop today! I don't have a whole lot of coffee/tea stamps but I was at a stamping show a few months ago and I picked up this super cut set from Darcie's Heart and Home called Milk & Cookies. It's super cute set with a coffee cup and dount in the set.

To help with the summer theme I pulled out a collection pack from Carta Bella, Soak Up the Sun. I trimmed a stripe pattern paper to fit my card base and then used Distress Ink Antique Linen to ink around the edges. I did the same think with a Journal card from the pack.

On the journal card I stamped the sentiment Any Friend of Coffee is a Friend of Me with brown ink. Then I stamped the dount and coffee cup on some watercolor. To color them I used my Spectrum Noir AquaBlend Colored Pencils, I used: Petunia, Watermelon, Fossil Grey, Gravel, Sorel, Bright Green, Parakeet, Carrot, Persimmon, Mango, Citrus Yellow.

When the watercoloring was dry I fussy cut them out, then added them to the journal card with foam tape. Then I added the journal card to my card base. I thought it need a little something more, so I added a sun sticker at the top right, behind the journal card.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm looking forward to all the great Summer Coffee inspiration on this hop!!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Darcie's Heart and Home - Milk & Cookies
Watercolor pencils: Spectrum Noir AquaBlend
Ink: Distress Ink - Antique Linen
Collection Pack: Carta Bella - Soak Up the Sun

Be Cool

Hello!

I'm popping in with a card I made for Unity's Show and Tell Challenge. It's the Itty Bitty Challenge and I had one on my desk so I figured no time like the present to use it!!!

I stamped the cute owl from the Be Cool & Be Mine Itty Bitty set on some water color paper, then I used Distress Markers to color her. I also stamped her on some pattern paper and fussy cut out the glasses and then adhered them  to my colored image. Next I fussy cut out the owl and then used a Clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen to add a little sparkle to the heart's on her glasses.

Next I found some cute Popsicle pattern paper that I thought would be perfect with the Be Cool part of the sentiment. I cut it out with a stitched rectangle. From the same collection I found a journal card that had a wood frame and said smile. I trimmed off the pattern paper it had around the frame and then rounded the corners.

Then I masked off the Be Mine part of the stamp and just stamped the Be Cool on the framed journal square. I added the owl with foam tape and then wrapped some twine around it and tied it in a bow.

From the sticker sheet in the collection I found two little Popsicles and I added them to the journal frame with foam tape. I added the frame to the card with foam tape and last I added a little more Clear Sparkle Pen to the Popsicles on the pattern paper.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Unity Stamp Co: Itty Bitty - Be Cool & Be Mine
Collection Pack: Carta Bella - Soak Up the Sun
Distress Markers: Carved Pumpkin, Gathered Twigs
Twine: Maya Road