Cute Beach Houses

For my birthday, I received My Favorite Things' Beach Card Kit and I am loving it!  Today I am posting two of the cards I made using the dies and stamps included in the kit and additional coordinating items, too.  For the pink house, I lightly brushed the sky and created the water and beach with dies.  I used a little stamp to create the grains of sand.  The sentiment is part of MFT's Itty Bitty Summer stamp set.  

The background on the card with the lilac house was created using Copic markers.  The sentiment is from MFT's  sentiment set, Life's A Beach.  I have been having much fun die-cutting and creating with these particular stamp sets and dies.   Have a great

week!

Ice Cream Treats

 A week ago today we were expecting a 95 degree day here.  Guess what?  We are expecting the same temperature today!  (That being said, we had beautiful weather days on the days between the 95 degree ones.)  Popsicles and push-ups were always the treat we got on hot, summer days when I was a kid and I gave to my kids.  When I was making today's card I had frozen fruit bars in mind.  I cut the images from a piece of pre-painted watercolor paper.  I actually used the cheapy watercolors you can get at any store.  I just painted areas of the paper using a different color and then die cut the treats and the sticks.   The Pair of Popsicle dies from MFT Stamps are so fun to work with.  You will be seeing lots of ice cream and beach cards from me in the next weeks!  Keep cool and have a great week!

Beach Time!

 I recently received a new stamp set from My Favorite Things.  Beach-themed cards seem to be appropriate for today~~95degrees coming our way!  Since I did not purchase the coordinating Best Beach Friends dies, my Scan N Cut 

worked just fine!  Keep cool and have a great week!

 I have been watching two birdhouses outside of my office window.  One has tree swallow babies and the other has bluebird babies.  The parents to both families of birds are coming and going all day long.  I know they will leave their boxes soon. They have inspired me to make a card using Stampin' Up's  Free As A Bird stamp set.  After stamping and coloring the image, I lightly shaded the area around the image using a very light alcohol marker.  Stampin’ Up’s Deckled Rectangle dies are a nice change from stitched and/or scalloped rectangle dies that I usually use.  The card is on the simple side with all white layers.  Therefore, I added a foam layers under the rectangles for a little dimension.  Just remember to stamp the sentiment before adding the layers.  Have a great week!             

Citrus

This week’s cards are created using dies from Lawn Fawn.  I used a variety of colors of cardstock, ink and stamps.  They are mini slimline cards measuring 6-1/4” x 3-1/4”.  As I finished one, I thought that it was the cutest card.  This happened with all three cards. I will say that the lime card is my favorite.  Part of the sentiment was made on my computer using Word.  It did take a little time to get the spacing correct.  But, it was worth it.  The pattern paper, ink and  cardstock are from Stampin’ Up’s new In Color Collection.  The name of the lime color is Parakeet Party.  I think the name is why I really like it.  I see myself using everything I used to create these cards over and over again.  Have a great week!