Beach Buddies & Beach Babies Rainbow Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi, popping in to share some rainbow-striped summer cards featuring our Beach Buddies Stamps. For both cards, I used Daniel Smith Watercolors to paint semi-blended rainbow stripes onto watercolor paper to create handmade backgrounds. I didn't add too much water because I wanted to have my colors remain really vibrant.

For my first card's background, I die-cut my rainbow watercolored panel using our Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies. I then formed two small scenes using the images from our Beach Buddies Stamps, which I backed each grouping with a white die-cut circle from our Stitched Circle Small Dies. I grounded each scene with a shortened black pennant strip from our Notebook Photo Corners Dies and heat-embossed them using the "Hello Sunshine" and "Happy Summer" greetings from our Beach Babies Stamps.

For my second card, I once again used one of the rainbow-striped backgrounds I painted and trimmed down the panel using our Stitched Rectangle Dies. This time, I lined up three circles across my landscape-oriented card using our Stitched Circle Large Dies. In the center of each circle, I added the panda bear, dog, and bunny onto a summer floatie with accessories from the Beach Buddies Stamps like the heart sunglasses and snorkle mask. For my greeting, I elongated the stitched Pennant from the Stitched Rectangle Dies by running it through my die-cutting machine twice with part of the die hanging off the cutting plate, but you could also shorten a similar pennant from our Slimline Pennant Dies. 

Lastly, I heat-embossed the greeting "It's Your Day ❤ Make a Splash" from our Beach Babies Stamps using white embossing powder and clear VersaMark Ink. I added the small white heart between the two phrases as a doodle using a white Sharpie paint pen because I was too lazy to look for one of our stamp sets featuring a tiny heart (although I know they exist).

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today. 😊

Don't forget to check out our Beach Babies Stamps and Beach Babies Dies in our online shop, which are currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there organized by set. 💛

Supplies Used: 

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Babies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Babies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio