Sealiously Sweet Summer Seal Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some sea-themed cards for summer using our Sealiously Sweet Stamps.

For my first card featuring the Sealiously Sweet Stamps, I painted a row of five stacked paint streaks using Ranger's Distress Paint onto bristol paper. I then trimmed my panel down to 4" wide x 5.25" high and mounted it onto an A2-sized piece of black cardstock. For my greeting, I heat-embossed the words "Have a sealiously awesome" onto black cardstock strips and cut apart the words into three separate strips. I then stamped the word "summer" from the Big Panda Stamps and cut a shadow around it using the coordinating dies. Lastly, I added a row of three white seals decked out for summer using the sunglasses and sunhat accessories. I felt I needed a little extra detail on the left side of my card, so I layered a flower on the hat from our Love Birds Stamps.

For my second card, I again turned to the Ranger Distress paints with the same five colors. This time I filled my entire background with the swipes of paint, not leaving any of the white background to show through. I trimmed off some less desirable spots along the edges and added a stitched edge with the Slimline Basic Border Dies, layered over a simple white RicRac edge using our Ric Rac Border Dies. 

I had stamped a punny greeting from the Sealiously Sweet Stamps directly onto the painted cardstock. Sadly, I learned the hard way that the Versafine ink doesn't dry on the painted surface very well. I smeared it pretty badly, so I did my best to salvage the card by restamping the same sentiment onto the pennant strip from our Notebook Photo Corners Dies to layer over the top to hide all the smudges. The two sentiment strips from this set are such versatile sizes and are always coming to my rescue. I then lined up three sets of images down the center of my card featuring the seals with the rainbow floaties and beach ball to match my painted stripes.

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 Sealiously Sweet Stamps and Sealiously Sweet Dies in our online shop, which are all currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using the set the product page. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image. 💛

Supplies Used:

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ric Rac Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Panda Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Panda Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio