Beach Bus Summer Card Set with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some VW bus-inspired cards for summer using our Beach Bus Stamps.

For my first card, I paired the bus and surfboard from the Beach Bus Stamps with the ocean, palm trees, umbrella, and clouds from the Ocean View Stamps, and the seals and punny greeting from the Sealiously Sweet Stamps. I used the car and surfboard to hide the beach chair in the ocean scene and trimmed off the beach umbrella so I could position it higher. I then used the string from our Bold Balloons Stamps to string the flip flops from the Sealiously Sweet set between the palm trees and umbrella as a sort of banner or clothesline.

For my second card, I paired the bus and luggage from the Beach Bus Stamps with the critters on scooters from our Critters on the Go Stamps and the peeking woodland critters from our Truckloads of Love Stamps. To set the scene behind them, I used the grass border from the Picket Fence Dies, which I positioned to cut twice in my die-cutting machine to span the longer length of my 8.5" wide slimline card. I then inked up the grassy portion with Twisted Citron distress ink and the dirt road portion with Antique Linen distress ink. My sky was inked with a light hand of Salty Ocean distress ink, and I added the palm trees from our Tropical Scenes Stamps and Sending Sunshine Stamps. Lastly, I tucked in the clouds from our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies and stamped a punny greeting from the Critters on the Go set.

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 Critters on the Go Stamps in our online shop, which are 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:

Bold Balloons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Trees Backdrop Shop at: Sunny Studio	Truckloads of Love Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Truckloads of Love Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Bus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Bus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio

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

Sealiously Sweet Card by Tina

Hello crafters, it’s Tina and we are ready for a fun beach day! How adorable are the cuties from the Sealiously Sweet stamp and die set! So let’s create a breezy summer card together by making a white card base which we’ll embellish with a striped stencil from my stash and some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide.

For the centerpiece, I cut two circles from white card stock with the outer of the Stitched Circles Large set. One of them will be my base to which I will glue the scene parts. To obtain these parts, I cut the second white circle in three using two of the Catch a Wave dies.

The bottom portion was turned into a sandy beach (Fossilized Amber and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide), for the waves and sky I used Prize Ribbon again (sky stencil from my stash). Some water splatters added lots of details to these pieces.

Next, I glued the three parts together onto the white circle we already made, and they fit like a little puzzle. I selected three adorable seals and a sun hat from the Sealiously Sweet stamp and colored them with my Copic markers. As always, I added some white details with a gel pen.

Then I took my time to figure out where I would place the seals so I had enough space left for my big sentiment (Beach Buddies) which I stamped directly to the sky portion with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Before mounting the seals, I did add a few splashes of ‘foam’ using a white pigment ink from my stash and a small blending brush. To really emphasize the scene I also adhered a double layer of a white circle border (Fancy Frames Circle dies). As a final embellishment, I sprinkled a few blue diamonds from the Bright Jewel mix.

I hope you got inspired by this fun summer card! Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Catch A Wave Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio