Hello and welcome to the final day of our Summer Sneak Peek Week! All this week I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection which is now in our store and available to purchase!
Card No. 1: Today I have one last stamp and die set to share which I'm super excited about called Beach Bus which features both the front view and side view of a VW-inspired bus with 4 mini critter passengers to mix and match with the animals from our Truckloads of Love Stamps and Balloon Rides Stamps. It also comes with a silhouette of three palm trees and a gorgeous Summer script word that mixes and matches with many words to build custom greetings.
For this card I started by cutting circle masks from masking paper using our Stitched Circle Small Dies and Stitched Circle Large Dies which were inked with mustard seed, carved pumpkin, picked raspberry, and seedless preserves for my background before spritzing with water. I stamped my greeting from the set in the center with a grouping of palm trees on either side using Versafine Onyx Black ink. On a separate piece of white cardstock, I colored it with swooshes and flicks of color using my Copic markers to match the sky's colors and give the appearance of the sunset being reflected in the waves. Lastly, I used our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies to frame my scene with black cardstock, cutting extra rocky shore pieces to flip and use on the right side of my card, and to tuck behind my water line to ground the palm trees in the distance. The final piece was adding my hot pink beach bus to the center with some yellow highlights to the hood and roof to reflect the glowing sunset. I adore the retro vibe of this background and how well it compliments the vintage feel I was going for with these stamps!
Card No. 2: For this card featuring the Beach Bus Stamps, I created a day scene with palm trees using the trees from our Sending Sunshine Stamps and Tropical Scenes Stamps. I stacked some luggage on the top of the van using companion images from the set, along with a little sloth as my driver. The Tropical Scenes Dies include some coordinating wave dies which were perfect to create a little opening to tuck the surfboard from the set into the sand. To complete my scene I added three clouds from our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies.
Card No. 3: Up next is a second take on a sunset background. This time I pulled up images on Google for beach sunsets as my inspiration and blended a variety of distress inks before spritzing my paper to help blend the water. In the end, I thought the sky looked a little bit like rainbow tie-dye which was perfect for this vintage-inspired card using our new Beach Bus Stamps. I kept the rest of my design fairly simple, using our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies to add the silhouette of three palm trees, along with a stitched outer frame all cut from black cardstock. For my curved ground using the stitched hillside, I used a die from our Slimline Nature Border dies and then added the side view of a yellow beach bus to the center filled with critters from the set and our Balloon Rides Stamps. Lastly, I tucked a surfboard on the van's roof and stamped the greeting "happy summer" between the palm trees along the top, center of my card.
Card No. 4: I couldn't resist creating a slimline style penny slider card using our Beach Bus Stamps to drive by in the woodsy scene I created using the mountain border from our Country Scenes Stamps and the fir trees in the foreground from our Seasonal Trees Stamps. I colored my beach van and coordinating luggage in Barbie-inspired Hot Pink colors, adding the bear from our Balloon Rides Stamps and the fox and raccoon from our Truckloads of Love Stamps as passengers. Lastly, I added the greeting "enjoy summer" from the set, which I tucked between the trees and car before it slides forward.
Card No. 5: For my next road trip scene card, I used the mice and luggage from the Beach Bus Stamps to pile onto a retro aqua-colored van which I paired with the hilly tree border in the background from our Country Scenes Stamps. I added a trio of clouds to my sunny sky using our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies and three little puffs of exhaust to the back of my beach bus using images from our Plane Awesome Stamps. Lastly, I pieced together my "driving by to say hi" greeting using two separate sentiments from our Truckloads of Love Stamps and Spring Showers Stamps.
Card No. 6: For my last Beach Bus card of the day, I created a beach scene using our Ocean View Stamps with the ocean waves washing up on the shore with the palm trees and beach umbrella. The border also includes a beach chair on the right which I hid with my van and leaning surfboard. On the left side of my scene under the palm trees, I added the girl drinking lemonade in a beach chair from our Kiddie Pool Stamps and paired her with the dog and vintage luggage from the Beach Bus stamps and a second puppy dog perched in the car from the Balloon Rides Stamps. For my background, I layered our Fluffy Cloud Border Dies which I had die-cut from masking material to ink with Tumbled Glass distress ink. I stippled many dots over the stamped line of my shore using a white gel pen to create the look of frothy incoming waves.
As is my tradition, I also created a new release video sharing a closer look at each of the projects I shared this week along with new products and maybe a couple extra tidbits I failed to share here on the blog. You can watch it down below or on our YouTube Channel HERE.
It's getting harder and harder to get the word out about new releases and have videos seen with YouTube's new algorithms these days so if you can do me a favor and hit the like button even if you don't have time to watch the entire thing right now I would greatly appreciate it. ❤
With each new collection, we have a free mini die which we automatically include with orders placed in our online store, while supplies last. For this release we have a fun mini flower die!
That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. Our daily sneak peek contests run through Saturday, April 20th at Midnight PST with the winners announced here on Sunday, April 21st.
Here's a closer look at our new Beach Bus Stamps and Dies used today.
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