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

Strawberry Patch Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, live from my Strawberry Patch! I picked some bright and juicy strawberries, put them all in my Build A Bowl colander, and now I'm heading to the kitchen to cook them into jam and pies.

I started by creating the background using pattern papers along with the largest Rounded Rectangle Mat die. For the sky, I picked a paper from the Summer Splash pack. I added a little bit of salty ocean distress ink to the edges, mixed that same distress ink with water, added blue splatters to my cloudy panel using a slim brush, and then did the same with copic opaque white ink. For the grass, I picked a paper from the Dots & Stripes Pastels pack and cut a border using a die from the Picket Fence Border die set. I applied mowed lawn distress ink to the edges of the grass border, mixed that same ink with water, added green splatters to the grass border, and then did the same with copic opaque white ink.

To add more interest to my little scene, I cut a Picket FenceBorder out of white woodgrain cardstock, added pumice stone distress ink at the top of each pointy plank and texture using the same ink, and then white splatters.

While my pieces of paper were drying, I cut the elements out of textured grey cardstock to create a colander using the Build A Bowl die set. I added hickory smoke distress ink to the edges of each piece, as well as white splatters, and then glued them all to assemble my colander. I also created a bunch of strawberries using the Strawberry Patch die set. I used matching distress inks to add more depth to each element, added white splatters and then set everything aside to dry.

I stamped my "I couldn't ask for a sweeter friend" sentiment from the Punny Fruit Greetings stamp set at the very top of my cloudy panel, and next I assembled the background. First I attached the cloud panel to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches white panel using 1mm foam tape. I stuck the grass border using 1mm foam tape as well, and then attached the fence using liquid glue, tucking the bottom parts right behind the grass sprigs.

I filled the inside of the colander with strawberries and leaves using liquid glue, added more on top using foam squares, and then attached the colander to my panel using foam squares again. I added a couple more strawberries and leaves on both sides of the colander, and finally attached my panel to a white card base. 

And that's it! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next week.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Splash 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Punny Fruit Greetings Shop at: Sunny Studio	Strawberry Patch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Build-A-Bowl Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio