Beach Day Under Whimsical Skies

What’s the logical thing to do after a 12-day vacation in the mountains of Colorado? Make a beach-themed card! I used the brand new Whimsical Skies embossing folder from Spellbinders and inked one side of it with 4 colors of Distress Oxides: Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers. I used my oldest foam blenders to blend the ink colors together, leaving a bit of white space in the middle so I didn’t create green. I ran it through my embossing folder and cut the piece of 4.25 x 6” to make an A6 card that would work out to 4.5 x 6.25”. I am really enjoying this size, so a big thanks to Jennifer McGuire for introducing me to it.

Next, I used Spellbinders cardstock in Tuscan, Saffron and Beeswax to cut out the sun dies in the new Village Companions die set that are also a part of the Whimsical Village new release from Spellbinders. I cut several clouds from white cardstock.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Whimsical Wishes stamp set by Spellbinders onto a piece of Waterfall cardstock. Next, I used the Sentiment Labels die set from Spellbinders to cut out the label and frame - the frame is Teal Topaz. Finally, I cut the skinny “string” die in the set from white cardstock.

I wanted to add some more color oomph to the card so I ripped a small piece of Teal Topaz and Beeswax to glue at the top and the bottom of the card.

I adhered the label sentiment first, then I used either liquid glue or thin foam adhesive to attach the clouds and sun. I matted the entire panel on an A6 size piece of white cardstock (4.5” x 6.25”).

I am entering this into today’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

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