THE BEACH IT IS

We are now into the sweet sounds and smells of summer.. Each day reminds us of of the pleasures of summer, one of them being a chance to go to the beach. I personally cannot go but ,but my heart is there smelling the surf.

I have created all the following cards for this purpose. So now enjoy this first one which will be my son's birthday card in the near future.

This card uses BY THE TIDE for most of the card. We used CRYSTAL EFFECTS for the fish to make them look shiny,glasslike and realistic with MARININA MIST as the focus color......Inside and out the coral is our NEW SMOKEY SLATE GRAY which is so soft and great to use.

Still using the same stamp set , our next card says GOD BLESS YOU taken from TRUST GOD,such a nice stamp set with all sincere greetings. Look it up in the back of the big book.

We used the sea horse and shell  in BAKED BROWN SUGAR to stamp and then colored in with a sponge CRISPY CANTALOUPE. All this was done on a translucent sheet of vellum. If you use vellum , you must stamp in STAZON or CRAFT INK. Here we used white CRAFT INK  and the same coral stamp from BY THE TIDE...it is soooooooo gorgeous when you let it dry.

LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW card was done with the WOODGRAINED embossing folder, and a die for the oval which was FRAME OVAL SCALLOP,of which we discarded the frame. We stamped with BAKED BROWN SUGAR, POOL PARTY, BLUSHING BRIDE, AND PRETTY IN PINK.

BY sponging the layers together we created this outdoor scene, and MASKED in a moon as well.

This was the favorite card of both classes.

And finally the last card, which was the SECRET GIVEAWAY for the 2 classes. I gave away this particular set FLAMING LINGO in the back of the catty . It is Su's way of giving back. For every set you purchase SU gives 3$ to the RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE for kids.

Hooray CATIE won the FLAMING LINGO Set for herself . Our new FRINGE SCISSORS complete the grass at the bottom, and complements the BAKERS TWINE which is wrapped around .

Learn these new ideas and techniques and COME JOIN US AGAIN NEXT MONTH.

See you all soon and HAPPY STAMPING

Donna