Sail Away with Me

For our Just Us Girls Challenge #680 this week our teammate Bobby chose a beautiful photo/moodboard for your inspiration! My jumping off point was the map, obviously. I tried to pull out the moodboard's dominant colors (red, orange, yellow, green, teal, aqua, navy) and the painting behind the sofa (A sailing/beach scene? I often read "the beach" into things I see.) My map card is also inspired by our local islands off the coast and also by several of The Greetery's samples using this set.

Products I used:

The Greetery: Destination Summer map die/stamp/die sets; Postal die set

Concord and 9th: Mini ink pads

Ranger Distress inks

Stampin' Up!: Classic ink pads

Prismacolor pencils

In the past I have stenciled the map onto my card when using these sets. I think this is the first time I've made an inlaid map using one of the Destination map dies.  The inlay looks so clean to me. I first die cut the map on an A2 size piece of white cardstock. Then I cut around the resulting map with the postal die.  I removed the inner sections of the map and ink blended them to look like water, sand and grass areas. I stamped and die cut elements to add to the map, then arranged them on the map until I was happy with their placement. I adhered some with glue directly onto the panel and popped others up with foam tape. I used a smaller postage die from the same set as the larger one to cut around the stamped sentiment, but had to cut it twice, moving the die to end up with a smaller rectangle to fit perfectly around the words. I had to show you my favorite plate/dish that I use for tropical place settings and lots of my beachy card photos. I have only four of these dishes but wish I had bought eight.

We hope you will find something in our photo/moodboard that makes you want to play along this week. The colors alone are beautiful and fun to use! Hope to see you in our gallery!

-Carol