Let's Vacay

For our Just Us Girls Photo/Moodboard #684 I CASEd a card I just loved from the My Favorite Things blog, but I don't own their sandcastle dies, so I had to make my own. From our challenge photo of the beach huts I got the idea of a sandcastle made on that same beach while staying in one of the huts for the day/week. I am also entering it at AAA Cards Challenge: Everything Beach.

Products I used:

My Favorite Things: Sand and Surf (wave dies), Beach Bungalow dies set (flag)

Simon Says Stamp CZ Design: Sentiment Strips Chill Summer

Concord and 9th: Mini ink cubes

Watercolor paper

Postal edge scissors

Buttons Galore: Seaside Holiday sequins mix

Stampin' Up!: Brown marker, Classic ink pad in Bermuda Bay

Gelly Roll: White gel pen

This mini slimline card base is a size I like to make...more than the large slimlines because there is less space to fill. First, I die cut and ink blended a scrap of white cardstock for the water, then used my white pen to add sea foam on one edge. I then die cut and ink blended a beige-y piece of cardstock to look like the sand. I also ink blended on watercolor paper to get the shades of the sandcastle that I wanted, then hand cut the pieces and built it. I added a little spatter then some sand details with a white pen and brown marker. All that was left was to pick a sentiment and add the beachy sequins. I love the little shell sequin best! I also like how the sentiment makes a verb out of the word vacation: Let's vacay!

Please join us this week for this summery, seashore card inspiration! Or, if you wish, just use the colors!

-Carol