Don't Worry Beach Happy

Happy 4th of July! By now you have already made your red, white and blue cards and delivered them to their destinations. For the next week at Just Us Girls Color Challenge #734 our fun teammate Stephanie has us using Coral and Yellow. Happy colors aren't they? I only used Ranger Distress Oxide inks in Abandoned Coral and Mustard Seed. Since it is early-to-mid-summer I went with a tropical theme again. Check out the card made by our new guest for July, Cat Craig, as well as the team's cards and blogs to learn about how they made their cards and the products they used.

Products I used:

Lawn Fawn: Magic Iris Tropical Leaves Add-on stencil and die sets

Stampin' Up!: Beach Happy stamp set

Ranger: Distress Oxide inks in Abandoned Coral and Mustard Seed

Pretty Pink Posh:  Gems

First I made an A2 card base. I stenciled right on the card front with a light and heavy touch in different areas, then did my all of my die cutting. I die cut and popped up the wreath on foam tape and adhered the center circle (that the die cuts out) flush onto my card front. The die set comes with extra leaves and flowers, so I inked blended some flowers and added sparkle to their centers with yellow gems. Below is a sample I found of the many shades of coral. Pretty!

We hope you will have fun with these colors like the design team did. See you in the gallery this week!

-Carol

Stars and Stripes Nautical Fish

I have loved these fish for a long time and with the 4th of July here, I decided to make them along a nautical red, white and blue theme for both Inspired By and Color Thowdown Challenges this week. Both challenges have red, blue and kraft (ie., my rope) details and Inspired by also has three boxes on their sketch option. I love inlaid designs, and that helped me complete my CAS card.

Products I used: 

The Stamp Market: Fintastic stamp and die sets

Colorbox: Scarlet Pigment ink pad

Versamark: Watermark ink pad

Gina K: Fine Detail white embossing powder

Clear embossing powder

Twine

Patterned paper

I thought Inspired By "Picnic" could be tied to my card with tuna sandwiches or fishy crackers in the basket. I die cut the fish and individually heat embossed the stripes on two of them. I die cut one fish out of sparkly white star/red patterned paper. I saved the negative scraps of red, white and blue cardstock after die cutting the fish, thinking that I could use these if I decided to do an inlaid design. Well, that is what I ended up doing. I tied some twine around one side for a nautical/kraft detail and now I might make several of these to give as a gift set. I opted out of giving the card a sentiment.

Happy 4th of July!

Carol

4th of July Pie

I just made some 4th of July Pie for The Paper Players PP696 Tic Tac Toe Challenge. I looked around at lots of pie cards on Pinterest and CASEd a few of them into this one. From the Tic Tac Toe board I chose the top row across: stars and/or stripes, bling, and blue.

Products I used:

Spellbinders: Sky View Pies dies

Poppy Stamps: Life is Sweet stamp set

Concord and 9th: Plaid Background stamp set

Pink and Main: Large Sentiment Strip dies

Sugar Pea: Card Front Element Builder Stitched Rectangle die

Versamark watermark ink pad

Stampin' Up!: Star border die, star punch, Classic ink pad

Red rhinestones

Hole punch

I stamped the plaid onto a piece of blue cardstock with Versamark watermark ink, dried it with my heat gun, then ran it through my Big Shot to get the stitched border. I think it looks kind of like a tablecloth. I die cut the pies, ink blended the crust pieces to look baked, and assembled them. (I ink blended blue and red ink on scraps of paper, then hole punched them to use as cherries and blueberries on the flag pie. I also used a small star punch to make cut outs on the one pie crust.) I threw on a little bit of bling for the 4th of July and stamped my sentiment, die cut it into a banner and curved it to look like it was a flag waving in the breeze.

I hope the weather where you are cooperates for the 4th of July. We are having lots of rain in Florida. Happy 4th!

Carol