Summertime

Hello friends! The word summertime makes me think of vacation and this patterned paper has all the elements of my summer vacations as a teacher. Now I get to live year round as if it were summer break. This card is for our Just Us Girls Challenge #735: Summertime, and I am your hostess this week!

I'm sharing my card over at The Paper Players where their challenge is Summer Fun.

Products I used:

The Greetery: Hearts at Home: Clock die

Simon Says Stamp: Summertime die

Sugar Pea: Card Front Builder Stitched rectangle die

JoAnn Fabrics: Patterned paper scraps

Sizzix: Tropical Leaves embossing folder

Gold cardstock

Distress inks

Ink blending brushes

Handmade waves and sun stencils

Small circle punch

I had this idea in mind when I purchased The Greetery's little clock. It's a cute little alarm clock and I wanted to have multiple ways to use it. 

First I cut an A2 card base and chopped off a little over an inch of the outer edge of the card front. 

Next, I die cut the clock pieces and cut the legs for the alarm clock twice to make the top and bottom arms of the watch that attach to the "watchband" itself. 

Then I took the clock face and using small Post-It notes, created an ink blended sunset beach scene. So small, but quick!

I assembled the watch and die cut two rectangles with stitching like a wristwatch band. 

I embossed a panel of white cardstock with tropical leaves and adhered it to the shortened card front. I adhered the completed watch to it with the watch face popped up on foam tape.

Finally, I cut a strip of patterned paper and adhered it to the edge of the card. I die cut the sentiment which comes as a square die, then lined up each letter to make the word "Summertime" fit along the side of my card.

Please join us for a "Summertime" week at Just Us Girls. There are lots of ways to show what we like to do or places we like to go in the summer. You could even choose flowers that grow in this season! My card is for one of my former teacher friends who also loves the summertime vacation.

See you in the gallery!

-Carol