Good Times and Tan Lines

It is definitely summer now where I live. Hot temps and getting humid. (Insert sad face) Well, pool party anyone? For our Just Us Girls #776 Stencil week I chose to make a bird's eye view of a pool with bright umbrellas around it! I used two different stencils for my card.

First, I grabbed some dove grey cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot with my Ellen Hutson A2 Piercing Plate 2 for texture on the pool deck.

I die cut the pool edge three times using my Waffle Flower Nesting Rectangle Frames die set. I adhered the three rectangles together to raise the pool edge.

When the nesting rectangle die cuts the frame, you also get a center rectangle. I took one and stenciled pool water with My Favorite Things Perfect Pool Water stencil using a Ranger Tumbled Glass distress Oxide ink pad.

I made a white A2 card base and adhered the pool deck and pool to it.

Next, I die cut and stenciled pool umbrellas using my Waffle Flower Beach Umbrella Die-n-stencil set, using a Ranger Candied Apple distress ink pad. I added Tim Holtz idea-ology red pearls to the umbrellas. Then I popped up the umbrellas around the pool on foam tape and added some Concord and 9th Dew Drops (to look like splashes of water from the pool).

Last, I stamped my Colorado Craft Company Beach Life sentiment with Chipped Sapphire distress ink and adhered it to the pool.

We hope you will grab some stencils and join us this week! Thanks for visiting!

Carol