Life's a Beach

Here is a fun idea from Vicki for our Just Us Girls #822 Die week: Use a Sentiment Die. I usually don't have enough large dies to make them the focal point of my cards. The one I chose is larger than most of my word dies and makes an impact on a card. I also have been seeing eclipse cards lately and I had to try the technique. I like to change up my card styles. Here is my card for our challenge.

The team, including our wonderful new team member Denise Morgans, and our guest this month Kerry Parkinson, absolutely hit it out of the ball park with their fabulous cards for this challenge. Be sure to check out their blogs for all of the details!

What I used:

• La La Land Crafts Summer Vacation Paper Pack
• Simon Says Stamp Life's A Beach die
• Stampin' Up Dots embossing folder
• Paper cutter
• Cardstock scraps

I started by cutting a 6" x 6' sheet of patterned paper every 3/4" to get eight equal strips from the sheet. (The number of strips doesn't matter.) Next I die cut a piece of black cardstock to 6" x 6" as well. I started adhering the strips from left to right. The odd numbered strips are left in their original form and the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th strips are dry embossed with a dotted pattern. I adhered the first strip on the left with liquid glue onto the black square. The second embossed strip is popped up on foam tape. I repeated that process across to the right/8th strip. The black panel behind the strips shows up better in person as you turn the card left to right repeatedly.

Next, I die cut the sentiment (one die) from white, two yellow, two green and teal cardstocks. I chose those colors from the ones in the patterned paper.

There isn't a second die to mat the words, so on black cardstock I drew around the die with a pencil and fussy cut a mat for my words. I glued the letters to the black mat and the card was complete! The black peeking from between the strips is like those old time billboards that used to change the picture by rotating strips in one direction to go from one image to the next. Anyone remember those?

Thanks for stopping by. See you in the gallery!

Carol