Birthday Splash

Pool time anyone? I saved a photo of a beach towel I saw online a while ago, and the other day I finally made a card of my own from the design. It took me back to my high school swim team days and I reminisced the whole time I was making it. I am playing along with the Inspired By Challenge #IB396 Poolside. I made the swimmers' bathing suits in the bright colors of neighboring schools' colors at that time and the pool colors are from the IB graphic aqua from the given color suggestions. I also used their layout design of horizontal rectangles.

Here is the West Elm pool towel that inspired my card.

My card is a "snapshot" view of  a bigger pool for a swim meet. I started by stenciling the pattern in the background to look like tiles on the bottom of the pool. I cut thin strips of striped patterned paper for the lane lines. After putting their suits and caps on, I put the swimmers in their lanes, then created a three layer edge around the pool. Finding a sentiment was easy since this is a topic that is a big percentage of my stash. I added dew drops for water splashes. 

Products I used:

• Simply Graphic Swimmer dies
• Pink and Main stencil
• Waffle Flower Nesting Rectangle Frames die
• Concord & 9th Dew Drops
• Avery Elle Splash stamp set
• Spellbinders frame die
• Distress ink
• Red and white striped patterned paper

Are you able to jump in a pool this hot summer?  Sounds good every single day lately!

Thanks for stopping in,

Carol