Goodbye to Summer

So is everyone ready to say goodbye to the summer.   I know I am not.    Can we have another month!!  I am not ready to put away my shorts!  

This week's Paper Craft Crew challenge let's us showcase our seashells and say goodbye to the summer season.   I decided to go diagonal in the Tic Tac Toe:   Seashells, Any Blue and Washi Tape

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Stipple Shells and sentiment from a local craft store
Ink:   Crumb Cake, Pool Party
Paper:  Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Rhinestones, Dazzling Diamonds Details, Washi Tape
Tools:   Sponge Dauber and Stencil from a local craft store

At the end of the day

Here is last week's Retro Sketch.   I decided to take this sketch and create a scrapbook page out of it.    The banners at the bottom of the sketch inspired my day at the beach page.

I decided on a black and white color scheme with pops of seaside color.   The end result make so happy.

I used the great sentiment from the Awesome Sauce stamp set At the End of the Day and paired it up with stickers I purchased that say Happiness is a Day at the Beach.

Love, love the way this page came out.

Ingredients to make the card
Stamp Sets:  Awesome Sauce by The Project Bin
Ink:  Versarmark
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:  Stickers and Enamel Dots from a local craft store
Tools:  Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun, Border Punch from a local craft store

Sunshine & Good Vibes

One of my favorite sketch site of all time is Retro Sketches!    I love, love the beautiful sketches they come up with every week.   I find myself going back to the sketches and creating more creations.      This week's sketch is no exception.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Sunshine Sayings and stamp set from a local craft store
Ink:   Basic Black, Versamark
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Pop of Pink Designer Series Paper and designer series from a local craft store
Accessories:  Whisper White Embossing Powder, Staples, Stickers from a local craft store
Tools:   Circle Framlits, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun, Triple Banner Punch, Sunshine Wishes Thinlits

Red White and Blue

Happy 4th of July!  Here is my red, white and blue cards to celebrate the home of the free because of the brave.    I hope everyone is enjoying the day with family and friends and enjoying the beautiful day with bbq's, sunshine and maybe time relaxing by the water.

Ingredients to make the Summer Smiles card:

Stamp Sets:  Unity stamp set from an online store

Ink:   Versamark,Real Red, Pacific Point

Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Pacific Point, Bright Patterns Designer Series Paper, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store

Accessories:   Real Red Gingham Ribbon, Whisper White Embossing Powder, Buttons and Baker's Twine from a local craft store

Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Tasteful Trim Sizzex

Ingredients to make the Butterfly Card:

Stamp Sets:  Unity stamp sets from an online store

Ink:   Real Red, Pacific Point

Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red

Tools:  1 3/4" Square Punch

Fishy Birthday

Here is this week's Stampin' Royalty Picture Inspiration.    I love the colors and the beach scene.   With the sponged background and the beautiful Seaside Shore, the card came together.


Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Seaside Shore, Party Pants
Ink:   Basic Black, Peakaboo Peach, Pool Party
Paper;   Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, Neutral Candy Dots
Tools:   Stamping Sponge

Swimmingly

So here is another sneak peek into the new catalog.  Here is the fun Seaside Shore used to make a fun summer fun gift tag.    I love all the fun elements in this stamp set.   Looking forward to making more summer fun cards, tags and scrapbook pages with this fun summer set.   There is even coordinating designer series paper.    The background in the card was sponged on.  

Ingredients to make the gift tag:
Stamp Sets:   Seaside Shore
Ink:   Soft Sky, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight
Paper:   Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Brights Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Rhinestones, Sequins and Baker's Twine
Tools:  Crop-a-dile, 1" Square Punch

Love Summer Fun

I can't tell you how happy I am that The Project Bin has come out with a Summer Fun stamp set.   It has completely inspired me to scrapbook.   I am the ultimate beach girl.  So it is no surprise that I have a collection of scrapbook paper and accents just waiting to be used for scrapbooking my memories.  I just haven't made the time to scrapbook lately.   There is always something that needs to be done that takes priority.

Thank you The Project Bin for giving me an opportunity to pull out my beach photos and get scrappin'.

First I create a card with the great sentiment Life is better in flip flops.    Isn't it?    Just slip flip flops on you are on your way.     Love the bright color scheme.    It just makes me smile.   Thank you As You See It for the sketch challenge and thank you for moving to a two week sketch challenge.   That makes me so happy!!!     I have a feeling that you may see this card end up being a project life card and end up on scrapbook page in the future!

The second project I created with the Summer Fun stamp set from the Project Bin is the Girls just want have sun page.   I decided to dedicate to my best friend's daughter.    She is graduating this year.   I can't believe this amazing girl is now a young lady who is now going to be moving on and experiencing new adventures on her own now.   I can still remember taking her and her brothers to the beach.  Each bringing their little sand buckets to the beach.   I loved my LBI beach summers with these kids and now it makes me a little sad to know that they are coming to an end.   Love you Gianna!    

The Summer Fun collection is a perfect way start the Memorial Day weekend.    Hope the weather holds out and everyone can find some time to get to the water or at the least slip on their flip flops!   Happy Memorial Day!

Love Summer

My favorite sentiment from the Summer Fun stamp set from The Project Bin is I'm sorry for the things I said when it was winter.    Especially this year.    We got rid of the cold weather and now the rain just won't go away.  

I really enjoyed creating with fun summer colors, yellows, oranges and red.    I can't wait for Summer to get here!

Thank you Mojo Monday for the inspiration!