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Christy’s Cool Birthday at the Beach!

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We hope you enjoy today’s inspiration! We are looking forward to seeing your Summertime Fun creativity! The Challenge 127 – Summertime Fun is a 2-week challenge and will be open until Sunday, July 3 at 11:59PM ET.

Hey friends, it’s Christy with another card for our Summertime Fun Challenge! I started this one by stamping out the images from Pool Party and On the Beach in Jet Black Ink. I colored them with Copic markers and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For the background, I used three panels of Bristol Smooth Surface Cardstock blended with Distress Oxide Ink. For the sky, I blended some Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers. For the water, I trimmed off the top with the Stitched Wave Borders and used the same two shades, plus some Mermaid Lagoon, then used the Stitched Ripple Backdrop to give it some texture. For the sand, I trimmed off the top with the Stitched Simple Wavy Borders and blended on Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs. Then I splattered both the sand and see with Liquid Stardust.

For my sentiment, I colored some white cardstock with Copics in shades of orange and die cut the C and L using Finley’s ABCs. I added the pool floaties for the Os to spell out the word COOL. The rest of the sentiment I white heat embossed onto Black Licorice Cardstock and cut down into strips. I glued everything down with liquid glue and finished with a bit of Stardust Stickles.

If you’d like to see how this card came together, you can check out the video tutorial on my YouTube Channel, Christy Gets Crafty. If you haven’t yet entered our Summertime Fun Challenge, there is still another week to play! We can’t wait to see what projects you’ll come up with!

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you are inspired to join the Summertime Fun challenge!

Samantha’s Life is Good in the Summertime Inspiration!

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We hope you enjoy today’s inspiration! We are looking forward to seeing your Summertime Fun creativity! The Challenge 127 – Summertime Fun is a 2-week challenge and will be open until Sunday, July 3 at 11:59PM ET. 

Samantha created an amazing beach scene with summertime fun! Take it away, Sam!

I can’t resist a good beach scene for the summer! And this time, the crab from Life is Good are up to some summer-y antics! I love how cute they are! All of the images were colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then fussy cut out. I used images from Life is Good, On the Beach and Pool Party! I even added some details to the images with a white gel pen.

The background was created by die cutting out some sandy shores with the Stitched Hillside Borders. I used Distress Inks in Vintage Photo and Fossilized Amber to add color. Then splattered white acrylic ink, water and ink color on top to add the sandy texture.

I used some white cardstock, and the Stitched Ripple Backdrop for the ocean! I added color with Distress
Inks in Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon and Salvaged Patina, and surprisingly, I held myself back from any splattering! Ha! I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto some black licorice cardstock and cut it into a banner.


Thanks so much for this delightful inspiration, Samantha!

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Mimi Takes Us to The Beach

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We hope you enjoy today’s inspiration! We can’t wait to see your beach or mountain creativity! The Challenge 126 – Beach vs Mountain is a 2-week challenge and will be open until Sunday, June 19 at 11:59PM ET. 

Mimi created an extraordinary beach themed card to inspire us for the last weekend of our Beach vs Mountain challenge!

Mimi’s awesome design takes our Pool Party critters to a beach resort for some R&R. They are relaxing on a hammock, in beach chairs and on a floatie in the water.

To create the background, she started with a small slimline base and divided the beach areas using a Stitched Hillside Borders.

She combined Life is Good, On the Beach and Pool Party to fill this scene with fun! Then she got really creative, using the ice fishing hole from Beary Happy Holidays to add a table to the umbrella. The tropical drinks are from Plan on It: Vacation and she created the lounge chairs using the blender in So Smooth and the desk chair in Virtual Friends Add-On.

She used All the Dots 6×6 paper for the water and other colorful details like the beach towel, umbrella and chair cushions. And of course, that cute hat the cat is wearing is from Dad + Me.

Thank you so much for sharing this brilliant inspiration today, Mimi!

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This challenge will be open until this Sunday, June 19 at 11:59PM ET. Create a project showing us your favorite place, Beach or Mountains! We can’t wait to see your creativity! Click HERE to enter your project!