How can it be June already! Wow, time really does fly! I have to admit: summer is not my favorite time of year and (gasp!) I really don't like the beach.
My family and I recently attended my best friend's daughter's wedding on Kitty Hawk Pier in North Carolina's Outer Banks. It was a glorious day--sunny, clear, and not too hot--and a beautiful wedding. Just to prove that I have actually been to the beach, here's a pic of my family....at the beach.
So, you can imagine that I had a slight bit of panic when I saw this month's Creation Station Beach Life theme. I don't own any beach themed stamp sets. But, I remembered that I do have a set that would work quite nicely: "In the Moment." So I present to you series of "snapshots" that I call, "Kathy at the Beach."
I noticed that one of the sheets of the Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper resembled ocean waves, so I used that as a backdrop on two of my cards. After I stamped my images in Memento Tuxedo Black onto Basic White Card Stock and colored them with a variety of Stampin' Blends, I fussy cut the images and then adhered them to a bit of the Masterfully Made DSP.
I used two of the square Stylish Shapes Dies--the smaller one inside the larger one--to cut photo frames from Basic White Card Stock to frame each of my beach "snapshots." I used the same layout for each card, changing up the sentiment--all from the "In the Moment" stamp set--and the Stylish Shape Die used to cut out the sentiment.
For this card, I thought another sheet of Masterfully Made DSP looked like beachy wallpaper, so I used a strip of it across the card and behind my fussy cut image.
These cards were super fun to make and except for the dog (I have 4 cats!), this could be me on any beach (or mountain or family visit) vacation!
Next up on our international blog hop is Yvonne Spikmans-Van Bruggen. I can't wait to see what she and the rest of the Creation Station Design Team have in store for us!
Until next month!
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