Die cuts and Designer Series Paper make for a serene summer beach card!
Stampin’ Up! Canada has some great products that make for easy crafting – which is perfect for this time of year. I used items from the Texture Chic Suite (also available in French) to create this summer beach card!
I started with the Texture Chic Designer Series Paper as the jumping off point. I chose my card colours from those in the patterned paper – Soft Suede, Petal Pink and Gold. I used the Seasons of Chic Bundle (available in French – Chics Saisons Bundle) that includes the Season of Chic stamp set (English / French) and the Chic Dies. For the mesh die cut, I put an Adhesive Sheet on the back of a Gold Foil Sheet before die cutting, so that it was easy to apply the detailed die cut. For the shells, I just used Liquid Adhesive because it has a wide chisel tip and a fine point tip.
Summer is definitely the time for some easy crafting. Paper crafting is great because you can travel with the supplies (OK, not all your supplies, but you can pick out a few key ones). If you wanted to make multiples of this summer beach card, you could do your prep ahead of time and then just assemble wherever you are. Another option – Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is a great way to have some portable crafting supplies that you can take with you to the cottage, camping or just to the backyard! We are in the last few days of the Buy One, Get One at 50% off kits collection sale, so it’s a great time to stock up on kits – great for having on hand for rainy days, travel, or for gifts for crafty (or even the not so crafty) friends!
I hope that you are able to spend some time this long weekend enjoying the weather. As for me, this summer beach card may be as close as I’m getting to water in the next while….I would usually be enjoying some time poolside, but we have to replace our pool liner (discovered when the winter cover came off)…so we are waiting for our new liner (and the people who can install it). *sigh*
