Riding the Waves with All Dressed Up Stamps

 Another Beachy Summer themed card using the image "Flamingo Splash" from All Dressed Up Stamps!  At least all these water cards are making me cooler in this terrible heat wave.

Using her large Flamingo Floatie, this cutie is riding the ocean waves eating an Ice Cream cone(looks like chocolate/blueberry/and strawberry to me)  Using my copics for all the coloring on the card, I brought out an 'ole friend--white Frantage, little white balls that get melted or at least adhered to the surface.  They can look like water spray to snowflakes depending on the amount of heat you apply.

 The inside of the card is finished with seashell paper and a stamp from my stash

 Hope everyone will get some relief from this heat this next week.  Stay Cool and carry on.

 ~Carolyn

 

 

 

New SUMMER Images over at All Dressed Up Stamps! Stay Cool!

 

Here in Illinois and throughout the Midwest, we've been experiencing a terrible Heat Wave with "feels like" temps in the 100+ range.  Another local nickname for it is Corn Sweat!!!  Here at home we're surrounded by fields of corn so spend much time inside in the shade.

Thanks to the Design Team that I'm on for All Dressed Up, we get images to color and play with for our projects--Lots of beachy themes you will notice. This one called "BEACH TIME" makes me feel like the waves are splashing on my toes!

Come over and play with us using one of the new Images!

 

Winnie from Polkadoodles is on the Beach for One last time!

Many of us across the country are trying to get one last trip to the Beach, a vacation if you can find a place open, time with the Family.  Well, Winnie, from Polkadoodles Stamp and Papercrafting Co., wants to get some sun and rest before heading back to work or school!

I used Copics to color her image from the Polkadoodles Shop called Winnie Starfish/Sandcastle- Relaxing Sunlounger -What FUN! I used some of the copic florescent colors so it would show off her "tan".  Matted her on some "wavy" paper and then used some papers from the Digital Mermazing Ocean Papers that Polkadoodles also carries-see the fish in the blue paper? These are so easy to print out any time that you need them.  The cute sentiment is also digital and is from a collection of FREE phrases and sentiments offered on their website.  I attached an blue epoxy dot and edged it in turquoise up in the corner.  A little bit of satin ribbon from my stash and she's complete!  I finished the inside with some soft yellow paper, just waiting for a verse or greeting as the need dictates.

Thank you for taking a look at my fun beachy card-I had such a good time creating her!

Here Comes the Sun Summer Set --A New Release Party with Sherri Baldy

                                                  

   This adorable image is the Star of another one of   Sherri's New Release Summer SETS called "Here Comes the Sun" .
I Love being able to use various sentiments and accessory stamps that all go together-and you have that in Sherri's sets.
On this card, I used a series of papers that were all curves and swirls like the ocean and then some Beachy striped papers.  I decided to take advantage of the little cutie leaning to the right and make the card front follow the same curve.  You can see when I open the card and have it back-lit that the edge is inked for some definition.
Now you can see the impact of the paper's nautical feel with all the curves and angles.  These sentiments were ones that were on the double sided water paper as I didn't have access to the ones that came with the set.  But what a great idea this is of Sherri's--One Stop Shopping!

Hope you're enjoying this New Release Party!  Check out all the new goodies in the shop to get your card stash growing!

Sherri Baldy's Summer New Release Party!! Come play with us and win prizes!

This little cutie is from one of Sherri's new SETS called "Life's A Beach". There are several SETS with a similar theme with lots of accessory digital stamps to round out your creation. 
I used this wavy printed paper with some button brad accents.  A little White Chunky Frantage on the waves and you have some Surf!
 

On the inside, while I could've used one of the adorable sentiments, I chose to a complimentary sentiment/color combination.
We hope you will check out our New Release-there are so many Summertime digital Images and SETS -they can be found at Sherri's Store under the category New July 2018 section..Come over and play with us!

ATG w/ Added Theme By The Sea - Color It Create It Show It Off Challenge

This is my DT card for Color It Create It Show it Off ~~Reminder Post~~  We want to "remind" all of you to get your entries/projects entered into the CICISIO Challenge.    It's been going on since the First of the month with the theme ATG / By The Sea and Nautical items are everywhere!
My image is called Sailor Boy and can be found here.  There are so many clever ideas - you must check them out!  I had this awesome "wave-like" paper and even fancy cut out a section to let the cardstock fish pop up from the waves!  I let the sisal rope peak out of the top corner and then trimmed the edges with some cut outs of a rope design paper!  The sentiment is from KKS and makes a great masculine Happy Birthday Card!  Now be sure and get your entries turned in over at the Challenge-you've got a couple of weeks left and a great chance to win some images from Sherri Baldy!

Entering this in the following Challenge:

My Besties International-Theme is Nautical
Simon Says Stamp-Nautical

All Dressed Up is Sunning on the Beach with ATG Challenge New Releases!

Welcome back to a brand new challenge.  We had some fabulous entries last month, so check back on the 29th-our winner and top three as chosen by our DT will be announced!

As always the theme for our Blog Challenge is-

Anything Goes

but you must use an All Dressed Up Image.

Not got any?  There are some gorgeous freebies -} here. 

But please respect the rules!  Or you can buy any of Wendy's fab images from the All Dressed Up store-} here. 

We will randomly pick a winner to receive 3 images of your choice, and our DT will chose their top 3 creations. 

For this challenge, I used Summer Fun from the ADU store.  Would so love some time to just sit back in a Sling chair on the beach and soak up the sun-just like this image that the talented Wendy Burns drew up!  A bright orange sundress and a cheery turquoise chair sets the scene on the "sandy" beach--compliments of sand Flower soft.  To Achieve the Frothy waves, I used the chunky white embossing Frantage- it also helped hide the white edge of the sandy outcrop.  It's definitely a layered piece-first started with the cloud paper, then the fancy cut wave paper, then the image.  I colored her with copics and stamped a KKS sentiment on the front.  Then on the inside a great wave paper and another stamp with a Get Well Greeting.    

We do hope you will find the time to play along - You have until the evening of August 14th to enter your creations using the links.     

 Over at the Color It Create It Show It Off Challenge this month, we are using the Theme By The Sea!  Perfect for the season what with everyone heading to the Beach or Pool to beat the Heat~I'm using img 086 and she can be found here in Sherri Baldy's Shop.
I LOVE this throw-back to sort of a vintage style bathing suit!  I always color on the heavy side with copics so I wanted to challenge myself to keep it light and airy.  I think I achieved that with the baby blues and taupes- splash of melon in there also.
The best feature on this card is the medium I used for the splashing waves and foam--Frantage with blue & silver glitter and white chunky bits.  It did amazing on getting the ocean action!  First time I'd tried the sand dunes so expanding my horizons!  Tied some khaki Bakers Twine around the matted image and attached a silver sunglasses charm.  On the inside panel, I used some floating bubble paper and a great Sentiment stamp from KKS!  Be sure and enter a card or project yourself into our monthly challenge--great chance to receive a choice of images from Sherri!

I'm entering this card in the following Challenges:

Crafting By Designs- Anything Goes for August
Creative Moments- Anything Goes for Summer
The Paper Shelter- Anything Goes
Wonderful Wednesdays- Always Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Design-Anything Goes
My Besties International- ATG Option Nautical
Scrapbook Stamp Society-ATG option Summer
My Besties French Challenge-ATG

Final New Release Blog Hop by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps-Come and join us!

Today we are celebrating the release of ALL of our NEW June
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!!
ALL FIVE new sets be available in the Krafty Shop after our Online Release Party which begins tonight at 7pm EST!

So grab a nice hot beverage, sit back and relax while you hop around and enjoy all the amazing creations from the
Krafty Design Team and Guests!!
First up is the stunning new set of FLOWER GIRLS from artist Annie Rodrigue!
Next is the elegant set of FANCY FLORALS from new artist Melissa Baker-Nguyen!
Then we shared TWO new sweet sets from artist Cheryl Grant called LEXI'S WHEELS and LULU'S WHEELS!
And the last set that we shared yesterday is the fun-tastic new set of summer critters from artist Emilie Goulet called
BEACH BLANKET BINGO!
You will get to see ALL of the new sets in action as you sit back and enjoy the hop! Then be sure to join us TONIGHT at 7pm EST for our LIVE Online Release Party when they will all be available in the shop!
And if you HAVE to have it ALL, we also have our June Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes all FIVE of the new sets together and at a discount! But only for a limited time and while supplies last!
**SUPER SECRET KRAFTY KLUB!**
Don't forget that you only have until THURSDAY to get your order in for the Secret Klub set!!
Feel free to order the secret set plus any new sets or extra goodies and I'll ship everything together later this week!
Happy hoppin' and happy shoppin!!
This was my contribution to the last day of the new release Blog Hop!  Isn't this surfer Dude such fun?  I decided to use an oval die cut so that I could create a beachy scene and then matted that is a perky green.  Found this great blue/green beachy manly kind of design paper and accented both the inside and outside with KKS sentiments that come with the set!  Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and thanks for all the sweet comments that you have been posting for me as the June KKS GDT.  KOWABUNGA!

Come and Get It Challenge is ATG ! Our sponsor is Knitty Kitty-how exciting!

This week at Come and Get It Challenge, we are showing off our Embossing Talents!  Of course, it's an Always Anything Goes Challenge so there's no reason you can't just join in the fun!  Our Sponsor is Knitty Kitty and this image is called Deep Sea Diver.  It is such a FUN image with so many options!  I have been saving this fantastic green/blue swirl paper that reminds me of the papers you used to make with the oil floating on top of water.  Perfect for sea water?  After coloring up the diver with Copics, it was on to Embossing.  I'm a Frantage nut so that was my solution.  I think you can

see it along "the sea floor" around his Flippers.  I used Aged Teal Frantage, a mixture of golds and teal embossing enamel.  I continued it up into the water area and mixed it among the seaweed, fish and bubbles.  I put a mask over the diving helmet the kitty's using and eventually coated it with Glossy Accents.  I used a small bubble die cut  next to the triple matted image and then used some gifted branchies in browns, spring green and mint green in a cluster, with a string bow and accented with a pewter sea shell.  On the inside, I used the reverse of the green water paper which was anchors.  The sentiment stamp is from KKS and a great sentiment to give a guy--hummm maybe at Father's Day! 
So I hope we will see you at our Challenge so that you can inspire us with your creations!

Sharing this card with the following challenges:

Crafting With Dragonflies-Animals

Oddball Art Co. is Sponsoring us at Crafting When We Can- BRIGHT & COLORFUL is the Theme

What a great theme we have for this next challenge at Crafting When We Can--BRIGHT & COLORFUL!  Perfect for some Summertime fun and sponsored by Oddball Art Co.   As they say on their site:  Perfect Combo of Sweet & Sour Glittering Up the Grunge-what fun!
This image is called Sallie & Charlie and was such Fun to color up with my copics.  Lots of details but easy to get to all the layers.  Sorry for the washed out effect in the corner-didn't realize that I had the Ott light that close!  I laid out a layer at the bottom of the image of sand colored Flower Soft-so glad I had that close at hand!  Mounted that on top of some green plaid paper after gluing some white bubble die cuts  along the edge.  I really liked the fresh summer printed design paper for that "crisp" look in the background.  The 3 buttons I found were lime green, hot pink, and aqua blue-added some aqua/white baker's Twine in bows and think it's just Sassy!  It could be a card for just about anything-I left the inside of the card pretty basic with a stamped sentiment.  We hope you will join us over at the CWWC Challenge and when you go visit the Oddball Site, we know you will have fun walking through the Store!

Show us some New Techniques at Sweet Pea Stamps' ONE SWEET CHALLENGE!

For the month of August!!, we at One Sweet Challenge/Sweet Pea Stamps have chosen to "Educate" ourselves in homage of everyone getting ready to go back to school---We are  going to use a new technique or medium that is new to us in our creations this month.
I'm using the image Swan_n_Pond_Princess by Holly Durr, a fantastic artist from the Sweet Pea Shop.  What I'm learning in the last week or so is how to use Frantage, a texture embossing medium.  This image has waves and sea froth across the bottom of the swan and I chose to use the Aged Marine Embossing Enamel to create the same effect.  These enamels have a gorgeous mixtures of golds, multiple shades of deep blues, and I added some chunky white also.  Used the perfect stamp both inside and out for this Birthday card as well as complimentary buttons.  Please join us and show us YOUR new ideas-we love to Case your creations!

Summer Birdies are the perfect Group from Doodle Pantry! Tweet-Tweet!

 This is an exciting release for May from Doodle Pantry called "Summer Birdies" and the images and papers in this set are terrific!  I offset cut the front of the card so that it highlighted the "head Bird".  What I enjoyed the most was all the paper piecing that I did on all the birds! In 2 dimensional pictures, it's hard to see the details but, I popped out the front brim on the blue cap, the beak, the front wing, the rope and the pink starfish-I just couldn't stop myself!  This set comes with some great sentiments so I added one at the bottom!
When you open it, there are the Birdie Friends and they each have accents also that have been popped up off the papers.  I love this water like paper that comes in the set and also the front "tile" paper.  There's lot of places to add your own greeting on the inside.  For sure will put a smile on anyone's face this summer!

I'm entering this in Sentimental Sundays -Things with Wings.  Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this challenge this week.

Favorite Colors Challenge at Squigglefly!

I ALWAYS love it when I can use colors that make me happy and put a smile on my face!  This week's challenge at Squigglefly lets me do that!  MY fave colors are blue and green-could explain why I love the ocean, waves, hearing the sound of the waves breaking on a beach, pools, especially the ones you see in those commercials for the Bahamas.  And here I am in the land-locked state of Illinois!
This image is intricate but FUN to color-it's named "In the Country II by Judith Hart, a very talented artist that gives you so many selections to use in the Squigglefly shop.  The thing I like about the image is that it has so many vignettes-you could almost tell little stories about each setting!  I'm giving this to a friend that is finally moving into her home after 6 months-I hope she feels the Peace that I feel when I use these colors.  I finished the card with 2 felt flowers that I cut from a Die-Namics die and then rolled and glued them. I also added some orange Stickles to the shape in the middle.
I hope you will join in the fun at our weekly challenge and show us what YOUR favorite colors are!  The winner will get an image of their choice to add to their library!