Stenciled Back Ground Scenes

Put A Drink On It!

Drinks H2O

Drinks inside H2O (2)

According to our Hostess, Frances Byrne, it’s Beer Drinking Day! The challenge this week is to put some kind of a drink on your card. I made this card for my best friend, Jeanine, who is also my boss at the beauty salon I’ve worked at for the last 16yrs. Our birthdays are 2 days apart! She is 10yrs. younger than me however! I just love her and we often spend our lunch hour picking up fast food and spending the hour chatting and laughing.

The Steps:

Step 1: I made the pop up inside the card first. I used an older die set from Karen Burniston called 780 – Garden Bench. I like to try to use currently available products but this bench worked so well with the Art Impression’s stamp of these two ladies. 4407 – Coffee BFF’s

Step 2: The card is a 6″x6″ square. I cut two 5.75″ x 5.75″ squares from white cardstock. I stamped one with the tree from this stamp set I bought from:Amazon link to stamp set

Tree stamp

I have purchased several sets from this seller on Amazon. They all have not disappointed me. The seller is GIMITSUI. They don’t spend on fancy packaging and the buyer benefits. This set is priced at $6.59 They are a Prime Member store and offer free shipping and free returns! What! I know! You will not want to return them. All of the stamp sets I have purchased from them stamp very well. Here are two more sets that I adore and have already used.

You may remember the elephant set used on another C4C Sketch Challenge:

Aug sketch Elephant H2O (2)

Then I used PanPastels to stencil the clouds and hills behind the bench. The other 6″ square I also used PanPastels and stencils for the grass and path: Snow storm and Clouds & Mountain and Split rail Fence

Drinks inside H2O (2)

Next I trimmed them to fit behind and around the bench. Wait to adhere these two stenciled squares until later.

Step 3: I stamped the Art Impression BFF’s stamp. I colored them with Copic Markers and fussy cut them out. I glued them to the front of the bench just on the back side of their legs which makes them really look like they’re sitting on that bench! I’ve had the AI stamp for awhile and have used them a lot. But I really believe I saw Frances use this stamp exactly like this when the Garden Bench first came out.

Step 4: Cut two 6″ squares from a sky blue cardstock for the front and back of the pop up. Now take a scrap of white cardstock that is about 2″ x 4″ and stencil this strip to continue the hills behind the bench. Do the same thing for under the bench. Adhere the strip that is for behind the bench to the bottom of a blue square. (Make sure it is positioned to fill in where the bench cut out is). Do the same thing for the piece that is attached to the path/grass layer and adhere it to what will be the back of the card.

Step 5: I used 3 die sets for the front of the card: 1434 Calligraphic Elements – 3

1161 – happy birthday and Coffee Charms. I cut the “Elements” from silver mirror cardstock. I cut coffee cup with white cardstock and colored with Copic Markers. I cut the top from Velum. The happy birthday is from dark blue cardstock. Adhere them all to the front of the card as shown:

Drinks H2O

Adhere the other blue square to the back of the card and it’s done! I can’t wait to see what you make this week!

Other Products use:

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

CutterPillar Pro

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot Pro

Fancy Fold Challenge

Fancy folds are fun and all the rage!

Neighberhood front H2O

Neighberhood open H2O

As this month’s hostess Rebecca Ednie said “fancy folds are both fun and all the rage now”. So this week’s challenge is to make a card with at least 2 or 3 folds over at Crazy4Challenges

I got this set from Sizzix years ago, but just never used it and forgot about it. Then while looking for something else I ran into this set. So I decided to use it for this week’s challenge.

Sizzix houses and dies

The Steps:

Step 1: Cut a 8.5″ x 11″ piece of white cardstock down to measure 11″ x 5.5″. Score this cut pc. at 5.5″. Then turn it over and score one end at 2.5″. Now it should look like this:

Folds

Flip this piece back over and stencil clouds on it with PanPastel and Elizabeth Craft Designs stencil called “Clouds and Grass”. Leave 1.5″ on the lower edge white.

Step 2: Using Elizabeth Craft Designs 914 – Outdoor Edges – 3 die set (the plain wavy die in the middle) cut about a little more than a 1.5″ x 11″ strip out of green cardstock twice.

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Step 3: Cut a strip of either the same green cardstock or white that measures 1.5″ x 11″. Now score it the same way you did for step 1.

Step 4: Using a green PanPastel, color the bottom white edge. Now adhere the step 3 strip to the bottom of the card with the longer panel of the strip attached to the shorter panel.

Finished folds

Step 5: Stamp all the images you want to decorate with and color them. Now cut them out with the coordinating dies.

Step 6: Add all your finished elements to create a little neighborhood. I added sea gulls from a set by Frantic Stamper called Flying Gulls.

Here’s another quick look:

Neighberhood open H2O

Thanks for taking a look. I answer all questions, so don’t hesitate to ask.

Other Products Used:

Beacon’s Kid’s Choice Glue

Michael’s Craft Store: all cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

It’s Dog Biscuit Day

It’s National Dog Biscuit Day!

Yep, it’s National Dog Biscuit Day in the United States! As if America doesn’t look goofy enough these days to the rest of the world…..we have national dog biscuit day! This is my last week to hostess for a month over at: Crazy4Challenges

So the challenge for this week is to put a pet on your card. It doesn’t have to be a dog. So this is how I made my card.

The Steps:

Step 1: I used some discontinued: Karen Burniston dies for this card, but the link in red will take you to her online shop where she has comparable products. I like to cut all the elements I might use for the projects first so I can audition them on my project.

I used Karen’s “Buster the Dog” , “The All Seasons Tree, Props 4 set (dog bowl, ball & dog bones), “Props 2” (party hat) and “Outdoor Edges” grass. The sentiment “Happy Birthday” is a Elizabeth Crafts Designs die set.

Step 2: Make a base card by scoring an 8.5″ x 11″ pc. of white card stock at 5.5″ on the long side. Fold over for a book fold and trim to a 5.5″ x 7″ card. Stencil the front of the base card with PanPastels Aqua Marine blue and Elizabeth Craft Designs: S-016 Earth and Sky

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Step: 3 Arrange from all the elements you cut in Step 1, a little scene to the front of the now stenciled card, as you like. Here’s one more look:

That’s It!

Thanks so much for taking a look and I hope you’ll join us in the challenge this week.

Sketch Week at C4C

It’s sketch week over at Crazy4Challenges!

C4C 461 front H2O

New inside fall

For this card I started with the base card. Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Cardstock for two reasons. First, it’s a good medium weight cardstock and second when you want the front one color and you want to stamp on white for the inside. Or, as I did, stencil a background for my fall inside. Their Soft Finish Cardstock is colored on one side and white on the other side. The base card measures 5″ x 7″. I used Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1116 – Stitched Circles

Cut the circle out of the front of the base card using the second largest die and then out of the same cardstock nest this die into the largest die. Secure with tape on the non blade side of the nested 2 dies. Cut both a circle frame from yellow and white cardstock. Adhere the yellow over the front circle and the white frame over the inside of the circle.

The next step is to stencil the inside right of the card using my all time favorite stencil! Elizabeth Craft Designs: Earth and Sky Stencil I have used this stencil for the sky on any of my cards that were an outdoor scene. (At least 50 cards) If you don’t have it GET IT!

Earth & Sky - Stencil - ElizabethCraftDesigns.com

On the Elizabeth Craft Designs You Tube channel there is a tutorial of Susan Tierney Cockburn using this stencil. I always use Pan Pastels but you could use ink too.

Next using Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1467 – Words 3 – Happy Holidays

Cut the “happy thanksgiving” sentiment from brown cardstock.

The two die sets I used for the tree and wheelbarrow for the inside unfortunately are retired but they are: 781 – All Seasons Tree by Karen Burniston and 933 – Wheelbarrow by Elizabeth Craft Designs. The leaves are 3 dies from the “all seasons tree” set.

The grass strip across the bottom of the circle on the front and back of the card is also a retired set from Karen Burniston 914 – Outdoor Edges.

That’s It!

I hope you’ll join the challenge this week because we love to see what you will do with this sketch! Crazy4Challenges

Other Products Used:

Beacon’s Kid’s Choice glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C -446 National Mountain Climbing Day!

Who knew we have a National Mountain Climbing Day?

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Yep, It’s National Mountain Climbing Day! First, let me say you’ll will never get me to climb a mountain. But I do ride a tricycle! My dog rides in the back (pic. on right).

Here’s how I made this card:

Step 1: Cut a pc. of white cardstock in a rectangle that measures .25 x 7″. Using a stencil by Susan Tierney Cockburn called S016 – Earth and Sky stencil clouds with PanPastels 520.5 Ultramarine Blue on the top half of this rectangle.

Earth & Sky - Stencil - ElizabethCraftDesigns.com

Step 2: I used this die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs called Western Edges which is no longer available. It is a Karen Burniston die set. Cut both the mountain one and the horse one from white cardstock. The mountain one was cut by putting the die at the top of a 6 x 5.25″ white cardstock rectangle and colored with PanPastel’s 780.5 Raw Umber and 250.5 Diarylide Yellow. The horse die was cut from a white cardstock rectangle measuring 5.25 x 4″. I colored the horses with Copic Markers and the rest was colored with the same two PanPastels as the mountain layer but with less of the Raw Umber. The 3 grass pcs. were also cut from scrap white cardstock and colored lightly with the Raw Umber also. The barbed wire was cut from Silver Mirror cardstock.

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Step 3: Make a base card by scoring an 8.5 x 11″ at 5.5″ and fold over for a book fold card. Now start layering your 3 western edges as shown on top the stenciled “clouds” layer. Add the 3 grass pcs. and the barbed wire pc.

Step 4: I created the sentiment by using stamps from this set from Elizabeth Craft Designs: CS077 – Sentiments 2 – Just Because I love both the size and font in this set. Plus, it’s on SALE for 5.95!

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That’s it!

Thanks so much for taking a look. I love visitors and comments or questions. I hope you’ll take the challenge this week and show us you version of the “Mountain” challenge.

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double Sided Adhesive 10mm

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Walmart: Reflections 110lb. white cardstock

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

Dies R Us – Kids Cards!

Combine stamping and Die cutting to make adorable cards.

I decided to enter the current challenge at Dies R Us which is “Kids Cards”.

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The image I chose for this challenge is one called “Peaceful Easter” from The Paper Shelter. I fell in love with this sweet image of innocence:

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The Steps:

Step 1: Download, size and print the image. If you’re new to digital stamps, the greatest reference on many things about using digital images is from a website called Kit and Clowder. This is a company that teaches coloring with Markers and Pencils. They also have areas on their website that have an amazing amount of information on all things coloring! The below photo shows how I always print out an image that I buy in both the black and white, and color version on one page that I keep in a binder. It also has the image that I colored with PrismaColor Premium Pencils.

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After I colored the stamped image I created the background with stencils and PanPastel’s then trimmed the finished image to 5 x 7″ with the stamped image centered:

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Step 2: Cut 2 rectangle mats that measure 5 x 7″. One from Designer cardstock and one from white cardstock. From the Die set below on the right 1113 – Stitched Ovals, center the second to the largest on the Designer cardstock and run through your machine. From the same die set, center the third to the largest on the white rectangle. Save the Oval mats for another project because you will use the rectangle mats with the oval cut outs.

2016-11-26-17-11-25 Step 3: Adhere the white mat to this layer. Then, on top. the Designer layer. The photo below is these 3 layers and the beginning of step 4:

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Step 4: Cut from white cardstock and color with Copic Markers, all the decorator items as follows:

Peaceful Easter collage

Cut the grass, eggs, bunnies and fence once. Cut all the Holly Hock pcs. to assemble the holly hock on your card directly and build the plant from the stem up as the picture in step 3.

Step 5: Assemble the Holly Hock on the left as shown then add the fence, bunnies and eggs on the bottom.

Step 6: Create a base card by scoring a 8.5 x 11″ at 5.5″ on the long side. Fold and trim down to 5.5 x 7.5″. Adhere the assembled front to the base.

That’s It!

Thanks so much for taking a look. Please follow and leave a comment. I love to read them and answer any questions.

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: White Soft Finish Cardstock White, Clear Double sided adhesive 10mm

Beacons Kids Choice Glue

Sissix Big Shot Plus

C4C 414 Color something!

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Below is the inside of this card:

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This week’s challenge over at Crazy4Challenges is to color! I just recently bought some digital stamps from The Paper Shelter. This little stamp is called “Snow Angel”and I fell in love with her!

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This is also a 3D scene card but only 2 layers:

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The Steps:

Step 1: Digital stamps can be printed out in any size. I knew I wanted to make a multi layered card so that it would look like this little Snow Angel was out in the woods under a blanket of fresh falling snow. Print out the image in the size that will be in ratio to the other elements (trees).

Cut 8 trees from this die set:

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You can cut two layers of cardstock at a time with these dies. Glue two trees together to end up with four trees. I need them early in the project so I can audition other things in relationship to this die set!

Step 2: Color the Snow Angel with Copic Markers:

Step 3: Create a background for the scene. First, cut the printed and colored cardstock down to 5.5″ x 7″. I used a stencil by Susan Tierney Cockburn for Elizabeth Craft Designs called “Cloud and Grass” to create the sky using PanPastels 520.5 Ultramarine Blue:

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Then using a white gel pen, I made little circles to look like snow:

Next using Copic N0, color the snow mounds in, accenting the artist’s lines and making the illusion of snow mounds in the forest:

Next using a product called Snow Writer add this dimension to the colored snow mounds and on the circles and some lines that the artist drew. Immediately shake Elizabeth Craft Designs Silk Microfine Glitter Cool over all of this product:

Step 4: The “trees” in the above die set have a built in embossing effect that suggests the dark lines on a birch tree. With Copic liner pen .3, I went over these embossed lines.

Step 5: Adhere two of the trees to both sides as shown below but leave some of the small branches not glued. This gives you some options of tucking other items under them:

Step 6: Stick a piece of white cardstock to Elizabeth Craft Designs Clear Double Sided Adhesive that measures 4″ x 2″. Take the backing off of the adhesive and shake Silk Microfine Glitter Cool over this entire adhesive pc. Shake off the excess and polish with your fingers. Using the “Snow Flake” from this die set, cut twice placing the die cutting side down on the glitter side of this pc. Tip: Cut off the excess glittered cardstock for each run through of the “snow flake” and the other dies you’ll run through your die cutting machine using this glittered cardstock. I added ECD Glitter Dots Transparent/silver to the center of each snowflake.

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Cut two of the smallest snowflakes from this set: 757 -Snowflakes by Elizabeth Craft Designs using the same technique as above (I cut off the circles)

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Cut (out of white cardstock) and color the two birds from this set with Copic Markers:

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Step 7: Make the second layer, the frame. Cut a rectangle from heavy white cardstock that measures 5.5″ x 7″. I had to improvise this step so I placed the third largest of this die set with the shortest side placed on one side of the rectangle eyeballing an even margin from the edge on those three sides. Run it through your cutting machine. Keep the mat that it cuts for the inside sentiment as I did. Next, slide the die to the opposite side and run through the machine again.

Step 8: Make the base card by scoring a 12″ x 12″ pc. of Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Cardstock Dusky Sky at 6″. Fold over and trim to 6″ x 7.5″. Cut a rectangle from white cardstock that measures 5.75″ x 7.25″. Adhere this rectangle to the “Dusky Sky” base card centering as shown with ECD double sided adhesive 10mm. Next adhere the stamped first layer to this white rectangle also centering it.

Step 9: Lay the “frame” layer from step 7 and lay it on top of this stack. Cut the last to trees in half dividing the two trunks. Adhere the two tree halves that were the left trunks to both sides as shown with Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue. Now that you have both layers almost finished you know where you want the “snow flakes and birds”:

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Step 10: On the underside of the frame layer add foam dimensionals like this:

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Pull the backs off the foam and carefully place exactly over the stamped Snow Angel layer. They should be exactly the same size.

Step 11: You can either stamp a sentiment or do what I did for the inside sentiment. I used the white mat that was cut from step 7 and these two die sets:

Brush the outer edge only of the white mat with Wink of Stella Clear. Cut “Merry Christmas” from silver mirror cardstock. Cut two flourishes from the same ECD Dusky Sky cardstock as the base card.

That’s it!

I hope you’ll give making a 3D card yourself. They are so fun to create. But it’s not necessary for the challenge. We hope you will show us what you do for this weeks challenge. You inspire us! Add 3 Blue/Silver Glitter Dots to both of the Flourishes.

Other products used:

Beacon’s Kids choice glue

Michaels: Dimensional foam adhesives

Joanne Crafts: Silver Mirror cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C 404 A Baby Interactive Card

C4C 404 – An interactive card challenge

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This weeks challenge was to make an interactive card. There are so many options for cards in this category. Just search Pinterest and other social sharing sites and you’ll see how many there are!

The Steps:

Step 1: I was asked by one of my salon customers to make a card for the new baby in her family. I made a card similar to this one for my niece when we all found out she was pregnant and so decided to use this same Silhouette file for the inside of my card. It’s called “Baby Crib Pop Up Card”. I cut the blue Gingham wallpaper, the crib, shelf, and blocks from this file.

Step 2: From Silhouette file “a2 Step Card Baby Dresser” I cut the dresser, and hanging onezy. I cut the teddy bear from Silhouette file “Just hanging (teddy bear)”.

Step 3: Make the window with this die from Spellbinders: Cut the top part off:

Then color with Copic markers. Cut a 2×2″ square from white cardstock and sponge with PanPastel AquaMarine Blue and Susan Tierney Cockburn’s stencil “Clouds and Grass”. I used a branch I trimmed off of this die from Susan Tierney Cockburn’s 1006 – Susan’s Garden – Cherry Blossom. The bird is from her 1012 – CountryScapes – Critters 2 and the tiny ivy is from her 1036 – CountryScapes Mini Botanicals – Clematis, Ivy. Attach to the sponged clouds 2×2″ square as pictured.

Cut a 2×2″ square of “Film Transparency”. Glue to the back of the cut and colored window and adhere this pc. to the pc. above.

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Stamp the curtain valance onto the same blue gingham cardstock used to cut the wallpaper. Then cut with the valance die. This set includes the stamps and dies.

Adhere this valance to the top of the completed window piece.

Step 4: Make a base card by cutting a 12 x 12″ piece of Elizabeth Craft Designs White Soft Finish Cardstock in half and score at 6″ on one half along the 12″ side. Fold the card at the score line and begin to assemble the inside.

With Elizabeth Craft Designs Blossom Layering Stencil and baby blue ink stencil the top half of the inside of the card.

With 10mm clear double sided adhesive attach the wallpaper to the bottom of the insides of the card. Adhere the crib piece to the card. Then add all the other decorator items as pictured above.

Step 5: To create the front of the card, first using the largest die in Elizabeth Craft Designs 1118 – Stitched Squares, cut out of white ECD Soft Finish Cardstock 85lb. Stencil clouds using the same PanPastel AquaMarine Blue and the “Clouds and Grass” stencil. Cover the entire card as shown.

Step 6: In word, I spelled out the baby’s name with enough space between the letters to cut them out with the 2 banner dies in Elizabeth Craft Designs – 778 -Lots of Pops. Print this word file onto 65lb. cardstock and cut the banners by placing these little banner dies over each letter. Fold each cut banner over a piece of white bakers twine and glue the two lower pointy ends together. (Don’t glue the top of the banner where it folds over the twine yet so that you can still slide them on the twine). Leave an extra 2″ of the twine on each end, of each name.

Step 7: Cut the Hot Air Balloon Pieces from white cardstock using this die set:

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Color with Copic Markers as shown using B21, 23,24 and Y08.

Using the die set below cut all the pieces from white cardstock and color with Copic Markers:

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Glue the “little bunny” (with the hang tag cut off) in the Hot Air Balloon as shown after you cut off the two inside (what looks like the ropes that attach the basket to the balloon) pieces.

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Stamp the sentiment on a piece of white scrap cardstock from this stamp set:

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Cut out the stamped sentiment with the smallest of labels in this set:

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Sponge the edges with the same AquaMarine Blue PanPastel.

Cut out 1 large and 2 small clouds out of white scrap cardstock from this die set:

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Sponge the edges like the label above.

Step 8: Drape the Baby’s first name banner over the top left corner of the stenciled cloud square. Put a dimensional dot behind the top of each banner making an arc. Glue the points of the banner down with a dot of glue. Tape the ends of the twine behind this cloud layer. Do the same for the baby’s middle name but tape the twine at the start of these banners under where the sentiment label will be. Adhere the sentiment over the end as pictured with dimensional squares.

Step 9: Adhere the assembled “balloon/bunny and clouds” piece as shown and tape the other end of the twine under the above pc.

Step 10: Adhere the above completed scene to the front of the pop up card being careful to have the card open like a book.

Step 11: I was initially going to add a scalloped edge around the above step but in the end used the negative around the edge because it looked more boyish and also went with the pointy ends of the banners:

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Optional: I wanted the new mother to know how much I enjoyed making this card so created a message and adhered it to the back of a piece of Elizabeth Craft Designs “Through the Lens” 6×6″ cardstock “Stone”. This pc. becomes the floor when the card is displayed open.:

That’s it! For you that is! Since I made this card the same customer of mine ordered another one just like this one!! Yikes! Here it is:

Thanks so much for taking a look. I love reading your comments!

C4C 401 By the Sea

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This weeks challenge over at Crazy4Challenges was to use the ocean or the beach as our inspiration. A while back I found a card that I loved and wanted to make one like it. Here is Beverly Polen’s card:

So this was the perfect time to give this a try. I already had very similar dies and products so I had no more excuses.

The Steps:

Step 1: I began with the background. I used my favorite stencil for skies and clouds by Susan Tierney Cockburn named “Cloud and Grass”. Susan has a YouTube video demonstrating how to effectively use this stencil. I used this stencil and PanPastel UltraMarine Pastel to fill a little less than 1/3 of the top half of the cardstock rectangle that measures 5.5 x 7″

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Using the same color PanPastel I started coloring an ocean. Before I got to far down I colored the beach with PanPastel’s Raw Umber and Diarylide Yellow. Next I brought down the sky to meet up with the beach. At the point that the sky and beach meet I used a product called Snow Writer by DecoArt to create what I thought looked like sea foam and also made some incoming waves.

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Step 2: Make all the elements that will make up the ocean scene:

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I didn’t use everything but I wanted to have some options. I used elements from these die sets from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

I cut everything out of white cardstock. I do this so I can cut a lot of dies in one run through the die cutting machine and the assembled elements need to look realistic.

Step 3: Start to create the scene by adhering the assembled elements to the background piece. Here’s where I ran into trouble. I wanted some of my elements to be on the frame like Beverly’s inspiration card but after I had glued things in place I realized I didn’t have nested dies large enough to make a rectangle frame. I do own a Silhouette Cameo and could have made a frame but I went the old school way:

I cut half inch strips of 100lb white cardstock and cut the ends at a 45 degree angle. I dug into my paper only trash and found the negative from the mat and used just the four corners to back the corners for my frame. Also, I realized where I planned to put the “Light House” I didn’t have enough “beach” on the lower left side of my background piece. I didn’t want the light house to look like it was in the middle of the ocean so I got out another die set:

The die pc. in this set above, in the lowest left hand corner creates the stones for this wall. I used these pieces to make a stone sea wall for the light house. Some of the stones I glued to the background and some to the frame around the Light house as shown. The Sea Gull and the banded drift wood is glued to the background piece as well as the flying gulls. I then added the “pussy willow” in the lower left corner on the frame. The “chain is glued across the bottom of the frame and behind the “light house. The “Anchor” is from the light house die set. The “Corner” dies on the two upper corners are from this set:

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Step 4: Once the frame was completed I attached it to the background on foam dimension dots and that completes this card.

Thank you so much for Beverly’s card I had pinned on Pinterest for inspiring my card.

Thanks to all that took the time to take a look and maybe try one of your own.

Other products used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: White Soft Finish Cardstock, Clear double sided Adhesive

Beacons Kids Choice glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Category: Stenciled Back Ground Scenes

Put A Drink On It!

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