Hello sweet friends!
Welcome to a new challenge at Dies R US! Can you believe it is the first day of August?? I sure can't! So our challenge to kick off the month is challenge #78, Summertime fun! Whatever it is that you enjoy doing during your summer months, let's see it!
So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.
So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.
Summer time for me is my favorite time to be out and about... it also means for me, a ton of photos being taken. So this card displays a photo frame for all those photos and of course, it says "love" and I added in the "summer". The flowers and the beautiful creatures of nature are out and about more in the summer then they are the spring anymore so I focused in around that. So I started it all with the Die-Versions- Sweet Frames- Love die.... that is the photo frame of course. I adhered it to a summertime background die that I have which was cut out of that bamboo looking paper. Really cool texture! That layer was adhered to a nice chevron pattern ... full of colors of summer... the blues, the greens, the hints of yellow.. very pretty! Once I adhered the frame down, I started to build up an array of gorgeous florals and greenery. I cut out several leaves using the Memory Box- Citrus Leaves dies and placed them in and around the little yellow flowers that I adhered down. The flowers I've had for forever. Then I decided to add in a few of the pretty leafy flourishes.... they were cut using the Die-Versions- Whispers Flourish die. I had an area that I needed to fill in to the left of the frame once I had everything down where I wanted it. So I decided to cut out that gorgeous blue scalloped flower! So pretty right? That was created by cutting out the Yvonne Creations- Scallop dies and just layering them all on top of one another. To get them to look so full, I just curled up each petal to give it that dimension. It all came together beautifully... and then I wanted something else to kind of ground the frame... so I thought to keep with the scalloped theme from the beautiful flowers and cut out a little scallop border to tuck under the frame. I used the Lawn Fawn- Stitched Scalloped Border dies to achieve that. And then to finish off the card, I added in a few butterflies that I had sitting on my desk from a prior project and added black centers to the yellow flowers. I used some spectrum clear sparkle pen on all the greenery, the word "love" and on the blue scallop flower. I added in a few doodles but that pretty much sums it up!
And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.
Well that is all I have for you today my friends. I appreciate you for taking time out of your day to visit me and see what I am up to. Please don't forget to stop by the Dies R US challenge blog to see what the rest of my design team sisters have created for you today. And make sure to link up your own project too! And for more inspiration, check out the Dies R US Inspiration blog . You will find yourself browsing for awhile. There are so many gorgeous projects that will surely inspire you! Thanks again for stopping by!
I would like to play along in the following challenges:
Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~
