A 70th birthday deserves a nice card. Over the holidays I found out my brother in law now believes a nice vacation is sitting on the beach. Not my style, but great for him. I think this card captures his mood.
Finished card is larger at 5x6.5"
Start with basic white and stamp your Good Man. Take your circle punch and place over the shoulder. Place another post it at the horizon so the water/sand is covered. On the top half blend Mango Melody on all of the area. On the top 2/3 blend coral. On the top 1/3 blend Tile.
Take horizon post it and turn it upside down so you can now see the water area. Have a tiny bit of the Mango showing...1/16". At the water line blend a thin line of Costal Cabana, the blend in Pool Party for water. Be careful to notice where the chair is. If you want the chair on the sand, your water area will be thin. Once you have the pool party, make sure it is level on the card. Then add another post it at the base of the water line. Take the Oceanfront water ripples and stamp on the water, between the post its. Use Pool Party. Take off all the post its.
On the circle, blend in daffodil.
Using the birds from On the Horizon, stamp them in Baked Brown Sugar or a darker brown.
Blend in your sand. I wanted to use Crumb Cake, but the pad was too dry, so I used Baked Brown Sugar. Then I took the sand stamp from Oceanfront and lightly stamped in whatever Crumb Cake I could get off the pad. You want the sand to be subtle, so off stamp a couple times. You might add some white gel pen where the blue pool part and sand meet for white foam. Write your greeting with dark Crumb Cake blend.
Stamp your Good Man on a scrap of paper and color it. I used the lightest skin color blend, both Crumb cake and a few other blends. Cut it out and adhere over the one on the white card front.
Assemble your card front onto the Mango Melody and Costal Cabana layers.
Stamp the two palm trees using your Baked Brown Sugar or Crumb Cake on scrap paper. Stamp the palm leaves 2x both large and small stamp on scrap paper. Fussy cut. Sponge a little green on the edges of the 4 palm leaf stamps. Figure out how close to the edge of the paper you can get. You have trunk, large leaves and small leaves dimensionaled on each. It's easy to go off the edge of the card. Adhere.
If you like, stamp your Relax Your Way greeting on Mango Melody and punch. Then punch once each from Terracotta Tile and Costal Cabana paper. Cut the Tile and Cabana paper in half and fit under the greeting. Use dimensionals.
Inside I have a layer of Mango Melody and then White. On the white I added more sand about an inch high at the bottom. Using Granny Apple Green I stamped grass from High Tide on right side of sand and grass from Oceanfront on left. Just the small tufts of grass. In between I used the High Tide shore birds stamped in Soft Suede.
I think that's it. If you enjoy my card, please like and leave a comment. Thanks for looking. Carol
Date: Friday, January 27, 2023 GMT Views: 174
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