Hello everyone! Hope you are all well and enjoying summer activities. Hard to believe it
will be over in a month! 😞. But in the meantime, I've been playing with some beach-
themed cards 😀 using
This is a cute digital set with all kinds of elements - 25 in total! That's a whole lot of fun to
makes scenes with! I made a small grouping of elements for today's card. Let me show you
how I did it!
I wanted to use digital paper for my project so I was able to find a pretty one in my stash. But, it
had been so hot and humid here where I live that my printer was not printing well at all. Not
all of the ink was laying down, etc.
I decided to go with it, thinking I could fix the top with markers. So, the first thing
I did was take my markers to the blue on top.
I was fairly pleased with how this came out, but decided that I could ink blend out
the remaining lines that I could see.
I started coloring the image with Copic Markers and decided to do the ink blending
at this point. I used a darker blue for the top and decided to shade the sand along
the bottom of the panel as well. Then I moved on to more coloring.
I had stopped coloring on the panel for the day and decided to add Star Dust
Stickles to the wedges in the lemon and the center of the flower. That way it
could dry overnight. I continued with the coloring.
I used the Stickles again on the frames of the sunglasses and then added Glossy Accents on the
glass part of them after the coloring was done. Again I set it aside until it was dry.
I colored the word "summer" with 2 different shades of marker - a pink and a
yellow, knowing they would make orange in the middle...nice summer colors!
I also used 3 shades of brown marker to makes tiny dots to represent sand.
Then I used a gold metallic marker as well. I cut my panel down to
4" x 5 1/2" and backed it with a panel of copper glitter paper that was
4 1/8" x 5 3/8" and then mounted it onto a White A2 size side folding
notecard. As a final bit of sparkle I added shimmer pen to the waves in the
blue part of the water along with white gel pen. I used the shimmer pen on the
petals of the flower and the word. I also added 3 small shell sequins!
This card was lots of fun to make! Hanging onto summer for as long as
I can! 😊. Find this stamp set as well as many other at
Thanks so much for stopping by! Questions about digital stamping?
Ask me - I'd be glad to help!
Betsy
In my capacity as a design team member for Kate Hadfield Designs, I do receive the products I use from them.
All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.
