Summertime Friends

 Hi Artzy friends -

Now that (Christmas in) July is over, I am holding on to a little bit of summer with this ocean friends slimline card.

The adorable manatees and the octopus are from the Seas the Day stamps and dies sets.

I cut the 3 background layers with dies from the Rectangle Slimline Framelits set and the Wavy Slimline Framelits set. The blue bubble patterned layer and the red and white striped strip,  (adhered on the inside edge),  are from the Otterly Awesome paper, in the Seas the Day collection. I just love everything in this collection for summertime themed cards!

I thought by adding the word "friends" to my card, I will be able to use this card for so many occasions, by simply adding the appropriate sentiment or note to the inside before mailing. The word stamp is one of 17 individual words in the new A Single Greeting stamp set! They can mixed and matched, or used individually, on all of your cards or scrapbook pages!

Enjoy these last weeks of summer - I know I will!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Dare 2B Artzy

I am so excited to be a guest designer for Dare 2B Artzy! They have so many wonderful stamps, dies, patterned paper, and more!
Today's card was made with several Dare 2B Artzy products, and it was really fun to make.
The front of the card was made with 2 die cuts using the Trellis background die. This die is so pretty and makes a great background for so many occasions. I recently learned from design team member Melody Blake, that if you turn one die cut around, the two layer to make a  beautiful new pattern.

The pitcher and the flowers were actually die cut from  sheets of Dare 2B Artzy paper using the Water Pitchers dies! Several of their recent stamp and die sets have coordinating paper for use as backgrounds, or when you don't want to stamp and color an image!
I used a Dare 2B Artzy die to cut the word "friends". I layered 4 die cuts, for dimension, and heat embossed the top layer with WOW embossing glitter in Seaglass.

The inside of the card is made with a base from Paper Cuts, in the form of a pop out card. I mounted Dare 2B Artzy papers on all sections of the card. The pitchers are stamped, colored and cut (or die cut from paper) using Refresh the Soul stamps and Water Pitcher dies.

The sentiment and flowers are also from the Refresh the Soul stamp set, and the sentiment is stamped on a shape cut with the Nesting Rectangle Fancy Frames dies.

Be sure to check out all that Dare 2B Artzy has to offer at www.dare2bartzy.com