Let Your Worries Wash Away

 Hello, creative friends!

Today I’m sharing a calming coastal card that features one of my favorite designs from the Nantucket Sea Escape Paper Pack by Pajama Crafter Stamps. This paper is so stunning, I couldn’t bear to cover it up—so I made it the star of the show by framing it as the focal point of my card.

The deep, moody blue shells captured in the paper feel like they’ve been plucked straight from a dreamy seaside stroll. To elevate the relaxing beach vibe, I paired the scene with a perfect sentiment from the Sea You Soon stamp set:

“Let your worries wash out with the tide.”

Ahhh. Can’t you just feel the waves rolling in?

I am also participating in this month's Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge to use patterned paper: #simonsayschallenge @simonsayschallenge #sssigchallenge

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💛 Join the fun by hopping over to the @PajamaCrafterStamps Instagram account. There’s an inspiring hop filled with beautiful projects and a chance to win a generous prize!

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Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope this card inspires a little coastal calm in your own creative adventures.

Summer Fun

Hello!  I am having summer fun with the Beach Fun set and coordinating dies.  I tore a piece of paper and masked off a sandy beach, then I masked a straight line for the water horizon.  I decided to layer the Whimsical Scalloped tag and the sentiment banner for a little something different.  

IO Ink Colors in full-sized ink pad:

Tan

Sea Glass

Baby Blue

Or from

Ink Cube Assortment

This is also for Beverly's fun "Stacked DTGD Challenge"!  Beverly has asked us to pile it on.  I had glanced at Kelly's challenge to make a tag so that is where my card began.  Next, started stacking!  

This year is a fun year for DTGD as it's the 15th Anniversary.  As a gift to the paper craft community, the challenges are open to all and that means a chance for a prize is also open to all!  We hope you will join us!

Thanks so much for looking!

 

A Beach Body At the Beach for IO Theme Day

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This month's IO Theme is At the Beach!  

There are a lot of fun new beach-related stamp sets to choose from this month so have a look HERE at what's new!

I am featuring the adorable Summer Girls set along with the Beach Mode sentiment set.  Psst, the Beach Mode set is 1/2 off!  These sets are not new for this month but I was called away unexpectedly so, I quickly created this fun beach card before I left!

  Summer Girls have such sweet images that I couldn't resist them for our Beach Theme!

We hope you will stop by the Impression Obsession Blog to see all the DT Beach projects! 

Thanks so much for looking! 

 

Enjoy the Summer - June Release Hop Day 2!

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Welcome to the Impression Obsession June Release Hop Day 2!

Enjoy every moment with this beautiful Beach Chair set!  I framed the image with the Rectangle 6 in 1 Frames Die set. Then stamped the umbrella a second time and paper pieced it over the framing.  

An ocean breeze sets the mind at ease!  For this card, I left the beautiful Enjoying the View image in black & white and created an ocean scene with Distress Inks.  I sure would love to be where she is right now!  :)  

Welcome to the June Release Hop!

June 15th -17th the Impression Obsession Team will be sharing projects with BRAND NEW & old favorite clear stamps & dies that were previously released! You can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day through the event.

We will be giving away THREE Impression Obsession $25 gift certificates for the event so the more you comment through our Release Celebration the more chances to win!

All comments for each of the event days will be open until Tuesday, June 20th at 8pm CT

All winners will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st on the Impression Obsession Blog.

For a look at all of the new Release stop by HERE!

Today's HOP order:

IO Stamps Blog
Laura Williams
Angela Bode

I am also playing along with this week's Free 4 All Challenge at SCS.  

Picket Fence Studios Release Day and Romance!

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 Hi!  It's time for the new Picket Fence Studios Release!  There is so much to love in this release!  Without meaning to I have a bit of a romance theme going on today. A mixed media heart, a wedding cake and a vacation spot!

First up is this amazing You or Wifi island set.  I added puffy clouds with the beautiful Layers of Clouds Stencil.  I love this stencil because of all the different ways I can create clouds.  

Next up is the new wedding set, To The Lovely Couple.  That cake!  Oh my!  I had so much fun coloring this yummy cake.  The color combo was chosen for a special wedding I am attending later this year.  I hope they love the card as much as I enjoyed creating it for them.  

And lastly, I went mixed media with the amazing Spliced Heartfire Burst Stencil.  First, I added gesso to mixed media paper.  Then I rubbed gelato over the front.  After it was dry I stenciled Golden Rose Paper Glaze. Once the glaze was dry I went around the heart stencil with a scribbles crayon (thank you Ceal for giving away the prize you won at Retreat, I am enjoying the Scribbles!) I activated the crayon with water and once that was dried I added some distress ink and sprinkled it with water.  Lastly, I added just the word "faith" from a sentiment in the Exhale Worry set.  

I have included this in the Free 4 All Challenge at SCS.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!