Spring Break has come and gone ...

... but with fun sentiments from The Project Bin

 and incredible brads from Eyelet Outlet, 

it can stay forever!

 

Spring Break is over for us :(

My son is back in school, my daughter is back in college,

but the memories of us having a wonderful last few days of 

the wonderful ocean and outdoors will linger ♥

From the beach to canoeing, we enjoyed the gorgeous Florida sun and surf!

This card was created with that in mind

with the polka dot sunshine to the billowy ocean waves

and, of course,

the Eyelet Outlet brads that bring it to life!

The waves were created using different colors of cardstock

and a hillside die and Bella Blvd speckled paper for the sun-inspired backdrop.

I've used Summer Fun from The Project Bin and stamped it right on the paper.

There are sweet little stars that adorn this particular stamp in the set

but I masked them off to use just the wording!

I've also used 3 different sets of brads from Eyelet Outlet:

Sea Shore Brads (underwater)

Palm trees (on the shore) 

Seagulls (in the sky and in the waves with his little legs tucked under the water!)

 Here's the stamp set in its entirety:

And that's my card for today!

I hope you are having some crafty fun today, too!

Before you go,

I'm excited to share the brand new stamp set from TPB:

Love Your Shelfie!

Denise, creative mind behind The Project Bin, 

has done it again with this absolutely adorable 17 piece stamp set,

complete with this sweet turtle and party hat and so. many. sentiments!

Now THAT'S something to shell-a-brate! ♥

 

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

TPB ~ It's Summer somewhere!

Hi friends!

Happy Monday!

I hope your weekend was spectacular ♥

Today's card is channeling summer!

When I made it last week, we were packing our bags to head 

to the beach ourselves for our weekend getaway :)

 

This card was such fun to make.

It's a collaborative card using products from Eyelet Outlet

and The Project Bin from the Instagram hop they had this weekend. 

I used the Summer Fun stamp set, one of my favorites!  

I chose products that reflected a beach/summer theme

since I knew that's what my card would be.

Here's how I made this card:

I started by masking and blending my Tim Holtz Distress Oxides

in Broken China and Squeezed Lemonade and my mini blending tool.

I wanted to create the illusion of sand dunes 

and in order to do that, I created a template out of chipboard.

The palm tree brads were a bit smaller than I planned for

so I went with a 'in the far distance' look :)

And to finish it off the beach scene, I added seagulls,

the quintessential bird at the ocean!

 

Finally,  I created a frame to go around the image and 

popped the whole card onto 3D foam.

This card is really thick, measuring almost 1/4 of an inch!

I really love this card ~  it's so peaceful, serene, calming ♥

I do love living so close to the beach and visiting often ...

hence, the name of my blog :)

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly