Summer in Nantucket ...

 

Hi friends!

Welcome to summer in Nantucket!

This has been a fun-filled week of cardmaking with sharks

and coming up with fun ways to incorporate them into my creating.

This was an idea I *saw* in my head (ahem - first red flag!)

and when I went to actually make it ....

welp.

 

So, here's my we-just-stopped-by-the-giftshop-on-vacation postcard!

Kinda looks like the ones we'd get back in the day, right?!

Honestly, it's almost funny ... especially with the LIGHTHOUSE

in the MIDDLE of the ATLANTIC OCEAN.

Double ahem.

I used various Lawn Fawn stamp sets to create this fun card

and a theme of Red, White and Blue for my Wednesday 

card group on Instagram.

The ink blend was using Distress Oxide Inks and if you look closely,

I inverted the ocean with the darker 'bottom' on the top.

Totally meant to do that - YEP! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

3rd Annual Shark Week - 2025!

Hey CHUMS!

 It's Shark Week 2025!

This is one of my FAVORITE times of the year,

inspired by my son when he was a wee boy.

He's grown now with a life of his own

but we love to keep the tradition - and fun - going!

For me, that's cards, too!

I put out a 'casting call' for Shark Week themed cards

to join me this week and it was a FIN-tastic party!

This is one of the several cards I made using

Lookin' Shark by Whimsy Stamps.

I also added colorful sea kelp and shells from Build-An-Ocean die set.

I LOVE the colors of this fun card ~

made with some help from my granddaughter.

(She was painting and I didn't want to waste her finished paint

so I just smooshed it around on some cardstock 

 ~ waste not, want not!)

Check back tomorrow to see another shark card ~

my favorite one in the ocean!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

Entered to:  Crafty Gals 269 - Shark Week  in July!

Elliebelle's Crafty Corner - Anything Goes

Hey CHUMS!

 

Hi friends!

We at Whimsy Stamps are sharing our shark/JAWS themed

cards in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the movies JAWS.

That's probaby the one movie that changed my life the most!

I'm using the newly released Shark Snacks die set

to make this not-so-scary shark.

Here is the matcing REEL on Instagram!

We ADORE Shark Week at our house!

It's a whole week of festivies, tv binging and

 fun shark themed meals and snacks and deserts, 

as well as driving around town 

getting all the Shark Week themed goodies!

Here's another look:

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

I'll enter this to: Cupcake Inspiration - Fish

A Cut Above - die cuts

  CAS on Sunday - Summer