It's been a long time! Living in Florida now!

Hello...It's been quite a long time since I have posted!!!

I'm now living in Cocoa Beach, Florida. We had a visit from Hurricane Dorian.  We were lucky this time and came out with minimal damage.

I've missed creating cards and trying to get my feet wet by creating some simple, fun beach cards.  I wasn't able to bring all my supplies in my move, but that just makes it a fun new challenge.  

These dies were bought on Aliexpress.com through different companies.  I stitched the edges, and created my own sentiments using my dear Silhouette Cameo.  I was so excited to brush the dust off and seeing it still turned on.

Used some ranger inks on background paper and adding splashes of water drops.  (Thank you Lola for the inspiration.) Added shaker eyeballs on crab and used Copics to color. The little cocina shell was found right before the storm several days ago.

I call this "Marsh View" and reminds me of my brother's beach house on Pawley's Island, SC

This was made for my sweet grandson Wyatt.  I should had said, "Whale Hello".  I used Diamond Dust Liquid Pearls on both beach scenes.

All the cards are A2 size.

Life is Good

I hunger for the beach...I see it in the near future!  I just bought this adirondack chair die from Elizabeth Craft.  I ripped the packaging open and away I went.  I made 4 cards with some slight differences.  (I like the fence one better only because that what you will see at our SC beaches. )I see a big future for this chair for all seasons.  You may get tired of seeing it.  HaHa

Please forgive me, but one of you sent me this awesome stamp that I used on the inside of the card.  I said I would never forget, and yet I have.  I will blame it on aging along with the drugs for back surgery and pain of the broke knee...haha  ANYHOOO..if it was you who gave me this, PLEASE let me know so I can tell everyone.

A2, my beach fence I made

A2, CAS, outside of card

Inside

A2, different version of inside

Materials:

Elizabeth Craft - Adirondack chair, crab, palm trees

Lawn Fawn - sand pale and shovel stamp and die and stamp on outside

Impression Obsession - starfish die

Fiskar - waves

by the sea.....card in a box

Yup, I yearn for the coast!  I plan on a trip by the end of this week.  Hubby will stay home and tend the house and puppies.  The first of June is "girls beach time"...a tradition I will continue to follow even with my husband retiring.  He'll probably enjoy the peace and quiet of me being away...haha

June 1 at Doodle Pantry means a new Ants in the Pantry Challenge..#6.  There will be some new releases on June 5 so "stay tuned". Enter the challenge for a chance to win a $GC and more if you use a Doodle Pantry image (not just a sentiment).

A2, IO shore bird die, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die

cloud punch, sun punch, acetate sheets

I used items from Doodle Pantry Mini Summer Trio, Doodle Pantry Flip Flops, and DP Smooth Sailing

Life's a beach...Make A Splash

Two different cards...two different sentiments. I created spinner cards using Doodle Pantry's pre-colored Scuba Sheep and Ant, Little Octopus and crab from the Silly Critters sets.  I also used one piece of seaweed from a Lawn Fawn set.

Still time for the Ants in the Pantry Challenge #5....."anything goes".  Come along and join the fun.  Also, what a great opportunity for a chance to win a GC to the Doodle Pantry Store.

A2, circle dies, Silhouette Print/Cut, Recollection acrylic water dots, Lawn Fawn stitched Hillside Curve die, Glossy Accents on goggles, Wink of Stella dots on sand

Friday Inspiration Photo Challenge

Yes, I know it's not Friday, but I needed to get the card on the OWH blog today.

I am using this card in my OWH Mid-Week Throwdown Challenge - Christmas in July.  Yup...some people celebrate on the coast and in tropical climates..so this just might be "the" card for that person to send home.       

Melanie, at Scrappily Ever After, has given us this colorful lights photo to challenge and inspire us and others to create a card.  One must plan early if going to participate in OWH (Operation Write Home).   Being a lover of the SC coast, I chose this adorable crab to create my card.  The crab was a free svg from Svgcuts.  I created the lights and santa hat svgs....those will be my freebies for today.  I used the snowflakes embossing folder, puff paint for the hat ball, pop-up dots for dimension, inking and some gold wire.

Download:  Christmas bulbs and holders (svg)

( Will post Santa hat later today...sorry)

ENJOY!!! Stay COOL!!!