Sun Twofer

With summer still in full swing here in Crete, I had to create at least one beach card this summer.

For this one, I used my W&N watercolour paints to create my background and used old and NBUS stamp sets and the accompanying dies to create my sun (old Lawn Fawn set) and my umbrella and flamingo swimming band (new Crafter's Companion set). The sentiment is from an old SSS stamp set. I trimmed down my panel and mounted it to my card front.

As always, I was determined to play in this month's Twofer challenge, but I was running out of time fast. Therefore, I made a very quick and CAS second card, turning the sun stamp into artsy sunflowers. I stamped three sunflowers onto my kraft panel and did some very quick colouring using coloured pencils and odourless mineral spirits. I die cut my panel using a SSS stitched rectangle die and adhered it to a dark yellow card base. To create my sentiment strip, I grabbed a yellow Copic marker and a scrap of white cardstock and then stamped the sentiment (Concord & 9th).

So here is a picture of both my cards:

I'm linking up my beach card at:

CAS Mix Up Watercolour - Beach

NBUS #17 - Anything goes with NBUS

SSS Wednesday - Oh so cute

Allsorts - #585/6 Summer fun

Time Out - #168 Photo inspiration

I went with the beach theme and a touch of pink

Art Impressions #289 Tropical treat

And my twofer is playing at:

Twofer Card Challenge - #30 Sun/Moon

And last but not least, my birthday card is playing at:

Cupcake Inspirations - CIC#500

They are throwing a big celebration party 

this fortnight to celebrate their 500th challenge. 

There's fresh inspiration each day 

and lots of prizes to be won from 

many generous sponsors.