The 2020 Spring Mini Catalog (or the January-June catalog, as it's now called) goes LIVE today and I knew as soon as I saw the Beautiful Moments stamps set I had to get it. This image reminds me so much of my daughter-in-law and granddaughter, who both love the beach.
I made this card for my daughter-in-law this week for her birthday. I used masking and Sponge Daubers to create the sky/horizon with Balmy Blue, the ocean with Balmy Blue, Pacific Point, and Night of Navy, and the sand with Crumb Cake inks. I saw the idea of using the Shimmery White Embossing Paste to create white caps on the ocean.
I happened to have some tiny glass beads on my shelf from the days when we would attach them to pens with double sided adhesive for decoration. I thought I'd try and mix them with Multipurpose Liquid Glue to see if it would create sand - and it did! In fact, when my granddaughter saw the card she said "Gigi, why did you put sand on the card?" So I guess it looks real enough to her! I stamped the dresses on some (retired) Designer Series Paper and cut them out to place over the cut out figures and the bodies where colored with Stampin' Blends.
I used Foam Adhesive Strips to pop up a piece of Window Sheet around a Balmy Blue Stitched Rectangle Frame to protect the paste and "sand" from crumbling off. I'm really pleased with how it all turned out.
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