Thursday, June 28, 2018

Lilypad Lake Goodbye

Linda Vich Creates: Lilypad Lake Goodbye. A real "beachy" silhouette card created with the Lilypad Lake Bundle, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, and Tropical Chic Thinlits.
Today's card share is for a friend and co-worker who is retiring to her cottage for the summer! The card is a CASE from the card by Brenda Copper.

I really wanted a "beachy" feel to the card so this governed my choices for paper and embellishments for my card.

I started with a 4.75 x 6" card front cut from Coastal Cabana. I then cut two mattes . . . one from the Wood Textures DSP and one from Crumb Cake card stock.

Using the now retired Distressing Tool, I roughed up the edges of the Crumb Cake matte and then sponged the edges using Soft Suede. On the other matte, I sponged the edges and some inner sections using both Coastal Cabana and Bermuda Bay. The two mattes were then adhered together using liquid adhesive.

On a square of watercolor paper, I stamped the water image from Lilypad Lake using Versamark and heat embossed with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder. This allowed me to sponge over the top using Balmy Blue and Blueberry Bushel to create the water. I then used Pineapple Punch, Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick to sponge the sunset.

The heron die was used to die cut the heron from black and a couple of branches were die cut using the Tropical Thinlits Dies.

Next, I determined that I would use the #6 and #8 circles from the Layering Circles Framelits. Using the two together, I cut through two layers of Bermuda Bay card stock to create the round frame. I did two layers at once so that I could make the frame thicker and so they fit together perfectly. These were glued together using liquid adhesive.

I then used the #6 circle die to cut the hole in the top section of my matte. After gluing the frame in place on the matte, I played with positioning the sponged image and die cuts behind the frame before gluing them into place. The matte was then adhered to the card front using Dimensionals.

The sentiment, from the now retired Sunshine Sayings stamp set, was stamped on Bermuda Bay with Soft Suede and then punched with the Classic Label Punch. After first punching it out, I then placed the right side back into the punch from the top to allow me to shorten up the sentiment strip. The sentiment was adhered using Mini Dimensionals.

The chair was die cut from Bermuda Bay using the Seasonal Layers Thinlits and then adhered using liquid adhesive. A bow was made from three lengths of Linen Thread and adhered under the sentiment using a Glue Dot.

I used the Envelope Punch Board to create my own envelope from Bermuda Bay and stamped the heron on the front using matching ink.

Linda Vich Creates: Lilypad Lake Goodbye. A real "beachy" silhouette card created with the Lilypad Lake Bundle, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, and Tropical Chic Thinlits.

Linda Vich Creates: Lilypad Lake Goodbye. A real "beachy" silhouette card created with the Lilypad Lake Bundle, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, and Tropical Chic Thinlits.

Linda Vich Creates: Lilypad Lake Goodbye. A real "beachy" silhouette card created with the Lilypad Lake Bundle, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, and Tropical Chic Thinlits.


My friend loved the card! I'm glad that she will have a lovely summer to spend at her cottage but she will definitely be missed at work.

To check out the numbering system I use for my dies, please view my Numbered Dies Sets.


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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Share What You Love Thank You

Today I have for you a card that I created awhile ago but never got the chance to post!

To begin with, I cut a 8.5 x 4.5" card front from Tranquil Tide. Using matching ink and stamps from the Love What You Do set, I stamped all over the card front.

A strip was cut from both Gold Foil and some of the lovely Share What You Love DSP. They were adhered together and adhered to the card front.

Using the Lovely Floral Embossing Folder, I embossed a piece of Fresh Fig and then used Blackberry Ink to lightly sponge over the embossing before die cutting it using the #7 oval from the Layering Ovals Framelits. The #7 scalloped oval was used to die cut a matte from Gold Glimmer paper.

The Petals & More and the Sweet Cake Framelits were used to cut "greenery" from Gold Foil. The sentiment was stamped on Gold Foil using Stazon and then punched using the Classic Label Punch.

After determining an arrangement, I adhered the embossed piece to the card front using Dimensionals and then attached the sentiment and "greenery" using liquid adhesive.

Inside the card, I attached a Whisper White matte that I stamped with Tranquil Tide using the Petal Palette stamp set, after first stamping off. I then sponged the edges with Fresh Fig before adhering inside the card.




I love the components of the Share What You Love Suite and I think that the Petal Palette Bundle also complements it. The color combo of Tranquil Tide, Fresh Fig/Blackberry Bliss, with some gold highlights, works very well together!


Have you worked with the Share What You Love Suite yet? Let me know in the comments below!



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