Happy Friday Crafty Friends! Priscilla here from Nubble Light Designs. As we coast into Labor Day Weekend, I am sharing a “last hurrah to summer” mixed-media card, complete with floral patterned flip-flops, a REAL sandy beach, and 3-D waves crashing into the shore. Indeed life’s a beach . . . life is good.

To make today’s card, I used the Kat Scrappiness Summer Fun Essentials die collection and a sentiment from the the Summer Gnome Add-On Stamp Set.

Card Details:

Created an A2 top-folding white card base.
On a die cut layer of watercolor cardstock, I painted the “ocean” with “Uncharted Mariner” Distress Paint
To create the “beach,” I mixed real sand with “Vintage Photo” Distress Paint and applied a thick coating of this mixture on the bottom portion of the card.

Die cut a pair of flip-flops using the Summer Fun Essentials die collection out of floral paper and backed them with two layers of brown cardstock for added dimension.
To create the crashing waves, I painted white “puffy paint” along the shore and heated it with with a blow dryer to create some added dimension.
Heat embossed the sentiment “Life’s a Beach, Enjoy the Waves” from the Summer Gnome Add-On Stamp Set with navy embossing powder and added it to the top of the card.
Adhered three star fish embellishments for the finishing touch.

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Prisci lla

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