My Favorite Things Beach Cutie Handmade Cards with Shimmer Spray Background

Welcome to a new "Cards by Kendra" blog post!

Today, I'm excited to share these "Beach Cutie" handmade cards that I created for the MFT Sketch Challenges 489 and 490.

I decided to use the "Beach Cutie" Stamp and Die set from My Favorite Things as my focal point. I started out making the background first because I wanted to try using my new Dylusions Shimmer Sprays.  I had several sheets of watercolor paper already cut to 4.25" x 5.5" as well as some regular Neenah solar white 80# cardstock.  I used Bubblegum Pink and Pure Sunshine shimmer sprays because I thought those two colors looked great together.  I had never used these before so it was trial and error.  For the first spray, I sprayed directly on the watercolor paper and completely covered it.  I kept spraying until there was no more white showing.  It was beautiful!  Then I realized I didn't need to use so much.  Next, I sprayed it on my glass mat and did a smooshing technique.  I loved how these turned out too.  I haven't used those background yet but I plan to soon.  Next I sprayed it on the mat again and added water to dilute it some and used the same smooshing technique, which is the background I ended up using for the second card below.  

For both cards, I stamped the images, colored them with copic markers that matched the backgrounds and cut them out using the die. I thought the girl needed to be on a beach so I decided to make a quick smaller watercolor background using watercolor pencils. I started out with dark blue and then went lighter and added an aqua color for the water. Then I colored a brown line and shaded the rest with tan. I blended all of the colors with a watercolor brush pen. I thought it needed a shimmer too, so I sprayed some White Linen on my glass mat and then painted it on the water using a paint brush.  I added this to a piece of black cardstock for the frame.  Since I had to trim this down to fit on the black cardstock base, I saved the pink piece that was cut off and used it as the strip on the left of the sketch.  Since the shimmer was a rose gold color, I thought adding a strip of rose gold foil to the left of the beach background would bring out the color some. Since the backgrounds were slightly warping, I ran the card through my Big Shot just to flatten it out.  When I did this, it put creases in the rose gold foil piece so I had to cover it with a strip of scalloped black border. Next time, I'll know to place a sheet of cardstock above and below the card first. Lesson learned!  I stamped the sentiment "Hello, Sunshine!" on a strip of black cardstock with versamark ink, coated it with white embossing powder and heat set it with my heat gun. I raised the girl and the sentiment up with 3D foam squares. I finished it off with enamel dots. 

Here's the first card for MFT Sketch Challenge 489:

 

What do you think?

Using the diluted shimmer spray background I created while making the background for the first card, I glued this onto a black frame then onto my white cardstock base.  I had some sky backgrounds that I created a long time ago using Distress inks so I decided to cut one out in a heart shape. I used a scalloped heart frame cut from black cardstock to frame it.  I stamped the sentiment "Love you to the Beach & Back" with Tuxedo Black Memento ink on white cardstock and glued it to a strip of rose gold cardstock. I really like how this turned out. 

Here's my card for the MFT Sketch Challenge 490:

SUPPLIES

Here's a list of some of the products I used below, including links to purchase (compensated affiliate links used at no cost to you. By purchasing any of these products, you help support my blog and YouTube Channel. Affiliate and product disclosure can be found here). All products were personally purchased by me:

Ranger Ink - Dylusions Shimmer Spray - Bubblegum Pink - $3.79
from: Scrapbook.com

Ranger Ink - Dylusions Shimmer Spray - Pure Sunshine - $3.79
from: Scrapbook.com

Ranger Ink - Dylusions Shimmer Spray - White Linen - $3.79
from: Scrapbook.com

Loew-Cornell - Watercolor Pencils - 24 Pack - $15.99
from: Scrapbook.com

Creative Expressions - Cosmic Shimmer - Water brush Set 2 - Waterbrushes and Spray Bottle - $11.39
from: Scrapbook.com

Tsukineko - Memento - Fade Resistant Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black - $6.43
from: Scrapbook.com

Forever in Time - 3D Pop Dots Value Pack - Double Sided Foam Squares and Tape - $1.55
from: Scrapbook.com

Scrapbook.com - Cardstock - 8.5 x 11 - Neenah Solar White - 50 Pack - $19.99
from: Scrapbook.com

Paper Accents - Cardmakers Choice - Card Layer - 4 x 5.25 - Black - 25 Pack - $2.92
from: Scrapbook.com

I hope you like my cards!  Please let me know what you think in the comments! 

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