I have a couple of cards to share that shout summer to me. The first one was for a friend who has a pretty healthy dislike of flamingoes. Her brother regularly sent her flamingoes from all over the country when he was working, and once I had a "field of flamingoes" delivered to her yard that was a fund raiser for a local youth group. She responded with line of flamingoes up my sidewalk by the same group! So I couldn't resist this year when I found this die cut flamingo in a pack of Simple Stories dies for scrapbooking. It just had to be used for her birthday card. I found a cute set of paper napkins with a gold flamingo on them to go along with her other gifts. It's a good thing she has a sense of humor!
The die cut and stamped sentiments are from "Birthday Cheer" by Papertrey Ink. I added some rainstones (PTI), enamel dots, and (hard to see) some Wink of Stella glitter to liven it up.
The next card is unusual in that it has no stamping whatsoever. It's all die cuts.
I started with a piece of Simon Say's woodgrain paper, and die cut the "Garden Garland" from Limeade Ice, adding some detail with Copic markers. The pretty flowers are also part of the Garden Garland die. I finished them off with a few enamel dots for flower centers. The sentiment die, "Big Basics: Birthday," was cut from Summer Sunrise. As soon as I saw the Garden Garland die, I had several ideas for it so you are sure to see it again!
