Just Us Girls Word Challenge #499 - Summer

  

Hello and welcome!

It's a brand new challenge at Just Us Girls and this week's host is Carol.

Here's the word she has chosen:

Summer is almost over, so we all want to get in one last hurrah before school starts in the fall!

I would love to go to the beach, so that's the theme of my card - A Beach Adventure!

Don't forget to stop by the JUGS blog to see what our amazing guest designer, Tristan Dawes has made to inspire you!  And while you're there, check out my teammates amazing creations too!

For my card I used a panel that I had watercolored this past fall, while I was taking a watercolor class in a local city's recreation class with a friend.  We had a lot of fun and our teacher was really sweet.  I had practiced at home and made a bunch of water to sky backgrounds with techniques she taught us, but I have never used any of them on cards because I didn't really like any of them.  I was able to take this one and cut a portion of it that looked much better than the rest and use it for my background.

Here's a closer look:

All of my supplies are linked below except  Cheapo Dies' "Palm Trees"

(which I picked up when I designed for Dies R Us Inspiration Team last year.)

I did a lot of cutting in different colors and added color to some pieces for dimension and also did a lot of glueing and paper piecing little die cut pieces back together.  I also did some inking/zig marker shading on the card stock pieces that I cut before I put them together. This way the die is very colorful instead of using it all black as a silhouette piece.

Here's one last look:

I hope you will find time to join our summer challenge this week!

All the details are right HERE!

I can't wait to see what you make!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I will enter this in:

Creative Friday Ocean Challenge
Cards for Galz Challenge #102
Inspired By Challenge The Sea
The Male Room Challenge #116
Happy Little Stampers August Watercolor Challenge

  
  

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