Cimbacreativefun: Riley and Company Design Team Challenge

Hello and welcome! Today the design team from Riley and Company are participating in a design team summer challenge called "Life's a Beach!"

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Here's a closer look at my card!

I used Riley and Company's "Swim the Ocean"sentiment stamp, "Dress Up at the Beach"stamp and die set, "Sophie Gathering Seashells" stamp, and "Wavy Border" Cut-Ups stand alone die.

I started by adding Distress Oxide inks very lightly a 5" by 7" piece of card stock. I colored and cut all my beach images plus 3 of the wavy border die from different colors of blue card stock I had in my stash.

Can you guess what I used for the beach at the bottom?

If you guessed sandpaper, you are correct! I raided my husband's toolbox for just the right piece!

I played around with the layout and once I was happy with it I stamped the sentiment in the top right corner and started glueing down pieces and popping some of them up on foam tape.

Also, I didn't have a shark to put in the water so I drew one on white card stock and then cut it out to add it to the water. Once I added the shark, I took a light blue Zig marker and added a few ripples in the water to make it look more realistic. My shark fin could be mistaken for a sailboat, haha, but either works for my card!

To give the surf board the look of being stuck in the sand, I cut a slit in the sandpaper and card stock behind it so I could tuck the end of the surf board into the opening. Lastly I added the panel to a 5" by 7" white card base and added some Wink of Stella to give the water waves some shimmer and shine.

I had a lot of fun creating this card for the DT challenge!

Here's one last look: