Summer Days

Animals, Child Friendly, Everyday, My Favorite Things (MFT), Ocassions, Seasons, Summer

Hello friends!  I hope that you’re staying cool during these Summer days!  For the most part, it’s too warm, humid or both outside, so I spend most days in the air condition.  Trying to organize things is what I’m attempting, but I end up crafting instead! LOL

I’m stopping by today to share that we have a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “SUMMER DAYS”  this month.  This seems rather appropriate right now, so I hope you’ll join us.  Here’s what I came up with: 

I have used these penguins many times and I just love them!  This is an older set called “Penguins in Paradise” from My Favorite Things (store closed).  I thought they’d be perfect to use for this theme and I wanted to make a scene for them to do all of those fun Summer things that we do!

I started with another My Favorite Things die set called “Beach Scene Starter” that cuts out the sand/water/palm tree/shells/sun/clouds/land and then I used inks to ink blend them in various colors.  For the sand, I splattered several different watercolor colors and Copic Opaque White.

After placing my scene together, I stamped, colored (with Copics) and die cut the three penguins and beach ball that I added to my beach scene and popped up with thin foam tape.

I used a white gel pen to add highlights to the images as well as details to the water shore area, coconuts, beach ball and the shells.  I also took a glitter brush pen and went over the sun as well as the penguin’s shades for some shimmer.  The sentiment is from the  Taylored Expressions Mini Strips-Hello Summer that was white heat embossed over dark blue cardstock and cut out with the mini sentiment strips die.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and will join us for the challenge this month!  Please be sure to stop by the blog to check out the inspiration from the rest of the team!

Thanks for stopping in and I’ll see you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Four Seasons – Summer
  2. Love to Craft – Anything Goes
  3. Love to Scrap – Anything Goes
  4. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes + Critter
  5. Creative Moments – Use Die Cut (I used several)
  6. We Love Stamping – Sun/Sea/Sand or Anything Goes (within post details)
  7. A Cut Above – Anything Goes with a Die Cut
  8. Cupcake Inspirations – For the Birds (penguins)
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28 thoughts on “Summer Days”

  1. Adorably cute cute summer scene! Thanks so much for joining our challenge at The Four Seasons!

    Diane TFS Co-Owner

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  2. Fabulous Summer paradise scene, great background and love the cute penguins.

    Carol x

    Thank you for joining us at Love to Craft.

    Carol DT x

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  3. I’m always loving penguins. I think your card is just summer fun and the penguins are so cute.

    Fab colouring!

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  6. This is a fun card. Love your penguins basking in the sun. They don’t look out of place at all! Love how you have made the beach too. It looks great. Thanks for sharing with us at we love stamping this month xx

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  9. This just made me smile and make the aww noise Vicki, so veru cute and fun, fabulous colouring and beach scene I love it..

    luv CHRISSYxx

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  10. What a great scenic beach design! Those cute penguins are enjoying their fun in the sun. I love that palm tree die set! Thanks for sharing with the July Challenge at A Cut Above!

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  11. What a fun summer card with the Penguins having fun in the sun, perfect for our theme at We Love Stamping, many thanks for joining us.

    B x

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  12. A brilliant summery card, those penguins look as though they are enjoying themselves Meg xx

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  13. Great summer card, Vicky. Beautifully designed card. I love this happy group relaxing by the water.

    hugs,

    BożenA

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  14. Very sweet scene you have created- I’d love to jump into it! Great colors and accents using the white pen too! I love my MFT images- do not use them enough- so sorry to hear they are closed!

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  16. What a wonderful set of penguins having fun on the beach, a wonderful fun card. Thank you so much for joining us in our challenge at We Love Stamping. Good Luck and I hope you will join us in our next challenge.
    Faith A DT

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  17. I bet these penguins are not enjoying the summer heat, although they look like they are. Of course floating the water and eating a popsicle has to be cooling. Your card is lots of fun and I like those penguins too. It seems like so many companies have closed recently or at least in the last year or so. I didn’t know that My Favorite Things had closed. Have a super rest of your week. hugs-Erika

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  18. These penguins sure know how to have some summer fun!! What a precious card, Vicki!! Thank you for not giving up on me!! My life is CRAZY right now, but I’m peddling as fast as I can.

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  20. This sunny beach scene is absolutely delightful! The way you blended the ink for the background elements adds such a breezy, tropical vibe, and those penguins are living their best summer lives. I love how you used the gel pen and shimmer touches—they give everything such joyful sparkle. The layering of die cuts creates such dimension, and the pops of color are so vibrant and refreshing. What a fun interpretation of the challenge theme!

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  21. Adorable scene and perfect summer card!

    Glad you are keeping cool. We continue to get the occasional rain, which for us is unusual, and it does cool things off a degree afterwards, but the humidity! Don’t know which is worse really, lol. xoxo

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  23. What a cute and fun card! I love that those cute penguins are having fun in the sun 😎. The way you created the sand texture is amazing, I’ll have to try that – thanks for the inspiration ❤️. Happy and creative wishes! Hugs, Jo x

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  24. How wonderful, love these little friends the dies, you used awesome card.Thanks for sharing with us at A Cut Above Challenge. Have a great day! Leanne DT Member/ACA

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  25. This is one of my favorite MFT cards. It is darling!! The little scene you created ROCKS!!!  Thank you for playing with us this week at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge.

    Nora

    DT Member

    Cupcake Inspirations Challenge

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  27. Oh my goodness, who can resist a darling penguin card? Love this – everything about it makes me smile! Sorry to bombard you with comments, but can’t stop coughing today, so am just sitting at my computer playing catch-up! Hugs…

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  28. I like your card, its wonderful  Thanks for joining us at Let’s Craft and Create Challenge 🎉 I have some super fun challenges going on, and it would be amazing if you joined in too! 🎨✨
    📌 The links to the challenges can be found below. Are you in? 😄 Wauw kei toffe creatie. Leuk dat je meedoe bij Let’s Craft and Create Challenge 🎉 Ik heb een aantal superleuke challenges lopen en het zou echt geweldig zijn als jij ook meedoet! 🎨✨
    📌 De links naar de challenges vind je onderaan. Kom je ook meedoen? 😄 Crea lieve Groetjes Claudia ❤️🦋❤️ <a</a>Mijn FB pagina:&nbsp;<a href=”https://www.facebook.com/Claudiaskaartjesandmore/”>Claudia’s Kaartjes and more</a> <a</a>Blog:<a href=”https://claudiaskaartjes.blogspot.com/”>Claudia’s Kaartjes</a> Challenge blogs: <a</a><a href=”https://girlzcreativechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/”>Girlz Creative Christmas&nbsp;</a> (XMAS) 🎄 <a</a><a href=”https://girlzmakesguyzcards.blogspot.com/”>Girlz makes Guyz Cards</a> (GMGC)🚗 <a</a><a href=”https://girlzcreativecrafts.blogspot.com/”>Girlz creative crafts</a> (GCC) 🌸 <a</a><a href=”https://creativesketchygirls.blogspot.com/”>Creative sketchy girls</a> (CSG) ❤️ <a</a><a href=”https://girlzrebelchallenge.blogspot.com//”>Girlz Rebel Challenge</a> (GRC) 🎈 <a</a><a href=”https://girlzcreativefunartofscrap.blogspot.com///”>Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap</a> (GCFAOS) 🦋 <a</a><a href=”https://girlzandtheartofletters.blogspot.com//”>Girlz & The Art of Letters</a> (G&TAOL) 🎉 <a</a><a href=”https://https://girlscreativesplashitwithcolor.blogspot.com///”>Girlz Creative: Splash it with color!</a> (GC:SiwC!) 🌈

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