Destination Summer

Hello and happy Friday.  I recently got the new Destination Summer stamps from The Greetery, and spent most of the week stamping and cutting until I had a pile of fun little bits to combine into some cards.  I must admit that the stamping and cutting part was pretty tedious--most of the stamps were little bitty ones that required precise lining up for multi layer stamping ....but once that was done, I was able to make quite a few cards pretty quickly.

First up is a card inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #445.  I am also entering this card at AAA Birthday #15: 3D, Use Your Stuff #401: Summer Fun, Fusion: Summer, Inspired by...#134, The Paper Players #500: Celebrate and Seize the Birthday #195: No Toppings.

Here is another card using many of the same elements.  I have added a beach to this card, as well as a few bits from the PTI Petite Places stamps.  I am entering this card at many of the same challenges as the card above, as well as Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: A Day at the Beach and CAS on Friday #185:  Summer.

Here is another card--many of the same elements, just arranged a bit differently.  How about some s'mores around that little campfire (courtesy of PTI)?  All of these cards rely on 1 or 2 stencils from The Greetery Destination, and they are such a quick and easy way to define the space where I could then just place my cut out images.

This scene I like to think of as more of a little village in the summer.  Perhaps it is my own town, Cardiff by the Sea on a warm summer day.  Note the Candy Store front and center...those buildings are from PTI Petite Places.

Last up is a caravan of campers and surfers.  I think those campers are really so sweet and cute, but you could not get me to go camping no matter how close to glamping it is.  I'll just stick to the camping stamps, please.

Here they all are together.  Quite a fun collection, although now I have a new appreciation of the ease of coloring bitty stamps versus trying to line them all up to stamp!

That's it for me today.  I think I'll head to the beach now.

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