Shopping Your stash #434

This was for the sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers this week and also for Shopping Your Stash challenge to use kraft paper. Since I have been on a tighter craft budget this summer, I got out some of my old favorite summer stamps from previous years. The shells are from Flourishes, whose stamps I dearly loved when they were in business. The sentiment is from Sweet and Sassy stamps. I have had it for years as well and it is one of my favorites I use each week in my cardmaking for church. The design paper was a deal I found at Tuesday Morning a month or more ago.

Make My Monday Challenge - summer scene

I just got this new Kitchen Sink multi-layered palm tree stamp set last week, so thought it would be perfect to use for a summer scene for the Make My Monday challenge. I used an old retired SU circle stamp for the sun, and a SU speckle stamp for the sand. I did some direct to paper from my tear drop Memento teal pad for the ocean. I sponged the sky. The sand dollar is a cuttlebug diecut. I used a bermuda bay cardstock for the mat. The sentiment is from Flourishes and the seam binding is from The Cat's Pajamas. It's plenty hot in Texas for these first days of summer. Hope you are enjoying your summer wherever you are!

FTTC 222 - summertime

Summertime, and the living is easy. I spent most of my working life as a teacher, so summers were always a time to look forward to. That long needed time to just relax and refresh myself --that ME time I thought I had earned during the year--I awaited with anticipation. Now I just help out with my church's preschool two days a week, so I have a little more time for myself, but I do enjoy the beach and the fresh fruits and vegetables of summer. This little quote from a Ralph Waldo Emerson work just sums it up well.
Happy Summer and enjoy the full glory of every wonderful day of it.

My COF June challenge card

I am going out of town for a few days, so I needed to complete this COF challenge before I left. Liz D picked our "Fun in the Sun" theme. I also used this for today's WT381 challenge over on Splitcoaststampers.
It was to use children on your card or make a card for a child. I love the beach in the summer and I have always treasured this stamp from Stampin' Up that is in my all time collection of retired stamps that I will never get rid of. I have only one sister as a sibling, so these sister type of stamps are always appealing to me as well. Hope you are staying cool in the HOT summer and are enjoying the things you love most about the season. Blessings to you!