Relaxing Time!

Hi Tea Timers!

Michelle here from the Design Team and this week’s inspiration is a bright and breezy card that’s all about soaking up the sunshine! These fluffy little sheep are having the best beach day and their adventures have been snapped as a pair of mini polaroid scenes to share with you all.

Supplies used:

Ewe Are The Best

Beach Buds

Fintastic Friends

I started with a yellow ink blended sunburst background and added lots of splatter in white and gold metallic watercolour for texture. 

Each photo features a different seaside moment - a super chill sheep sitting with a tropical drink to another swimming with fish and turtles.  

The images were either printed or stamped out and then coloured with alcohol markers. White highlights were added using a gel pen.

For the swimming scene, I die cut waves, ink blended with shades of blue before splattering with metallic watercolour. Once the ink was dry, I cut them down to the size of the photo frame and then layered them one on top of each other to create my ocean.

For the beach scene, I ink blended some clouds, die cut a hillside that I ink blended with shades of brown to mimic sand. I then used some leftover waves from the swimming scene to add some water to my beach.

I used liquid glue to adhere all my images and layers. The white frame of the polaroid was propped up with foam tape to give dimension as well as make things more level as there was already a lot of layering! I added some images such as the shells, bucket and spade and Mr Crab outside of the frames to give an even more beachy feel.

The bold “relax” sentiment was die cut twice from alphabet dies from my stash. Once from bright yellow cardstock and the other from blue ombre ink blended cardstock to tie in with the rest of happy beach-day colours.  For final touches, the ocean and sentiment have splashes of sparkle from glitter glue. 

I have loved making this card and I hope you’re feeling those holiday vibes too. See you back here soon with more crafty sunshine!

Michelle