Life Is Good

I've been away for a while, and though I had a wonderful vacation with my family, I have missed my craft room.  I am so happy to have a little time to create today.  I made this card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge : CFC13-The Long and Short of it: Create a 4 x 9 card and keep it Clean And Simple!  I just love Teeny Bikini from Wilson Designs and It's a Shore Thing from the craft's meow for fun summer-themed creating.  Last week's Color Throwdown 151 challenge was to use rainbow colors - ROYGBIV.  I missed the deadline for that, but in thinking about what I would do if I could, I got the idea to line up these adorable polka dot surfboards in rainbow colors.  When I saw the CAS-ual Fridays challenge today, this design popped into my head and I went with it.  I masked and sponged the Soft Sky background.  I also masked each surf board so that I could overlap each one with the next.  The surfboards and the waves are hand cut.  The sun is cut with Nestabilities.  The tops of the surf boards are popped with Dimensionals.  I love this happy creation.  It feels so good to be back.  Thanks so much for stopping in today!

LIM Vacation

For the Less Is More Week 21 challenge, Mandi and Chrissie have challenged the Limettes to a sketch:

I had lots of ideas for this one, but since I spent the day at the beach today with my boys, I chose to do a beachy theme with a new set I recently got from The Crafts Meow called It's a Shore Thing.  These designs are great for CAS creations - go over and take a look!  The service was great - it was a pleasure to do business with this company.

The images are stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics.  The color scheme was inspired by last week's Colour Q challenge cQc90, which is now closed.  The colors were perfect for my idea.

The sentiment is from MFT's Catch Some Rays (Link to this set not available at the time of this posting). Perfect card for wishing family or friends a great vacation.  Thanks for stopping by today! I am off to check out the incredible Limette creations!