Hi, crafty friends. Can you believe it’s July already? Can it be July all year? Summer’s by far my favorite season, I don’t like the cold, and today’s card really is a summery one.

Meet Skeeter, Splash and Beaks. These summer loving friends are part of the Charmed by the Sea release from Purple Onion Designs, which was released mid-June. The Sunrise Sunset stamp in the background is also part of the release, and the sentiment is from the coordinating Seaside sentiment set.

I colored in the scene with Copics, stamped the sentiment using VersaMark ink and sprinkled on Super fine detail embossing powder from Ranger, before melting in it from the back for a smooth look. Did you know that you get smoother embossed results if you use the heat gun from the back of the paper instead of the front? It makes quite a bit of difference, actually. I urge you to try it if you haven’t already.

It looks like I wrote down the Copics I used for this card in a bit of a haste, because I see I’ve left out the blues, both for the water and the jetski. I made this card at the end of May, so I don’t really remember which ones I did use, but I believe it’s the B10 family (B18, 16, 14 and 12) for the water, and the B30 family (B39, 37 and 34) for the jetski.