Hope you are taking some time to relax {Purple Onion Designs}

Hi, crafty friends. I’m sharing a fun, summery card today featuring Just Float from the Tofu & Friends Summer Fun collection from Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Pei. I love everything she draws, and if this image isn’t a relaxing one, I don’t what is.

I colored up my image with Copics, before stamping on top of the black lines with Obsidian ink from Altenew to darken up the lines even further. I fussy cut the image, leaving a bit of white trim around the edges, then put it aside while I worked on the rest of my card. Using the Snow Drifts Cover-Up die from My Favorite Things, I die cut three segments of the die from three shades of blue cardstock (Cornflower, Lazy Day and Blue Breeze, all from My Favorite Things). Even though it’s a snow die, it totally works for waves, I think. I inked up the top of each die cut using matching inks (Cornflower and Lazy Day from MFT for the darkest and middle color cardstock, Harbor ink from Concord & 9th for the lightest). I added ink splatter to all three using Cornflower ink and also Concord & 9th White. I adhered them to a scrap of cardstock to make them work as one die cut instead of three separate ones.

I used the Ray of Light stencil from My Favorite Things to ink blend yellow ink onto a piece of Stamper’s Select White cardstock from Papertrey Ink. I used Harvest Gold ink from Papertrey Ink, and added a little bit of Sunshine ink from Simon Says Stamp near the top for a little more intensity. I then used what I had left on my ink blending brush to cover the entire thing, I didn’t want the background to be stark white, and this worked beautifully. I added ink splatter once again using the Sunshins ink, cut the panel down and stamped a sentiment from the Friendly Warm Wishes Sentiment set from the same release as the image. I adhered the panel with a bit of dimension behind it to a top fold card base I created from Stamper’s Select White cardstock, glued the waves on top, then mounted my image using foam tape, before finishing off with a few pearls from the Beach Dreams Crystal Collection from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.