Hi, crafty friends! It’s FINALLY starting to feel like summer. For the past week or so, we’ve had sunny weather and temperatures above 25. HEAVEN! We even had around 300 lightning strikes in the greater metropolitan area early Sunday morning. The thunder actually woke me up. I love thunder, so I spent around 20 minutes listening intently before falling back asleep. With the warm weather comes time spent at lakes, in the fjord or at the beach, and today’s card certainly fits that summer theme, featuring a few cuties from the new Lakewood collection at Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Holly Mabutas.

I stamped the Floatie gang, added a mask, stamped the floating swim raft and the Boat House, all using Altenew Obsidian ink on Fabriano Artístico cold pressed watercolor paper.

I used my Mijello Mission Gold watercolors and brushes in varying sizes to color in my scene, cut it down and stamped a sentiment from the Happy Hello sentiment set using Blueberry ink from Concord & 9th. Cold pressed watercolor paper is fairly textured, so I stamped it a few times for a crisp impression.

I adhered the panel to a 5 3/4 x 5 1/2″ top fold card base I created from Stamper’s Select White cardstock from Papertrey Ink, before finishing off with a few Raindrops from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.