Hi, crafty friends! Two weeks ago, I was a camper in Concord & 9th’s summer camp, which is a virtual event they hold every year. If you’ve never participated, I highly recommend it, it’s so much fun! There are six awesome instructors teaching one class each, and the products the C9 design team comes up with are equally amazing, you get a lot of bang for your buck. It’s hard to pick a favorite bundle from the camp kit, but the Summer Sips bundle is the one I’ve had time to play with after camp, and I have a fun card to share today featuring that entire bundle (die set, stamp set and stencil set for this particular one).

I needed a birthday card for my niece’s 16th birthday. She’s a lover of tropical fruits, and this was the perfect set to use for her birthday card. I die cut the watermelon from Vintage Jadeite cardstock from Papertrey Ink and used the stencil set to in blend the stripes on the watermelon rind using Clover ink from Concord & 9th. I stamped the spots in the coordinating stamp set using the same color. I die cut a few extra watermelons from Vintage Jadeite. I knew I was going to pop up my watermelon on an action wobble (I actually ended up using two wobbles), so it needed to be sturdy.

All the dies and stamps (except for the sentiment stamp I used) are in the Summer Sips bundle from camp. For the background umbrellas, I stamped the flowers from the stamp set in VersaMark ink onto the die cuts, which are die cut from Mint cardstock from Spellbinders. I wanted a tone on tone look in the background, and this worked perfectly. For the yellow umbrella, I stamped with Memento Dandelion ink onto a Starfruit die cut, and for the pink, I used Pink Lemonade ink on a Pink Lemonade die cut. I also used Dandelion ink directly on the caning on the yellow umbrella, as well as for the rind on the lemon at the bottom left. The stripes on the straws are stamped in Berry Kiss ink on Pink Lemonade cardstock.

I used colored cardstock from various companies for my die cuts. The greens are Altenew Limeade, Altenew Lime, Altenew Grass Field, Papertrey Ink Vintage Jadeite, Concord & 9th Clover. The grey (there’s only a little bit visible) is Concord & 9th Cobblestone, the light pink is Concord & 9th Pink Lemonade, the darker pink on the orchid is Concord & 9th Honeysuckle, the darkest pink is Concord & 9th Berry Kiss. The yellows are Concord & 9th Starfruit (umbrella and lemon wedgde), Papertrey Ink Bright Buttercup (pineapple and flower center on the orchid) and Spellbinders Tuscan (pineapple rind). I stamped the sentiment from the A06 stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS using Berry Kiss ink from Concord & 9th. The stamp itself is a straight line, but I manipulated it in my Misti to curve along the banner die cut. I put a few layers of cardstock behind the yellow umbrella and the orchid for a little bit of lift, and also used three white banner die cuts to give a little lift to the pink banner. To finish off I used a few Concord & 9th dew drops. This card is super dimensional, even when you push down the action wobble springs, it’s about 1/2″ thick.