Hot! Hot! Hot!

Another 2 weeks of this never-ending heat and humidity in SWO, it's even too hot and sticky to craft.  Of course I could be home in the A/C but summer is short and in a couple of months it will be time to close for the winter.  It did take me much longer to make my card and of course there are always a couple of speed bumps along the way, I am happy to say even though I didn't plan for the theme I had a couple of Photoplay stamp sets that worked. Now the theme at Shopping Our Stash for this fortnight is Hot, Hot, Hot so what we want to see is a card inspired by something HOT, the weather, food, fire  we are looking forward to seeing what you decide is HOT.

I had never used this set before and it's circa 2018 and has matching dies gifted to me from a friend. I made the background with distress oxide inks, stamped and coloured the bear sunbathing by the lake and used the coordinating die and popped him up on the beach scene. The patterned paper reminded me of a beach blanket or a table cloth and felt it fit the bill

Closer look to see how the bear is elevated.

  

Thanks for stopping by at the beach party of one today and check out what the design team has decided what is HOT.

Wow I Made a Dude Card!!

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash where the theme is "Masculine", guys out number the gals in our family so I make at least 6 a year but when I sat down to make my card all of a sudden I had no ideas but saw a new fun fold  and with that design  I managed to get something together.  I certainly shopped my stash for long retired Stampin'up coffee dsp and the two cardstock that matched. The die set from Elizabeth Craft designs I  have had for over 5 years. 

This is a Fold Back fun fold, very easy and quick card. I have more photo angles to show how it works but it would be better to check out a video. The sentiment is from a Photoplay birthday stamp set.

The coffee cup has foam tape to shape it.

Because I added foam tape to the inside of the cup I attached the cup to the right fold with a foam strip to it folded flat. 

Last picture is the inside of the card and how it will stand alone.

Of course I'm adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today, don't forget to check out the SOS BLOG and see what fabulous masculine cards the rest of the team have made. I'm looking forward for some masculine ideas so get busy and add one, two or more to our gallery.