Hello Summer Days from a Cool Cat

This is another scheduled post so hopefully it will go live as planned!

It's the first of the month and that means today starts a new challenge at The Four Seasons challenge blog where we are in the midst of Summer and we have another fun mood board to help inspire your creativity. As always, the mood board is optional as Anything Summer Goes! 

There are so many great ideas you can get from our mood board! I was inspired by the palm trees and drink, and I used this cute Penny Black stamp Beach Hammock 2089L. This is a real oldie and I am sorry but I could not find it anywhere at the moment. These older stamps do pop up on eBay occasionally, or Etsy.

I heat embossed the image on Bristol Vellum paper then colored with my Derwent Inktense pencils. On my mission to de-clutter my craft area I came across my small set of 12 Inktense pencils and as I've not really reached for them in the past I decided to give them another try before donating them. So this image has been colored using this small set of Inktense pencils and guess what?? It prompted me to purchase the set of 72 pencils!!! I think having a variety of colors to choose from will make such a difference and hopefully I'll get lots of use out of them. 

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I used a Sizzix Deckle die to cut out a window on the black cardstock to frame the image with. The die cut sentiment "Hello" is part of a Penny Black die and "Summer Days" is part of an old Whimsy stamp set. I used part of a circle for the die cut sentiment. The frame reminds me a bit of a vintage postcard. 

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When I get a moment I will try to link up with these challenges:

• A Perfect Time To Craft - Always AG
• Ally's Angels - Always AG
• Crafts Galore Encore - Always AG
• Crafty Animals - Always AG with an Animal
• Critter Crazy Challenges - Always AG with a Critter
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - Always AG
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Use PB stamps
• The Creative Crafters - Always AG

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