May Preview Day 2: June & July Stamp Set

Welcome to day 2 of our previews. I am back with the next installment of our bi-monthly set. Our first set was April & May which covered Mothers Day, spring, rainy days, etc. June & July covers Fathers Day, summer,  & 4th of July.

Card #1 is the little sailor cat. I paired him with the "A'hoy matey" sentiment. I used the In & Outs Oval Die to cut out the oval behind the sailor cat character. I layered white paper behind the red polka dot paper to do a simple card layout.

I had a ton of fun creating card #2. I used the puppy with his stack of ice cream cones and paired him with the "Dog days of summer" sentiment. I used the Birthday Dots Stencil to first do brown distress ink and then moved the stencil and did the pink distress ink dots.

I cut out pink and brown banners with the Banners Die out of paper from the Dazzle Dazzle Paper Pad and Hearts & Dots Paper Pad. I finished the card with enamel dots for Razzle Dazzle Shiny Dots.

Card #3 has the same layout as the previous card. The theme for this card though is Father's Day, or Happy Dad's Day as the sentiment says. This time I cut out the In & Out Oval using the blue dot paper from Hearts & Dots Paper Pad. The strip of pattern paper is from the Dazzle Dazzle Paper Pad. I finished the card off with the green, blue, and brown Dazzle Dazzle Shiny Enamel Dots.

Card #4 is an idea I got in my head when I designed the set. I wanted the duck and fireworks to pop. To create the background I took navy blue cardstock and stamped the fireworks from the set in Wow Embossing Ink, I then used white embossing powder to have the fireworks show up so nicely on the dark paper. 

I again used the Banners Die and did the embossing with white embossing powder. I finished the card off with white and red Dazzle Dazzle Shiny Enamel Dots.

For card #5 I wanted to create a beach scene. I used the new Clouds & Grasses Stencil to create the sand for the beach. Then I used distress ink to create the water that the bear in the inner tube is swimming in. I stamped the sentiment right on the card. I did cut out the sun, bear, and bunny using the coordinating Outline Die. I wanted the card to not have any thickness so that when I mailed it, it could go with just a postage stamp on it.

Visit our Design Team members- 

Guest Designer Emma

 Meg 

Ginger

Laura

Kerri

Stacie

Comment on each members post and then comment on this post to let us know that you commented. On Thursday, one winner from all the comments will be selected to win the entire release.

Thank you for joining us for our May previews. We will announce the winner on the blog Thursday at noon, cst.