Hello July

Hello
A whole new month - lets hope the weather perks up for July!   We certainly picked the best week of June to go away - I think it's rained every single day since!

It's Daring Cardmakers Day and time for our monthly Elemental Inspiration Challenge.

July's photo is more of a mood-board or collage of several pictures and has been chosen by Lythan and is full of lovely Summertime beach-themes!
As ever the challenge is to create your own card which uses at least 3 elements from the picture.

Suggestions: Bright Stripes, Deckchair, Lollies, Beach, Sea, Slip-flops, Sun hats, Summer-themed words, Clouds, Layout

I've used clouds, a deckchair, Straw Hat, Summer song lyrics and bright stripes on mine 
The first version also had some bright-coloured bunting, but it looked a right mess, so I pulled it apart, cut it down, added an extra matting layer and grabbed a slightly larger card blank to build it on.  It looks much cleaner and more summery somehow

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Background is created by cutting some cloud shapes from all-over sticky Post It notes and using them as masks while I swooshed some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over the card

The song lyrics were created in Paint Shop Pro - I added them line by line, adjusting the sizes, spacing and positioning a bit - I didn't want them being too neat, iyswim

The deckchair and sun hat are cut on the Silhouette Cameo - I had to make new templates this time and I don't think the deckchair is quite right, which is a bit annoying.  Or maybe I didn't quite stick the layers together as I meant to. 

The fabric part is coloured using Gelatos and I always get in such a smudgy mess with them - I was probably concentrating more on getting the pieces stuck together without smudging than taking note of how the frame pieces should have been stuck down.

The lyrics piece is matted first onto a square inked more strongly with the

Tumbled Glass Ink, and then onto black Bazzill

Having cut down the cloudy piece as mentioned above, I matted that onto black too

I've used lots of fairly thick chipboard under the various pieces for extra dimension

Thank you for looking, I hope you'll leave a message.  If you head over to the
Daring CardmakersBlog you'll see what the rest of the team have been making - and meet our lovely new Guest designer too