July Challenge Card

 Hello,

 Today I'd like to share a card I have made to entre in to July 2026 Challenge: Shades of Summer – Pinkfresh Studio challenge.

As the name states the challenge is to make a care using either the suggested colours or images that give that summer feel. I have used the colours suggested but also I feel a lovely summery floral scene.

The card is a big 6 x 8 top folding card and I have inked through a stencil with the colours added it to the card front and on to that I cut a oval which I stacked and in to the centre I added a smaller oval.

The flowers are from the Cheerful Blossoms Collection, I also used Winter Berries Frame Collection and the sentiment is from You Are My Rainbow collection.

The oval frame is cut in a pearlescent card which looks so pretty in real life. I added clear gems to the centre of the flowers and pale pink pearls are dotted about the card.

Thanks for looking in today.

Sue 

Oh Happy Days.

 Hello,

Today you can find me on The Mad Scrapper Blog with this lovely family holiday snap taken a just a couple of weeks ago. It is my sister and her family on holiday in Portugal.

So as always I start by gathering my possible supplies together, as always this can change multiple times before we are finished! As you can see I have mostly chosen the gorgeous oh so lovely  collection by Uniquely Creative.

I took a sheet of cloud from another collection and used 3 distress inks smooching them on the paper in my desired places

I took the Oh Pretty Things paper and fussy cut out the centre floral design adhering to the cloud paper with copious amounts of foam tape. As you can see I made sure the purple splats were where the orange area on the paper fell and so the same with the orange splats.

Even though there is still plenty of the florals etc to see on the paper after I added the photograph I still decided to add more on top using the Creative Cuts from the collection.

This photo shows just the addition of a butterfly along with some coloured glue dots in corresponding colours.

Here I added one of the bulldog clips to a mini envelope and tucked it behind the photograph along with the mail stamp and a few tiny florals.

This last photograph shows the title another butterfly and a mini sun. To finish off the layout I went around adding more coloured glue both on the centre and around the outside of the page.

Thanks for stopping by today, I do encourage you to check out this beautiful collection, there are so many more gorgeous papers to be had. If you pop in to the store yourself or go to The Mad Scrapper  and look at your leisure.

Sue.

Supply List:

Oh So Lovely - Oh Pretty Things Paper 

OH SO LOVELY COORDINATING CARDSTOCK BUNDLE 

OH SO LOVELY CREATIVE CUTS 

CARDSTOCK - CLOUD 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Kitsch Flamingo