Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Bright Colors of SUMMER!



Hello and welcome to Clear Dollar Stamps July Blog hop! I hope you arrived here via Deonna's blog! If not - pop on over to the newly designed CDS DIGITAL Blog and start from the beginning!! The new blog is simply beautiful!! You must check it out!!
 The theme for this month is the Bright colors of Summer! My favorite season!! For my card - I used an image that was released in June of this year called Hanging out. 

I made this an easel card. I have not made made easel card for a 
while and this seemed to be the perfect image for it!

Here are some more views of the card:
Side:
Flat:
Closed:


I made this card to be a 5" square card. 
The papers are from Pebbles and Bazzil.
 I colored with colored pencils and blended with mineral spirits.
 I added a bit of bakers twine and a couple of mini clothes pins.
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Enjoy your summer!!




15 comments:

Jennifer said...

Such a fantastic way to use your clothesline image! Love your colours of summer! Love your clothespins!

Unknown said...

Hi Barb, love this easel card. The image is fab the sentiment just perfect! Love your choice of colours too - very summery! Trish x

Pia S said...

What a fun image for this sentiment! Wonderful card with a sumemry feel to it with these beautiful, bright colors!

Deonna B said...

Barb, I just love this digital stamp set. It is probably one of my very favorites and you have displayed it beautifully with your card. Great work!!

whitneymaryann said...

Fun theme, great color combination, and especially like the easel card concept.

Ina said...

I love easel cards! That multicoloured polka dot paper is super!

Unknown said...

Very cute card!!

CRAZY4 CHRIST said...

Love that it's an easle card, very cute touch with the clothes pin!!
Kristan
sierrababy08 at hotmail dot com

Debbie said...

This is such a cute image!! I love easel cards!!!

Little C's Creations said...

So cute, Barb!!! I need to make one of these easel cards! Love it!!! Hugs, Jen

Lorianna said...

Barb
this is so cute!!,
So bright and colorful!
And the layout is perfect
HUGS
Lorianna

Angie said...

Your card is super cute!! Love the DP and the image! Easel cards are so pretty!

Glenda Atkins said...

I agree with the above comments, this is one super cute card! Being an easel card just adds to it's fun!
hugs
glenda

Rozy said...

Great card with amazingly bright colors!

Lawren said...

Cute, cute, cute. Love the card.