We Create Summer Blog Hop

Summer is flying by.  I learned a song in my younger days in Primary at my Ward/Church.  It was called Oh what do you do in the Summer time when all the world is green. Then it proceeds to list all the fun things you do like swim, fish, swing, watch the clouds float by, drink lemonade, or march in parades.  I am typing this up and listening to the crickets outside, with a very slight breeze coming in the window.  All the things I love about summer!!!!  

Of course adulting in the summer includes stuff like canning.  Ralph and I did 34 quarts pickles and many pints of red current jelly.  Tomato products scheduled for August.

For my project I tried to capture the swinging way up high. I think maybe my colors slightly drifted to fall, but green and brown are what trees are made of.  I inked the leaf image in granny apple green and then used a dauber to add the shaded spruce so that it wasn't all one color.  I used markers for the swing.  I didn't get a great image the first time on the swing and since I used my Stamparatus I was able to reink the stamp and stamp the image again exactly where it had been before.  (( still want to call it a Stampasaurus))  If you don't have one...you NEED one.

Do you ever show someone your cute homemade card and the first thing they do after looking at the front is open it to see what is inside?  It happens to me all the time, so I decided to start adding a inside panel just for the lookers and it helps the card be completed for use.

Stamps - Sheltering Tree and Around the Corner

Ink - Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce, Real Red Marker. Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Paper - Whisper White, Granny Apple Green, Early Espresso and Natures Poem DSP

Accessories - Linen Thread  ( I really need to invest in some current embellishments :) )

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