My Black Sand Beach card

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Hey everyone!!
Hope you're all having a good weekend.  Yumi & Fumi Handmade is going to be taking a break from challenges for the next two weeks so that the DT can spend some quality time with their kids before they head back to school.  We're going to recharge and then come back with new faces and new challenges.  In the meantime here's the card I shared on the blog featuring Summer Fumi and the smaller version of our Hang Loose stamp.

I used a lot of black here.  First the card base, then the sand, the sequins aka coconuts and the black palm tree (die from La-La Land Crafts).  The rest just came together pretty quickly. 

Above is a close up of the palm tree and the Hang Loose which btw I colored in with Copics.

She looks like a version of Ariel from the Little Mermaid to me.  (hahaha)  Well that's all for me.  Mahalo for stopping by today!  I hope you all enjoy the rest of your summer and I'm going to try to get around to each of your blogs.  I haven't been a very good blogger buddy so I'm going to try my best to get hopping. 

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Hugs,
Leanne

A Happy Father's Day card

Hello!

Hoping all the father's and father figures had a great day yesterday.  We took my dad to dinner, he doesn't like any kind of fuss over him, if anything he would have rather stayed at home, but we convinced him to go to his favorite Japanese restaurant and he agreed.  Still grumbled but we still got to go. (haha)

Here's is the card I made for him featuring Tiki from the Tiki Surf set (Hang Loose series) from Y&FH.

That paper was purchased by my mom on her last trip to Hawaii.  I asked her to bring some home for me and she picked up a few different kinds.  Now I normally would never buy something like this, but I'm glad I had it, it really did come in handy.  Especially for this card.  After gluing down the patterned paper to the dark brown cardstock I used a Spellbinder square to cut the window.  Colored up Tiki and added that coconut leaf hat for fun.  (To create the hat I drew it and then drew in the lines. Colored used a dark green and a medium colored green and a gray.  After cutting the top part I made sure to randomly cut the brim raggedly.  I'll try to make a tutorial for next time.  This one was left over from the first time I tried it here.)  The background is kraft cardstock and embossed with a retro diamond folder (Lifestyle Crafts), Distress ink scattered straw and walnut stain)  I used an AmyR sentiment stamp (Happy Father's Day) inking it with white pigment ink and embossing it with clear embossing powder.

Hope you have a terrific Monday and if you haven't already picked up any of the new stamps here's the link to the website.  Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,
Leanne