Friends are Like Seashells

Good friends are like those rare and beautiful seashells and if you are lucky, you will find a few gems that will stick with you through thick and thin. Over the years I have had the pleasure to meet many good people and am more blessed to call those closest to me friends. Stampin’ UP! has been a huge part of my being able to make and keep good friends.

Today’s card honors all the beloved friends in our lives, those here with us and those who have passed before us. If you are lucky enough to have good friends in your life, send them a simply beautiful card today!

• Begin with a Rococo Rose base that measures 5½ x 8½. In landscape position, (aka the long side) score at 4¼”.  Fold and burnish.
• Cut a 4 1/8 x 5 3/8” piece of Basic Black cardstock and layer it to the front of the card base.
• Use the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine to dry emboss a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Very Vanilla with the Seashells embossing folder and attach it to the Basic Black panel on the card front.
• Cut a 2 3/8 x 3 3/8” piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and using the sponge dauber, sponge the lower portion in Crumb Cake for sand, the middle section in Balmy Blue for the ocean and a mixt of Balmy Blue and Blushing Bride for the sky.
• Use Soft Suede to stamp speckles in the sand area.   Stamp one of the medium sized seashell in Soft Suede on a scrap of very vanilla, cut it out and attach to the vanilla layer.
• Stamp the sentiment in Memento Black ink in the upper left corner.
• Cut a 2 ½ x 3 ½” piece of Rococo Rose cardstock and a 2 ½ x 3 ½” piece of Basic Black cardstock.  Layer the vanilla sand scene to the black and Rococo Rose as pictured.

Stamp the inside with a sentiment of your choice. I stamped mine from the Friends are Like Seashells bundle in Memento Black ink.

I hope you enjoyed this card, don’t forget to leave a comment, I am always happy to hear from you. This bundle is available until the end of June and can be found in the January -June mini catalog.