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Bikini Beach Card I thought I'd share a card that I had published in the June issue of the Cricut Magazine.  I used the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to cut my card base at 4 1/4".  I then cut the scalloped circle shape out of the "waves" patterned paper and adhered it to the card front, along with some "sand" that I hand cut out of cork.  The scalloped frame was run through the Cuttlebug with the Polka Dots embossing folder before using dimensional adhesives to adhere it to the card.  The cute bikini was cut at 2 3/4" from the Pack Your Bags cartridge and popped up as well. For my sentiment, I cut a tag from Art Philosophy that I had sized at 3/4" x 1 3/4" using my Gypsy, stamped it with a sentiment from My Creative Time's Have Fun in the Sun stamp set, and adhered it to the scalloped framed with a brad.  It's great to have the capability to size my cuts just right for my stamps!
 Labels: Art Philosophy, Pack Your Bags 
Katie ~ OH MY I LOVE IT!!! How CLEVER to use the corkboard for sand! I LOVE the shape and the paper you used for the waves!!! I just sat here for awhile trying to figure out what you used for the tie part of the bikini! OMG ~ it is just a cut!!! Popping it made it lok like real string!!! CLEVER! It looks so real! I LOVE when I see all these pattern paper and colors work so PERFECTLY together!

August 2, 2012 at 6:31 AM 
Super cute...can see why they wanted to publish it! Lee-Ann :)

August 2, 2012 at 6:34 AM 
super cute! the cork makes fabulous sand!

August 2, 2012 at 7:41 AM 
really cute!!!!

August 2, 2012 at 10:00 AM 
Woot! Woot! Way to go on getting published! It's so cute...love the sand :)

August 2, 2012 at 6:02 PM cdm317 said...

Congrats on getting your wonderful card published! Love it!

August 2, 2012 at 6:58 PM Suzanne cricutcraftingrammyblogspot.com said...

Hi Katie- Two of your wonderful projects will be featured on Fantabulous Friday tomorrow at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog. Hope you will stop by to check it out. :)

August 2, 2012 at 7:31 PM 
super cute!!! love this card


August 3, 2012 at 6:22 AM 
Too cute! I love the embossed dots on the scallop frame...perfect setting for the little polka dot bikini. Congratulations on being published.

August 6, 2012 at 7:17 AM bikini swimsuit said...

it was awesome!!

September 7, 2012 at 1:53 AM