Going To The Beach aka Going To Nana's

Well here's another one of those "Gotta Haves" from Sassy Cheryl.  I have wanted to work with her ever since she came out, but I was committed to a few other cards.  Soooooo when I finally allowed myself to color her, I minimized her 4 different times and got to color her a big total of 5 times.  Let me tell you, I was in heaven.  Doesn't she just scream fun!  She is appropriately called "Going to the Beach" and in my family that means going to Nana ad Papa's house.  So I just used that theme as my inspiration.  Have you ever seen those little suitcases that say "Going to Grandma's" on them?  Well I just turned my card into a journey.

I tried to show her decreasing in size the further she got from the viewer and the closer she got to the beach. I fussy cut my images out, glued them to a orange oval (Spellbinders) that was run through a CuttleBug Embossing folder.  The sentiment on the front is a Tim Holtz stamp.  When she finally arrives at the beach, she finds a beautiful palm tree to shade her delicate little body from the scorching sun.  The sand she is walking on is torn kraft paper run through a SU embossing folder.  The palm tree is cut with a Sissix die.  The trunk is run through my crimper.  The sun is a SU stamp I fussy cut and popped up with foam tape.  

 I LOVE this Very Pretty DP that I found last week at Hobby Lobby.  My buddies Jeni, Kim, and I had a girls day and drove up to Florence to the Hobby Lobby.  You may have seen some pictures of our antics on Jeni and Kim's blog.   It was definitely a match for my image and I think it is so soo pretty that it will qualify for Sassy Cheryl's Pretty Paper Challenge.

Here are a few different view of the card.  I made it by cutting a 12x12 piece of card stock in half and doing fan folds at 4".  I then overlapped the two pieces and joined them with adhesive. I hope you enjoy my creation.

Go USA!!! Whoo Hoo for our athletes.