Today’s card was made using the Lilypad Lake Bundle (Lilypad Lake stamp set and Lakeside Framelits Dies.) I love the sentiment: To see far is one thing…Going there is another. I love to travel to new places. Let me rephrase that. I love to be in new places. I don’t really enjoy the “getting there” part so much. Motion sickness. Very nasty. Anyhoo, I think exploring new and different places enriches the soul. And I encourage everyone to do it as much as they can.

Here’s what I made:

Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my Stampin’ Trimmer:

• Whisper White Thick card stock (CS) cut to 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, then scored in half at 4-1/4″
• Coastal Cabana CS cut to 3-3/4″ x 5″
• Blushing Bride CS cut to 4-1/4″ x 1″

Stamped with the Lilypad Lake stamp set:

• sentiment, bird, and lilypads in Jet Black Stazon ink onto scraps of Whisper White CS

Die cut using the Lakeside Framelits:

• sentiment, bird, and lilypads
• Coastal Cabana CS layer with the wave die several times

Colored using Stampin’ Write Markers:

• flowers in Blushing Bride
• lily pads in Coastal Cabana

Cut using Paper Snips:

• notched the ends of the 4-1/4″ x 1″ strip of Blushing Bride CS

Assembled the card:

• burnished the fold in the card base with a Bone Folder
• Coastal Cabana CS layer glued onto the front of the card base
• bird and lilypads glued onto the Coastal Cabana CS layer
• sentiment glued onto the Blushing Bride CS strip
• Blushing Bride CS strip glued onto the Coastal Cabana CS layer
• two Tranquil Tide pearls applied to the sentiment

Here are today’s main colors:

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Here’s what I used:

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