Your Next Stamp DT Dare "Shades of Blue"

Hello fellow card makers.

Today I am sharing with you my card for this month's DT Dare by Your Next Stamp. We were challenged to use the NEW May release products on a project centered around the theme "shades of blue". I used the NEW Water Window die set and Beach Day die set to come up with this clean and simple card. If you want to check out what all of the other talented Design Team members came up with (CLICK HERE!) to go to the Your Next Stamp blog. While you are there, leave a comment for your chance to win a stamp set of your choice from the Your Next Stamp online store.

I started with pulling out all of my various shades of blue cardstock and mixed and matched them until I picked shades that not only went well together, but also made sense on the card. I cut the water from Papertrey Ink's Blueberry Sky cardstock. This is one of my favorite blue shades. Then I proceeded to cut the boat from Simon Says Stamp's Sea Glass cardstock. Then I added some fish using the Sea Glass cardstock and also PTI's Spring Rain, and Lawn Fawn's Blue Jay.

I wanted the sentiment to stand out, so I grabbed some PTI Enchanted Evening and stamped the "Thank You" sentiment from Your Next Stamp's Whatnot Sentiments Eleven stamp set. I stamped it in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with Hero Arts Ultra Fine White Embossing powder. I used an old My Favorite Things Snowy Hills die set to cut a nice arch into the darker blue sentiment panel.

I still felt like I wanted to add more, so I used a piece of Stampin' Up! So Saffron cardstock and the sun die from the NEW Beach Day die set to add a little sunshine. I then wanted to add a little white space with the same water die, just flipped upside down.

Before I attached the water and the sky using Scrapbook.com tape runner adhesive, I used my EK Success 1 inch corner rounder punch to round the corners of those pieces as well as my Simon Says Stamp Fog card base. The rest of the images are popped up with Scotch 3M foam tape.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. If you would like to check out what the rest of the Design Team came up with around the "shades of blue" theme (CLICK HERE!) to go to the Your Next Stamp blog. Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win a stamp set of your choice from the Your Next Stamp online store.

Koren