Drinks On Me

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Starving Artistamps is sponsoring this week's sketch challenge at 2 Sketches 4 You. Their sketches are always fabulous!

Here's my summery version of this week's sketch. I used Cliff from the DoodleFactory Tropics set as my focal image. Cliff is what I'd like to be doing instead of working today--enjoying a tropical drink on a lounge chair. I created a sandy backdrop for the image by tearing strips of mustard cardstock, inking them along the torn edges, and layering them along the bottom portion of the blue circle mat.

I used some flip flop patterned paper to cover most of the cardfront. I alternated strips of coordinating yellow cardstock, orange scalloped cardstock, and light orange grosgrain ribbons along the left side of the card.

I stamped the "drinks on me" sentiment on a scrap of yellow cardstock, matted it, then attached it with a dimensional to finish off the summery card.

Materials Used:
DoodleFactory Tropics set and Tropics sentiments set 2 (Starving Artistamps); Snow White Choice Cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Tuxedo Black ink (Memento); markers (Copic); Summer Sunrise Palette ink, Lemon Tart and Summer Sunrise cardstock, Summer Sunrise grosgrain ribbon (Papertrey Ink); More Mustard Classic ink, More Mustard, Bashful Blue, and Pumpkin Pie cardstock, scallop edge punch, sponge dauber, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); circle and pinking circle die (Nestabilities); patterned paper (Memory Box-Beach Collection)