Fun in the Sun with Timmy Turtle!

 Hello, everyone!  I don't know about you, but I can't believe that September is nearly here!  I am taking one last shot at summer today, because as much as I am looking forward to sweater weather, I am not quite ready for our rainy season!  

I had the absolute pleasure of working with some more digital images from Last Minute Manda and I chose the adorable Timmy Turtle Loves the Beach digi set and made this super cute trio of summer cards. 

I colored all of the images using the same color palette with Copic markers (listed below), cut them out, and set them aside to figure out my layouts.  I found some the amazing Gone Surfing digital paper collection from Scrapbook Gems on Etsy that I used on all three cards. 

How cute is this darling turtle driving the car?  I wanted to add something to the license plate, so I used the Honey Bee Stamps Big Pickup Tailgate stamp set to add the license plate text.   It was perfect! 

I die-cut two circles using the Card Basics Dies from Kindred Stamps and I inked the edges using Stampin' Up Pacific Point ink.  I inked the edges of all of the other card stock panels using Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie ink.  For the sentiment, I did some two-toned stamping using the same colors with the Celebrate & Enjoy stamp set from The Greeting Farm.

To complete my card, I popped the sentiment panel up on foam squares, the turtle and car on doubled up foam squares and then added some Dew Drops. 

For my second card, I paired this cute image from more digital papers from the collection I mentioned above.  I used the Elizabeth Craft Stitched Indented Squares to create a backdrop for the turtle.

This time, I inked up the edges using Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink and Pacific Point from Stampin' Up.  I stamped the sentiment from the Mini-Remix Sunshine stamp set from the Greeting Farm and I popped that panel up on foam squares. 

I then popped the turtle up using doubled up foam squares to give him some extra height.  Lastly, I added some Dew Drops. 

For my last card, I found a sentiment that I really loved, and I printed it out.  I used the Card Basics Dies from Kindred Stamps to die-cut my circles again, and I inked all of the panels up using Pacific Point ink.  (This time I inked the entire circle using a sponge dauber). 

As in the previous cards, I used a single layer of foam squares for the sentiment panel and I doubled them up for the main image.  Lastly, I added some dew drops. 

Colors Used: 

Turtle Body - G07, YG25, YG11, YG00, R21, R20

Turtle Shell - YG67, YG25, YG23, E13, YG21

Yellow - Y17, Y15, Y11

Red - R59, R29, R27, R24

Blue - B18, B16, B14

Brown - E18, E15, E13

Orange - YR09, YR07, YR04

Glasses Lenses/Headlights - BG10, B00, B000, 0

Gray - N6, N4, N2, N0 and C10, C8, C6

I hope you love these cards as much as I do!  If you haven't checked out Last Minute Manda's shop on Etsy, please do!  Her images are just so much fun to work with! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Xoxo, Kim