You are My Sunshine – July Design Challenge

It’s time for the Karen Burniston design team challenge. This months challenge was to use one of the new diesets with a paper pack that was sent to each of the design team, I was happy to receive this beautiful Echo Park Best Summer Ever paper pack with stickers, and this is what I came up with.

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1- I wanted to make a double fold card. So I cut out the pieces as shown below. The 2 smaller dark pink cardstock I adhered to the sides of the main card base.

2- Then I added all the lighter pink pieces as shown. Not shown is I cut a 4th piece of light pink for the back of the card.

3- I picked out the pieces I wanted for the card, the message blocks came with the paper pack. I cut and matted the pieces as shown.

4- I thought it would be fun to have the inside message span a cross the fold line, but I didn’t want it to bunch up in the fold so I trimmed it as shown.

5a – die cut 2 Twist Flower mechanisms.

B- flip in over so one will be reverse of the other

C- fold on all the score lines.

D- add to the card base (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

6- I die cut 4 each of white and 2 of 2 different patterned paper (pink stripes, and multi coloured stripes) large flowers from this Twist Flower set and adhered them white on top off patterned, offset, then started adding stickers. I cut out the fruit panels from the paper pack and offset them with a multi coloured stripe paper.

7- I decided to offset the message block as well and added all the pieces to the card base as shown

Across the top I used thick yellow bakers twine (Walmart) to make 2 swags. The banner stickers are part of the Echo Park paper pack

8- I used the same yellow bakers twine on the front. I tied 2 other pieces of twine around the knot then untwisted the twine to give it a frayed look.

9- add it to the front of the card.

10- I decided it needed some sparkle so I dug out some rhinestones and added them randomly around. I’m cheap my rhinestones are from the dollar store.