I keep a set of Post-It notes and a pencil by my bed for a reason. It NEVER fails that I'll remember something to add to the grocery list, or remember where I put something that I couldn't find, or I'll come up with a card layout/idea JUST as my head hits the pillow at night.
And unless I write it down I'll never remember in the morning.
So the other night I got the idea for the following card - so I quickly scribbled it down:
ROFLOL I know it's pretty rough - I was tired and just wanted to put down the basics. And if you've never done this before (putting a pad of paper/sticky notes/whatever and a pen/pencil by your bed) you should try it. I swear I come up with my BEST ideas when I'm about to fall asleep LOL!
So here's the end result:
The Swiss Pixie Ice Cream Birgitta image I had already stamped and colored with Copics. I then left it out as my stampin' mojo has been on the slooowwww side for the past few weeks and couldn't think of what to do with it. Hence the sticky note. Once I had that this card came together in no time.
I used a Spellbinders circle die to cut out the "sun" from patterned paper - from the MME Stella & Rose Mabel pack - and the rays were just free hand cut.
The clouds are an MFT die - and the sentiment is from my new Wish You Were Here set (which was designed to go with the June Swiss Pixie stamps).
And of course I had to use some Caribbean Baker's Twine - love that stuff!
I added Stickles to the sun, the ice cream and her bathing suit.
(it saves me a LOT of time with editing if I just take a pic of the markers with the Sticky Note that I wrote all the colors on rather than adding them in Photoshop - it's not as "professional" looking but does it really matter? People just ask for the colors I use - not that they're edited and formatted properly....)
On the inside of the card I followed the same idea as the front - but this time I moved the sun to the upper right corner to give space for a written message.
Again the new MFT Flat Bottom Cloud dies and the Aloha is from the Wish You Were Here set.
