I made this card for a friend that I haven’t seen since High School and it was so nice to get back in touch with them.

The card starts out as a fun fold but as you open it there is a cut out and finally as you open the last part the flowers pop up at you.

What a refreshing card to give someone.  Just looking at it makes you want to jump in the water. I made the one in yellow first and just didn’t like it so I changed up a couple of things and added more blue and the word relax, because who wouldn’t want to relax at the beach.

I made these cards from looking at sunsets.  My first one is a Happy Anniversary card and then I loved how it turned out so I made a few more and added a different sentiment on the front and left the inside blank. I started out with a red ink pad then orange, then yellow, green and finally blue to look like water. I made sure that each color blended in with the next color as I was working my way down the paper. For the trees I used a die cut in black card stock.