Happy weekend, all! We have officially completed our first week of summer break here, and we’ve enjoyed just bummin’ around, for the most part. Between the rain and the start of the Texas summer heat, it hasn’t been the best week to be outside. But we’ve made the best of things and found plenty of other things to occupy our time. The kiddo really loves to bowl, and we renewed our Kids Bowl Free subscription for this summer. This cool program allows you to pay a flat fee for the summer to bowl 2 games each weekday with your kiddo(s) at your local participating bowling alley. It’s an absolute steal and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed this program for going on 5 years now. Wanna learn more? Check it out here.

I’ve also made plenty of time to play around in the craft room this week, as well. And today, we’re finishing up our look at the projects we can create using the Stampin’ Up! Friends for Life stamps and dies. I kept things simple today with a take on a design posted over on the Stampin’ Through the Catalog page. This clean and simple design combines Friends for Life and Softly Said sets to make this lovely card. This design caught my eye for its simplicity. You can easily turn out a number of these and swap out sentiments to fit the occasion.

We get started with a card base of Basic White cardstock. While a standard sized card, the cardstock is cut down the long edge rather than the short edge, giving you a score at the top. The paint smudge die gives us our background and is a combination of Summer Splash, Calypso Coral, Petunia Pop, Peach Pie, and Pretty in Pink cardstock. Each smudge is oriented a different direction and is slightly offset for some visual interest. The sentiment backdrop is white cardstock that has been debossed with the leaf-print die, cut out with the open heart die, and then lightly smudged with Pretty in Pink ink to really bring out the debossed pattern. A twist of the white diagonal trim is adhered behind the heart, which is placed over the backdrop with dimensionals. The sentiment from Simply Said is stamped in black on white cardstock and then fussy cut with paper snips before being adhered with dimensionals. The design is finished with the white and pink sequins from the Sequins Trio set.

In case you missed this week’s Terrific Tuesdays video where I demonstrated how to deboss using your dies, you can catch the quick tutorial by clicking here.

I hope you got some ideas from this week’s cards featuring the Friends for Life bundle. Next week’s theme is Father’s Day and we’ll be using a whole host of different sets to make some great cards. I hope you’ll drop by and check them all out!

Products used in today’s card:
Summer Splash, Calypso Coral, Petunia Pop, Peach Pie, Pretty in Pink, Basic White cardstock
Simply Said stamps
Friends for Life dies
White diagonal trim
Sequins trio
Dimensionals
Adhesives