 Hi everyone and welcome back. It's Vicky here and today I have a fun summer card I am going to use a stamp from the new release by Waffle Flower and this is actually part of a blog hop with lots of inspiration and many giveaways so make sure to visit my blog to find all about it. The stamp set I will be using today is called Santi Toast the moment I saw it I fell in love with it I love it just because it is so unique and there is nothing like it in the market and after all Waffle Flower is known for these type of designs so I picked one of the guys who is running towards the sea and I'm going to stamp him with black ink the ink I am using I made sure that it was alcohol marker friendly so that I can use my alcohol markers to color everything. If you want to take a close-up look on all the stamps that have been released for April by Waffle Flower I do have a video that you can find linked down below as well as on your screen. I'm running the E-match with the matching dye through my big shirt and I have my cut out ready to go and I absolutely love the expression on this guy this is exactly how I feel just with the thought that summer is coming and he even has a loose flip-flop so I'm cutting out a piece of paper here this is four by five and a quarter slightly smaller than a standard card and I'm bringing in my embossing powders this is a set by Stampendous and it's absolutely perfect for creating sand and the sea and I'm going to show you how to do it so I'm going to tear this paper I'm bringing in a scrap piece of paper and I'm going to cover up completely this white panel with my versa marking now the set of embossing powders by Stampendous has actually five different embossing powders three are in blue colors perfect for your sea and the sky one has this sandy look and there is also a chunky white one which is perfect to add white details where the sand and the sea meet so here I'm using the embossing powder that's called golden sand and I'm covering up completely this panel and now I'm going to use my heat gun to melt everything now this is fine embossing powder which means that it sticks nicely on top of versa marking and you can emboss it from the top just like I'm doing here and my golden sand is ready now I'm going to use an ink cube this is versa mark and I'm going to go around the edges of course you can use the bigger versa mark if you have that I just find it easier for me since I can control where I apply ink with a smaller ink cube better so I'm going to make sure that all the edges nice and moist too and I'm now going to apply the chunky white embossing powder only at the edges now this embossing powder is chunky which means that it's not going to stick very well on top of versa marking but it is going to be stuck there good enough for me to heat set everything from underneath so I'm applying a little bit there I'm tapping off the excess don't tap too much otherwise everything is going to fall again this is quite heavy it's not fine grained and once I'm happy with the amount of powder that I have on top I can use my heat gun to melt everything as I am applying heat from underneath the embossing powder is going to melt and it's going to stick nicely on top of my paper and then I can also give it a quick heat on top if you want to and now let's go to the fun part it's time to assemble my card so I have all the pieces ready to go I'm going to stick the sand on top of blue panel and that's 4 by 5 and a quarter so again slightly smaller than the standard card I'm sticking my sand at the very bottom of this panel and you can already see the sea and the sand I used foam squares at the back of my guy so that I can pop him on my card and I'm going to place him on the card so that I leave enough space for my sentiment as well as enough space to stick the loose flip-flop which I think it's hilarious so I'm going to play around with the flip-flop now just try to decide where this is going to go and now it's time to stamp the sentiment for that I'm going to go with sandy toes and I'm using Versa marketing for that I'm going to apply white embossing powder of course this time I'm not going to use a chunky one instead I'm going to use fine embossing powder just to catch all the detail on the sentiment and I have already prepared another piece of sentiment from the same stamp set that says cheers to flip-flops and which I am going to cut to size and stick it on top of the sentiment sandy toes so the whole thing reads cheers to flip-flops and sandy toes and now all that's left to do is to stick this panel on top of a standard card that's 4 and a quarter by 5 and a half and you can see that by having this panel slightly smaller I end up having a nice white border all around which gives it a lovely finished look so that was the card for today I hope you had fun that you got inspired don't forget this is part of a blog hop so hop along with us for lots of inspiration and giveaways you will find all the links to everything I used down below in the description area as well as on my blog here are some close-up photos on the card that I created today thank you all so much for watching and have a lovely day