A Jillian Vance Design: Aloha... September!

Hello! Can you believe that it is already September? I can't... and neither can Hootie the Owl! He still wants to soak up some rays on a sandy beach in Hawai'i! This idea has been rolling around in my mind all summer, but I have been so busy with tons of other projects that I wasn't able to get it made until now.

I started my card by creating the background. I used a stencil and Tumbled Glass distress oxide ink to create my background. I then did some simple blending of Antique Linen distress oxide on the bottom for sand. I also blended some Antique Linen on a scrap piece of white cardstock and die cut two little sandy hills. The rest is pretty much all die cutting. I die cut Hootie from kraft and dark brown cardstocks and then added additional detailing with Copic markers. The palm tree was die cut from kraft and two shades of green. I also added detailing to them with Copics. I kept things simple by using one of the green cardstocks I used for the palm to cut part of his swim trucks and then the other part I cut from blue along with his sunglasses. I die cut the sunglasses a second time from black cardstock and inlaid the black pieces into the blue sunglass rims. I added white highlight details to his shades. I determined where I was going to place the palm and Hootie and then stamped the sentiment from the Let's Talk Hawai'ian stamp set. Once the sentiment was stamped I layered up all the elements and I was done. Hootie looks so relaxed!

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