Beach Fun Wiper Card

I put together another wiper style birthday card  featuring Sanrio characters, this time using a fun beach theme.

Pulling on the right and left sides of the card simultaneously engages the wiper mechanism and Hello Kitty riding her dolphin jumps from the water!

Paper pieced Hello Kitty and her pals were put together from cutting files rendered from coloring book images using Make the Cut design program. All pieces were cut from black and white cardstock on the Silhouette Cameo, then colored using Copic markers.

I was excited to finally have the chance to play with toothbrush style foundation brushes and Tim Holtz distress inks to create the blended ocean backgrounds for this card. After seeing all the excitement online on various cardmaking sites about these foundation brushes, I purchased an inexpensive set from Amazon to give them a try. In the past I struggled with and was not pleased a with the results I got from using the foam blending tool to apply distress inks but I'm happy to say the foundation brushes worked like a charm! Looking forward to practicing more and learning to use different color combos to create blended backgrounds!