Take me out to the ballgame, it's Summertime! Hi everyone, and happy fun-in-the-sun season! It's Maureen and I'm with you today for a creative and simple project, creating Summer themed Memory-Dex cards. I really love this time of year...it brings such joy to be out enjoying the pool, ballgames and family BBQs. This project will help you commemorate all those moments!
I am choosing to work with the Tabbed Memory-Dex Dividers and the Hearts Memory-Dex Chipboard Dividers. These are great all-around shapes to create with. My theme has to do with the popular themes of Summer: Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet. I love the items you could put in a box with these themes, celebrating the events of the season.
I've combined an assortment of die cuts and papers for this project. In fact, this was a great way to clean out some scrap paper! I just couldn't part with some of the cute patterns so it was the perfect project.
First up, the tabbed dividers. I wanted these to look like a picnic table since both were a food theme. I used a gingham die cut in red for the backdrop, and the dividers I traced on some white paper. These were glued together.
Then, for the pie, I used a die cut from my stash, but used the same die cut to make the buns for the hot dog! I also had fun using a stitched border die for the mustard.
Next came the heart dividers. The baseball card is covered in a white card stock, then dusted down the middle for a weathered look. I then took another border die and made some red zigzags to apply down each side, trimming off the ends. A final blue heart completes the design where the heart would be on the chipboard.
The other heart is covered with a fun blue plaid, and dusted with ink on the edges. I had a truck die set in my stash, so I added this to a white heart backdrop, but it is sponged with a brick background in gray. For this, I'm using the Clear Scraps 4x6 Brick Wall stencil.
All of the cards have titles that I printed on a printer and trimmed to fit. What an easy afternoon of using up leftover items!
I hope this inspires your Summer crafting this month. Thanks for joining me, and I'll see you next time!
Maureen
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