Come Sail Away Memories & More

Stampin' Up has several different themes of Memories & More Card Packs.  These cards make amazing journaling surfaces for scrapbooks!  They can also be used to make fairly quick-and-easy cards, like the one below.  It may look pretty intricate, but in reality is was pretty simple!

Here's what I did:.

1. The Memories & More cards are larger than the standard 5.5" x 4.25" cards that you've seen me make.  For this card, I started with a base of Balmy Blue cut to 8.5" x 6.5", scored at 4.25" on the long side and folded/burnished on the score line with my bone folder
2. Next I cut a Crumb Cake mat to 6.25" x 4.25" and adhered it to the Balmy Blue base
3. I then took a 6" x 4" piece of Balmy Blue and embossed it with the High Seas 3D Embossing Folder before adhering the laser-cut light house panel from the Come Sail Away Memories & More Card Pack to the embossed piece of Balmy Blue cardstock
4. I then adhered the laser-cut light house with the Balmy Blue background to the Crumb Cake mat on the card.
5. There are sticker sheets in the Come Sail Away Memories & More Card Pack - I chose the Very Vanilla label with the Night of Navy border and stamped a sentiment from the High Tide stamp set in Night of Navy - it fit beautifully!
6. After stamping, I removed the sticker from the sticker sheet and placed it face down on my craft mat.  I placed 5 Mini Stampin' Dimensionals on the sticky-surface, one in each corner and another in the middle.  Then I took a paint brush dipped in baby powder and applied powder to the remaining exposed sticker - I did this because I didn't want the sticker to get smooshed and have an area of it stuck to the card when my desire was for the whole thing to be elevated.
7. Next I took the circle sticker with "seaweed" coming from two sides and placed it directly yo my card front on a slight angle.  I removed the backing from my Mini Stampin' Dimensionals and placed my sentiment on top of the circle, leaving only the seaweed visible.
8. I felt that I still needed some additional interest with the sentiment, so I took some Linen Thread and made a few loops.  I secured them with a knot and added a Mini Glue Dot at the knot, then used my tweezers to push the knot and glue dot behind the sentiment.  I just love how those loops turned out!
9. As a last step, I added 5 Rhinestone Basic Jewels - one as the dot on the "i" in my sentiment and 4 more in the light beams of the lighthouse.

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