Red, White and Blue Challenge

I had won second place with my Tiki Hut and one of my prizes was her Just Beachy SVGs.  I really enjoyed working with this set.  It is put together beautifully and I love all the elements she put in there. So I just had to use them with the next challenge.  I tried really hard to just use the challenge colors.  I think I did a pretty good job, the only other colors were the yellow sun and the sandy colored base.

After brainstorming ideas, I opened and designed my card in Make the Cut.  I put the two chairs and umbrella where I wanted them, make a shadow layer of all three.  I then added a square about the size of the card I wanted and welded the shadows with the square.   To get the whole card base, I copied the base I had just made, pasted and mirror imaged my copy.  Moved over to just touching the other base and weld again.  It’s pretty simple to make shaped cards in MTC.  Hope I didn’t just confuse you all.  Just so you know, the caption did not come with the set.  It was a prize given out at the last challenge to all the entrants.

This time around I thought I would also try something different with the pictures.  I really hate my homemade photo box.  It makes the pictures come out too cold.  We have a beautiful back deck with lots and lots of foliage (that’s my new word for weeds) and a Koi pond.  Why not make it look rather beachy and sunny?!?  We get a lot of evening sun in back so it worked perfect for these pictures.  Hopefully, I can keep up the ideas now with the backdrops for my project photos too.  Who knew having a blog was so much trouble. ^__^