Hello friends and welcome to a first look at some new stamps that are just perfect for summer days! Linda’s Summer Sampler is an A4 set of six images and six frames that are all interchangeable, but I started out on this first of my designs by linking up two of the stamps on a background of the Spring/Summer Landscape Backdrop Print card.

I cut one of the 7×7 Landscape Backdrop Print cards into half. I positioned the chair and parasol image onto my mount, then ran a piece of low tack tape down the side before inking it, to open up the frame. Having stamped it into place, I did the same with the garden swing, masking off the opposite edge so that I could join them together.

I shaded the little scene with my Polychromo pencils, picking out pinks, turquoise and green to match the colours on the background. Have you spotted the cute little pup and kitty in the forgeround? I had to do a bit of additional work where the two scenes joined as well – a micron pen joined the string of bulbs to the leaves, then I added a few of the little individual leaves from the Floral Elements Set 6 to cover the slight line at the bottom of joining the two frames. You can see in the image that the two lines from the table to the swing didn’t quite align perfectly either, so I found a stamp that worked to hide that in the Build-a-Scene Doodle Flowers set, running low tack tape below the join and stamping one of the leaves on it’s side (it’s in the final pic). I also added a second outer frame around the scene with my micron pen and a ruler.

I then filled in the frame with the green Polcychromo pencil and stamped one of the Art Deco Sentiments into place before appropriately adding a mount of Indian Summer companion paper and attaching the topper to an A6 card blank.

I loved these images as part of Linda’s original In The Garden stamp sets and it’s brilliant to now have them as smaller little scenes. And Barbara will be on screen on Clarity Social TV tomorrow (Monday) at 2pm to put this fab set through it’s paces – don’t miss it!

Before then, I’m heading off to share this card with Just Us Girls and The Four Seasons, both of whom have ‘summer’ as their current themes.