Hello Honey Bee friends! Today my card features the SO fun Lovely Layers: Beach Bound Honey Cuts. But wait! I made the van light up to go with my sunset beach scene! The light up cards are not as hard to make as you may think. Check out the details below!

First I created the background with a 4″ x 5-¼” piece of 80# Neenah. I used two strips of removable tape to mask off the area for the ocean. Then I used blender brushes to add Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink through the two Layered Waves stencils.

I moved the pieces of tape to protect the inked ocean and then blended on several Distress Inks to create the sunset and evening sky. The inks I used are Carved Pumpkin, Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, and Chipped Sapphire. The sand is inked with a light tan ink and then stamped with the Sandy Shores background stamp in Gathered Twigs. I stamped it a few times without re-inking the stamp for the second and third stamping.

I used a white gel pen to add dots to the evening sky for the stars.

I created the cute van by die cutting teal, white, and gray cardstock with the dies in the Lovely Layers: Beach Bound set. I also die cut a piece of vellum with the die that has the headlights on it because we need to have the lights transparent. Then I followed the Layering Guide to assemble the pieces with glue. NOTE: I did not adhere the headlights to the van.

I used a few Copic markers to color the surfboard and a fine tip black pen for the details.

Next I die cut the two palm tree layers that are in the Lovely Layers: Hammock set from white cardstock. I blended on green and brown inks to color the layers. I adhered the layers with glue while following the Layering Guide. I glued them to the background layer and trimmed off the excess.

For the lights, I used my die release tool to poke holes in the center of the spot where the headlights are. Then I used a pencil to make a mark through the holes onto the background scene layer and poked a hole there too. Now I can use those holes to make pencil marks on the card base for the light placement.

Now I can adhere the die cut vellum “headlight covers” onto the van.

One more planning element is to decide where the battery pack for the EZ lights will be placed. You can use a stamp that says “push”, or just hand write it onto the front of the scene layer. Just be sure to place the “push” so the lights come on when it’s pushed in that spot.

In the photo above, the card base is on the left and the back of the background scene is on the right. I only had a set of Pear Blossom Press’s EZ-Light with three lights. That round foam dot you see is what I covered the third one up with. All of the foam tape is the extra thick type. If you don’t have that, just make a double layer of the foam tape you have.

As you adhere the beach scene layer onto the card front, press the lights to be able to see that those holes are directly over the lights.

Press the lights again as you adhere the Beach Bound van on the card to make sure the holes in the headlights are directly over the lights. Look how cute it is with the lights on!

It looks very subtle in the photo, but in real life it is noticeably brighter! You can also check out my post on my Instagram where I have a short video clip and the lights show much better in that!

I stamped a sentiment in black ink from the Rest & Relaxation stamp set and cut it out with the coordinating Honey Cut. It is adhered to the card with foam strips.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my light-up beach scene card today! Thank you so much for stopping by–you are appreciated!