Welcome! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a fun summer themed birthday card. I had some stenciling and stamping fun creating this card and pulled my color palette from the bright, fun patterned paper.
For today’s card, I wanted the summer theme so I went digging through my stash and landed on Beach Bound stamps, the Palm Tree Line stencil and the Summertime paper pad. With all of that in front of me, I knew it was going to be a bright, fun card!
I inked up a piece of white cardstock lightly with teal dye ink, then used the Palm Tree Line stencil with distress oxide inks so they would sit on top of the teal and not mix colors. Then I chose patterned paper from the Summertime pad to trim the top and bottom of my palm trees. Cutting the strips down, I adhered them with foam tape.
I stamped and colored the awesome Bug in Beach Bound, cutting it out with the coordinating die. I added it with foam squares. Next, I chose two sentiments from the set. I stamped one in the sky and heat embossed a second on a rounded rectangle from the Basic Frames die set. That one is glued directly to the card with liquid glue.
For finishing touches I added glossy accents to all the “metal” parts of the car plus the windows. At this point I thought it would be cool to distress the background. Not too risky so I spritzed my hand and flicked the water on the tree line. In reality, it’s better to do before assembling but sometimes these things happen.
Just like my next finishing touch…the twine. I had a skinny opening behind the patterned paper and decided it was a grand idea to thread the twine through so I could have that extra accent. It didn’t harm anything but took some perseverance. Lol.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way! And most of the time we make things work even if they’re a little out of order.
Products used:
Beach Bound stamps and dies
Summertime paper pad
Palm Tree Line stencil
Basic Frames dies
Foam squares and tape
Liquid glue
Anti-static brush
Embossing ink
Embossing powder – frosting
Distress Oxide Ink – mowed lawn, gathered twigs, ground espresso
Lawn Fawn dye ink – mermaid and peacock
Blending brushes
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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