Hello everyone! Galina is here to share with you a hot summer cards!
I played with a beautiful Tropical dies from Claina Palmer Designs and I want to share with two projects:
- Layered card with tropical forest
- Clean and simple geometric card
I made both of my projects using the same die sets!
Products featured:
Card Details
- I applied different colors of Distress inks on wet watercolor paper. Mostly I applied green shades plus yellow and a little bit of blue. I dried the paper and made drops and splashes with water and white acrylic paint.
- I cut out a lot of pretty tropical leaves, I used a large palm leaf and one smaller die from Passion Flower & Leaf and Fan Palm and a big monstera leaf from Hibiscus, Flamingo Flower & Swiss Cheese Leaf.
- To create a card panel I cut out a white panel using one of the dies from 5″x7″ Double-Stitched Nested Dies and I applied blue Distress ink to create a clouds.
- I foam mount leaves around the centre and I placed die cut sentiment in the centre of my leaf frame. I cut out the word Thanks from red and white cardstock, below the die cut I stamped a second part of the sentiment with Versafine black ink.
And here is a second way of using floral tropical dies. I used a small flower die to create birds. I cut off a small part from the die cut and colored it with alcohol based markers. I add details with a white gel pen.
Card 2
Products featured
- Claina Palmer – Mix ’em Dies – Essentials 2
- Claina Palmer – Mix ’em Stamps – Essentials
- Claina Palmer – Blooming ‘ansome Bird of Paradise, Lobster Claw & Banana Leaf
- Claina Palmer – Banners Die Set
Card Details
For my second card I used one of floral dies to create a geometric pattern on my card. This die is a part of Bird of Paradise, Lobster Claw & Banana Leaf and it can be used to build a flower.
- I cut out a lot of circles in my A2 card panel and I foam mounted it on a colored cardstock.
- To create a sentiment I used the same dies- Mix ’em Dies – Essentials 2 and the stamp set – Mix ’em Stamps – Essentials. This time I cut out the sentiment from a gold and white cardstock and one additional piece from a vellum. I heat embossed the sentiment on a black cardstock and cut it out using a thin stripe die from – Claina Palmer – Banners Die Set
- I foam mount my both of my sentiments in the centre of the card.
Thanks for stopping by!
Galina