ALOOOOOOOOHA!!! Hello and Welcome to TGIF for The Greetery! Around here TGIF stands for: The Greetery Inspiration Friday! Woot! This project is on The Greetery Blog today.... And I'm here on my blog today too - sharing some of my favorite things! I live in California and last week we had a high temperature of 86 degrees! Well, that got me to thinking about Summer, and pina coladas, so I created a Summer card to share with you! Never too early to plan ahead for the season, and work with some of my favorite themes... I am always inspired by vintage postcards, and I absolutely love vintage Hawaiiana too. Well, combine those two things with lots of wonderful stamps and dies from The Greetery and you have today's card! A tropical postcard card! Aloha friends!
My finished card is an A2 card base made from Woodgrain cardstock (Supplies at the bottom of my post... All the other paper used in this project was water color paper. And I colored with Distress Inks and a Water Brush!
I started by die cutting several of the small stamps dies from the Pretty Postmarks Dies, one of the larger stamp pieces and the circular postmark piece. I used watercolor paper for all the pieces of this card except the card base. I also die cut several palm dies from watercolor paper. Once I had my elements all die cut, I had fun water coloring with Distress inks and the awesome Destination stamp sets.
I chose the elements that made me think of summer: Palm Trees, flowers, and that cute woody wagon with the surfboard. I stamped with Distress Inks and then used a water brush to 'paint' over the stamped images to look like water coloring. I also splattered everything with brown ink to look vintage. I edged all the pieces with light brown ink and a sponge dauber. For the base layer, I die cut the large Postal Die from watercolor paper and brushed on some blue ink mixed with a lot of water.
For the palm leaves I also used Distress inks and a water brush. A few shades of greens... AHHHH. So fresh and pretty! Such an easy technique that gives great results! Everything is attached to the card using foam squares for added dimension. For the sentiment, I used the Pretext Dies and stamps from the Lemon Blossom stamp set to write out 'happy summer' on two different tabs.
To finish off today, I will wish you Aloha! I hope I've inspired you to look at your stamps in a new way and try something different. Thank you for spending some time with me here on my blog. This project is featured on the The Greetery Blog today too - please stop by over there and leave some love! Wishing you a beautiful weekend full of happiness and creativity! Take care friends.
CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supply list for today's card! (Affiliate Links Used).
Beautifully done. Great card design. I love the colours and the summery elements that you chose.
Posted by: Bertha P | 05/02/2021 at 03:21 PM
This is lovely, I LOVE those stamp dies.
Posted by: Sarah | 04/11/2021 at 08:52 PM
OH, I DO LOVE how you used these sets, Wanda! I LOVE IT when you go back & use the older products! You give a SUPER NEW TWIST to them! SO PRETTY & FUN!!!! LOVE those LITTLE BITTY IMAGES & I ALWAYS LOVE, STAMPS!!! ALL KINDS! LOL HOPE YOUR DAY IS FABULOUS, Wanda!!! P.S. THANK YOU for your SWEET E-MAIL TOO!!! You ALWAYS bring a SMILE to my face!!! ;)<3
Posted by: Becky Green | 04/10/2021 at 07:59 AM
Fantastic card! Love everything about it. I totally need these stamps and dies!
Posted by: Deborah Cooper | 04/09/2021 at 10:40 PM
Love your card! The images on the stamps are perfect!!
Posted by: Ruthie Armstrong | 04/09/2021 at 12:28 PM