Tropical Sunshine

Hello my friends!  Have you seen the brand new Tropical Bliss release from Scrappy Tails Crafts?  Oh. My. Word.  It's absolutely fabulous!  You can see it all HERE if you need to see it stat.  So much fabulousness! 

Hot foil plates have made it back and I wanted to use them right away.

Look at that gorgeous shine!

I started by blending green and turquoise inks onto a white panel using the new Chevron stencil.  Then I splattered it with the same ink colors mixed with a shimmer liquid.

Then I used the stencil to emboss the panel.  I purposefully did NOT line up the embossing with the stenciled colors.  This way creates more visual interest.  I had to hold the panel up in order to caputure the texture with my camera.

I set the panel aside to work on the hot foiling.  I used the Hibiscus hot foil plates with a bright pink foil and a bright green with the leaves.  I then used the coordinating dies to cut out the pieces.

I cut down the hibiscus patterned paper from the Tropical Bliss 6x6 paper pad to an A2 size.  I adhered it to a white card base.  I added foam tape to the back of the stenciled/embossed panel and glued it on top of the hibiscus paper.

I played around with the placement of the flower and the leaves.  I used liquid glue for the leaves and popped up the flower with foam tape.  The sentiment was also adhered with liquid glue.  To finish it off I added some clear Nuvo drops which I have recently rediscovered in my stash!

I am literally drooling over the shine and texture!

Since I was having SO much fun playing with new goodies, I had to make another card.

For this card I used paper from the Tropical Bliss 6x6 pad.  I also used the A2 Triangle Pattern cover die to cut out the blue paper.  I used liquid glue to adhere it to the patterned paper.

I stamped a bird (I decided it would be a Parakeet) from the Tropical Birds set onto Bristol Smooth cardstock.  I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color in the sweet birdie.  I cut it out with the Tropical Birds coordinating dies.

I didn't want the bird to get lost in the pattened back ground so I cut a piece of heavy vellum using a diamond shaped die.  I adhered the bird to the vellum with foam tape.  Then I hid my liquid glue on the back of the vellum behind the bird and added it to the panel.

My sentiment strips are using stamps from an older set called Fairy Sentiments.  I trimmed them down and glued them into place.  I did add some clear Nuvo drops again to the left of the bird but it's a bit hard to see in the photos.  And that's it!

I'm glad you took a moment to stop by.  Have an absolutely fantastic day!

~Kristina

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Stretch your heart themed dies!

Hi friends!  Kristina here with some brand new Scrappy Tails Crafts inspiration to share with you today.  Scrappy Tails Crafts had an absolutely fantastic release in January with tons of heart themed products.  You KNOW I had to add several of them to my collection!  And now, Valentine's Day has come and gone.  I don't want to pack up these heart themed goodies.  I want to show them love year round!  Time to get those creative juices flowing.  There may have been a supply of coffee to help my brain along...

Hearts for St. Patrick's Day you ask?  Why not?  

Let's chat about my card.  I fell in love with the A7 Lace Heart Cover die after seeing the video my teammate Sharon posted over on YouTube.  That die was the starting point for my crafty session.

First I cut several hearts out of green and gold glitter cardstock with the hearts from the Slimline Heart & Rose Spinner add-on die.

I also cut out three green solid hearts out of cardstock that I had covered with Stick It adhesive sheets.  I popped out the inner bits from the green rose hearts and added them to the solid green heart.  Then I took all of gold glitter rose pieces and fitted them into the green hearts.

I took the A7 Lace Heart Cover die and cut out all of the pieces from white cardstock.  I set aside most of the pieces except for the inner lace rectangle.  I used it as a stencil to add detail with Pine Needles Distress Oxide ink to a 5 x7 card base.  I also went around the edges with a blender brush and Pine Needles ink.

I took the A7 Lace Heart Cover die again and cut it out of gold foil cardstock.  This time I only kept the outer frame.  I popped out the tiny gold hearts (saving for a future project) and added strips of green cardstock behind the frame.  I also added foam tape and then adhered it to the card base.

I decided the white was still too bright so I added Pine Needles Distress Oxide ink splatters.  Next I adhered the three green and gold hearts in a shamrock shape.  I used the rose die from the Slimline Heart & Rose Spinner add-on to cut out the green stem and leaves.  For the final touch I added several metallic gold pearls.

Well, I couldn't stop there.  I had left over pieces from my first card and I set to making use of them.  Which means not one, but TWO bonus cards!

Mini slimline card.

A2 card using the leftover panel from the A7 Lace Heart Cover die that I had used as a stencil.

It's amazing how much versatility you can get out of the A7 Lace Heart Cover die.  Not just Valentine's Day and not just 5" x 7" cards!  I look forward to seeing what else I can create with this fantastic die!

Thanks for visiting today!

~Kristina 

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