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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Translating inspiration with Scrappy Tails Crafts

Hiya!  I don't know about you but sometimes I get struck by inspiration when I'm not looking.  I have watched the movie Encanto at least three times lately.  It just makes me happy.  Then one night I couldn't sleep and my brain had an ah ha moment!  So, I set about translating the inspiration simmering in my brain into reality.

Are you excited yet??  Let's chat!

I was able to use elements from several different Scrappy Tails Crafts dies to bring this creation to life.  The most important set to start with is the Slimline Flower Stand Pop Up set.  I knew I wanted to have windows on two of the layers and a door on the bottom.  That meant I would need to make custom sized support posts for the middle and front layer.  

Once I knew the height I could cut the panels as well.  And then I had a pile of pieces!

I added stencil detail to the three main panels.  I cut two pieces of cardstock to use as stencils.  One was cut with the Slimline Brick Background die and one from the Slimline Cobblestone die.  I used the cobblestone stencil on the back panel and the front panel.  For the middle pink panel I used the brick stencil.

Now, to create my windows in the blue and pink panels I used the window dies from the Slimline Fairy House dies.  I glued pieces of paper from an older Doodlebug paper pad called Simply Spring.  Then I glued the window pieces back into the openings.

Let's start building!  I used liquid glue to adhere my first set of posts to the yellow back/roof panel. 

Then I glued the blue panel on top.  I also added a roof and topper using more dies from the Fairy House add on set.

I repeated the same steps for the pink panel.  Cut out windows.  Add paper.  Glue on posts.  Glue on panel.

For the very front panel I had a few more things to do.  Instead of windows I cut out an orange door.  I still added pattern paper behind it but didn't add it to the panel quite yet.  I cut a white fence using the fence die from the Garden Stand Flowers dies set.  I glued it to the green panel.  Now I added the door.  Next I tucked in a gray kitty and a butterfly from the Garden Stand Animals die set.  Then I added the green vines I cut from the Garden Gate dies set.  I cut several colors of flowers from the same die set and glued them on to the vine.

And then the final steps!  I added a vine to the middle panel and some flowers.  I used Crystal Stickles in the flower centers, along the roof sections and on the little butterfly.

And here is a view from different sides.

And a few close ups.

And there you have it!  One Encanto inspired slimline pop up card!

Thanks so much for visiting.  Hope to see you again soon!

~Kristina

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