TGIF – Vintage Pinwheels & Postmarks with Wanda

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I hope you’re ready for a beautiful summer Friday! We have some inspiration for you today as we head into the weekend. Hopefully you’ll be able to sneak in some creative time! Wanda’s beautiful project is going to make you want to pull out those postmarks and pinwheels…

Hello and Welcome to TGIF here at The Greetery! Wanda here, sharing a vintage inspired card for this Summer Friday! I like a good vintage project, and getting my hands inky! One of the many things I love about The Greetery stamps and dies is that they can be adapted to any crafting, card-making style. Everything is so creative and flexible to make your style shine. The stamps I used for this project could be used just as easily is bright bold tones, or soft pastels, or warmer hues… Today I’m using one of my favorite products from the last release: The Pinwheel Party Dies and Stencils. I wanted to use them again with a retro look… I combined them with lots of previously released goodies and Distress Inks. Thanks for joining me today!

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My finished card is an A2 sized card base in dark brown paper. I started by creating a cool, old paper looking background. I used watercolor paper, a water brush, and brown and blue Distress Inks. I kept layering the inks until I got a nice, worn paper look. Then I used stamps from the Pretty Postmarks Stamp set (the beautiful text and the circular postmark) and stamped them over the background. I sprayed the stamping with water to make it soften. I love text stamps!

For the tag, I used the Speed Tagging Die Set and die cut the scalloped tag from watercolor paper. I used Distress Inks and the Oopsie Daisy stamp set to stamp the two daisy flowers onto the tag. I used a water brush to soften the edges of the stamping to mimic water coloring. I splattered inks over the flowers and also added a bit more of the text…. 

I die cut pinwheels using the Pinwheel Party Dies – some from watercolor paper, and some from text paper. I used the matching Pinwheel Party Stencils to add blue and brown stripes. Then the pinwheels were inked around the edges with a sponge dauber… 

I stamped and die cut a pretty postage stamp to add to my collage. The sentiment was die cut from the awesome Sentiment Starters word dies set. My finishing touches are a bit of twine and a few gold enamel dots. The main elements were attached to the card using foam tape. 

Thank you for spending some time with me here on The Greetery Blog today. Wishing you a beautiful weekend full of happiness and creativity! Take care friends. XO

Don’t you just love seeing how this beautiful project came together? So many details to delve into!

Before I go, just a quick update. We’re getting shipping notices on restocks! We’re expecting most out of stock items to be back in stock by the end of next week. Last week I mentioned we had something fun planned…don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten. Stay tuned!

Have a wonderful weekend!