Happy TGIF! Norine is here today with some fun inspiration using a few of the products from our latest release!
Hello Greetery friends! It’s Norine back with you today to share a couple of projects with you! Because of COVID mail delivery and moving to Canada for the summer, my last shipment from The Greetery was too late for me to participate in the release posts, but I’ve since had a chance to play and I’ve incorporated a few different sets for today’s projects.
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The products in the most recent release speak to me deeply. First the little images and components in the Destination sets – with everything from desert (my winter home) to tropical (my favorite vacation destination) to North Woods (my summer home)! And then the peaches! My very favorite fruit that I will only buy in one location (Ontario Canada) at one time of year (late August) – anywhere else is just not worth my time. So those are the images I gravitated to for today’s cards, but I still also have all the heart eyes for the watering can in the Sprinkled With Kindness set, and the florals in the Budding Beauties – Summer set and more!
For my first card, I made a little map to our cottage where we spend the summers. You can find us down a sunny dirt road, deep in bear country, and I’m actually not kidding about that. But even with bears for neighbors, it is the best place on the planet and the only thing that improves it, is when family or friends are here to enjoy it with us!
See what I mean?
I started by stamping a card panel of textured blue cardstock with the Windowpane Plaid background stamp and some light brown grey stamping ink. I used a colored pencil of a slightly lighter shade to color in between the narrow strips, then added white colored pencil criss-cross lines in the center of the plaid squares.
I’m sending this card to someone who isn’t coming to visit us at the cottage this summer (boo COVID) so I wanted to specifically say “wish you were here” and not having a stamp set with that exact greeting, I pulled out my trusty typewriter and created a custom sentiment strip. I love the “all over the map” appearance of this card and I look forward to creating other variations on this theme. After all, I didn’t use any of the other maps, or the matching stencils, or other little icons included in the stamp and die sets so there are more cards waiting to be made!
When I said I didn’t use the map dies, I was actually lying. I did, just not for a map design! I thought one would make a very cool background design to layer up against a blue ink blended background with some peaches and hibiscus on the front!
I stamped the layers of the smallest of the peaches in the Print Shop Peachy Keen set, along with the leaf clusters, and also the hibiscus stamp layers in the Destination Summer stamp set. The sentiment is also from the same stamp set and is stamped on vellum paper and gold heat embossed and cut to a narrow strip that I have wrapped around the layered map die cuts.
I die cut three layers of cardstock from the Waterfront Map die and layered them together. Then I arranged the stamped and die cut fruit, leaves and flowers on the front and added foam adhesive to the back side to prevent sagging. Then I glued everything to a 110 lb cardstock card base and added a few crystal sequins to finish the card.
Thanks so much for checking in with us today and we hope you have found some fun ideas to inspire you in a creative way!
