TGIF – Dreaming of Summer with Wanda

by Betsy April 9, 2021

written by Betsy April 9, 2021

TGIF! Wanda is here today and if you thought you had spring fever, Wanda’s taking it one step further and making us long for summer with her gorgeous project…

Hello and Welcome to TGIF here at The Greetery! Wanda here today 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 today. 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!

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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. The card base is made from Woodgrain Cardstock from my stash in A2 size. 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. 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. 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 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 The Greetery Blog today. Wishing you a beautiful weekend full of happiness and creativity! Take care friends.