Sneak Peek: Tropical Birds

Hello, Gemma here with a sneak peek to share with you all. Today I have two cards featuring the new Tropical Birds set, which is perfect for summer.

For my first card, I created a window beach scene with the flamingos.
On my card base, I added distress oxide inks to create areas for sand, ocean and sky. Next, I die cut a scallop circle from the centre of a piece of white card. I adhered the panel over my card base, so the beach scene shows through the window.

To give the scallop circle some dimension, I layered two circles together, adding some squeezed lemonade distress oxide ink to the top layer. I stamped and coloured some images from the Tropical Birds stamp set, along with a fun surfboard from the new Summer Surfboards stamp set. I coloured everything with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies. 

I arranged the images and adhered to my card, using foam tape behind the leaves of the palm tree and the flamingos. I tucked the bottom of the palm tree and surfboard under the window, adhering with liquid glue I finished my card by stamping a sentiment from the Tropical Birds stamp set, then adhering a few jewels from the new Luau Mix around the card.

For my second card, I used two more birds from the Tropical Birds stamp set. I coloured them with copics and die cut with the coordinating dies.

I created a stencilled background with the new Tropical Leaves stencil and distress oxide inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover. I inked some more of the two darker colours around the edge, to create a vignette effect. I also spritzed the panel with water to get droplet details.

Next, I die cut the new Aloha Shaker die from yellow glitter card. I layered some vellum behind the die before adhering to my card. This helps the word to show up against the background.

I added the two Tropical Birds around the die cut, then added some jewels from the new Citrus Mix around to finish.

We hope you’ve been enjoying the sneak peeks so far. See you tomorrow for a look at another new stamp set!