Bright Everyday Toucans

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I’ll be creating a water-coloured background using the fun Tropical Background Stencil. I also paired it with the Tropical Toucans and Tropical Birds to create a beach scene.

I started off with creating my background. I adhered down a piece of watercolour paper to a board and adhered down my stencil using washi tape. I then decided to use some Inktense Blocks from Derwent, these are a new to me product and thought they would be fun to try. I started off with water-colouring the flowers pink, dried it with a heat tool. Then coloured in the leaves green, dried it again and coloured in the rest of the areas blue. I removed the stencil and dried it completely. This way is super messy, but you still see some of the details if you use less water, but I like the overall effect. Next, I used the Tropical Birds and Tropical Toucans stamp sets, stamped out some images and coloured them in with Copic Markers.

Copic Markers Used: RV21, R23, RV29, RV19 / YG01, YG23, YG25, YG67 / YR30, Y23, YR21, YR23 / B21, B23, B24, B26 / E30, E31, E33, E34 / W00, W0, W1 / 0 / W3, W5, W7, W9

Once my images were coloured, I cut them out. While I had my die cutting machine out, I used the Stitched Borders 1 Dies and cut the scalloped border from blue and white cardstock and the curved border from brown. I then used the Stitched Notes Dies and cut the rectangle from vellum. I cut down a yellow piece of cardstock to around 2 ¼” wide by 4 ½” tall. I then adhered my blue waves piece to the bottom and the curved brown piece on top at the bottom as well using foam tape. I then added adhesive to the backs of all my images and adhered them into place as well.

I adhered my scene on top of the vellum rectangle and then added foam tape onto the back where you couldn’t see the adhesive and adhere it down onto my water-coloured stencil background. I used my white scalloped border and adhered it to the left-hand side of my panel for more interest. Lastly, I white heat embossed the ‘Sending You Sunshine’ sentiment from Tropical Birds onto a strip of black cardstock. I added foam tape onto the back, adhered it into place and tied a little hemp cord bow onto the right-hand side of it for more texture. I also added a few jewels from the Luau Jewel Mix scattered around the card as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed this fun card!

Eloise