Beth's Paper Cuts: Timeless Tropics Birthday Card

Friday, July 23, 2021

Timeless Tropics Birthday Card

I wanted to make a special card for a special person, one with lots of personalized details. This card uses many techniques such as embossing with ink kissed Versamark, sponged and splattered background and custom colored ribbon.

The colors I choose for this card are newer colors to the Stampin' Up! line up. I used Pale Papaya, Polished Pink, Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent.

I used the Timeless Tropical stamp set for this card. Timeless Tropical is a great set for your collection because it has pretty images as well as a nice variety of sentiments.

I made a custom ribbon by coloring one edge of the Pale Papaya Ribbon with a Polished Pink marker. I had always thought of coloring white ribbons before, but recently saw another Demonstrator, Patty Bennett, coloring her Pale Papaya ribbon! How simple! Think of other light color ribbons you have and what darker colored markers you could use to customize them! The possibilities are endless.

For the background I sponged on Pale Papaya and Polished Pink using Blending Brushes. I then used a paint brush and splattered water across the background. The water will push aside the ink and leave this fun splattered background.

Something that I can't get across in my photos is the embossing on the Hibiscus. If you have been stamping with Stampin' Up! as long as I have, you may remember colored embossing powders. Now we only have metallics and basic white, black and clear. But, you can get the colored embossing powder look by inking up your stamp with versamark, then kissing the stamp onto some ink, then using clear embossing powder.

There is a die set to cut out the large flower and leaves. The die set also has lots of bonus dies such as little leaves and flowers that I have used on the front and inside of the card. There is also a fun big pinapple, that I have used on treat holders in the past, you can see it here: https://bethrush-bethspapercuts.blogspot.com/2020/05/pineapple-treat-holder.html

I really love these dies. There are a lot of extras and I really like that cute 'aloha'.

The stamp set is really pretty and there is a nice variety of sentiments for many occasions.

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