Paris Afternoon Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm super happy to be back with this Bastille Day themed card to celebrate the French National Holiday which happens on the 14th of July each year. Of course I went with the colors of the French flag: blue, white and red, and used the perfect stamp set for the occasion: Paris Afternoon.

I started off by creating the background and used my favorite die from the Ribbon & Lace Borders die set, which is the strip die, to cut multiple strips out of blue, white and red cardstock. I attached each strip in that order on a piece of scrap paper using liquid glue, and then used a 5,5 x 4,25 inches rectangle die to cut an A2 panel. To give my background more interest, I splattered white ink all over it. I mixed some prize ribbon oxide ink with water and added blue splatters to the strips with a slim brush, I did the same with lumberjack plaid oxide ink to add red splatters, and then I added sparkling droplets using liquid stardust.

Once my striped panel was totally dry, I stuck it to a white card base, cut a Comic Strip Speech Bubbles frame panel out of light blue cardstock and attached that panel to my card using 1mm foam squares.

I stamped the images on 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them all using the matching dies and colored everything using a blue, white and red color palette for the parasol, balloons and macarons, but also green for the trees at the feet of the Eiffel tower and neutrals for the critters. Here is a detailed list of the stamp sets I used: • Paris Afternoon - table & parasol, chairs, Eiffel tower, street lamps, bottle of wine, glasses of wine, cheese, baguette, croissant, macarons, berets • Critters On The Go - bear, bunny, fox, scooter, small trees • Charming City - larger trees • Plane Awesome - clouds • Party Pets - balloons.

I added highlights and details to my images using a white gel pen, stamped "Bonjour" from Paris Afternoon in black directly on the strips, and finally attached all the images using 1mm and 2mm foam squares. 

And voilà! The card is all done and I had so much fun creating it with the French colors! I hope that you like it! Thanks so much for stopping, and see you next week.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Plane Awesome Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Plane Awesome Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Charming City Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Charming City Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Critters on the Go Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pets Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio