Tropical Paradise Wish You Were Here Flamingo Card with Lexa

Happy Fri-YAY everyone!

Lexa here with a color block shaker card for today. Let's take a look for more details about it right now..

I started my card with a 4.25" x 5.5" eggplant cardstock and arranged various sized heart dies to make a window for my shaker card. It gives a little twist instead of a regular shape for the window. Those flamingos from Tropical Paradise are in looove. I made diagonal stripes on the background with a stencil and pink pigment ink and added a mix of pink sequins to match the flamingos and the hearts..sweet! I also cut two stripes of blue cardstock with the Wavy Border Dies as the water for they stand. The yellow flower and 'wish you were here' sentiment are from Island Getaway.

I don't usually use colored backgrounds for my cards, but usually prefer a white and clean background most of the time. But... now that I've made one, I kinda like how it turned out. What do you think? Please let me know in the comment section below.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!

Tropical Paradise Watercolored Flamingo Card with Vanessa

Hi everyone! Vanessa here with a flamingo card using Tropical Paradise. 

I've seen many pretty patterns with flamingos everywhere and wanted to create my own on a card with a messy watercolor look.

I stamped the flamingos repeatedly onto a panel of watercolor paper and messily colored them with Peerless Watercolors. Now I added spritzes of ink and adhered the panel to my pink card base. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock, trimmed it and adhered it with foam tape. Then I die-cut stars from pink and gold glitter cardstock and adhered them, together with gold sequins.

This technique can be used for many images, the possibilities are endless! I hope you liked today's card! 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Vanessa