Hello Sunshine

 Hello everyone

I made a card today reminding me of beaches, and sunshine and holidays!  Here in the UK we had a couple of weeks of sunshine, but now it is rainy and miserable again so I made a sweet card to cheer me up!

I used a cute MFT stamp set that is probably one of my all time favourites.  Its an old one, but I think you can still buy it.  I've had it for ages in my stash but I adore those tropical critters!

Ingredients list

My Favorite things stamps - Polynesian Paradise

Scan and cut for the scalloped shaped behind

Paper pad and leaf dies are from 'the works'

Coloured with Zig clean colour markers on multimedia paper from Daler Rowney 

I stamped and coloured the images and cut them out on my scan and cut.  At the same time I cut a scalloped circle from the library of shapes for the scene to be attached to.

I went into my green scraps folder and pulled out a few different plain green colours and used these to die cut out the tropical leaves.  using the scallop I layered everything together using glue and foam pads for a dimensional display.  The card is a 6x6 square card, so I trimmed the patterned paper to fit leaving a white border.  For finishing touches I added a tonic shimmer pen but being extra careful not to reactivate the zig ink and smudge the colouring... (my parrot only has highlights bless him!), as well as stamping the sentiment and white heat embossing on scrap of black card. 

Id like to enter this into:

Crafty creations challenge - anything goes

Creative moments - anything goes

Polkadoodles digichooseday - Anything goes 

Through the craft room door - anything goes

Unicorn Challenge - anything goes

Crafting Happiness - anything goes - top pick! 

Incy wincy designs - Summer/Beach

I hope this brings you sunshine too!

Crafty hugs

Rachael

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