We’re headed for triple-digit heat in my part of the world, so let’s cool off with this bright and colorful hello card!
Starting with the base, I used one of my go-to techniques for anytime I need a background with just the right amount of interest: creating DIY patterned paper with tone-on-tone stamping! For this technique, you need a stamp or cluster of stamps you’ll use to create a repeating pattern, and an ink that is a shade darker than your base paper.
After picking an aqua paper for the base, I took the snow globe filler stamp from the Little Snow Globe: Dog stamp set from Lawn Fawn and Remember Me Simon Hurley dye ink. This stamp is only about an inch in diameter, so I mounted the stamp on an acrylic block, then stamped it again and again, rotating it to fit the gaps available until the whole panel was covered.
For this card’s focal points and sentiment, I pulled from the 2024 Spellbinders Crafty Advent Calendar because these sets are too fun to leave behind in the past! I die cut the popsicles from glossy pastel paper with white accents, then cut the sticks from tan paper. To help me attach all of the inner cutouts for the popsicles dimples, I backed the popsicle body with a piece of copy paper and glued the cutouts to the paper before adhering the completed treat to the base.
I arranged the popsicles in a row, using the rule of thirds to keep them evenly spaced. To tie in the white of the popsicles’ inner fillings, I cut the sentiment from the same white paper, then centered each word on one of the popsicles. And with that, today’s bright and sweet card is complete!
I hope you enjoyed today’s card! For more projects like this, check out my blog and my Instagram . Thanks for stopping by!