I have another tunnel card today, I'm really having fun with these! This one uses an MFT set called Polynesian Paradise. This set has the little hula girl and lots of animals and flowers to embellish a scene. I wanted to add some trees so I used my favorite, the palm tree, from MFT's Penguins in Paradise!
Like I did in my first tunnel card, I cut white card stock for an A2 size card and then added an extra panel by gluing on a 5.5" x 4.75" (scored at 4.25 and folded) onto one side. Next I used the MFT Oval STAX to cut holes in the top and second panel. I drew light pencil lines for the sky water and sand on all 3 panels so they would match then I did some masking and used my Clarity brushes and dye inks to color them. I used Stampin' Up Bashful Blue for the sky, Ranger Distress Tumbled Glass and Broken China for the water and Distress Antique Linen for the sand. I used a flat brush and floated a little white acrylic paint in the water for waves.
I added some sea grass to the middle panel using a Stampin' Up set called Wetlands. The next step was to color and cut out all the bits and pieces. I needed 5 palm trees, the Hula girl, some clouds, some flowers, a turtle, a pineapple and 2 lizards. To get the reverse image lizard, I stamped with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink onto waxed paper and then quickly rubbed it onto white card stock. The image wasn't perfect but it was clear enough to trace with a fine tip Micron black pen. This pen doesn't smudge when you color over it with Copics. Once the images were colored I used Herma Dotto repositionable adhesive to place everything and make sure it would work when the card was closed.
When I was happy with the placement with the card open and closed, I glued everything into place. This card is really fun when you open it and bring the 2 side panels together to stand it up. It really does look like you are looking through a tunnel at a scene on the beach, and you get two views! One looking through the front side of the card...
and another looking through the second panel side!!
I hope you liked seeing this card and you give tunnel cards a try!
Thanks for visiting, happy stamping!
Janet
I don't know if you are like me, but I am very influenced by my friends. They buy something, I need it...they make something, I want to make it...they try a new technique, I want to try it! Well that's been happening to me a lot lately and I ended up making cards because of them!! First my friend, Tina, has been making and posting some REALLY cute dog cards. Of course, this made me think of making a dog card. I had a cute little dog stamp from a discontinued MFT set called Cupcake Cutie and I decided to use that stamp with the MFT Penguins in Paradise palm tree stamp that I LOVE!! Here is how it came out...
Don't you love that palm tree??? It's so much fun to color and it isn't bad to cut out either. There are dies to match the set if you don't like cutting, but I didn't want the white border so I cut it by hand. To frame out my scene I used MFT's Stitched Rectangles Frames. I didn't add a sentiment yet because I'm not sure what I'm using this card for. I'll add a Happy Birthday or Thinking of You later. Here's an angled picture so you can see what's popped up.
The right side of the card looked bare so I added the little sand pail. It's a die from Impression Obsession. It comes in a set with sand castles, an ice cream cone and the pail & shovel. Oh...almost forgot the sun, that's a Lawn Fawn die called Spring Showers. I colored the sky with blue and purple Pan Pastel tints.
Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Janet
Supplies Used:
Card stock: Papertrey Ink white, Stampin' Up Confetti Kraft, Summer Sun and
Bermuda Bay
Stamps: My Favorite Things - Penguins in Paradise and Cupcake Cutie (retired)
Copics: Sand - E42, Water - BG13, Palm Tree Leaves - YG01, YG03, YG 17 & YG67,
Palm Trunk - E59 & E87, Dog - W0, W03, W05, E42, E43, E44, B23 & E21,
Balloon - RV00, RV02, RV04 & RV06
Dies: MFT Stitched Rectangle Frames, Lawn Fawn Spring Showers, IO Mini Beach Fun Set
Miscellaneous: Silver metallic Pilot marker, Pan Pastels - Pthalo Blue and Purple tints
I LOVED the June release from My Favorite Things!! I look forward to their new releases every month, but this one was so much fun. There were so many stamp sets and dies that I liked it was really difficult to decide on what to buy! I had some time this afternoon so I played with the Penguins in Paradise set. I was drawn to the little guy with a beverage in his hand, he is so cute...but I wondered if I could make him look like he was holding something else. I noticed that there was a balloon in the Happy Pandas set and decided to see if I could make that work. I stamped the penguin on watercolor paper and used Peerless Watercolors to color him. When I stamped the balloons I was really pleased to note that I could move the balloon string on my acrylic block so I could stamp it to look like a bunch of balloons!! WooHoo...I'm going to be using that balloon a lot! Here's how my card came out...
I made the background a few days ago using a technique I saw on Pinterest. First you use a background stamp with Versamark Ink to make a pattern on watercolor paper (I used Canson Aquarelle) and emboss it with white EP. Next you put Distress ink on your craft mat, spritz it with a little water and then rub your embossed piece into it...changing colors as you go until you are happy with how it looks! The background stamp is Simply Circles from MFT.
Here is a close up...There was so much color in the background that I wanted to add more color to the main image so I stamped out 3 balloons on a separate piece of watercolor paper and added the little hibiscus flower randomly on each balloon. When the card was finished I put Crystal Lacquer on the balloons to make them shiny.
I was having so much fun that I did a little scene for the inside of the card, too!
Here's one more pic. I took it so I'm including it!!!
Thanks so much for visiting!
Janet
Supplies Used:
Stamps: MFT Penguins in Paradise, Happy Pandas, Simply Circles Background
Cardstock: Canson Aquarelle Watercolor paper, Cougar Opaque White 80 lb, Stampin' Up Pacific Point
Inks: Versafine Black, Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade & Salty Ocean, Versamark Ink
Miscellaneous: White embossing powder, embossing buddy, Heat gun, Peerless Watercolors, water brush, round paint brush, Crystal Lacquer
