Weekender with Wanda – Summer Tiki with new Tim Holtz Dies!
Aloha! Happy Saturday! It’s time for the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! I hope you are enjoying a beautiful Summer weekend! I missed seeing you here last weekend, but oh man, wasn’t that an awesome blog hop last Saturday?! Wow! I am very happy to be with you here today because I have been so anxious to share this card with you! I went bananas when I first saw the new Summer 2016 collection of dies by Tim Holtz for Sizzix! I practically stalked the SSS store until they were available! I love anything Hawaii, tropical, tiki related, and these new dies are perfect for our Summer crafting! So, today, I am featuring three of the new Sizzix die collections by Tim Holtz along with loads of vivid Distress Inks and Stains. Aloha!
I started this card design by die cutting a bunch of the pieces from the Tropical Dies and playing with them on my craft mat… Arranging and re-arranging until I got a layout I liked. Then I chose my color palette. The embossed background came into the picture because I wasn’t really liking patterned paper with all this color. And, I really love the Airmail Embossing Folder. I use that one a lot!
This color palette makes me think of Summer and the beach. Bright orange (Carved Pumpkin) with lime green (Twisted Citron) and ocean blue. I grounded all of the bright colors with beautiful brown ink in the form of Ground Espresso. In this photo you can see that the pieces are adhered to the card using foam squares for dimension and interest.
Here is my Summer Tiki Distress Ink Color Mix for this project! Don’t these colors look nice together?
Here is a close up of the palm trees and the Summer Die cut. The Summer die cut comes in a package with 18 other Vacation Words in this retro cool font. I know I will use it all the time – and it’s perfect for Summer scrapbook layouts too.
I used the Compass Charm from the Ideaology Souvenir Charms package. I snipped off the attachment part on the top and then colored the metal with a brown Copic Marker! Did you know you can color on glass, metal, plastic with your Copic Markers? Yes! I wrapped some Linen Ribbon around the card and glued the compass on top. On every card I like to use something soft (ribbon, linen, twine, cord, vellum) and something hard (enamel dots, gems, metal charms) to give balance of textures. This card has no shortage of texture!
I typically will use Distress Ink Pads for most of my Tim Holtz projects. For this card I wanted to try something new and different – a different medium. Almost all of the color used today is from Distress Spray Stains. Distress Stains are fluid, water based ink very much like the ink used in the Distress ink pads. The liquid form makes for very interesting and unique effects. I started by die cutting my pieces out of Tim Holtz Watercolor paper. I started with the trees. I sprayed the trees with clear water using the Distress Sprayer. Then, while it was wet, I sprayed Antique Linen and Ground Espresso Stains onto the paper. You can see how the colors really sort of ‘melted’ together to make a neat effect. Then I did the same thing on the top of the trees with Twisted Citron and Lucky Clover Spray Stains. Then I dried the pieces with my heat tool.
This is what they looked like after they all dried. I added drops of water as you can see here. This might be my new favorite technique!
I colored the orange flowers the same way as the palm trees. For the Tiki statue I tried something different. I simply sprayed the Ground Espresso Stain directly onto the dry watercolor paper. I love the mottled effect that came out!
As my final step, once all the pieces were dry, I spritzed Ground Espresso Spray Stain on everything to give an aged look.
The embossed background panel was attached to a white card base using foam squares. The Tiki was glued directly onto the background and then everything else was layered on top. I cut one of the palm trees to look as if it was coming in from the side of the card.
Thanks for coming along with me on this tropical journey! Does this card remind anyone else of the Brady Bunch episode where they went to Hawaii and Bobby finds the ancient Tiki!? I’m totally dating myself! Have a great week and I’ll see you here next weekend!
Love the way you colored those gorgeous palms!!! Beautiful tropical card!
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Beautiful colors and texture!
LOVE this fun card!!! Thanks for sharing:)
I love the Tim Holtz Dies! Your card makes me wish I was in Hawaii !!
Gorgeous card, Wanda. Those spray stains really helped give it a summer look. I totally did the Brady Bunch when I was growing up, but can’t say I recall that episode. Thanks for sharing all the photos…I know it takes lots of time.
I love the palm trees on this card and the orange summer sentiment really makes the card stand out.
Palm Trees always make me sooooo HAPPY…..probably cuz when I see them I know I am on vacation. YOUR Palm Trees are gorgeous, fantastic colors. Fabulous card!!!
OMG, this card is FABULOUS, Wanda! I love your “tiki color combo” and the layers. I might have to put some spray stains on my wish list.
fun card with such vibrant colors. . . .
great color combo!
Beautiful card love th textures and the colors..
Such a bold bright and FUN card!!
Great card!
Love the colors & all the texture! Fabulous card!
These colors are lovely. Very nice diecuts too.
This is amazing, love the colors and the fun tiki!
This looks like so much fun. I love the colors you chose. Awesome card!
WOW! I had to look this over for a while. The colors, the embossing, the palm trees. Each element really makes this all happen. Several items need to be purchased. Especially that ef. I do love it. Thanks for sharing Wanda and have an awesome week!! Trying to survive the heat here in Michigan…
Fabulous card!
Great card and LOVE your summer tiki mix of colors!!!!
Love your tropical scene card Wanda. Makes me want to hop on a plane and go to a beach somewhere. lol Thanks for sharing.
Great card and bright colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
What a fun card!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Yet once again you have aced it. Great card and great supplies. We all love Tim Holtz and these supplies are a winner. Thank You, Denise
Totally too cool Wanda! Love the textures and design!!
Love the colors
Fabulous colors – totally tropical! Love the depth & dimension!
OMG, Wanda, this card is outstanding! Love the “exotic” feel to this card – actually, love everything about it!
What fun!
Fantastic card, I love the color and textures you created!
These are the perfect tropical colours!
Lovely summery card!
Love that texture!!!
Awesome! Love the colors!
Marcia Marcia Marcia!
Lovely card, great embossed
background!
Carla from Utah
Love your card. Beautiful colors and fantastic texture.
Great card
Wow! Love all the die cuts and splatter technique! This card has such a happy island feel.
Love how you coloured the trees. Hugz
Love those palm trees and the design of your card !!!
Wow! Love how the palm trees came out!
Super COOL Summer card!
Thanks Wanda for showing us your lovely art work – loving the Distress – have a blessed week!
What a fun card Wanda! Love that Tiki. It reminds me of when we went to Disney World and went to the Tiki Room and all the birds sang the song, “in the Tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki tiki room…..” Such fun. Love your color combination too.
A great card.
Fun tropical card. I love the way the Carved Pumpkin pop off the card. I already follow by email.
I always love seeing your amazing projects! Beautiful tropical card!
Tiki — so trendy! Love it!
Love what you did with these awesome dies!
Love the colors together and the dies. Not your typical Tim Holtz but I love to mix the new colors with grunge. A great card.