Hello Bluebird - Aloha

Hello there,

Today I'm taking you with me for a trip to Hawaii! I have personally never been there, so this card is a good way to virtually visit the archipelago!

I started with the coloring. I stamped all my images using Potting Soil ink by Ranger and cut everything using the coordinating dies.

But we don't have palm trees in our Hello Bluebird collection, so I decided to create them. For the tree trunk, I used the middle tree of an image from Picked For You, the leaf image is from Portrait Pals. And for the coconuts I used snowballs from Snowball Fight and Snow Play.

I assembled the palm trees, and next I colored additional images. All the supplies are listed below the video at the end of this post.

For the background, I cut and colored several elements:

- a 5,5 x 4,25" panel that I colored using cracked pistachio and peacock feathers distress inks,

- a mountain + two hill borders that I colored using shabby shutters and mowed lawn distress inks,

- an ocean section that I colored using tumbled glass, salty ocean and blueprint sketch distress inks,

- a sand border that I colored using scattered straw and vintage photo distress inks.



Next, I white heat embossed my sentiment 'Life is better at the beach' at the top of my panel, and adhered all the borders. And finally I attached all my images on the panel.

I cut the word 'Aloha' out of white cardstock and yellow glitter cardstock. I stuck the white letters first to get a dimensional base, and then I adhered the sparkly letters on top using liquid glue.

Finally, I stamped some seagulls in the sky and waves in the ocean, both stamps are from Seaside Girls, and I added white dots in the middle of each flower.

VIDEO

Click on the image below or here

HELLO BLUEBIRD SUPPLIES

- Seaside girls stamp set - Picked for you stamp set - Portrait pals stamp set - Jungle littles stamp set - Silly birds stamp set - Snowball fight stamp set - Snow play stamp set

- Beach babes stamp set - Ocean scene die - Oliver alpha die set - Glacier peaks die set - Hill and dale die set

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Spectrum Noir markers

- Distress inks: cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, tumbled glass, salty ocean, blueprint sketch, shabby shutters, mowed lawn, scattered straw, vintage photo

- Sakura white gel pen

- Clear embossing ink by Lawn Fawn

- White embossing powder by Lawn Fawn

- Glitter cardstock by Lawn Fawn

- Strathmore bristol cardstock

- 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock