Aloha! I love warm weather themed Christmas cards! After spending 20+ years of having white Christmases I've moved back to warmer weather and split my time between So Cal and Hawaii. So while I enjoy making the traditional snowflakes and mittens type cards, I really love when I can use a tropical twist.
I used an Aqua Painter and also a blender pen for the tight areas to water color the main image. The Night of Navy (a SU neutral this year) is used very lightly in the background for the sky.
I stamped and cut the flowers using the pinks and I cut the foliage from Pear Pizzazz card stock and sponged the edges with the same color ink.
I wanted this to have that vintage Hawaiian feel so I used Crumb Cake to distress the edges of both the Santa panel and and the wood grain DSP.
Registered: April 16, 2008 Location: Meridian, Idaho Posts: 8507
Mon, Dec 03, 2018 @ 8:24 PM
What a great design Jeanne! Love, love, love the vintage Hawaiian feel with the distressed woodgrain background and Santa chillin' with his board and party drink! Terrific card!
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Tue, Dec 04, 2018 @ 7:42 AM
Awesome! Great cards!! TFS!!~
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