Themed Thursday: European Vacation

Hello there!  It's Shay here today to bring you Themed Thursday.

But first I need to toot the horn of the rest of the design team because they are doing a fabulous job! 
Want to see what I mean?  Of course you do!

Here are some recent posts to enjoy:

• Tara's awesome chalk art tutorial
• The whole design team's By The Sea blog hop projects
• Amber's pretty and sweet celestial card
• Dana's incredible mystic assemblage piece
• Norma's delightful stamping and embossing with gelatos tutorial

Wow!  That's a whole lot of gorgeous inspiration. 

Hopefully I can live up to what has preceded me.  Let me know how I did!

I went for a set of bright and happy cards using the London and Paris stamp sets.  Summer is the time of travel and although I am not travelling anytime in the foreseeable future, I can always dream and use these stamps to travel vicariously.

What I did:

1. I stamped an image from the London and Paris sets onto a piece of torn watercolor paper with VersaMark and heat embossed it using gold embossing powder.
2. I painted the piece of watercolor paper with watered down Distress Inks.  Flicked water over the image and let it dry.
3. I stamped the postage seal and some of the handwriting from Text Melange or Text onto the piece of watercolor paper in grey ink. 
4. For the background of each card I stamped in grey ink some images from Flourish Fun 1, Flourish Fun 2 and Text Melange or Text. 
5. The final touch for the background were drops of gold color shine. 
6. I adhered the watercolor panel to the card base with dimensional adhesive.

 

 

 

Voila!  A bunch of fun cards.  You can easily add a stamped or handwritten sentiment under the image or do all the writing inside.

We would *love* to see what you make with Paper Wings Productions stamps. Add your projects to Facebook, our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

Take flight,
Shay.


Supplies:
Stamps:

Ink: mowed lawn, squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry and salty ocean, Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger; weather vane, Jenni Bowlin for Ranger; VersaMark, Tsukineko
Paper: white cardstock, Georgia Pacific; watercolor cold press 400 series 140 lb., Strathmore
Other: detail metallic gold, JudiKins; heat embossing gun; gold color shine, Heidi Swapp; dimensional adhesive